Befriending the broken girl

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I go into my room to see Jordan looking at some of the pictures I have on my dresser he looks at the picture of my parents they're holding me I look so happy and so carefree I remember that day when my dad had taken us to the beach
Flashback
"Ahh daddy" I scream as he splashes a bit of water on me I try and splash the water back at him as hard as I can he smiles and my mom catches him off guard my splashing water at him
"Hey that's not nice" he laughs and smiles at my mom my mom starts to run out of the water and he grabs her from behind and picks her up and spins her they laugh and they both look so happy he sets her down and grabs me "how's my favorite little girl?" He asks and I laugh and say I'm good "do you want ice cream beautiful?"I remember smiling widely at him
"Yes!" He picked me up and my mom went to eat ice cream with us after we ate our ice cream my dad quickly ran and grabbed the camera and set the camera up he and my mom had picked me up for the picture
End of flashback
I feel a tear go down my cheek Jordan turns around and looks at me and smile I can't help the smile that comes "you okay?" I shake my head ya "you look really happy in that picture" I smile and take one more glance at the picture
"Ya I was really happy then" I don't realize I was crying til Jordan comes over to me and wipes a tear away from my face I let out a small laugh
"Thank you" I look down and start to frown I can never go back to that memory I look up with my eyes filled with tears he catches me off guard by hugging me I'm shocked and don't know what to do but I end up hugging him back I haven't hugged someone in years I feel tears start to run down my face we pull back and I quickly wipe my tears away "I'm sorry" he smiles at me I give him a tight smile we both jump when we here something break I slowly walk out of my room with Jordan following close behind me
"Fuck!" Ezra yells he looks mad he's talking on the phone "what do you mean you lost them" what'd they lose I think to myself he looks up toward the stairs and I quickly hide behind the wall "what the hell am I gonna do?!" He yells after a minute he stares up at the ceiling "whatever" he closes his eyes for a minute and throws his phone at the couch he goes over to the wall and punches it slides down the wall and pulls out a cigarette he struggles to light it but eventually does he leans his head back against the wall and blows the smoke in the air I sigh and turn back towards Jordan
"I'm sorry" he knits his eyebrows together and gives me a confused
"You don't have ..I cut him off before he's able to finishes his sentence
"I know but still" we wait til Ezra gets up and goes to his room I go first down the stairs to make sure that the coast is clear I quickly lead him out the door Ezra almost catches us and I quickly push Jordan out the door before Ezra sees him