Silent Cries ☾N.H.S

27| library

❝ the only difference between life and dying
is one is trying, that's all we're called to do
so try to love me and I'll try to save you. ❞

- lovely by twenty one pilots

A/N: YAYAYA I FINALLY UPDATED, btw i love twenty one pilots

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✧✧✧ ((cue spongebob guy)) TWO MONTHS LATER

I was just getting back into the swing of things. Going to my favorite shops, thrift shopping, drinking coffee and tea, watching skins on netflix, surfing tumblr, and all the other normal things I used to do.

The only difference being that I ditched my old friends that went to parties and smoked strange entities. The only friend that I really kept was Francis who turned out to like Niall quite a lot.

My puppy Harvey kept me company whenever I laid around inside reading books, his little pink snout resting on my thigh.

Today I decided to go to the library with Francis and Niall. I needed more books to read desperately and I also wanted to visit the librarian who I was always fond of.

"Earth to Halo," Francis said, waving her tiny hands in front of my face.

I shook my head and chuckled. "Ah, sorry."

We were in Niall's blue jeep and had just stopped outside the large library. Niall and Francis were suddenly too busy looking at each other, so I sighed and hopped over Francis to get out of the car.

"Earth to Francis," I whispered teasingly.

Leaving them behind, I twisted the doorknob and entered the library slowly, taking in the smell of old books in deep inhales. I loved the library.

"Hey, Halo," someone said quietly, their accent triggering something in me.

I turned to see the librarian, Anne, head towards me. In one quick movement she had me in a bear hug.

"I heard about what happened," she whispered, referring to me jumping the bridge.

I nodded. It was still hard to talk about it. "I'm so glad you're here with us," she said calmly.

I sighed and sagged into her hug, she was like a second mother to me. "Thank you."

She pulled away and held me at arms length. Her eyes glistened with tears as she said, "just around the same time you jumped, our house went up in flames and my son, although he got out just in time uninjured, he went into shock which led to him going into a coma just like you."

She wiped away tears and I just stood there in shock. "He came out of the coma a few weeks ago though, I'm so glad you guys are fine, this town has been chaotic lately," she uttered.

Hugging me once again, she finally smiled. "He's back there in the last row if you'd like to meet him."

"Thank you, Anne," I murmured into her shoulder before detaching myself.

Seeing that Niall and Francis were looking through the books together and giggling, I headed off in my own direction.

Tracing the spines of books, I wandered past the columns of bookshelves. Stopping before the last row where the bookshelves dipped to form a hidden cove. I bit my lip and dared myself to step around it and into that secluded circle of bookshelves.

Anne's son. A boy that went into a coma the same time I did.

I stared down at my black doc martens and knee socks, suddenly doubting myself. Maybe he was just a little kid and not the boy I kept thinking about.