Beyond the Brick Wall

Chapter 7

Hello mates! Chapter 7 is finally here! It's dedicated to Sincere for the idea of flashbacks :)

Enjoy and Happy New Year!

Thanks to Holly for editing, btw.

-Yelyah

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Chapter 7

*Zoey Saunders*

Dearest Sarah,

Happy Birthday! I miss you a lot. Many things have been happening since you left me. 

Mom and dad are fighting, I'm practically failing school and I met this really nice guy. He asked me to call him Romeo but I'm pretty sure that's not his real name. We've been communicating by writing letters or notes to each other that we slip in between two bricks at that brick wall near the Laundromat. 

I know that mom and dad (if I could still call them that) are visiting you while I'm writing this. Sorry I couldn't be there, but they aren't the same anymore. They changed a lot and it scares me on how much they fight sometimes.

I really wish you were here Sar. I want you here beside me so that we'll be a family again. I want you here because I'm alone. Yes, Romeo is amazing and he even told me that he wouldn't leave me, but it isn't the same without you. And, unlike with Romeo, I would be able to talk with you more often. 

I miss you so much, and you know that I'll always love you.

<3 Zoey

        I sniffled as I folded the paper and placed it on Sarah's grave after rereading it. I'm not crying. I wouldn't cry. Sarah wouldn't be happy to see me cry. It was supposed to be her fourteenth birthday today and I thought of writing her a letter. It seemed stupid for me to think that she would read it but somehow, I knew she will. 

        As I left the cemetery, my memories with Sarah started playing in my head, as if I were watching my memories at a theater.

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        "Zoey! Look! Look! I taught Wallie how to fetch!" Sarah said, gesturing to our Golden Retriever.

        My thirteen year old self smiled proudly at her. "I knew we could do it!"

        "Yeah! And after a stick we could throw bones and snacks and frisbees- frisbees! If Wallie learns how to catch frisbees we could enter him in the competition! And if he wins-!!" she rambled excitedly.

        I laughed as I threw another stick at our dog. "C'mon Wallie, fetch!"

        Sarah also laughed as our dog was able to catch his second stick in a row. "Go Wallie!" She looked up at me. "Can I get the next stick?"

        "Of course."

        I went over to our table at the back of the garden, where the pack of his snacks were. I stopped dead in my tracks when I heard Sarah start bawling.

        "ZOEY! ZOEY! HELP ME! HEEEELP!"

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        "Hey, need an umbrella?" a voice said, bringing me back to the present time. 

        "Sarah?" I gasped. Then I noticed then that it had been raining, I was soaking from head to toe. I glanced up and saw a yellow umbrella over my head and turned to see a guy with dark brown hair and deep blue eyes.