Not So Elegant. (Sequel to The Elegant Howl)

Chapter 7: Gone.

 I, AM SO SORRY. I AM SO, SO, SO UNEXPLAINABLY  SORRY. I HAD FORGOTTEN TO UPDATE THIS, IT'S BEEN AGES. *BOWES* GOMEN!

"She's gone!" Jake exclaimed as he entered Emily's house.

"Who is?" Sam asked, pulling a chicken bone out of his mouth.

Jake looked around, seeing the pack was here. Was there a meeting he had missed? "TORI! She's cleared her wardrobe and all her stuff is gone!"

This caught the attention of everyone in the room. "What!" A few of them yelled, running to Jake. "Her motorbike's missing to!" Becca exclaimed, coming up from behind her brothers, tears in her eyes.

"Guys!" A faint voice called, and Kathleen rounded the corner. "She left a note," the blonde held up a folded piece of baby blue paper.

Jake opened it, "Dear losers," he began. "I have come to realize what a bitch I am and how much you all hate me. I think you guys forget the shit I've been through because you're too busy admiring you 'muscles' in the mirror. It's up to you whether or not you want to believe that I launched myself off the cliff again, but don't worry, you guys never wanted to see me again anyway. I'm sorry for screwing up so much. I tried. Hate you always, Tori."

There was silence and every felt weight on the chest. "What's on the back?" Emily whispered raspily, tears running down her cheeks.

Jake flipped it and scanned the words, his heart dropping even further, seeing it was a song. He looked up at his pack-mates and the others.

"She's been singing this song for a while," he said, and then looked directly at Seth. "It's about you."

The younger boys eyes widened, and he stepped forward to take the paper. Jake looked down at it first. "Dear Seth, I'm sorry I couldn't admit I loved you when I did. Enjoy your life with Lynn, Love Tori," he read the small note at the top, before handing the letter to Seth.

The lyrics were set out professionally, and Seth read them out-loud.

"What you don't know, what you can't see, what you don't realize you once had until you see that it's not for real. And as for us, it's not unclear. The clouds ain't always bad if when they fade it's love, that they reveal." Tears began to fill his eyes at the next words he read aloud.

"And I'm moving on, 'cause he set me free. And I'm trying to be as much as myself as if you were, here with me, and now I'm feeling lost, but it's not unheard. While you go on living your life I'm still stuck here, living in your words."

The note was crumpled in his large hands. 

The realization of what she might have done filled the room, and ended in Seth scrambling out of the house and eventually followed by his gloom pack mates; he was destined to recover the one he loved, hoping she had not jumped.

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