Heartbreaker

Heartbreaker 11

Chapter 11

     Ryan

As soon as Dominick took off, I went back to search for Lizzie. Natalie said she wasn't at school. And she's not here. Where else could she be? I continued to search around the woods.

"Lizzie?" I yelled.

I really need to get it together. I sat down and rested my back on a tree.

"Why? Why me?" I asked the heavens.

She's driving me crazy. All I want to do is hug her tight. To tell her she's not alone.

"Damn, Lizzie. Damn." I whispered to myself as I through a rock into the distance.

I buried my face in my hands. I rubbed my forehead and tried to think of places she would go. If she's not at school where else? She lives really far away, I mean the only one who lives close to school is Dominick, but she wouldn't go to his house. I then thought to myself, If I was her where would I hid. Then it hit me. When we were younger we would always play at Lincoln Park. She's at the park. I can't believe it took me this long to realize where she was hiding. I got up and ran like lighting towards the park. When I finally got there, I rested my hands on my knees trying to catch my breath. After I managed to catch enough air. I stood up straight and looked at the park. There were a lot of memories here.

"Lizzie?" I yelled. "I know you're here. Just come out."

I waited to see if she would come out. When she didn't, I went on the playground.

"Guess we are going to have to play hide and go seek, like when we were younger?"

I waited for a respond I knew I wouldn't get. I walked up the steps to the slide. By the slide, there's this little fort thingy, I looked in there. Nothing. I looked around trying to think of places Lizzie would hide at. I climbed down and I checked underneath the slide. She wasn't here. The only place left to check was the tunnel. I walked towards it, the rocks below me making roaring sounds as I walked on top of them. When I got there, I bent down and sure enough she was in there. I took a big breath and I crawled in and sat next to her. She wasn't looking at me. She was facing the blank curved wall in front of her. As I got closer to her I noticed her eyes were swelled up and her face was red from crying.

"Hey." I told her as I sat next to her.

"Hi." She responded without looking at me.

"How are you doing?"

"I'm great!" She replied.

"I didn't mean..." I trailed off.

She faced me. Her light green eyes were slightly red and her blonde hair was wavy.

"It's okay. How'd you know I was here?" She asked.

"I just thought, if I were Lizzie, where would I hide?"

She smiled. We stared at the curved blank wall in front of us.

"I'm sorry. You didn't deserve what Lane did to you. After, you know-"

"I really don't wanna talk about it." She told as she interrupted me.

"Understood." I replied.

We stayed there for a while just staring at a plastic wall.

"Look, I don't know what you're thinking, but I'm not mad at Lane. Like, not even the littlest bit. I threw this stupid tantrum for no reason."

I didn't really know what to say, so I just sat there trying to process all this.