Renegade-N.H-

All Gave Some

All Gave Some;

"Yeah," I say into my cell phone, I had called my brother to let him know I would stay at the Tomlinson's that night. "He offered, apparently Jake and Fray are gone for the week so the house is quiet."

"Just don't overstay your welcome, you brat," Carter says he hollers something behind him to people in the background. "Love you Lee," he whispers before hanging up the phone.

I roll my eyes, tossing my bag into the back seat, I needed to go home and get clothes before I go back over to Lou's. I drive back through the wooded highway keeping the music turned up loud and my hands gripped to the steering wheel. It doesn't take me long to collect a couple things to wear, shoving them unfolded into my duffel bag.

I look at the photo sitting on the nightstand of my family, sighing deeply. I pull it over, setting it down on the table face down.

Sometimes just seeing how happy we were makes me so uneasy my stomach begins to turn in knots. I seize up and words can't be formed, I turn into a puddle of emotions and sadness. I bound down the stairs and into the dark kitchen, flicking on the lights I grab two water bottles for the car and an apple.

When I turn the engine back over and music pumps back through the speakers drowning out the feelings that I was having. Rain starts falling around the car, I turn off the speakers and listen to it as it hits the metal roof. It's calming, peaceful that is until I slam on the brakes.

A small coyote is standing in the middle of street, at least at first I believe it's a coyote. At second glance I'm not so sure, it's bigger than a normal coyote, scruffy with grey fur. It was staring straight at me, brutally almost through me like a burning ray of light.

I honk the horn hoping that it would scare it into moving but it doesn't move an inch, it just stands there staring at me. I press my foot down on the pedal slowly moving the car forward.

The animal looks to the left and then creeps towards the side of the road, as I drive past I get a chill up my spine. The wolf sits back on his hind legs and follows me as I drive the rest of the way down the road.

Lou lived on the other side of town in the gated community, large houses and even larger bank accounts. He had three younger sisters, being the oldest of all girls was hard on his self esteem. I blame that for turning him into the egotistical bastard he was today-only in public of course.

I laugh to myself thinking about the time that he had cut his hair too short and went through a phase of not showering. I had told him the natural greases in his hair would make it grow faster and the idiot had believed every word of it. Even then his smile was infectious, and everything he said you did because it was fun. Lou was the necessary evil in my life, without him I would have never been this happy.

There was one time that we had come close to hurting ourselves, my mother lost it. It was the only time she had ever yelled at me like that, she was furious. We had ran away to the lake house that Lou's parents owned thinking that we could be kids of the woods or some shit. Lou ended up locking us inside by accident, when the rain started the lake flooded and so did the boat house.

I couldn't swim at the time, we were only nine and I had never had the chance to even learn.

The dock got so slippery, I lost my footing and fell in, I caught the rope that was hanging down from the boat. I couldn't get my head above the water, struggling with my arms and legs to kick as hard as I could. The water overflowed into my lungs, it burned so bad I can remember it to this day. Louis saved me he came in so quick, without thought. Ever since then he was the only person I let save me, whenever the hell he wanted. Jerk and all.