The Deadly Nerd (Completed)

Chapter 29

~Sadness might not always be visible~

*Elliott's POV*

"What do you say, El? Lucott or Lellicas?" Jo turned her head to me swiftly. She was naming Lucas' and mine shipnames, but my mind was too full to notice all of them.

My brain was wandering far away from the small, silent coffeeshop we were in right now. I thought about my parents. I remembered the day they died.

I was watching TV, the Jesse show actually. I liked the show very much. I'd never miss it, even if the house was on fire. It was raining heavily outside and the atmosphere was very gloomy. My mom had left me pancakes before they went to see grandpa in Kentucky. She trusted me, so she left me alone. I mean I was old enough to stay alone.

Jesse started on TV as I heard a noise outside the door. It was someone leaving their umbrella by the wall probably. The doorbell rang and I jumped from the sudden noise. I walked to the door, alert.

I looked trough the peephole in the door  and saw my soaked aunt. My parents left about 3 hours ago with my younger pair of twin siblings. She told me that if something was wrong, she'd call aunt to come pick me up. Seeing my aunt instantly worried me.

"Hey auntie." I greeted my aunt with a half smile. She nodded, moving me to the side and getting in.

"Pack your things. You're gonna come live with me until you are overage." She silently said, almost as a whisper. There was a tone of sadness and when she removed her hoodie, I saw that she had cried.

"Why? What's wrong auntie?" I asked, now seriously worried. Something really bad happened.

"They're dead, Elli." She said, her voice breaking as she sobbed loudly.

I didn't believe her words. It seemed like my ears had betrayed me.
"W-what?" I asked, still confused and not believing what I had heard.

She just nodded as she cried even more. I came to her and hugged her, me now crying too.

That was the first time I missed a Jesse episode.

I broke up my thoughts when Jo snapped her fingers in front of my face. "El? What's wrong?" She asked me, sincerely.

"Oh nothing...I was..thinking." I said, looking at her, then averting my gaze to the floor.

"About?" She asked again. I shifted in my seat. I was uncomfortable.

"Ehh..shipnames?" I lied. The sadness was well covered in my voice while I was chewing my lip.

"Ok. Now tell me the real reason." She demanded.

Damn you Jo. You always get me.

"It is the real reason." I lied again. Jo knew that my parents were dead, but she knew no details about it howsoever.

"Ok. What was the last thing I said?" She asked me. Oh great!

My God, Jo. I swear-

"Come on. Tell me." She interrupted my thoughts.

"Err...you said...something abo-"

"Yeah, not gonna work. Come on now El. You know you can't hide anything from me. Besides, you're too innocent to be a good liar." She  said, interrupting me again.

I answered nothing. She stared at me intently, until she averted her gaze to the waiter. She raised her arm, calling the waiter.

"We'd like to pay." She said to him. Each of us handed him $2.50 as we stood up from the chairs. We walked out of the coffeeshop, calling the taxi.

I was actually very glad that she dropped the subject.

"Don't worry. You'll answer that to me. Sooner or later, El." She said.

Crap!

"Ok.." I said silently. She noticed every time I was gloomy. But now she had thought of two reasons for my bad mood: my parents or my boyfriend.

You know the reason.

It is the winter holidays in 3 days. Finally! No school for two weeks!

I could finally get sleep.

Yeah, right.

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Hey pooplings.

This chapter is sad, but I have good reasons. With everything going on in my life right now, it's just a similar reflection.

Death just needs to stop getting in the way man. Freaking annoying.

I wish I could kill death. Wait...that doesn't make sense... I swear my IQ is 131!

Anyway, I'm going off right now. So..

Oh!

Songs for the chapter:

Crossroads- Oscar and the Wolf

Arctic Monkeys- Knee socks

Linkin Park- Numb.

There we go.

Baii!