Denial

Part 2

Part 2 - Attempted Murder

Dean sat beside the window, staring out into the sea of blossoming white, red, pink and peach roses before him. He never felt so alone in his life. Dean had hoped that he could show Alex another beautiful place hidden from the rest of the world, a fantastical field of flowers not far from his home. But it looked like fate had other plans.

When he had woke up this morning, he had forgotten what happened. All he remembered was that Z and Felix were yelling about something and Alex was afraid of something. Regret smacked him hard in the face when he asked his brother if he could bring Alex to the plains later and show him the beautiful crystal, royal blue flowers that he found in that area. Dean had been running from his brother when he had tripped into a mass of vines and touched one by accident, revealing its use to be showing the last thing that happened in that area. Dean had asked his family to see if anyone knew what they were, but sadly, everyone either dismissed it as his imagination or told him they didn't know. 

It angered him to find that his brother was drunk and asleep on the couch when he finally came back after exploring the area further to see if there were more of those flowers, mumbling words like, "not my chocolate!" or "I'll find you ice cream cat!" Dean rolled his eyes before pulling out his notebook and looking at the sketches he made of the crystal things, which he thought were pretty good, and eventually,  he decided to call them "Time Flowers". 

Dean really wanted to show Alex the shiny blossoms he found but couldn't think of any way to contact him, until he remembered that Alex gave him his phone number and vice versa. 

Perfect.                                                                      

Dean smiled, racing up the stairs. Once at the top he entered his room and locked the door.  Pulling out his little flip phone, he dialled his friend's number and waited patiently.

"I told you before to leave me alone!"

"Uh, Alex?

"Dean?! Is that you? Why are you calling? Especially with how hostile our brothers were yesterday." As soon as Alex's voice reached his ears, Dean smiled softly.

"Oh, you know. Just because?" Dean held in his laughter.

"Be serious! I could get in trouble with Felix or my parents if I'm caught speaking to you! Now, what is this about?"  Alex got more annoyed with each word.

"I want to tell you about something of course! Now, meet tonight..."   

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Alex huffed as he watched two little birds fly past his window, chirping happily. He sighed, a sad expression made its way onto his face. Earlier his brother told his parents about Dean and they grounded him for 2 weeks all because they were friends before this whole "attempted murder of the kings" rose up. Alex wasn't very happy about it. His mind kept flashing back to when Dean promised to show him something special, that no one had ever heard or seen of before. He didn't really believe the whole "no one has ever found it before", but he did, however, believe its statement on how it's a very special place. 

Alex glanced over at his parents and brother who were outside having fun without him, or at least that's what it looked like. The game they were playing was apparently called "skipbow". He asked Dean once if he knew what it was. He said it was a drinking game and that it's really boring.  Felix looked over at one point and smiled. Alex rolled his eyes and looked away, bored out of his mind. 

Ring! Ring!

A faint sound came from upstairs. Alex perked up slightly and sprinted up to his room, know exactly what it was. He swiped up his phone, wondering who could be calling him. It wouldn't be Dean, even he, with his confident and cocky attitude, wouldn't stupid enough to call him after what happened yesterday with their brothers.

Alex took once glance at the name and sighed in relief, it was an unknown number. He answered the call and put on his fake happy voice.

"Helllllllllo?"

"Hello sir, would you like a once in a lifetime 5% off our newest-"

"Nope." He pressed hang up and sighed. As soon as he took one step down the stairs, another ringing noise brought him back up.

"What?" Alex mumbled through the speaker.

"Yes, hello sir. Would you like a 10% discount on our famous-"

"Leave me alone!" 

Once again, he hung up. Alex was about to walk down the stairs when he decided to wait and see if someone would call again. 

...

Nothing.

He smiled in content and began his descent down the steps, but as luck would have it, another ringtone lured him back up again.

"I told you before to leave me alone!"

"Uh, Alex?"  Dean's voice came through the speaker.

Crap.

"Dean?! Is that you? Why are you calling? Especially with how hostile our brothers were yesterday."  Alex hoped Dean would ask about why he yelled, "I told you to leave me alone".

"Oh, you know. Just because?" Alex could hear how Dean was holding in a laugh.

"Be serious! I could get in trouble with Felix or my parents if I'm caught talking to you! Now, What is this about?" 

"I want to tell you about something, of course! Now, meet me tonight at about 8:00 pm by the old oak tree just outside of town. I'm running away."

"Ugh, fine." Alex hung up the call and sighed in frustration.

What am I getting myself into?  And why is he running away? Is his family not being very nice to him? Is it bcause we can't be friends? Alex looked over at the clock sitting on his wall. It was about 6:30 pm. 

That gives me about one and a half hours... but what am I supposed to do in the meantime?

Alex's eyes searched his room for something to do, his tired eyes fell upon many things, but nothing looked interesting to him. 

Monopoly? Nah you need more then one player for that.

That's when he saw his sketchbook and pen.

Bingo.

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