When It All Ends... ( Merome )

Chapter 2

Chapter 2

Tess is already up and going in the thing you call our house. I get out of bed after the sleepless night. I change into my faded sky blue tee shirt and ripped jeans. Tess calls me down for breakfast right as I finished changing. All we normally have for breakfast is usually bread and cheese on some accounts we have eggs but not very much. I shove the food in my mouth because I am already late. I kiss Tess on the cheek and say goodbye. Leave the house and jog to Mitch's house.

"Hey biggumes," Mitch say standing up from the edge of steps to the porch. Mitch's house isn't every nice but it is better that mine.

"Hey dood."

"How's are you and Tess doing?"

"We're doing alright, like every year she is afraid for the impoundment next week. I really hope I don't get chosen for it this year because I can't leave her she will be all alone." I say sitting on the porch putting my head in my hands. Mitch comes and plops himself next to me and puts a hand on my back rubbing in comforting circles. Just that makes me tingle I really do have more feelings for him.

Mitch's P.O.V
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I put my hand on his back rubbing circles on his back to try and comfort him. I can't stand to see him this way it kills me.

"I can't just leave her, she has been left by her father and then her mother died why did this happen to this precious little girl. What did she do to deserve this." He says with his head still in his hands and I see a tear drop from his hand. This makes me think of the day they took my sister. She got impounded 4 years ago, she died in the first round by a 18 year old named Soren who ended up winning in the end. It is still a very hard subject for me. After she died my mother and father committed suicide together and left me with a older brother who is 21 and a little sister who was 7 it is her first year in the impoundment drawing.

"Don't worry you won't get picked, there are so many names in that glass bowl it won't be you I promise." I say and give him a friendly hug, but it meant more to me.

Jerome's P.O.V
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What he says doesn't make me feel any better but he hugs me and that makes all the worries wash away. For a minute it felt like something more. The he let's go and all the worries rush back in for a moment but fade away as he talks to me.

"What part of the stream do you want to do to today," he says grabbing the fishing polls carful not to break the line of the 2 because that is our only way to make money.

"I think we should go to the edge, we always get some good catches there." I try to say with a smile but it just turns out like a straight face and a murmur.

"I don't want you to do this crap with me Jerome," I get butterfly's the way he says my name. "You don't have to act like everything is okay like you have to do at home. You don't always have to be like I'm ok to everybody. Especially not me. I tell you everything how I feel and what's going on in my life I want you to trust me like I trust you."

"Okay I'm not fine I am scared out of my mind. Tess finally knows what the impoundment is and she knows that I am in the drawing for it what am I supposed to do? Tell her everything is going to be all right when there is a chance that it won't be?" I say angrier than I meant when we got to our favorite spot. "Biggumes if I do get chosen I don't want you to volunteer for me okay. I just want you to make sure that Tess will be taken care of," I say quieter as we sit down in the edge of the rock. This has alway been the best place because you can't see the fence where it blocks us from going any further. All you can se is the stream and the line of forest.

"I will make sure she will be alright if it comes to that,"he said throwing his line in the water so I follow his lead and do the same. I look over and see a tear come down his face. At that moment I reach out and pull Mitch to my side. He looks up at me with his Carmel eyes that are watering and I completely melt.

Mitch's P.O.V
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Jerome pulls me close to him and I knew he saw my tear come down my cheek. I am happy he is here with me. I care about him so much but I don't think he feels the same way about me. I look up into his chocolate brown eyes and cascade of love comes over me.

We both start to lean in and I close my eyes when our mouths connect in perfect harmony. It's like we were made for each other. It was soft and tender at first then gets deeper. I open my mouth a little telling him it is okay to go further. He takes the opportunity right away and I smile. He returns it. We fight for dominance but he wins. I know it's our first kiss but I don't want it to stop.

Jerome's P.O.V
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We both lean in I see him close his eyes and I do the same. Then our mouths touch softly at first then I go into it deeper. He opens his mouth letting me know I can go further and I immediately go for it. I feel him smile as my tongue enters his mouth this makes me happy that he actually cares for me. We fight for dominance but I get control. I pull back and whisper "Mitch I love you..."

"Jerome I have loved you ever since I met you," he whispered back.

I let out a breath that I didn't know I was holding in and he chuckles.

"My bacca was worried I didn't love him back of course I love you I always have and alway will," he said while we were forehead to forehead. We laid down his head on my chest and our arms wrapped around each other but one of Mitch's hands was right over my heart. He started lightly snoring and I knew it was the best he's slept in a while.