True Love's Cry

Chapter 10

 I wake up in the morning, unsure of where I am. Then everything from the night before comes rushing back. I wish there is something I can do, something to fix everything. The problem is nothing I say will fix this, not anymore. Before last night I was a Nobudee. Now I am not even that. I am literally nothing. I may as well not exist or I am like the ground. The ground is always there, but no one notices it, not unless they happen to fall and get hurt. I will be that way now. Everything about my life crashes down to rock bottom. I knew it would, just not in the way I thought.

I am so lost in my thoughts that I hardly notice when the door opens and someone walks in. I look around at my surroundings, but I still have no clue where I am at. When I look up, I see my best friend, Nakayla. She smiles sympathetically at me and walks over to me, sitting down and wrapping her arms around me. I wrap my arms around her as we sit in silence for a moment.

 Then I say, “Where am I and how did I get here?”

 Nakayla responds, “We are at my house. After everything that happened yesterday, Cole and I thought you should come with me for multiple reasons.”

 I say, “I guess you know what happened.”

 “I want you to tell me what happened.”

 I nod. I do my best to explain to Nakayla and I feel the need to cry, but I hold back. That will not happen, not today. “I don't really know. One minute I am having a pleasant conversation with my dad and then thanks to my stupidity it became an argument. I just stood there as my dad yelled at me. I did not even try to reason with him. I just was useless. Now, I do not know who I am anymore.”

 Nakayla smiles. “You are the same Kierra that I know and love. You will be fine, I promise. Now I am not leaving you alone today.”

 “Do you not have any other plans?”

 “I don’t. Even if I did, you are more important right now. What do you want to do?”

 I say, “I'm not sure I want to do anything.”

 Nakayla takes a deep breath before saying, “Okay. You just get ready to leave and I will take care of everything else.”

 Then Nakayla walks out of the room, leaving me alone. I sigh as I get up of the bed. I look at the wall and I see a chair. I notice Nakayla left some things there for me. I smile slightly and grab everything. She left a pair of pants and a shirt of hers that I know is a little big on her. I put the clothes on which actually fit me perfectly. I see a hair band on the bed and use it to tie my hair back. I realize that I must look nothing like myself right now. Then I slowly walk to the door and open it where Nakayla walks up a second later.

 She says, “Look at that. You can get ready quickly when you have to.”

 I reply, “Yeah, well, this better be good.”

 Nakayla smiles as she walks down to her front door, me following behind her. We walk from her house to the town, something I have never done before. The town is much closer to her house than the colony. I do not know where we are going, but I am going to trust Nakayla. I can not trust most people anymore. As we walk into the village, I notice it is crowded, extremely crowded. I struggle to follow Nakayla through everyone into an empty alleyway. When we are alone and it seems that no one will be able to hear us, she turns to me.

 I ask, “Where are we going?”

 “You’ll see. It is just up here. At the end of the alley turn left.”

 I nod and start towards the end of the alley. This time Nakayla is following me. At the end of the alley, I look left to see some vines. I am a little surprised, because that means we are near one of the parks in Indira. I simply walk through the vines into a hidden area. There are rocks and bushes everywhere. I vaguely know this place. It seems like me as well, being nature and all.