When i get there it was 9:16, i lived a while away from the park and got a little lost if im being honest and bikes arnt the fastest. When i get there i see Elliot, er, i think its him at least by what i see over on the bench double over, i panic for a second and turn my walk to a jog but when i get there i see his chest rising under his sweater and button up, thank god i thought. I knock on the wooden table and Elliot jumps in started haze before seeing me and sitting up with a gurgled moan he stretches his back before looking at me "your late.." He says raspy, i sit down "yeah i know i am." I pause "so..this plan?" Elliot looks down at his feet and huffs before turning back to me "i suggest you get to know her and get at her side more before going anywhere crazy-" he continues on and i hold on to what i can focus on through the scrambled words falling from his lips. I feel a gust of wind and i shiver slightly, Elliots eyes light up and he stands up and hops on the wood chips and runs past the playground i take a minute to even register what had happened before i too stand and follow Elliot. I see him sitting on a dark blue rusted and paint chipped swing set, he doesn't even look at me all he does is look at the night sky, another large blow of wind and i see him start to swing, he calls me from the low swing hes doing "C'mon chase, try it!" He encourages me, "uh, im ok really ill stay here" he gives me a sour face before swinging higher and the wind picks up almost enough that made all my clothes move and the trees shake. I start to call out for him so he doesn't get sick, i still have heart, but when i look at him i see him close his eyes and smile before leaping off the swing higher than i could touch. I watch him hit the concrete knees first and instantly was ready to hit his head with my palm but i see his eyes sparkle and his smile seem bigger as he stands up, bloody soiled jeans sticking to his legs. He walks away back to the table and reaches in his bag and pulls out two large pastel colored bandaids and puts them over each wounded knee, then he pulls his pants back over them like nothing happened. He looks at me like i have three heads "what?" He asked "WHAT?? WHAT THE FUCK WAS THA-" he covers my mouth "shhh people are sleeping around here, its ok i do it all the time." All the time? Why does he hurt himself all the time, that isnt normal for a person to want to do..is it before i know it hes back rambling about a plan and steps and i get a bit of info but im more confused than anything with whats going on in this kids mind, is he ok?? Why do i care. I just want the girl, but even still Thats not worth a life "are you-" "she said she thinks your cute, but just to let you know she isnt well-" "SHE SAID THAT OMG I CANT BELIEVE IT!" I cant even remember when i stopped talking to him or when he told me it was time to go but i was already heading home before i figured it out, my head hazy and flooded with thoughts. Riding on my bike down maple and Johnson drive back to my apartment i share with my older brother and sister-in-law, i turn into the apartment complexes parking lot that stretched fairly far i was. I lived in apartment 34D out of 67 or more rooms, it was a semi-big apartment with blueish gray walls and one bedroom with two bathrooms, nine cabinets in the kitchen with a stove and overhead microwave and a small small refrigerator that was platinum sliver. I lock my bike in place and yank the chain to check the lock, i grab my house key and walk up the two flights of wooden stairs. I hear fighting and music along with other things throughout the thin walls as i pass each room. I reach my floor and open the door quietly tryin not to stir up commotion, when i step in i shut the door and put my keys in a dish near the door on the kitchen counter "hey kid." I hear my brothers wife, Stella, say from near the couch in the living room, smoking and watching something. Her petite figure stands up and walks to the kitchen "hey stel-why are you wearing no pants." I say as i pinch the bridge of my nose with a huff, she coughs out a laugh before lifting the gray skull tank top she had on showing her pink and white stripped underwear, she always does this ever sense i met her when i was just 11, 5 years back. "Im bein comfy chaser, give me a break" she says while getting some chips from the upper cabinet over near the fridge, my brother found her at a concert, shes a skinny Korean girl with emo layered straight hair dyed electric blue and earrings that dangle a bit too low for me, i think shes ugly, but my brother loved her so much he died his hair navy and got a undercut and tongue piercing to 'match' her. My brother steps out the bedroom in low cut sweat pants and a tight fitting white shirt "Baby brooooo!" He yells before draping over me and i groan and push his weight upwards to keep myself from falling "Dylan, get your ass off me." I say and he snorts before stumbling to Stella and propping his arm on her head "you smell like a bitch today, been around a fag?" He laughs as i walk to the couch and sit down "no." I say trying not to get into it while setting up the couch for bed, yes i sleep on the couch. Dylan ruffles my hair before hitting it hard enough to make my head hurt and throb "im goin back to bed, nighty night boy fucker." He Laughs going into the bedroom, i sigh and feel stellas hand on my head "dont listen to him chaser, he's just dealing with...things today." Stella says and that makes me turn to face her "what happened?" I see her look at the bedroom door before turning to me "he got a text from Your dad today, he uh, wasn't nice and..he started to cry." He says, i remember the day we left, i was so young and i only left cause i didn't know what 'forever trip' meant, my parents have tried to get me back saying it was kidnapping and i dont know how that went and they dont even know where we live. "Was it a threat again?" I say trying to forget the call i once heard filled with venom "a death threat.." She says "a graphic one at that." I sigh and lay back down on the couch "fuck man.." I say "it will be ok." Stella reassures me before smiling and walking to the bedroom door "night kid." "Night stella." Then everything goes dark and i fall asleep.
