CHAOTIC

T h r e e

Chapter 3:

It's a cold winters night and the wind outside is howling alongside the downpour of rain. Leaves from trees had long since fallen and disappear in the darkness of the night.

It wasn't quite thunder and lightening but it was well on its way to becoming that sort of night. A night like this would have scared Lexi had the circumstances been different. But she's been through far worse in the last few months and she's too emotionless to feel scared. Too numb to cry. It was a night like this when her parents died and so it's like she had this need to come out here and experience and relive it all again.

Months had passed since she was stabbed and it's only now that she can finally feel her body healing...physically that is. The doctors told her it could take up to six months to fully recover from pain but by now, Lexi was able to walk around freely without her wound bleeding through her dressing.

She'd come out here often throughout the months, finding comfort in the darkness and solace. It should scare her really, especially when the one who did this to her is still out there somewhere. Being alone is the last thing she should want right now. But alas here she is, out in the cold with nothing more but a t-shirt and a pair of shorts on, sitting cross legged on the bench just outside her dorm building, absolutely soaked to the core in rain.

She couldn't help but think about how different her life would have been if her parents were still here.

She wouldn't have chosen this university. She would've stayed closer to home for sure. She wouldn't have met Re and Scott but maybe that wouldn't have been so bad seeing as she brought so much destruction into their world. She wouldn't have taken Psychology as a major and maybe would've went into literature instead. That definitely would've suited her more.

Lexi thinks that her parents would've impacted a lot on her life right now had they been alive. But she fails to consider that it may have been for the worse.

Her parents had always coddled her as a child, her being their only child. And Lexi never knew if they wanted more children, she never even bothered to ask. She always thought she'd have more time.

If they were alive to witness this particular situation, Lexi's mother would've scolded lightly at her first before attacking her with hugs. Her father would've done the same after threatening whoever or whatever had hurt his little girl and promising to protect her from anything else that went bad in life.

She clings tightly to her necklace.

"Uh, hey...Lex. You alright?" Scott asks his friend cautiously over the roaring of the rain and howling of the wind.

She doesn't reply, just looks blankly out in the distance before her, scaring Scott slightly.

He isn't shocked by her behaviour. She's been acting weird ever since the incident that happened with Caleb two months ago. He's just worried for his friend. And all he really wants to do is help.

He approaches her so he can sit down on the wet bench beside her and puts a hand to her shoulder. "Lexi?"

She flinches and snaps her head to face him, her face dripping with rain water and clothes soaked. "Hm?"

"What uh, what are you doing out here?" He questions, frowning.

"Thinking." She simply replied, her gaze moved back to the nothingness before her.