Unconditionally

16-Rain

Vanessa
I took the car and drove as far as I could. He was a liar. He was a bully.

He never changed. My hands gripped the steering wheel as I duck my head down and cry.

To think. To think I trusted him, for a split second. Was it all a lie?

Yes. My mind was made up.
I HATE Michael Jackson.

I became hysterical. My hands started sliding on the steering wheel making my car swerve. Dammit. I had to be careful.

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Michael

Tatiana watches me through the window with a giant smirk on her face.

I felt no emotion what so ever.
Guilty?
Sadness?
Anger?
Loneliness?

Yes.
I walk into Tatianas room and stand at the side of her bed. "Why?" I whisper as my eyes start to well up.

"Why what?" She asks smiling. "Why would you make her leave me?" I grunt. She takes a deep breath and tucks a curly piece of hair behind her ear.

"I didn't want to Michael. Seriously. I just showed her how much of a jack Ass you are. You'll never change. I've been with you long enough to know that." She explains.

And the sad part is, everything she said made sense. She was just trying to protect Nessa and I don't blame her.

I was trying to change. For my sake and Vanessa's. But I guess I'm just a sex addict. Trying to get women into bed. That's not the person I want to be.
That's not the person my mom would like me to be.

Think Michael.

I grip the railings of Tatianas bed. Where could she be? I ask myself.

As if she was reading my mind, Tatiana rests her hand on my shoulder and whispers.

"Katherine."

I look up at her and feel a tear run down my face, onto my lips.
I taste the tears that follow along with the single as I rush out of the room and out of the hospital.
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VANESSA

I pull up to Michaels house and dash to the backyard. I am greeted by a willowing Katherine.

I run up to her and rest my hand on her brown, wet bark. I rest my forehead on her and allow my hair to fall from the loose ponytail it was in. I can't say anything. She was the only one I trusted right now.....And she was a tree.

I feel a gust of wind run through my clothes. One of Katherine's branches lower to the ground as if she was trying to reach of to me.

I cautiously inch closer to her.
The rain started becoming more heavy now.
I sit on her firm branch as she supposedly brings me up to her center.

I glance at the spot she took me to.

It was the spot where Michael and I had our moment. The day he took me to meet Katherine filled my thoughts.

I couldn't tell if I was crying anymore. The tears and raindrops mixed together and it starts to pour.

She was trying to tell me something. Something I couldn't comprehend.

I felt nothing inside.

I felt dead.

" I don't know what you're trying to show me Katherine. Nothing you do is going to change me mind." My voice cracks as I lower my head.

A breeze sweeps me..a little too hard..

I lose my footing on Katherine and slip. I fall out of her and feel like I'm falling to my death. To be honest.

It might be better that way.

MICHAEL

I rush up to my moms tree and see Vanessa sitting in it. I can't believe this is the first place she would go.

She stands up. Her beautiful brown hair soaked by the rain but still looking as beautiful as ever.

And then it hit me,like a slap in the face.

I now know why she's mine. I now know why I bullied her.
I look back up to her and admire her for a minute.

Until her footing slips..

I dash over to her it feels like I have super speed. I catch her as we both fall to the ground.

She was knocked out cold.
I tried shaking her but she was out.

TO BE CONTINUED