I walked down the side walk holding Leo’s hand as we always did. He was my only friend I had right now. I could never like him as anything more, like I said, he was like my big brother, and he looked after me. We walked down the street talking about everything that had been going on.
“My mom seriously needs to get a better job; otherwise we are going to have to move AGAIN.” I complained.
He nodded in understanding, but he didn’t say anything. He stared straight ahead, his blond wispy hair blowing in front of his green eyes. It was almost as if he wasn’t listening.
“I mean, really what is this our 5th time moving?! Leo…Are you listening to me!?” He turned his distant glaze towards me and gave a nod and a “Mhm.”, then turned and looked at the sidewalk in front of us. I continued talking until I was shaking and almost in tears. Leo stopped and pulled me into a hug, swallowing me in his big arms, stroking my hair and cooing to me that it will be okay, and that he was always there.
I loved Leo, I could always count on him and he seemed to understand. His green eyes were lie the ocean gushing in every direction, so distant, but yet so near. So comforting was his voice, the only sound of love I got; the only sign of a friend.
Later that night when I got home, I took Marco in my arms and looked at him. He held my father’s features. The same nose and high forehead; the crispy hazel eyes so big and wide; it almost made me want to cry. My father was a great man, ever since he died, our family was falling apart. Marco had just been a new born baby when my father died in the car accident, so he will really never get to know him.
He was a doctor at a hospital he helped emergencies, mainly when there was drunk drivers, and there was a crash, people would get rushed into his hospital and he’d help care for those people. He got a lot of the action in his unit. One night, it was very windy and it was snowing and the streets were full of slush, he tried braking at this stop sign he didn’t see, and he skidded right into the middle of the intersection and a car went straight on, into the middle of the driver’s side of the car, killing my father. The other driver was rushed to the ER, and was fine, but by the time the ambulances got here, it was too late for my father, it was like he instantly died.I missed school for maybe a little over a month, and let me tell you that Christmas wasn’t very merry. It killed a part of me I can tell, I haven’t been the same since, but I seem to cope very well.
I snapped out of it, and put Marco down who was now starting to squirm. Not in the mood to make anything special, I decided jut to heat up a frozen pizza in the oven. I turned it to 450 degrees and let it pre-heat. I took the pizza out and unwrapped the clear plastic wrap it was wrapped in.
I walked into the other room while waiting for the oven to heat up. I looked up from my phone to see the front door wide open and man in a white outfit standing there.
“What the fuck are you doing in my fucking house?” I dropped my phone and picked up an umbrella that had been leaning on the wall next to me.
“Calm down Ami, it’s me, I was the guy who looked at your drawings, I helped u move. Remember? You forgot the black curtains in your room, I didn’t know if you wanted them.”
“Put them down on the ground and just leave, please.” I started trembling. The timer beeped.
“Okay.” He did as asked and backed out of the house with his hands up, the closed the door. I ran over and locked it, then looked to find Marco. He seemed undisturbed playing with his fire truck in the living room. Still trembling, I walked into the kitchen and put the pizza in the oven ad set the timer to 15 minutes.
About 10 minutes into the cooking, it smelt like something was burning, I went to go check on the pizza to find that I hadn’t taken the cardboard out from underneath it. “Fuck.” I opened the oven door and a cloud of smoke came rushing to my face. I sputtered and coughed. “Holy fuck.” I coughed and closed the oven door, but the smoke reached the smoke detector and it started ringing. I covered my ears “FUCK!!!!” Then everything went black, and I started falling and falling, farther and farther…
