FINDERS AND KEEPERS.

5. Follow Me Home.

Song of the chapter.

Maroon5 - Maps.

The sky is as dull and grey as this place is to me and I'm walking to where I parked my car.

Remember how I said I hated how I hate being curious, because  you know the kind of guy I am? I like handling my own shit rather than chasing around strawberry smelling girls,  but this girl asked for it. I mean she stepped into something really personal and the fact that she recognized it just has me asking too many questions.

I can see her arguing  with this tall and skinny kid with long hair,  I can't  tell if I have seen him around here or not but I'm  pretty sure the yellow is faded t-shirt would have caught my attention. He must be new too.

I wonder  who would move here anyway?

Their little  argument seems a little tense and there's a lot of hand waving and eye rolls g to be honest.

I'm  turning my attention to my car and I'm hopping inside,  slamming the door..

"Hey,  I sort of need a ride home" he's  getting inside without even asking and I'm  bored already.

He has invaded my privacy twice today and he seems so pleased with himself I would punch him.

"Would you like to drive? " to be honest I'm saying this out there of sarcasm but my brother never knows the difference.

"Sure. Hope out princess"  he's working at me.

"Don't  make me fuck up your face" I'm opening the door and hoping out into the rain,  of course it has to randomly rain on a Monday and I have to be stuck with Nikolai in one car.

"Don't  think I enjoy your company either " he's rolling his eyes.

I'm  not going to give him more reason to irritate me so we can argue like a married couple because I will surely get sick and that has never been first option when it comes to Nikolai,  but I'm  not allowed the  hit him either and that just sucks the fun out of these kinds of car rides.

From where I'm  sitting I can still see them,  but now they are racing into his big truck and everything in me is telling me that I should just ignore all of this and go back to being Jared,  just the guy that ignored everything and ran away from anything that has anything to do with the wolf.

I'm  ignoring my logic.

"Follow that car" it's an order shot by me before I can stop my self and surprisingly he doesn't  say anything,  he just does what I'm telling him and it feels good to  know that he can listen to anyone else other than himself.

The rain is pouring hard on the outside as we drove up the road that leads to the other side of Town it takes a few hours to reach.  The rain is poring harder making it hard to drive fast and catch up with the red truck that I have to follow.

"Let's  stop here " he is parking the car a few blocks from where the truck is parked.

We are now in the Town square where,  parked a few blocks from the coffee shop my sister works at and Nikolai is on his phone laughing at some video he's  watching.

Ten minutes of hearing this idiot laugh and switch the radio on on the two come out and we are back to following them to wherever they are going and it's  the part of town that we can't  exactly afford to have a house of.

He follows the car,  losing them here and there as if I care if I get caught or not.

We follow them as they take a U turn and straight into a long lonely road that could almost lead you put of Town but the other turn they take leads to this quiet neighborhood with the kind of houses Nikolai's friends live in.

Nikolai parks the car a away from the house that the red truck is pulling in the driveway of.

The girl gets out and I'm  out with her bracelet before I can even think straight.

"Gina! "

She is turning around and looks confused to see me. I'm  more confused than she is.

The guy is getting closer when he sees me approaching and I can tell now that he's not his boyfriend,  but is protecting her like her brother.

" You left this at the library" I'm  handing her the weird looking bracelet that I'm  sure she made with her own hands.

"Thank you " she's  smiling at me,  but her eyes tell me more than she could say.

"Sure,  don't  leave it lying around I won't be there to pick it up next time"  I'm saying with no smile,  because those are foreground  to me.

"I will remember that" she's  smiling even more.

"I'm  right here and you're flirting with him,  Georgina" the guy speaks.

"Shut up, Dave" she's  rolling his eyes.

"See you around. Oh..and uh...nice to meet you Dave " I'm  turning around and walking away before I can stay longer than I should and say things I shouldn't  say to this girl with too many smiles.

The rain has already soaked me and I'm  frustrated enough and I don't  need to be reminded  that I  have just gone out of my way for a girl.

"A stupid bracelet. That's  why we're following them? Unbelievable! You're wasted my time do you can try to get laid.... Wait.. Tell me that's what you plan on doing " he's  looking at me.

"No"  I'm shaking my head.

"Just because we're unlucky doesn't  mean you should be unlucky in that ,  if you know where I'm going? " he somehow thinks everyone should think like him.

"She's  not my type. Now drop this"  my voice is warning low,  but like I said my brother only listens to himself.

"I'm  just being honest,  just - "

"Shut up"  I'm  saying this with my eyes closed.

"Hey, Jared. What Mom sat to that day? " he sounds like he could be ready to cry,  I hate how this broke all of us and now we are left to put up this facade for people and to tell you the truth some are braver than others.

"In the morning? Nothing unusual except for one"  I'm  not opening my eyes,  it's  hard enough to think about her let alone talk about her.

"What? " he looks nervous.

"She left a voice mail for me,  but I can't make my self listen to it"  I'm sighing.

"Does Dad know about it? I-"

"He can't know about it yet,  until  I listen to it. I just need that before he takes that away and start blaming me for keeping Mom's secrets" I'm looking out of the window at the trees that we are passing and I'm  wishing for some kind of simplicity.

"Do you keep them? " he sounds exactly like our Father right now.

"What? Her secrets? If I did then she would still be alive, because  at least she would have someone to talk to"  I'm  looking straight into his eyes.

"Are you saying that Dad knew her secrets,  but-"

"I'm  not saying anything,  but it's true and you know that. No need to ask" I'm  tired to talk about him or why he let her slip that far because  he knew it.

"It's nobody's fault" he would rather believe this.

I would rather not go into detail about my Father or why our Mother killed herself because  it only  just sends me to the edge if crazy.

"So, a-"

"When I'm ready Nikolai I'll  listen to it and make you listen to it"

Will I ever be ready? Ready to know whatever was going on  in her head that night.

All I know is that I can't  seem to get away from this big mystery.

I just have these questions and ghosts that haunt me at night. A wild that will not leave me alone.

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