Jack
"Alex we need to go look for them! It doesn't take this long to get your nails fucking done!" We have all been arguing for hours and I have finally exploded.
"Where do you suggest we look?" Alex has a clam voice but his neck is slowly turning red.
I look at everyone's faces and can tell they don't want me to say it. "Hospitals." All at ones they asked why she would even be there and that we couldn't think like that. I fold over on the counter and try to block everyone out. Soon everyone was literally gone. I run to the yelling at the door. I see the mess of hair that is being crowded by everyone. My shoulder hits the door frame and I run my sore hand through my hair. I don't have time, I remind myself. Going into the extra room I uncap a bottle of migraine meds. I look over what I have done on the computer screen.
Brook
The only thing calming me down is The thump thump of the kicking baby. "Do you know the sex?" I realize how much time I wanted to be with Jess through out the pregnancy.
"No I don't but Zack does." She starts to feel the womb along with me.
"I'll ask him later." We both feel the baby in silence. " Where was Jack?"
"I'm sure he was In his room doing band stuff." Jess picks up a mesh of yarn that will soon be a blanket for the new baby. "Alex even said that he wanted to start a search party."
"But Alex knows that I have been upset about it." I retreat into the covers. "You think that he will be mad?"
"What? No, I love it, and everyone will love it!" She sits for a while and knits, the blanket is only lengthened two rows when Jack comes in holding his head.
"Hi Tink." He holds a piece of paper in his other hand.
"What's that?" I almost fall over from the amount of eye contact.
"Yeah, do you want to come down stairs with me?" He rips his eyes away, the only conection that we have had in so long.
"Sure." I make sure the blanket stays on over my shoulders. Everyone has a smile on their face as Jess helps me sit down. "What?" I split my chapt lips with a smile as everyone states at me with their smiles.
Jack sits on a stool with a worried look, almost like he needed aproval. To be honest Jack was the only one I could pay attention to, so I barely noticed Alex standing with a guitar that he handed to Jack. Alex starts singing unfamiliar lyrics but I notice the guitar part, its my favorite part from Therapy. I sit in tears listening as his song smoothly transitions to all of my favorite songs, the lyrics told a story; our story. Jack kept eyecontact with me througout the entirity of the song except when I got up to hug him.
"Woah." He puts the instrument on the rug and grabs me from under my armpits. "Wait, whats that?" I didn't understand the question because I was trying to remember the moment. "What happend?!" I come out of my fog and notice the warmth missing from my shoulders.
"Oh well I guess it was bound to come out sometime. Jess you want to help?" She gets up from Zack's lap and helps take the tape off. "I got all of you on a family tree." Jack takes my hand and stares. "I knew you would hate it, I'm sorry I should have asked first." I have to put my mask back on and sit down.
"No, I love it. Its better than my stupid song." He takes my ring finger and traces the thick black band that goes around it.Then he glides his finger through the roots of the mangled tree until it separates into multiple branches, he chooses the way where my sisters branch goes, a butterfly sits on the limb. We sit as he traces his way to all the birds and butterflies that sit on the thin lines. Finally he follows the leaves that have blown off and went a little over my collar bone and back down to where my sternum is. In nice elegant letters is his name.
"Your song is not stupid. I thought you hated me but I know why you were in there for so long." We hug until I hear someone clear their throat. "Oh yeah you guys come and look, um the birds are the boys and the butterflies are the girls, the initials are by each one."
"Brook why is there a little butterfly by mine and Zack's?" Jess asks.
"I feel like its a girl." Zack had the biggest smile on his face and I knew I was right.
Jack
Twirling her hair in my fingers I notice her labored breathing. Oh how much I will miss her!
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My soldier in Neverland (Jack Barakat)
FanfictionBrook's new mom made her see a therapist because of her real parents and her cancerous past. Bryan her therapist made her join a pen pal web site, there she meets Jack.
