The Boy In All Black

5

                               Henry

I'm leaning against my truck thinking of what I'm going to tell Jordan when Nicole comes into view.

Last night Zeke called me to inform me I had to cut all ties with the people here. Nicole was one of them and she didn't take the news so well. Her dark doe eyes pierced my soul and in that moment I knew this was going to be unpleasant. When she was close enough she started yelling "Why do you want to break up? Three damn years Henry!" She pushed me with all of her strength, tears slipped down her face and it took everything in me not to reach out and hold her. Her words made breathing impossible, each and every word made my heart tighten "You're willing to throw it all away? Do you even care about me? About us? Here I thought you were different from the other guys, but I was wrong." I sighed. I reached for her hand only for her to slap it away with angry tears falling on the cracked cement. When I spoke my voice was barely above a whisper "I'm sorry. This would have never worked in the future. I'm saving us both the trouble and heartache. I will always love you Nicole." I looked up at her and when our eyes met she raised her hand and slapped me. The pain immediately spread and my hand went to the spot to try to ease some of the pain.

All I could do was stare at her not actually believing that she slapped me. After a few minutes she turned away and began to walk away, with each step she took my heart broke into tiny pieces.

When she was gone from my sight I looked in my mirror on the side of my truck, I watched her handprint slowly fade away. Dropping my head as my bangs fell over my face and closing my eye wishing for the pain to go away. When I looked up bright blue eyes were staring back at me and the tears slowly started to fall. As everyone walked by they just stared, no one seen the cheerful boy broken. I just lost the girl of my dreams so I have the right to be broken. Besides every person has a breaking point and she was mine. I was really deciding to get back in my truck and just go home when I remember that I had to talk to Jordan. That poor girl. She doesn't even know it. I'm ready for the memories to come back so we can go home.

I see Zeke pull into the school parking lot, as he pass he intentionally drove slower so our eyes would meet. It's his fault I had to leave her. I stayed near my truck as Zeke got out and went around to the passenger side. Jordan got out and all heads turn to them. I see her eyes scanning the parking lot and our eyes lock.

From this far from her I can see she is furious. Oh boy, I'm dead. She stumps over to me and pushes me so hard I had to take a step back so I wouldn't fall.

"What's up best friend?" I had a big grin and patted her head. She sure is short, well I am six feet and she is five feet-four inches.

She pokes my chest hard "What the hell Henry?" This reminds me of my break up I just had with Nicole. Just thinking about it makes my heart ache. Jordan doesn't notice the change in my mood so I just shake my head to get rid of the thoughts "What did I do?" I tilted my head and gave her my best puppy eye hoping she won't be too mad at me. "You told HIM to pick me up and take me to school." Oh if looks could kill I would be dead. She was about to saying something else but the bell stopped her. She turned and began walking to the school when she stopped and mumbled "Never let it happen again." with that she walked into the building.

"I told you she would hate me. Both of them actually." I gave him my best smile as he walked up beside me but I knew he saw right through it. "It needed to be done. You know how important it is. Don't forget you are the Knight family guardian." thats all he said as he stopped beside me. "I know" I mumbled to myself. We began to walk to the school but I suddenly stopped wanting to get something off my chest "Its just hard. I don't want anything to happen to them, but if you can find her then they can too. Anyways you don't know what it's like to watch them grow up not knowing who they are." He put a hand on my shoulder "I know how you feel. You know what she means to me. That is why I came to find her and help her remember." With that we walked up the steps and went to our classes.

He is the one who is hurting the most out of all of us.

        Sky

My escape from my everything is playing the piano. It doesn't matter what sickness I have when I play I feel free.

My mother told me I was born with a weak immune system and it never got stronger.

My blonde hair was pulled up into a bun so it wouldn't get in my way as I play. A couple of times I had to stop because my coughing and a couple of dizzy spells got so bad, having the flu was no joke but I refuse to let it keep me from playing. Mother use to tell me stories how father use to play for her when she was sick.

I wish I had the chance to know my father. At times I'm jealous of Jordan because she has memories of him. I wish he never left us. Mom would be happy and Jordan wouldn't have nightmares all the time. They think I don't notice but I do and it rips me apart because I know I can't do anything about it.

A couple hours passed when Jordan came home. I heard her come in the living room as I was finishing a piece I was working on for my audition. "Hey Sky. How are you feeling?" I turned around and she looked worried. "What? I'm fine." I gave her my best smile. She didn't say anything so we just watched each other. A few minutes went by and we both burst out laughing. We laughed so hard we were crying.

We settled on the couch and Jordan startled me "Zeke came and picked me up for school." She didn't look to happy as she said it. "Is that the guy with the pretty green eyes and black hair? He's hot!" She shook her head and chuckled "That's him. He is kind of hot. Tan skin, bright green eyes, black hair, and those muscles. I just don't understand why he wears all black, it's creepy." She look lost in thought as she said that. I had to poke her to her her attention "Maybe that's his favorite color? OR he might be hiding from someone?" She gasped "OH MY GOD! You should have seen everyone staring at us when I got out of his car. I hate people staring at me." I leaned my head on her shoulder, closing my eyes "If you ask me it seems Zeke has a crush on you." Jordan didn't hear me her hand went straight to my forehead "Sky you have a fever. Come on let's get you in bed so you can rest." I didn't fight with her I was too sleepy. When my head hit my pillow I went straight to sleep.

                    
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A lot of changes were made to chapter 5!
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-Heather (: