Heart in Range

Episode VI - Back to black

Author's note: This episode is just to get details about the characters, to give them more history about them. There's not much importance into reading this unless you want to know a lot more about them (The story will have Yaoi moments soon I'm working on it!)

October

I could see it... The sun rising... I could fee it too, the soft cold October breeze around my body, the cherry blossom petals blowing into the sky and into my hair, that's when I knew...

I'm not a morning person.
I closed the blinds and shut the door then straight back to bed.

That's right! Friday mornings, the last day of getting lectured by old people.
Andy wasn't home because he left last night- He wanted me to give in his papers for poetry class and so I got up and went there myself to give it to Mr. Walsh (Mr. Walsh-mallow)

I felt empty though, as if something was missing from inside my mind that I couldn't figure out what it was... My mother never giving me an E-mail, Andy ignoring all my questions and even my own sister avoided me... Did I do something wrong?

Teacher: "Good job, Tyler. This is an excellent amount of work you've done"

I was too busy puzzling out my own feelings to find out what happened to all my friends and so, I forgot to tell the teacher that it was Andy's work.

I've spent most of my hours gazing out the window...
Even after all the classes and time to go home I walked out of the campus and into the real world.
I never felt so... Weak before, it was like my mind had cleared away all my happy thought and filled it with no more than average depression.

I walked out to St. Pierre's road on a small old bench across the street where I could clear my mind, not that it was necessary I mean, my mind was already blank in the first place yet filled with so many thoughts. It was so beautiful and so quiet, I could stay here for hours.

Eventually Bella came by and say by my side, smiling at me then frowning at the sky, as if she was about to burst into tears.

Bella: "It took us five years to meet again..."

Me: "It too you five years to notice me again..."

She stood up and held my hand as we walked across the streets of Paris, we reached a small cafe called Le Trans, it was located next to a beautiful flower shop... My mother used to be a florist, her favorite flowers were roses- She loved the color red, it was her nature to be a florist...

Me: "Mom would have loved this place... Wouldn't she?"

Bella: "She would have yeah..."

Me: "I haven't heard from her in ages..."

Bella: "T-Tyler... You... Didn't know?"

Me: "Know what?"

Bella stared at her coffee as she closed her eyes, a single tear down her cheek as the wind started to grow stronger and the clouds were spreading out, the sun was shining on her pale skin, then she looked at me with her eyes full of sorrow.

Bella: "Mom... Had an accident last Christmas, she drove into the sea and hasn't been seen since...
You weren't there, she was all alone for Christmas- She needed you, Tyler... Why did you leave?!"

Me: "You know who mom was and what she did! Don't start blaming this on me!"

And just as it hit me, I looked over to the woman working by the flower shop- She looked like mom, as if she was standing there smiling at me, as if she was there... The last thing I saw was black- As if my body had given up, I felt... Free.