"guys i have something to tell you" i said, this cant be that hard, i thought to myself, you just string some words together, "i-" this was hard! it wasn't saying it, it was how they would react and that awkward silence that would follow. "i don't know how to tell you this but-um-"
"oh my god!" Cried Annette
"are like-" she lowered her voice: "pregnant?"
"what? no!!!!"
"thank god!" said Mike
"well heres the thing, um- you know Lucas Richards?"
Annette twitched at the name, this was gonna be hard, "yeah?"
"well he had nowhere else to go and, well he's staying with me" i said, Annette had a look of shock on her face, and Mike had a look of worry, i cant tell if it was for Annette or me, Lucas was by many peoples definitions- troubled.
"it's just that i wanted to help and i kinda owed him one"
"why? what could possibly owe that emo?"
"he, well..." i couldn't tell them what happened, "he defied some odds for me" translated to: he used powers that odds are he was lucky to have. they knew i'd say nothing else on the subject, i abruptly left them to get over their shock.
"hey how'd it go?" Lucas asked, he was sitting their watching TV in some jeans and a sweatshirt, but in all honesty- he looked cute.
"they took it like i expected, they just need some time is all"
"yeah, it cant be that bad for them to hear that, its not like we're dating or anything" awkward silence.
we went out for lunch, just some KFC, nothing fancy, i grabbed the tray and sat it down on a table, there was a note on the tray, "i know your secret". i felt this growing fear in my stomach, someone knew? who? i read minds all over, but no-one seemed to be thinking about anything i cared about. it might have just been a prank, i looked closely at the handwriting, i grabbed the paper it felt hot, like searing hot!
"it's probably nothing" Lucas reassured me after much thought.
"maybe" i said. i had some homework to do, we went home, Lucas was good at Science so he helped me, then he went out to get some stuff for dinner he wanted to cook tonight to show how grateful he was to me.
Lucas had just gotten home when i received the call
"hello are you Jane Robertson?" an unfamiliar man asked on the phone
"yes"
"i don't know how to say this but... your parents were in a car accident, they didn't make it. i'm sorry" i dropped the phone, my world had started to spin, i felt the tears streaming down my face and my knees buckling, i know that Lucas comforted me, he hugged me and held me and just let me cry, i must have fallen asleep, i woke up the next morning in my bed, Lucas had carried me there. i walked down the stairs.
"morning" i said, he hugged me he could see the tears in my eyes, you'd think i'd be all cried out but no. i sat down and barely ate, i stayed home from school and Lucas took a sick day at work, we sat around, we didn't say much, what can you say?
i tried not to look in their room, it did not help my cause. a social worker came over and told me that my aunt Lena was going to be my guardian, and she wouldn't arrive for another 2 days, because she's all the way in Greece. Lucas sat with me, Annette and Mike came over too, they'd seen it on the news.
i went to bed and skipped another day of school, i despise the fact that i have so much power over peoples thoughts and emotions but none over fate. i'll have to work on that.
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