'Best Friends' Code

*Chapter 3*

My heart pounded inside my stomach. I felt numb like I had just had anesthesia injected into my whole body. My mouth barely opened enough to let a centimeter of air in . He had blood dripping of his tattered clothes. Holding his stomach he wobbled closer. Gunshot on his side.

"Alex?" he said faintly. He then fell to the ground.

"Eric!" I screamed running through the crowd. They seemed to clear a path for me. Instantly swarms of others began running with me.

I dropped down on the side of him, my hands on his chest. Blood had covered much more of his shirt than I had seen from far away.

He had a brown cloth like jacket with holes all over, a white football jersey dirty from blood and dirt, his pants used to be a light blue jeans, now they looked like rubble. He looked like he was homeless his whole life.

As I sat next to him on the ground people began to get even closer, calling the paramedics.

" What happened? I cried.

His voice was a crackling whisper but I tried to make it out.

"I love you Alex."

His breathing slowed until a complete stop.

My face and body went numb again. Tears still pouring though. "Eric!" I screamed through my tears holding onto his jersey. Crying on his lifeless body getting blood on my forehead.

Strangers began pulling me off of him. I fought back against them.

"Let go of me!" I screamed, "Let go of me!" My voice shuttered in and out sounding like a two year old.

The medics began pulling him away from me. "Stop!" I wined, " That's my brother."

I watched as I was being pulled away. The drug his dead body onto a stretcher and covered it up. As quickly as he had entered my life once again, he was gone. I didn't even tell him "Hi".

I didn't even notice Chris was one of the ones pulling me back. She turned me around and hugged me. I cried on her shoulder, still trying to stand on my own. She hugged me as tight as everyone wishes they got hugged. Holding me like a child, crying with me.

Jerry stood to the side of is patting our backs, some kind of consoling.

Hours later the new had already talked about what happened so my parents seen. Both sat holding each other. Mom bawling her eyes out. Soon they both had to hug me. I had started crying again.

The police asked if I had seen anything.

"Besides my brother dying in my arms." I snarled, "No."

I didn't know if I was angry or sad, I just knew I felt something, and it wasn't happy.

It was still early in the afternoon. After getting everything settled with the cops we got to drive home.

Mostly the car was silent, except for when my mom cried. As sad as I was, she took tears to the next level. Tearing up at soap operas.

The whole rest of the day I spent in my room, just as everyone else. Until 6, then we all came down to dinner. Silently eating the mash potatoes and pork chops Dad cooked. Dad could not cook.

But mom wouldn't, so he was the next best thing. Last time I cooked I set the kitchen on fire.

The cold food seemed to go along with the day. Chris texted me in the middle of me finishing my cold chop.

"How are you doing?"

"I'm fine."

"You sure?"

"Yeah, I just need to get together enough to go to school."

"Well speaking of school..."

I thought what she could be talking about. Please be good news.

"There's a rumor going around that Brittany is coming back."

MORE FUCKING BAD NEWS! Brittany was the coolest and bitchiest bitch at school. Since middle school she was the biggest bully in history. 8th grade year it got worse. She grew breasts. Not only was she mean, she had control over they guys. Of course when your popular you already have guys drooping over you, but she got more drooping allowed after that.

Combine that all together, you have an untouchable Bitch with a capitol b. Last year she claimed she was moving because of this big trial that went on because she was "sexually abused" by a teacher. Even though everyone in the school literally seen her practically rape him. I'm not saying it was right, but everyone lied and said he was the aggressive one.

"What!" I texted. I had began walking into my room.

"It's just a rumor at this point but Andy said it."

"Wow he's SOOOOO reliable."

" I know he's not, but everyone tells him everything."

"I hope this is not one of those cases."

"Me too, so I got some more news."

"Please be good."

"Nope, Finn and Darcie are back together."

" Really, a day?"

"I guess so."

"I guess I took drama club for nothing."

"Probably not, Adam's single."

"I don't like Adam ewww!"

"lol you are so shallow."

"How?"

"You don't like Adam because he's black."

She was entirely wrong on that one. Adam has so many pimples its scary. But other than that he was pretty cute.

"Uh as if! I like tons of black guys; Chris Brown, Trey Songz, LeBron James."

"OK miss African-American history month."

"Wow"

"So are you ready for school tomorrow?"

I had completely forgot about school.

"Shit I got to wake up early for the bus! I'll see you tomorrow!"

" Bye."

"Bye."

"Best Friends Forever!"

I slowly threw my phone down. Again.

I tossed around thinking of the day for hours. I basically had to trick myself into falling asleep.

Eric, Jerry, Finn I just had so many problems with males. Then Brittany just made it worse. I hoped it would be better tomorrow.