The Heart Of Scars

Chapter 3

   As I groggily open my eyes, I wipe away the sleep that was keeping them closed. Ughhh...Why'd I have to wake up I was sleeping great without any bad dreams... I slowly sit up in my messed up bed and run my hand through my hair, causing it to uncover my right eye. I decide to tuck back my hair so that my green orb can get to see some of the world... well at least for now.
   I look around my room to find a clock to tell me the time. Finally I find one that's on my table. I check the time to find out that it's 8:32 AM. Great, couldn't I just sleep for a few more minutes. Knowing I won't be able to go back to sleep, I decide to get out of bed.

   Slowly walking from my bed to one of my boxes, I yawn trying to get rid of my sleepiness. Reaching into the box, I pick an outfit to wear for the day. A dark grey long sleeved shirt with dark jeans and my black Converse. After gathering my clothes, I untuck my bangs from behind my ear and stumble to the bathroom to do my daily routine.
   Walking out the bathroom I bump into Robert, who was just passing by, he backs up and smiles. "Good morning Jasper, how are you feeling about your new home?" he asks me.

   "Morning, I think it's wonderful," I shift my resting face into a smiling one to let him know that I'm being sincere.

   "Good, good I just don't want you to feel uncomfortable here since it's new to you," he states. I just nod. I then walk out the bathroom so that I can get started on putting my stuff up in their correct places.

   "Phew....," I huff out in exhaustion as I put my last book on the bookshelf. I only had a few boxes but it was still a lot to put up. I look to the clock that I moved to the small bedside table and check the time. It beams back at me in big, bright numbers that read 10:50 AM. "Dang it's been almost three hours," I mumble to myself.
   I hear a knock sound on the door; I turn around slowly and walk to the door. Turning the knob I open it to find Robert smiling at me. I give him a confused look and ask, "What's up?" he replies with a glad tone, "You have some company. Isn't that great? It's already your second day here and you already have new friends!" I smile and nod at his statement.
   Looking behind the older male, I spot the two familiar silhouettes. Noticing there's third figure standing behind them I hesitate. Something about that person seemed oddly familiar and put off my current thinking track and made me think of something from the past.

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   "Help! Please someone he's hurting me! Uwaaaah-urghhhk! p-please stop...!" I wince as I'm forced to watch what's happening. I watch as a blond headed young girl is dragged from our working area by her already injured arm and down the long, dim hallway. She was always nice to me, it's a shame that she got caught not working for just a quick few seconds.... I was shoved back to my work when the guy that was making me watch said , "Get back to work or you'll end up just like her." Slowly I turn back and continue my work lost in thought until I feel a sharp pain searing through the back of my head, shocked I look up and find the black haired man glaring at me while he snarls, "Work... NOW!" I guess I stopped for a second while I was thinking. I quickly continue my work from before.

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   I shudder as I come back from the past and watch as the three people walk into my room and Robert leaves. Nico looks toward me about to speak when he stops and looks at me worriedly. "What's wrong Jas? You look really pale... Well more than usual... Are you okay?" I look up to him dazed and snap out of it.

   "y-yeah... I'm fine..u-um so who's that?" I stutter as a realize he noticed I wasn't feeling the greatest at the moment. I motion to the girl. She has long black hair and blue eyes, she was also as short as Nico ...Hopefully she's a girl and I didn't make a mistake again like I did with Nico, that would be embarrassing. This time it's Ace's turn to talk, "This is Sky.You two should get to know each other! " he says while pushing her towards me, " Isn't she pretty?" I chuckle as I go to shake her hand, she blushes and hesitates before shaking my hand. Why is she blushing? Was it 'cause of Ace?

   I take my hand away and run it through my hair. I hear a couple of gasps and look at where they came from, Sky is covering her mouth with her hands and Nico is just standing there with big eyes staring at me, while Ace looks like he's seen the coolest thing ever. I look at them all confused by their expressions,"What's wrong with you guys? your looking at me wei-!!" I stop mid-sentence and realize what it is. I quickly remove my hand from my hair and lower my head clearly upset. Oh no! Oh no! Oh no!! They saw my eye! What do I do?!

   "What happened to your eye?" I hear Nico ask me softly in a worried tone.

   "Were you born with that?"Sky adds on to the question.

   "Woah!~ That's so cool!" Ace says in an excited way.

   At Ace's comment I look up and face them again. They look back at me wanting to know about my eye. I stutter out a reply, "I-it's a long story.... Um... L-long story short I lost my eye in um....An accident....Y-yeah."

   "Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry," replies Sky. Nico and Ace add in sorrys as well. I shake my head and tell them it's okay and that I will still be like this with or without their apologies. After that I go out with them. we go to this place called Kim's Café then we go to the park and watch as Ace runs around us looking like a little kid in a candy store. He starts pulling us up one by one to play with him starting with me, Nico, then Sky. It was one of the most fun times in my life.

   After Nico, Sky, and Ace dropped me off at my house I went into the kitchen to find Robert making dinner. "It smells great dad," I look over his shoulder to see what he was cooking. It was chicken with mashed potatoes, green beans, and corn. I help him set up the plates and table. His cooking tastes wonderful!
   After dinner I went to my room and layed down on my bed, and thought about today's events. I stayed there looking up at the ceiling and watching the fan whirl around. Slowly I drifted into a nightmare filled slumber only to awake many times during the night.

   "If only I could just forget about back then..."