Black Velvet

Chapter Five: The Memory

I woke up and the sun was sitting higher in the sky than usual, I rolled over into my bed and felt that it was empty with the sheets made on the other side that Missy had been asleep in. I sat up in confusion and felt as though someone was pushing my head back down; it ached and didn’t agree with me sitting up so fast. My head fought harder when I stood up and began walking down the stairs, when I reached the bottom I saw Missy stretched out on the couch twirling her fingers in her hair and deep in thought. I walked towards her slowly stepping trying to calm my headache down, I hit a sore spot in the wood and it cried out and made Missy jump.

“Good morning Lilith” Missy said with a smile getting off the couch to come greet me, she gave me a hug and made a sniffle sound in my ear, she held me tighter and buried her face into my neck. I felt warm tears on my skin and I felt a shiver travel its way up my spine. I couldn’t find any words for the moment, I didn't know how I felt and my head felt like a weight that wanted to pull me down onto the ground, I genuinely thought that if I fell over, I would not be able to get up. I placed one hand on Missy’s back and with the other played with her hair, I didn’t really know why she was crying. It wasn’t like her to be upset, usually she was so quirky that everyone around her always smiled as well, her smiles were contagious and her laugh was to die for. She could be in the saddest environment and just let out a giggle and that giggle would touch everyone in the room making them feel better.

 Missy finally let go of me and stood backwards looking me up and down before rubbing her eyes with her sweater paw.

“I’m okay, I want us to do something, but you have to keep it a secret okay” Missy blurted out between sobs

“Alright, I promise” I said back agreeing, trying to sound as sincere as I could.

Missy grabbed my hand and led me up the stairs; she walked me into my bedroom door and closed the door behind me. She looked me in the eyes and smiled.

“We need a piece of paper and two pens” She said cheerfully

I went over to my desk and retrieved a piece of paper and handed it to her, she gracefully tore the pieces of paper in half and handed me the other half. I gave her a blue pen and kept a pink pen for myself.

“This is what we are going to do, things are changing around us so fast and I wanted to do this with someone for a while but I didn’t know who to trust and I think you are the only person I do trust, and after last night especially I want to do this. So what I was thinking we do is as gay as this might sound, we write a message to ourselves on this piece of paper than we give it to the other person, so I give you mine, and you give me yours. We are to keep them safe and in one year from now, we can open them and read them. Alright” Missy explained

It took me a second to establish everything she just said, I nodded to her and took myself to a corner in my room and placed the piece of paper on the floor, I pressed my pen to the paper and sat there, trying to figure out what to write. I wrote a couple of words and then words began to flow so naturally onto the paper about what I wanted to change, what I wanted to achieve and how I felt. After I finished I folded the piece of paper, stood up and walked to Missy. Missy took a few more minutes and then she stood up and gave me a smile she was famous for, she gave me her piece of paper that she had neatly folded and I gave her mine that I had screwed up in my hand. I could almost tell the differences between our letters just by the appearance of them.

Missy gave me a hug and slid the paper I handed her into her pocket; she got her bag and said her goodbyes then left for school. I flopped onto my bed and smiled, it felt nice to get so many things out of my system. I slid missy’s note under my bed and tried to force myself to remember that it was there.