"You know you could've mentioned that you were here instead of speaking up out of no where, almost giving me a heart attack!" gasping, I closed my eyes trying to calm down. " You scared me you jerk."
"How did I scare you?" he asked. "Yet you aren't scared of being out in a forest all alone?"
"You just caught me off guard." Which is true, I guess I blanked out whilst looking at the sky.
"Right." He mumbled. Xavier began shuffling around and soon I heard the click of his lighter.
"You shouldn't smoke so much." I sighed, closing my eyes. "It's bad for you."
"It can't possibly hurt me anymore than I already am."
Slowly opening my eyes, I drifted my eyes until they were on Xavier. I watched the way he rested his elbows on his knees as he stared at the sky. He looked lost in thought, and in that moment I realized that we were both teenagers with messed up lives, just wanting to escape the world.
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Quiet Nights
Short Story"So how do you feel after everything that he did to you?" he whispered. The sky was dark, the moon was the only source of light out. "Think of a bullet." I whispered back. "Why?" he responded. I shifted my eyes from the sky to look at him. "Bullet...
