𝑀𝑒𝒶𝓃 𝐼𝓉- Cole Walter

Chapter 7

As soon as I seen it I fell to my knees, I thought my life might've been good here but in this moment I want nothing more than to leave. My father's necklace- 4 days before he died he gave it to me, he gave me a lot of things before he did it, but this necklace, he wore it everyday. I don't think I'd ever seen him take it off, it was always on. I was confused when he gave it to me, but I was just about to turn 7, I didn't know that it meant he was going to take his own life, how could I, I was just a child. My eyes started to well up and I could feel my body shaking, then it all came out, I just burst out crying. "Hey, hey what happened," I heard someone ask in a quiet voice, I turned around to see who it was, it was Nathan, I pointed to the necklace lying on the bed and as soon as he seen it with the rest of my stuff that had all been tossed on the floor I felt his arms come around me and I lost it. I don't think I've cried so hard about my father's death in years, how could anyone do this to me?

After a few minutes of Nathan comforting me he said, "Don't worry we will get it sorted out, I'm so sorry, everything will be okay." Then I heard someone's heavy footsteps racing up the stairs, somebody must've heard me crying, shit, I don't want everyone to see me. I wiped my tears and felt Nathan slowly stand up, I did the same turning around to see who was there. It was Cole, "What the fuck did you do to her," he shouted at Nathan who looked terrified of his brother. "No, he didn't do anything, someone came into my room and has been messing with my stuff," I said still wiping my face, this is so embarrassing I hate crying in front of people, it makes me seem weak. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath and I felt Cole brush past me going into my room. He looked furious, grabbing the necklace off my bed he walked out, but before he ran down the stairs he looked up at me and said, "I'm going to fix this." After I stopped crying Nathan and I went into my room and he helped me tidy up, as well as unpack some stuff to help me feel more at home, while I told him all about my father. I needed someone to talk to, I've never really had someone my age to talk to about this stuff.

"Dinner," shouted George. Nathan was still in my room telling me about his crush on one of Isabella's friends so we both ran downstairs together to get some food. My face was still blotchy from crying so I could feel people staring at me. Katherine pulled me aside and told me that Cole told her about everything that happened with my stuff and apologised to me assuring me that it wouldn't happen again, I told her not to worry about it, I felt so much better already. I looked around after I sat down to eat my dinner and I noticed that Cole wasn't here, I wanted to ask him what he did with my necklace, he better not have thrown it in the trash. I tried to think about other things while eating but I felt Alex's eyes on me almost the whole time, I hope he didn't try anything, I just wanted to be friends with him, absolutely nothing more.

After dinner I got up to wash my dishes, as I was drying up Benny and Parker came over to me, "Sorry Delilah, we didn't mean to break your necklace, we will pay for it to get fixed we didn't know how important it was to you," Parker said to me. "It's okay, don't worry about it," I said to them, Nathan must've told Katherine what happened. I headed up to my room and made a start on my homework putting my headphones on and drowning out the noise of everyone else in the house. 

I seen my door open, it startled me and I took my headphones off, "Sorry I didn't mean to scare you I knocked, but you didn't say anything," Cole explained, "It's ok what's up?" I asked him, I felt butterflies in my tummy again, I've never really had an interest in the boys around me but there was something about him, something told me he was different than the rest of them. "I took the necklace to show mom what happened and Nathan told us that it was you fathers, I felt awful about what the kids did, so I took it out to the workshop and tried to fix it up." He moved him arm out from behind his back and I stood up, there is was, it looked just like it did before it was broken, I wrapped my arms around him and I felt him stiffen up, but then I felt I'm slowly loosen up and he brought his arms around me. Letting go of him and stepping away I said, "Nobody's ever done anything like this for me, thank you." He smiled and winked at me, "Anytime, Night New York," "Goodnight Colorado," I responded and I heard him laugh as he closed the door. I meant it when I told him that nobody had ever done anything like this for me, at least since my father had died, my mother just gave up on me and herself. I went to bed feeling ecstatic, maybe Andrea was right. Maybe this was the right place.