"Dad , what's going on" I questioned as I looked into his teary eyes. He grabbed my wrist and pulled my closer to him. I was confused, I didn't know what was going on at all. My mother? what could of happened to her?
"Allison , someone did something very terrible. I'm sorry" He cried as I felt his tears hit my wrist. I started to think about what my father was saying to me, and realized what my father meant .
"No" I gasped for air as I nearly collapsed into the living room floor. My throated lumped, as I tried holding in the tears . I know I couldn't because my heart sunk to the bottom of my chest like an anchor. This sadness I felt wasn't the normal sadness I felt . This sadness I felt was as if her death my fault. I felt as if I stayed with my Mother she would still be alive or I would be with her on the deathbed.
"Don't cry.." My father said weakly as he wrapped his arms around me and hugged me tightly. I let a huge cry out into his chest, I was breaking down and I need to get away from everyone.
"Is everything okay Soldier?" The Scout said as he looked at my father.
"Everything is alright" He answered as he released me from his grip. I pushed away from him as I run outside to get out some of my emotions out. I couldn't save her now , she dead and it's my fault. My failures drown my head , I feel numbness that only I can feel when I'm sad. I ran off the porch into the woods were I will hid for awhile and cried.
I sat under the tallest tree I could find, and cried . I didn't want my father seeing me cry , I didn't want him to notice that I was hurt badly. I felt as I couldn't breath and the world was on pause, I looked at the leaves on the ground that lied near me . They were dead , they were like my mother and they was no way they were coming back. No way she was coming back. I let out a loud wail as I dropped the leaf back onto the ground.
I could heard footstep coming from behind me, the footsteps were smashing the dead leaves creating a crunching sound of leaves. I thought that my father was coming to console me but it wasn't him .
"Shelia, are you okay?" I heard a voice come from the distance get closer and closer to me . Until I saw a hand , that belonged to a man. The man was tall and he had a pair of shades on his face. The man was pretty attractive , I thought. He had an real Australian accent, which I though was really cute. I didn't really want to talk to anyone but I didn't want to be rude to him either.
"I'm fine , I guess" I said softly as the man kneed down in front of me , seeing that I'd just been crying my eyes out. He put his hand out closer to me and offered to help me up from where I sat.
I gently grabbed the man's hand as he pulled me up from off of my feet. "I'm Sniper" He introduced himself as he held my hand. "I'm Allison" I said as my voice cracked from crying so much . I noticed we were still holding hands , which was kind of awkward but I didn't mind it because I felt a feeling of secureness. He looked our hands and slowly released his from mine.
He acted ad if that moment never happened. "Are you okay Allison?" he questioned as he looked at me , I noticed that his eyes were a nice ocean blue color. He was like a picturesque , he was very pleasing to my eyes at that moment .
"Well" I started to stuttered, I noticed that my voice was going to crack from crying so hard. "My mother was murdered" I said lightly as his eyes widened in concernment . He looked and I could tell he felt as badly as I did.
"Well , I'm so sorry Shelia" He said as his voice faded . He reached for his pockets to pull out a picture , a picture of parents. "My Parents don't care about me much" He spoke showed me the picture."At least you still got your dad, right?" He asked as he put the picture back into his pocket .
"Yea , I guess I show look at the positive thing of life" I answered . I noticed I started to blush a little when I talked to Sniper maybe because he was a Australian , I don't even know . All I know , is that I felt somewhat better.
"Just remember there is a reason for everything and maybe one day you will be with her" He said softly looking at the tree behind us.
"Maybe we should get going back to the base" I said as my voice firmed back up to normal . I dried all of the tears from off my face and I dusted the dirt off from my pants. He smiled as I took steps towards him. I wrapped my arms around him and hugged him, because I felt he need one for reaching out to me in a good way, kinda of sort.
Sniper and I walked back to the house together, not a single word was said as we walked side by side. I knew my father would be standing outside waiting for me to come back and talk about it, and I was prepared for him to tell me to get over it. Well , other than my day being terrible at least I have a new friend.
