Questions: Why?

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Meet and greet

"Kick harder Skyler!" Harper looks at me kicking at Nash's hand, like we practiced yesterday, and today, is THE day. Its the big day; I'm going to meet Cassandra.

"If you want to save a life at this meeting, kick harder!" she says again, like if she'll say it once again I'll do it better. "Nash," she holds his shoulder "Try to get her ready to this damn meeting fast as you can. We need her alive after this meeting, I dont want to feel that she's dead because I havent trained her good enough." She says and goes. "She is exaggerating. I won't die that easily." I say to Nash "She just worried about you, because none of us will be there to help you." He says "It's nice that Mia canceled this day of school for Jordan and I, and for you." I say to Nash, from 7a.m until 12p.m he works out with me then with Jordan until 9p.m.

I understand that it's going to be a long day.

"Are you ready for prom?" he asks, only now I remember that he havent asked me yet "Kind of." "What missing?" he stops and looks at me "Someone to go with." I say "I know that you think that I forgot, but do you remember this day? When Amber did a spell on me and in the morning we danced?" I nod my head "So I left a big beautiful note on your pillow, but the cleaner guy cleaned it too. I found it in the garbage. Next time he cleans, I suggest to him to see what he's cleaning." Nash laughs easily "Nash, it's so sweet of you. So as an answer for your note, yes, I'll come to prom with you." I smile and kiss him shortly "Nash and Skyler, practice! I havent said to kiss!" Harper yells on us.

I finish my training with Nash sweaty, like I stood against the sun for hours. I havent thought about Juliana in a while, but suddenly she is on my mind. Why she stopped visiting me? I havent seen her in a long time, and I dont think that this is because I did or said something. She just disappeared, like a ghost, like air.

I stand under the hot water, and I feel it on my skin, it makes me feel warmer, even though it's hot outside, Mali was outside today, she said that it's so hot that she melted. Of course I laughed. I have never thought about her and Jordan, they have always been this way, he always wanted to make her mad.

"Jordan!" she yells and open the kitchen door "Where's my shoe?" she looks at him, I stand next to the door, watching them fighting "You said that a gum stocked to your shoe, so I freeze it." He opens the freeze, and then I see it. Mali's shoe, her favorite one, she open her mouth in shock "What have you done an idiot?!" she yells "I wanted to help!" he says and take a step back, she takes a skillet and hold it against him "You better run!" she yells and start to run after him with it.

At the start, he did it by mistakes, because all he truly wanted was to help Mali, but after a few times that she ran after him and he escaped, he thought that it's nice and funny to make her mad. Even though he doesnt escape all time, he keeps on doing it. Just for fun. Like that time, before Nash came to school

"Jordan, would you ever let me finish a sentence?" she ask him "No." "Anyways, you shou," than he's doing noises once again, just to make her mad "Jordan stop! Or I'll make sure that you'll have all of the flowers in this yard inside your mouth!" she yells at him "Anyways, you shoul," then he's doing noises again, now she have lost her patience. "Jordan you better run!" she wake up and run after him, I havent thought that she can run this fast, I guess that he hasn't thought it either. When the two of them coming back, Mali holds his ear, his mouth full of flowers "I brought you a little gift," she looks at Jordan "Maybe, not that little gift." She says and I laugh.

I sit down in my bed; I wonder how I should pass this day "I know!" I say and run out of my room to the library "Hey Sky! How was the training?" Mali asks "It was good." I know how to pass the day, with my best friends. Mali sits next to January, and I take a sit next to Tom "Why are you here, you dont want to sleep?" he asks me "No, I have energy, even though I dont know why." I say and smile "It's good, but if you'll feel tired, go to sleep." I nod my head and smile to him "What lessons you had today." I ask "Math, sport, English, French, and painting." "Sounds nice so far." "Yes it does." He smiles to me.

So I sit down with them, I talk sometimes to Tom about Jordan's mother, and about the missing Juliana, he said that maybe she can't come now, and that she might come back later. I help Mali in her music homework, which January gave her, and even though she's her best friend, she said that she has to do it on her own.

The walls around the library are transparent, I can see the other students goes to them rooms, some just standing outside, some just talking, and some walking like a storm. I think about that once, before Mali, before Juliana died, I was one of them, maybe I was walking to my room, to see Jordan, to talk to him about my day, maybe I went here, to this beautiful little library, to do homework with Jordan and Juliana.

Anyways, those days passed, now I'm in the present, and I should stay in it.

Jordan knocks on my door exactly at 12a.m. I feel butterflies in my stomach; I feel so nerves, like I have never been. Three things might end tonight:

Cassandra's life

Jordan's life

Mine.