I'll Remember

Chapter 24

"Leah Kalvin," Mic started, taking his beautiful, precious time. "That's Mom's name. "

Mom? I have a mom? I never thought about...her.

" Dad is...your Dad. He's not mine..." Mic let out another breath of smoke. (Still, both of us slowly dying.)

"W-wait what--?" I ask more to myself, than to Mic.
"Dad isn't my father, he's yours, don't you understand?" He explains allitle louder this time. "Y-yea, but--"

" Do you ever wonder why I'm so different? Why I'm blond? I didn't get that from Mom, it's all from my biological father...He died, but, it doesn't really matter, we're still brothers Leo, Mom is your mom, mom is my mom."Mic shrugs.
"So how are we adopted," I ask the kid, only because he has the answers. He sighs once again, like I was too dumb to understand.

"Mom raised us by herself...except last year we stayed with Dad, cause mom was...going through somthing...she wouldn't tell us what was up, when we asked.
Those times...only dad treated you right. He didn't like me very much," Mic shrugs.(again) "Still doesn't... your his son, I'm the other one."
I take his pause as an opportunity to process what the heck I just heard.

"Allot of things happend on that particular day, Y'know..." Mic starts again and continues to smoke on the ciggerett.

I hated it.

"Five and half months ago, that day...June 1st.." he paused again. "It was my birthday, it was when dad had disappeared the entire day and didn't show up 'till the next, it was when mom...left," he quieted his voice saying the last part. "Uhm, yall thought I wasn't listening but...I heard it. You and Mom's conversation before she..abandoned us..? I don't know, but, she never came back..and also..another thing that happend that day...You and Joy broke up---"

" Wait-- what?" I asked confused/shocked.
Why would we break up?
Why didn't Joy tell me? Why didn't Mic tell me?

Mic took another amount of precious time and breathed on the ciggerett that I really just wanted to slap out of his mouth, so my life could be easier.
"You guys said that, you were just taking a break from eachother for a little while. You were upset about Mom and all, and just dropped everything with Joy...she was pretty mad."

I shake my head. "Why didn't you tell me,"
Mic glances at me, "because, I wasn't supposed to know...and i didn't care that much" shrugs.

Whatt?

"So then how did you--"

"Shut up, and I'll explain, jeez." Mic mumbles turning away. "The accident happend after that. That scar on ur neck is what the accident did to you."

Okay, so I knew I had a big scar on my neck, but I kinda didn't at the same time. Like, I really wondered where it came from.
I felt the scar on my neck that went all the way up to me head.
For real, I really didn't know where it came from.

" The accident happend on that day, as well...I uh, I saw it all happen, Leo."
"It was on your way back home from Joy's after you "broke up". I followed you there. I didn't want to be home by myself, so I followed, then I followed on the way back. I didn't notice anything off about the car, but I looked away for a second, looked back, the car was totalled." Mic said quietly. I shivered from the thought of it, but then realized,

If I'm shivering from just the thought, what was it like for Mic? For me?

"It was probably the most frightening I had ever experienced," He chuckled, answering my question.
"The first thing I did was rush over to the some how flipped over car. (Like, how did that happen?) And the first thing I saw was blood. I didn't even get to see inside of the car, but..I did see blood, then I saw you....I thought you were dead.......so I cried."

I looked down, honestly trying not to picture all of this.

"The thing is.." Mic started again, "If I hadn't sat there like an idiot and cried for those long 15 minutes...if I had gotten you to the hospital sooner, maybe you wouldn't have lost your memory.

15 minutes?

"Your saying that, like it's your fault--"
" You don't know that Leo," Mic mumbles cutting me off.
" What do you mean?" I ask.

" The guy who was driving by saved you Leo, he called the ambulance. I didn't. I didn't act fast, I just sat there..."

15 minutes isn't even that long, I lost my memory either way.

I didn't say that out loud. "I don't think it's your fault, Micah. If anything its my fault. Whatever happend that made me crash, it had nothing to do with you,"

Mic wasn't facing me but, I could see his guilty look. "Again, you don't know that." He said.

"And you do?"

"No, and we won't ever.."
I looked back at the ground.

"Living with Dad by myself was...the worst....lonely," Mic shrugs. (AgAiN) " he hated me more, even if I made the slightest mistake.
He didn't...want to adopt me...he didn't want to keep us, but it was his only choice I guess, but I'm different from you guys..."
He said trailing, and tossed the ciggerett, " let's wrap it up," Mic said slipping past me.

"Wait--" I stop once I notice dad's car pulling up.
How did Mic notice before me when he was facing The absolute opposite direction, you ask?

I too was wondering the same thing.

Is it okay if I like Micah very much?

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