My Childhood Friend

The Memories

As soon as the bell rings I race out of class like I’m in a freaking marathon. I skip going to my locker and rush out to my car. Ashley is probably going to be waiting for me outside my class. Hopefully, she’ll see Liam and know that something bad happened. I pull my car into reverse and drive out of the school parking lot. Surprisingly there isn’t any traffic so the drive home isn’t as long as I expected it to be. I pull into the driveway of my house and see that my mom isn’t home. Thank Jesus, she would be interrogating me about how my first day went, or why I look like a truck ran over me.

I unlock the door and walk into the house. Guess my brother isn’t here. I go upstairs and change into a black tank top and grey sweatpants. I grab my phone and go downstairs, and lay down on the sofa. I turn on the t.v. hopping that watching some stupid shows is gonna take my mind off of what happened at lunch and in English. Switching on the t.v Spongebob comes on and I decide just to watch that. After about like 15 minutes of watching Spongebob,  I get a text message.

From: 10983702864

Hey I just wanted to say sorry again… I didn’t want any of this to happen. I just wanted to know what happened to us?  -L

The tears threaten to spill over my eyes as I reread the message over and over again. How the fuck did this guy get my phone number?!

As I’m going through all the possibilities on how Liam got my number, I hear the front door opening. I don’t bother looking over to see who it is because I can hear Ashley yelling at my brother

“ DON’T YOU DARE CLOSE THE DOOR JAKE I WILL PERSONALLY BEAT YOUR ASS!!” She threatens him. I can hear her steps coming closer from outside

“ I wasn’t planning on closing the door anyway” Jake replies, probably knowing that Ashley was serious about beating his ass. She walks in and jumps on the sofa.

“ Why’d you leave me I was looking for you every-“ She stops mid-sentence as she sees me staring at my phone and the tears slowly roll down my face. She sighs takes me into her arms and starts stroking my hair. I continue to cry into her arms. Today has been incredibly long for me. The sobs get louder as I think of all the memories I’ve had with Liam. He was always so nice and amazing to me. He helped me with so many things in life. He was there when my parents got divorced. He was the one stroking my head while I was crying. He was the one who taught me how ride my bike. He comforted me when I kept falling off and crying cause couldn’t get the hang of it.

(Flashback )

11 years ago

“ Liam! I can’t do this!” I told him scared of falling on the sidewalk. Even though we were both six he was pretty advanced for his age.

“ I’ve got you Sara just pedal and you can do it” He was holding my bike just like my dad would. I just told him that I’ve been trying to learn how to ride a two wheel bike with my dad. Liam thought it would be a good idea to learn it with him so we can surprise my dad. It sounded like a good idea five minutes ago.

“Ok ok don’t let go though I'm therious Liam!” I had a small lisp because I just lost my two front teeth. I started pedaling feeling pretty balanced, then everything got really wobbly.

“Liam!! I’m gonna fall! Help!” I yelled at him. Then the bike tilted over and fell on the sidewalk. I was crushed by the bike and knew that I scratched my hands and knees.

“Oww!” I yelled while crying my knees and hands hurt so much. Liam ran over and moved the bike over. He took my hands away from my face

“You did awesome Sara you were up by yourself for a long time! Let’s try again” he looked  so happy. I sniffed and shook my head no. There was no way I was getting back on the bike.

“ Oh come on please you can do it just conmenstrate” he was so adorable he had problems with words sometimes. I agreed and got back on the back. Liam held on to it for a while and let go. I did what he told me to do and concentrated. Before I knew it I pedaling down the block!

“ Look at me Liam I’m doing it! I’m doing it!” he ran after me and the whole afternoon was spent like that, us just riding up and down the block.

(End of Flashback)

I missed those days. I noticed I was calming down. Jake walked down to the sofa and handed Ashley a box of tissues. He can be pretty nice at times. He went back upstairs and stayed there probably playing video games.   After, I stopped crying and the only noises coming out of me were sniffles, I showed Ashley the text message.

“What the fuck is this guy kidding me?!?!” She practically yelled. I knew she would be mad. I then got another text message, it was from him again.

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