A New Promise Blooms | Selobert Sequel

11. I Really Am Sorry

[Adams Pov]
Adams House

Darkness had come when I fell asleep on my bed.

All I dreamt of darkness again, that was normal but felt strange to wake up in a single second like it was nothing at all.

Even if I remembered staring at the darkness seeing nothing at all. It reminded me of some things.

During my slumber, I heard loud yelling and arguments around the darkness of nothingness.

I felt tempted to help, but everything is just nothing.
There was nothing to do

Suddenly I realized that I was waking up slowly from my sleep. I wasn't hearing anything from the dark filled with nothingness but from somewhere in my house. Those loud conversations are what was waking me up thinking I am dreaming still. What was that then, why was there arguing in the middle of the night.

Jake.

I immediately sat up from my bed feeling worried something could have happened to him. I didn't hear any more arguments, all I heard was silence but it was too quiet in the house. I need to check on my best friend, I had no idea what the hell my head is doing. It's playing tricks on me perhaps but I just need to make sure.

I stood on my feet, I took quick steps over to the living room to see if he was still on the couch asleep. I feel deeply worried about him, it just suddenly felt like something bad has happened while I was asleep. I feel like such an imbecile, I always have to screw up something with exhaustion. It's always something with me missing it.

Once I looked over at the couch in the living room, I didn't see him there. Did he decide to leave? He never does that, he always would stay whenever I offered. But maybe this time he did leave. Did that conversation earlier make him, I should have helped him out, he probably did want to say something to me. I can't stop screwing up with what's right, I let him down.

I snap myself out from those negative thoughts in my head I shouldn't think of. I needed to make sure first if he left or not, I can't just assume something without making sure of everything. I turned over to the bathroom door in the distance and it wasn't being used telling me from the darkness. There would have been light under the door.

He wouldn't be anywhere else in the house, there was no other room for him to be in for a reason. I started to call out his name, he left behind his hoodie that he liked a lot. He would have taken it with him. Plus I drove him there, he can't possibly go out there like that. "Jake!" I called out once again for the second time and suddenly saw the light turn on from the backyard.

I walked over to it, seeing the door was opened for the back. I immediately walked over there outside, why did he come out again, all my concerns and worries started to rise. I hope it was him out there okay, I begged for him to be safe out there.

I see that he was outside standing there, he had his vision staring at the back of the darkness in the yard that the light could not reach. He just stood there, small noises escaping him, I see him hold his wrist with something in his hand. It looked like his phone. "Jake, is something wrong?" I questioned him worried, getting close over to him but he stood in silence, he looked like he was trembling a lot. Something had happened.

Jake slowly turned over to face me in the eyes but what I didn't expect to see is his eyes looked watery. It seemed like he needed to release tears. He had his hand on his wrist that held his phone definitely, which looked strange. "What's wrong Jak-" I felt his arms around me out of nowhere, he was trembling but I just felt confused why he was like this until his voice slowly spoke up to me.

I couldn't face him in his eyes, but I could tell he looked sad. When he spoke, his hands clutched into me deeply but I didn't care, I just wanted to see what was wrong with him. "I..I..I just got a phone call.." He swallowed any noise to come out. "F-From... a family m-member.. I-I feel so sorry.. I couldn't do anything else, I h-had to! This..is all m-my fault.." I felt confused about the last thing, I didn't know what he meant by that. He did look physically okay but not emotionally, something did happen. Something bad.

"I-It's okay.. I'll take you back inside, then you can tell me what's wrong." I tried to reassure him it was okay, I didn't want to make him feel worried but I didn't knew if I was doing good or not. There was no response for a brief moment, I felt him slowly nod his head on me whispering out an okay. His voice broke down a little.

I started walking him back inside of the house, I looked back in the yard for a split second feeling worried. I took a quicker glimpse around, seeing nothing but I do see something on the ground. The grass slightly hid it. I turn back around, I should worry about that later, maybe something else happened before his call. He wouldn't argue in a call I think, that didn't sound like him or it was my dream too.

For the rest of the night, I was talking to Jake about what had happened and supposedly something happened to one of his family members. I kept him calm through the night, making sure he was okay. I took care of him as usual, I hoped he recovered from whatever happened. I didn't want him to carry guilt telling by his sentence saying it is his fault.