claire:
jim had been in the darklands for about 7 months. everyone told us to give up hope. vendel, enrique and half of the other trolls.
some of us believed.
it was the anniversary of jim going into the darklands, today marked 8 months he had been gone.
lots of people asked about him.
they all stopped about 6 months ago, everyone just gave up.
me and toby don't really talk anymore, we still check in on each other, buts that's really it.
my pocket buzzed.
toby texted me.
Tobes
tobes: hey, how are you.
claire: i'm holding up, how about you? you were his best friend.
tobes: i've been better.
tobes: i miss him claire
claire: i know toby, i do too
on both sides of the phones they both smiled a sad smile.
mary placed her hand on her shoulder
"c'mon claire" she ushered towards her mom's car.
shit, they were supposed to hang at her place.
"um, sorry guys i have to babysit" she lied.
the girls sighed, and got in the car and drove away as they waved.
she walked home kicking the rocks in front of her.
{time skip, at claire's house}
claire sat on her bed, scrolling through her phone looking at pictures of her and jim.
she always regretted never kissing him.
yes, they kissed at romeo and juliet, but he was dead. and she had to do that. she wanted to just kiss him, because she could to show him she did like him, a lot more then she would have ever imagined.
she remembered about after a month after jim had entered the dark lands, toby had told her that jim was head over heels in love with her, and he had always wanted to tell her. she had laughed telling toby 'if he asked me out i would of said yes'and she loved watching how excited he got as she had thought back to all the times they had almost kissed, when they were dancing together or when he took them up to the cliff for the spring fling. claire just smiled at the memory.
she looked back down at her phone, scrolling through her texts with jim, sometimes she would text him, like he was still here. she remembered texting him after the events of the night, explaining what toby had said and she promised him, when he got back, she was taking him on a date, and she wanted to keep good to that promise,just as he was to his.
she went back to her daydreaming when enrique burst into her room, in troll form.
"sis, sis, sis, sis, sis" he screamed.
claire snapped out of her jim daydream.
"i can't change back"
