Silent Cries ☾N.H.S

26| reunion

❝ It's no fun,
when i'm sitting all alone you're right in front of me.
and i'm done with your bittersweet,
bittersweet tragedy. ❞

- bittersweet tragedy by melanie martinez

A/N: mother trucker u guys are freaking amazing

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Reaching my fingertips out, I could almost touch the soft waves of his hair. His eyes were like moss, and his fingertips were reaching, reaching.

"Halo," his raspy voice flooded my senses and comforted me.

At the last moment, there was a door slamming in my face and a soft wind brushing my lips.

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Waking up, my face was blazing hot. I was no longer hooked up to machines, and in their place stood Niall with a timid smile across his face.

"Time to go home, Halo," he whispered.

I stretched my sore limbs and stood up slowly. Following him down the crowded corridors, I felt a surge of déjà vu. My dizzy head finally called down enough to step out of the corridor and wait for Niall to sign me out.

My brother, Niall. I remember now. My mother had married Niall's father after he moved here years ago from Ireland.

Guiding me with his arm safely around my shoulders, he helped me into his old blue jeep. Before, I would have swooned, but now I just felt sorrow.

I tried to turn on the radio but he told me that someone had stolen it a while ago. The car was mostly silent other than me asking how he was doing in school. He had already applied to colleges.

Me, being a year younger, I had the last year of high school yet to finish.

Parking far away from our house, he turned off the engine and sat there, unmoving. He ruffled his silvery hair and bit his lip.

"Uh, are you okay?" I asked gently.

He finally turned to me, his cheeks tinged red. "Are you seriously asking me that? Do you now how many days I skipped class to go to the ocean and search for your fucking body? Don't you mind?"

My jaw dropped. "Uh."

"Shit, Halo. I felt like it was all my fault because- how could you?"

Now I was a bit angered. "Because I loved you? It wasn't you're fault. And just so you know, those feeling aren't there anymore."

Stepping out of the car, I hobbled across the road but was stopped by a hand- Niall's.

"You don't even know what's been happening, Halo. Carter- h-he raped May, and she just gave birth to his child; another kid came out of a coma in your school, and you triggered kids to go jumping off of bridges and stuff, Halo, this is serious," he blurted.

"What?" My head swam, and I had the vague notion that I was lying down on the concrete.

"I'm sorry," he whispered, combing his fingers through the knots in my long hair.

"I never wanted this to happen," I said hazily.

He hushed me. "It's okay now though. You're home, Carter's in jail, and your school's having an assembly to prevent suicide."

My breathing became irregular. "I need time."

Getting up, we walked to the door and he opened it for me. My puppy Harvey instantly bounded towards me, and getting a closer look at him, I could see that he was bigger.

"Hey!" I said, feeling just a bit of foreign happiness swell inside me.

Then it was my mom and dad, holding a cake that read 'welcome home, baby!'

"I'm not a baby!" I said, laughing as they set it on the table a cut a slice.

Finally my sister emerged, a baby wrapped up in a blanket tucked in her arm. I ran to her and threw my arms around her.

"I missed you, nugget," she said teasingly.

"I missed you too," I said, smiling.

I peeked at the baby who had dark blue eyes rimmed with thick black eyelashes like Carter. Feeling nauseous just for a second, I stepped away and swallowed thickly.

"His name is Kyle," she hushed. "I don't want to talk about the rest, darling."

I nodded. Fuck Carter.

"He'll be a beautiful kid with you raising him," I said.

She beamed and grabbed a chair to sit down in.

Niall came over and ruffled my hair. "It got lonely here without you, the bookmark's still in The Book Thief where we left off."

My mom chuckled. "You should have seen him, he was like a lost puppy without you."

I smiled, tears in my eyes. "I missed you all so much."

My parents gave us all cake, and at one point we turned our attention away from the cake and came back to find Harvey with an awful amount of icing coating his furry face.

This moment was beautiful, I was glad to be alive. Happy that each day might bring more moments like these. Things were going to be alright.

As I ate, my mind flashed to the last time I had eaten something. A cheeseburger? From Jack In The Box? Did someone pick me up and carry me? A boy with black boots and and a hair band holding his curly hair up had held me. Why were these memories so foggy within me?

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THAT WAS REALLY SHORT AND REALLY HORRIBLE I AM SORRY BUT I AM SO EXCITED TO WRITE THE NEXT CHAPTER OFNFNJSNNSM

CHAPTER 17 WAS THE JACK IN THE BOX SCENE FOR THOSE OF U WHO ARE CONFUSED

IM SO- I CANT WAIT FOR AHS HOTEL ((just bringing that up bc im v excited))

omg okaaaay so what do u guys think will happen?? i am so curious omgdsbsb