The Calm Before the Storm

My first story on Wattpad! Please review, but do NOT advertise, this is a story for reading not advertising! Thank you!

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The cold wind ruffled my short medium brown hair as I sat underneath the cloudy black sky, the clouds were heavy with rain and would break at any moment; my eyes stared out where the stars shone out in patches. My back was against the back window of my three month old bright yellow four door pick up truck. I had parked it underneath the third tree in the fifth row of the abandoned cherry orchard. The old cherry orchard was about five miles away from our small country town of Rewn, so I was literally in the middle of nowhere.

 My sterio was turned all the way up, blasting out soft sweet country music,it was so sad it just got to my heart, my emotions were stirred and blurred together. Tears formed at my eyes as the lyrics reached my ears and I softly attempted to sing along.

 Dull yellow lights caught my attention out from my peripherals. The lights moved up the old worn dirt road. I groaned in aggravation as I saw a small four door, neon green truck with one small black line running down the sides turn down the road towards where I was trying to cry alone and pull myself together.

 A short dirty blond haired girl bounded out of the truck; her choppy straight hair barely reached her shoulders, nonetheless her hair bounced as she jogged towards my truck. She kicked up some of the dirt around her black shoes, disturbing the peaceful serenity of the setting surrounding me. She hopped up on the tail-gate and tried to get one short leg into the bed of my truck. It was kind of amusing watching this short girl try to get into my truck. I looked away and did not smile, I wiped away my tears that felt like razor blades on my cheeks...so she would not see my moment of weakness.

"Everyone's looking for you Jude, they're so worried and your mom's freaking out." The girl said, pulling her knees to her chest once she sat down beside me.

I still refused to look at her, I kept my head turned away and down as I hugged my left knee tighter to myself as my right leg stretched outward. My hair shifted to cover up all of my face as I willed the tears to stop pouring out of my eyes and dripping down my face like the rain that was soon to come, but I just could not get that horrid lump out of my throat...that horrid lump that would not permit me to speak without cracking.

"Whatever he did to you, I'll do it back to him. Ten fold." She insisted, her hand on my knee.

"You can't do anything worse than pretend to love someone, tear their heart slowly into little pieces over a long period of time, then kill you....but some how keep you alive to feel all the sickening pain they inflicted upon you." I replied, my voice betraying my attempt to hide the tears,you could hear them about to break out, "just leave it Lucy....just leave me."

"I will not allow some guy to hurt my best friend, expecialy as bad as he hurt you!" Lucy yelled at me over the still loud radio.

 I peaked through my hair to see that tears were starting to pour down her flushed face, my stomach hurt, I can't stand to see her cry, "I just sat back and watched....I ALLOWED him to hurt you. I saw everything he did to you, I SAW it," Lucy continued, "I had so many opportunities to stop it, but I didn't. I HATE myself for letting him treat you bad."

"Lucy-" I tried to say something, but she interupted me.

"No Jude," she grabbed the remote that laid at the foot of my left leg that was held so tightly to my chest. She clicked a button and the station on my radio changed to the C.D player. She searched for the right song on the C.D, a song we both knew all to well. It was Lucy and Mines' song, the song that set the basis of such a strong bond of our friendship, that set our non-blood sisterhood, our pinkie swear we're going to be together forever best friendship.

Lucy started singing her part, we practiced singing this song so many times from all the bad times in our lives. Her beautiful soft voice sounded so sweet to my broken heart.

We were so lost in our song, we did not even notice the motorcycle that drove up, we turned and looked as we heard the roar of the engine. Lucy stopped singing, she hates singing in front of other people, which is a waste, because she sounds so beautiful. Delicate like a wine glass shattering and as sweet as a honey suckle in May.

The engine died and the driver pulled off his helmet as he stepped off. He shook his soft brown hair and it fell infront of his soft features. He walked towards us and smiled a sad smile.

"Are you okay Jude? Everyone's worried and your mom's freaking out." The tall motorcyclist said, walking away from the black motorcycle, his dark blue helmet on his leather seat.

"She's fine Mark, now, get back on your motorcycle and drive away." Lucy said, her eyes narrowing at him, her face said 'Go. Now.Before I tear your face off'.

"What's with all this hostility? I'm her friend too." Mark said, hopping over the tail gate and sat down in front of me.

"Not for that long, you don't even know the story." Lucy retorted, leaning back on the window.

Mark opened his mouth to say something but it seemed like his words disappeared. "You're right....I haven't heard the whole story....but I would like to know" he said, looking at me with sympathetic and curious bright blue eyes.

I sighed, "okay, fine. I'll tell you the story." I reached for my blue jean messenger bag and grabbed a notebook out, the notebook looked like it was used a lot, the front of it had 'The Beatles Albany Road' cover art on it.

I opened the notebook, the inside was filled with my handwriting. I stroked the pencil and pen words that inhabited every line of the notebook until it was filled with my story. I took a deep breath, trying one last time to get a grip on myself, and started to read my story.