*maverick 1st person*
II November II
My father's car still is not in the driveway when I arrive. I know that I should probably go in a different way but at this point, this late at night, I don't care what's going to confront me inside. I walk in the front door acting like everyone knew what I had just did and that it was nothing out of the ordinary. I walk up to my bedroom door not talking to anyone and responding to any voices I hear for I do not want to speak with anyone besides Cami. I only hear my mother's voice anyways, and I don't talk to her at all. I have started all too much to even try to finish with a happy ending. This just is what it is and always will be.
When I open my door Cami is on my bed looking out my window in the dark as I once was before I had left. She looks pale like she's seen a ghost. I walk in closing the door behind me. I take a few careful steps in and turn on my lamp at my desk so I don't have to turn on my big ceiling fan. Cami's face looks like cold stone, all in straight lines, never to look away from the outdoors. "You okay?" I ask after a few quiet moments of no 'where you been?'. "Where did you go Mav?" Cami says still not looking at me. Shadows cast on her face form the odd lighting of the lamp across the room. "Cami, you were right! About Judah! How he's "somewhere else"." I get a little giddy for the fact that I finally know a little bit of what's happening. "How do you know?" Cami keeps her face locked but her voice sounds like a Sherlock. "I went to the woods and Judah was there on the ground and he gave me this note!" still giddy about figuring this all out I hand her the pure paper with red ink. She reads it looking away from her post and he face looks more like her as she gets excited. But I assume wrong as the look does not stay for long. Her face grows grim and she hands the note back. "You said you were in the woods? Mav?" Cami looks at the floor.
"Yeah why? I hopped out your window and took off?"
"Do you know how long you were gone, Maverick?"
I reach into my pocket for my phone, "Maybe a few hours. But I'm back before sun rise what's the problem?"
Cami turns her face to me and I can immediately tell there's something different about her. She looks older, more mature and grown. She looks more my age. This is not the Cami I left tonight. "Maverick, you've been gone for almost a year and a half and you tell me you were in the woods?" Cami begins to cry obviously not wanting to relive what happened while I was gone I suppose.
I stand up in a protest. "I was gone for a few hours Cam!"
This time Cami stands in protest and she is as tall as me. Startled I take a half step back. I wasn't gone for that long. No, no way.
Cami takes out her finger and pushes me like I pushed mom the night I set our family on fire.
"I sat here every night Maverick! I sat and I waited for you to come home from whatever you were doing out there! I wasn't even going to ask what you were doing but as the days grew longer my heart grew colder for you and for any kind of hope we would ever get to Judah! I haven't even thought about him! What did you think you were going to go do out there all by yourself? You weren't going to find him that's for sure! If he was even real! Maverick Judah is impossible to find. If he's coming back, for whatever reason and the rest of the world is wrong, he will but other than that you need to get him out of your head. I don't want anything taking my brother away for this long ever again. Maverick we have missing posters up for you around this town! I thought you were dead! I thought you had left me for Judah! I thought so many things that I would never think of you to do. Why didn't you ask me for help?" All the rage and worry and emotion from the years I was gone has just been opened on me. She continues, "And be honest where did you really go?"
