Home Run || j.m.b [ON HOLD]

04 | i cant save you

Why I agreed to do this, I don't have a clue, even the slightest. It's like wasting part of my energy for today, making time for this seems like a bad idea.

Finding myself out on the street with a cup of hot chocolate, I wonder my way to the train station. Lizzie, you seriously owe me.

At this time, I'd usually still be laying down peacefully in my bed, enjoying the small breaks of sunlight through my curtains. At this time is where I think the most - which is why, on normal Sundays, I'll finish my homework at around this time.

There are obviously more reasons as to why I could sit at home and watch the tv instead of doing this.

I'm hating life right now.

     me
     where am i supposed to meet u again?

I continue to walk down the station platform, my eyes watching the announcement board saying the city train is going to arrive in approximately two minutes. As a strong gush of wind blow in my face, another text comes into my phone.

     joey
     my heart

     me
     ew u disgust me
     for real tho
     im ditching my bed bc of u
     u owe me big time

If he tries to mess up one more time, I'm going to give up and walk back home.

     joey
     ill meet u halfway
     where u at now?

Joey you absolutely lucky thing. Another skin cell out of the line and I could've left him stranded in the middle of the city.

As much as I wanted to abandon him, it would seem very evil of me to do so. I realise that maybe if I did that, I'd be missing out on the quirky things he says like now.

"I really like the sky, you know?" he tells me.

"Huh?"

"It's wide and blue and pretty," he continues. "Birds fly through it," he adds in a nonchalant tone, swinging his cup of hot chocolate from side to side.

"That's some nice information," I say, refraining a smirk at thinking how this boy's mind works.

"Nobody knows how wide the sky actually is," Joey sips from his drink, "and if you think about it, just reaching out your hand is already like touching the sky."

"You're weird," was all I could say to hide my amusement the best I could.

This is actually going better than I expected it to go. Even though we ran into some of his fans earlier, only one or two of them asked for photos and the rest let us walk in peace, holding their phones up to take pictures of Joey from the distance. I respect them for respecting Joey's privacy.

So far, we've walked around the city for around about an hour, sometimes stopping by at a souvenir shop for Joey or just a shop with bright colourful lights from me to window shop from. I showed him around, we walked along the river, we rode on horse carriages and we even got chased by a security guard for feeding seagulls.

Apparently we're not allowed to feed them.

After being chased by one more security guard, we find ourselves staring up at a really tall building - the tallest in the city.

"This is cool," Joey comments, "this is going to really be like touching the sky."

"It can topple over when there's an earthquake," I say at the same time.

"Don't be too dramatic," he tells me while looking at the things around him, "buildings this tall should have strong foundations."

I should have known what's going to come next. I should've learned by now that Joey is the type of guy who likes to climb up to the top of an 88-storey building and not hesitate to pay twenty dollars for it. It's not that much but if you're like me and you're broke for the sake of God, twenty is a heck of a lot of money.

Before I know it, I'm inside an elevator, hurtling up the building at God knows how many kilometres an hour.

Usually at this point, I would scream. Who would want to suffer inside a speeding metal box with buttons and creepy lights?

But I stand still, biting my lip and watch the screen showing the building floors anxiously.

What if a cable breaks and we fall?

I feel a warm hand wrapping around mine, suddenly making me calm down a little. I don't do a thing at first, my brain works too slow to process what's going on. But once the wi-fi in my brain hits full signal, I rip my hands away from Joey's.

"Oi!" I yelp, caressing my own hands as if what I've touched has caught on to fire.

"Hands to yourself, kind sir!"

Joey looks at me weirdly, "sorry, you look a little ... tense."

"Tense my ass," I scoff.

The elevator shakes a little, making me yelp and my hands immediately grab the railings behind me.

"I know this is scary but apparently this is normal," Joey tells me. I can tell he's secretly enjoying how I am right now, his small smirk gives it away.

"Did you know, the tower can sway around thirty centimetres in each direction?" he adds.

"Not helping!"

"Well the guy said so," Joey mumbles, referring to the audio playing in the background.

I almost crash to the ground in relief when we step out of the elevator. Well, we didn't exactly step out. He did, I didn't.

I ran.

"I'm not doing this again," I mutter to myself after collecting my cool and get my lungs to properly work again.

"You're so doing this again," Joey butts in, dragging me to the edge of the building.

"It's not like you're going to see me again," I roll my eyes, "so you can't force me."

Joey drags me off to a line of people and soon enough, we find ourselves in a small room being slowly pulled out of the building.

This is not happening.

I knew this thing existed, but I didn't expect this to be so ... frightening.

And suddenly, the dark walls of the room becomes transparent, making me jump into the air and hold on to the railing.

I would be lying if I said that the view is scary because wow. Even though it was a struggle to get up here - meaning almost a heart attack - the view is stunning. The sky is clear as crystal, the buildings all around like small Lego blocks and the people walking back and forth down on the streets looking like ants.

"This is high," I hear a high pitched voice squeak from the other side of the box.

Joey is leaning against the glass, his face pressed against it and his eyes scanning the view below him.

"We're eighty eight storey's high, what do you expect?"

"Flying?"

"Stupid."

"If you fall off this building, I can save you," Joey says nonchalantly, kicking his legs against the floor, his eyes elsewhere.

"I would probably already be hundreds of metres below ground but okay."

"But if you fall into me," he continues, "I can't save you."

I swear, I want to leave right then and there.

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HELLO CRAPPY UNEDITED CHAPTER THAT I MADE BC I HAD TIME!

its like ten at night here, i dont want to go to school tomorrow i want to sleep. bye. oh and if you see what i wanted you to see somewhere in that chapter, then HI HI HI WE'RE BEST FRIENDS