A Year Apart

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I'm going to tell you a story.

Yup. That's right kids, take a seat, poppa's gonna tell you a story.

Except ya know when your little and you hear princess stories then in middle school you hear the brothers Grimm story and it's so mortifying and scary?

This is kind of your brothers Grimm type of story.

Let me introduce you too our "characters"

This guy, he is a handful. He had the hair of....ya know what screw it. He has dark hair ok? Who cares. He is our main character. A bit of a loner in high school and quite the hopeless romantic.

Now this chick, she is exciting, sweet and caring, her dad is the pastor at the biggest church in town, blah blah blah, ya know, all that jazz. And guess what, you guessed it, dweeb and sweet girl are in loveee. I know. You could have never guess it.

Awww here we are. The girls best friend joined the party, oh crap. I forgot to tell you their names. Our main character's name is Alexander Boyman, (I know, pretty cliché if you ask me.) he goes by Alex, our sweet antagonist is Delphine, she goes by Della, and our iconic best friend's name is Jacob. We good? We good. Let's get on with it then.

Now listen up you little crap-stains, this is their story.

Our story starts with Alex. As you probably read the summary, he fell in love with Della in high school and lived the most—cliché, Disney Princess, Hollywood ending—type of romance.

Now let me tell you something about that kind of story, little crusty nuggets.

Stories with happy endings are just stories that haven't finished yet.

There is always an epilogue.

In this epilogue, Alex leaves for college, breaks up with Della, basically being a total piece of sh—

Wait what's that?

I can't say that word in this story?

This book is intended for young adults and I'm not allowed to say swear words because we're not going to mark this book at 'mature' so Wattpad might get mad at us ?

Aww. Gotcha.

Anyways. He was being....uh....very rude....to Della. Not purposefully, ya see Alex kinda had this really pushy dad, and he convinced Alex that that's what he needed to do if he wanted a future. Ya' know?

Course ya do. Typical Disney Channel Original Movie. I know I know.

But anyways, so Alex goes to college but of course he regrets it, so he comes back to town, missing Della and trying to find her...

Now here's were our Hallmark movie takes a turn...

He can't find the girl!

He checked phone books for phone numbers, Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, I'm telling you Della just poofed out of existence.

Until that one time Alex was walking alone on the street, when our boy got kidnapped.

I know right, definitely not the Disney I remember.

So anyways, he gets pulled into the back of this van by too big men he doesn't recognize at first. But once he is inside and tied to the seat, he finally puts a face to one of his kidnappers.

ITS FREAKING JACOB!

Yeah! The Jacob that was besties with Della back in the day.

Once they start to drive off gets to pops up right in front of him???!!!!

"hi bug." Della said calmly with a smile. "remember me?"

Yeah! That's right! Della!

Alex smiled back, still not exactly sure what's going on. "hi della."

"jacob, turn on the next exit." she said to Jacob in the front seat.

That's when Alex finally understood he was actually stuck, which he had momentarily forgotten about, when seeing Della's presence.

"Shh Shh Shh..." Della said, pressing her finger to Alex's lips and rubbing her hand up and down his arm. "Don't fight it, bug. You'll be ok. We won't hurt you." 

Isn't that such a cute nickname? Bug.

"W-W-What?" Alex said confused.

Now poor Alex didn't understand that Della was...well....one of the most wanted serial killers in America at this point so he is confused as to why being hurt was even on the table. Which is like....reasonable...

"We're not gonna-Jacob turn now you ignorant crab." She said, turning once again to the front of the car where Jacob was, just then the car swerved to the right. "We're not gonna hurt you, ok. But you do need to understand....your not going home."

Alex's eyes widened. "What!"

"Dang-it Dell, you've confused the poor boy." A bigger man with a southern accent said.

Here we meet my favorite character....

"Dell, here is one of the most successful serial killers in the whole darn country, how many dead people you at, sweet cheeks? 68?"

"72...but that doesn't matter." Della corrects him. "We're not gonna hurt you, I won't let them hurt you, and...this is David." She said, pointing to the big fat, yee yee man behind her.

"B-B-But...what about..." Alex starts, but Della cuts him off.

"We'll worry about that later—"

"Got your ID Ingrid Jones?" Jacob says from the front seat.

"What do you mean...." Della starts, but trails off as she looks out the back window of the van.

Oh by the way, did I mention it was a Volkswagen Bus?

Behind them, blue and red lights flashed brightly, a siren and yelled.

"Ok, bug. I'm going to untie you, if the cops ask, your my distant cousin visiting from....from....from Alaska." Della said as she started to untie the rope from behind Alex, before standing and going to her bag, pulling out an ID. "Oh by the way, Bug, my name is Ingrid." She says before throwing a wink his way.

"Excuse me, ma'am....are you aware this car has been stolen." The cop says, coming to the window.

Della furrows her brows. "What do you mean?"

The cop rolls his eyes, not buying her innocence. "Can I have your license."

Della hands him the card and the cop reads it. "Your Ingrid Jones."

Della smiles and nods.

"You know your mom thinks this car is stolen right? She called the station this morning. I'd get in contact with her as soon as possible. You got it, sweetheart? And stay out of trouble."

And just like that, the cop walked away, and drove off.

And Della burst into laughter.

"I'm not Ingrid Jones, Ingrid Jones is dead in the River." Della says in fits of laughter.

See? Definitely not the Disney story they told you about is it.