Tom Holland love story

Prologue

Finding Charlie Oakes

By: Kylie Nelson (All Rights Reserved)

Five years ago my dad went missing, my mother broke the news to me over text while I was at a party with my friends Rachel Ivy and Heather. I instinctively panicked and called the police not knowing what to do. After one of the older guys (Andy) found out what I did he assaulted me in his car after promising me he knew where my dad was. After the police showed up they arrested several of the other kids and their siblings. Now knowing that nobody would help me I managed to break the car window with a shovel that Andy kept in the back of his car.

I then hid under the car so Andy wouldn't find me on his way back to the car. Andy spent the next several hours looking through the woods in an attempt to find me while I hid under the car on top of the shattered glass. I held my breath for what felt like hours out of fear that he'd hear me, meanwhile the glass shards gradually made there way deeper and deeper into my back. Eventually he started screaming and made his way further into the woods, I knew this was my chance. I brushed some of the glass out of the way with my hands and began crawling as quickly as possible. As soon as I stood up my body gave way and I feel to the ground. I had to contort my body into such an awkward cramped position that I wasn't able stand at first.

"I'm gonna kill you you fucking faggit!" I turned around and Andy's eyes had locked onto mine and he started charging towards me. I hauled myself up as quickly as possible and took off in the opposite direction. My feet were completely shredded from the glass I could still barely walk and I knew Andy would catch up to me in a matter of seconds. I'm only five foot eight and at the time I was only 120 pounds, Andy on the other hand was at least six feet tall and he was on the track team. I ran as fast as I could but I only managed to make it about ten feet before I could hear his panting right behind me. I looked up and noticed Merryweather High School off in the distance, that meant that the bridge leading from the creek over to the school was near by. 'If I make it over the edge it will lead directly into traffic and he won't be able to hurt me.' I told myself. I began pumping my knees in order to gain more distance and I could see the fence that lead to the overpass near by and I began forcing my legs to move even faster. I could feel his fingers reach out for me but I leaned my upper body forward to get as far away from him as possible.

'You're gonna make it Charlie!' I thought as I reached the edge. I began to haul myself over the edge. 'If you grab the ledge with both hands you'll be able to land on your legs, you'll break your legs and probably be hit by a car but there's still a chance you'll live.' I told myself. But as I began to reach around to grab the edge I felt a large rock ram into the back of my skull. My vision got hazy and my body went limp and I fell over the edge. Unfortunately however out of reflex I angleded my body and lifted my head up to see where he was and I landed on my back, the back of my head took most of the blow...

I finally woke up weeks later I couldn't speak or see anything and I could barely make out anyone's voices. My friend Kylie came to visit me a lot though, that's the one thing I did know for a fact I could recognise the feel of her hairy arms against my hands. She'd also mutter something about water and occasionally she'd put something warm and wet on my forehead. It took me months to learn how to walk and talk again and even to this day my vision still gets hazy for no apparent reason. No one knows about what Andy did. I couldn't remember most of what happened and I still don't, but it's better this way you know? I won't have to go through the intense legal battle or worry about what he'll do to me when he finds out.

I was a junior at the time of the accident but I'm a senior now, while I am not technically credit wise but I might as well be. Mom told me I can start school tomorrow, I wanna try as hard as possible to graduate but I really don't wanna see Andy I know he might try to hurt me again. On the other hand though I just wanna be normal, so I'm gonna push myself to go anyways and pretend like it never happened. I told everyone that after drunk calling the police I panicked ran and fell off the freeway overpass. They told me that a young mother and her daughter Bree stopped in time to get me to the hospital and were able to prevent traffic from running me down.

I got out of bed and picked out my favorite nap sack, I pulled on the jeans that I stole from Behren Taylor and examined myself in the mirror. Fuzzy hazzy and out of focus... I can see everything else just fine but for some reason I can't see myself in the mirror, I've never been able to see myself since the accident. "Fucking lesbians." I mumbled grabbing my meds. Suddenly I felt an intense pain surg from the damaged nerves in my head and everything around me started to warp. The walls began to melt away the floorboards started to crumble under my feet and I fell through.