Unnatural Love

Chapter 1: Tree House

                                                                           Kayla

Kayla loved the  feel of the wind on her face as she runs. The smell of the pine trees all rond her seemed to awaken something deep inside of her. Truth was being outside was calming to her no matter the weather. Here lately being outside was the only thing she found comforting. For the last few weeks she had been edgey and tense. when she had talked to her mom about it she had said "Honey its jsut your hormones. Combined with the fact that you will be turning sixteen soon. it will pass." kayla had rolled her eyes at the time but now that she  had time to really think about it maybe her mom wass right. she would be sixtteen in a matter of days and she would have her end of the year finals in a few weeks, not to mention her boyfriend of 2 years just broke up with her out of the blue with no warning. All he had said was that he wanted more out of the realtionship and since she wasnt ready to give more than their time together was over. She wiped the stray tear that feel from her eye making a streak down her cheek. Finally she made a conclusion, she was just stressed in a few weeks everything would be better and back to normal. 

She reached her usually stopping point in a small clearing that her and her big brother nick had found when they were younger and even built a tree house in one of the many sturdy trees. they would come out here to just hang out, to get away from their parents, had camp outs up there, and even a few times ran away and attempted to live in it. that only lasted a night maybe two. their parents always knew where to find them. Kayla looked up at the tree house, she hadnt been able to bring herself to go in the tree house since her brother died 6 months ago. after all this place was her and nick's place. after staring up for a few minutes, she took a deep breath and started climbing the ladder that lead to the entrace of the tree house. she took a deep breath before pushing open the trap door. 

she climbed in, while looking around she let out a breath that she wasnt aware she had been holding in. she took the familar surroundings in. there were a few chairs turned over from the wind that blew in from the window, a folding table were her and nick used to play card games, and sitting on the table was a couple empty beer bottles no doubt from nick and one of his buddies that they had gotten from dad's stash in the fridge, along with the bottles on the table was the little battery powered CD/radio they would listen to that helped pass time. she picked up one of the chairs and sat down. she sat there for a while just letting her mind go back to all the memories that her and nick had made over the years together in this special place. true it was nothing special to look at but to her the place was special not because of the looks of it but because of the memories. the memories is why this place held a piece of her heart. she reached over and popped open the cd part of the radio and in it sat the very cd nick had accused her of taking and loosing. she laughed to herself and started talking out loud. "see you crazy nut job, i didnt take your dang cd you left it out here. i know if you were here you would say something about me bringing it out here. then we would argue. and like always you would mess up my hair." then she went quite a second before she continued "but your not. you were barely eighteen when you died. you wont get to do what most kids get to do. you wont go to senior prom. you wont walk a cross the stage at graduation this year like you planned. nick im sorry your life was ended before it even started." her phone started vibrating in her pocket which scared her half to death. she pulled her phone out and feeling her heart hammering in her chest she answered it

kayla: yeah, hello.

kayla's mom: hey honey where are you?

kayla: im in the tree house. why?

kayla's mom: missy just got here and said you guys have a shopping day planned.

kayla: right i totally forgot. ill be home in about 30 minutes.

kayla's mom: okay. love you.

kayla: love you too mom.

kayla hung up the phone and stood up walking over to the trap door that served as the exit as well as the entrance. she paused before leaving "i love you nick and i really miss you bro." she said and started down the ladder. when she was on the ground she started to walk back home when she looked back at the tree house. when she looked at the window she seen her brother standing there smiling at her, only he didnt look solid you could still see him but you could also see trough him. as if that wasnt creepy enough she heard nick's voice "i love you and miss you too, pigtails." this broke kayla's reserve, she turned and bolted as fast as she could in the direction of her house. she didnt slow down until she was halfway up her driveway. kayla thought to herself okay i have completely lost it. 

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THE PICTURE TO THE RIGHT IS KAYLA. -------------------------------------------------->