Thieving Florida

Xander's letter

Dear Jessica,    
     I don't know if I'll get to talk to you at all. So if I don't, or I don't get much time, I'm writing this.
     Let's come straight out and say it. I'm dying. I might already be dead by the time you read this. Which really, really sucks.
     This letter is about... me. My past. An explanation.
     Let's start out with... the very beginning. Around when I was nine years old, and Eden was six? Yeah, six. We lived with our uncle. Our parents died in a plane crash just after Eden was born. Neither of us remember them, obviously.
     One night, just before I was about to go to bed, I heard screaming come from the bathroom. The screaming came from Eden.
     I used to play baseball. Did you know that? I doubt it. That's why I liked staying at that sandlot. Anyway, I grabbed the metal bat in my room and ran in there.
     Eden was being held under the water. There was no screaming anymore, but she was thrashing around. My uncle was the man holding her down.
     I reacted immediately, not thinking about what would happen in the long run. I did that multiple times that night. I swung the bat, hitting him in the melon. He dropped like an anchor.
     After I helped Eden up and got her dry, I was starting to have a panic attack. My uncle wasn't waking up. He was just sitting there, not breathing.
     I realized he was dead. Once that settled in, I thought I was a murderer.
     Now I know that things could have been easily different. If the police knew I what he did, they wouldn't throw me in jail or anything. But I didn't know that. So I took Eden and ran.
     I took my uncle's wallet, and any money I could find. Total, I had a little over one-hundred dollars.
     After that was up, we started begging. After so long, we resulted to stealing. And it was like that for years.
     When I was fourteen, I met Aj (shortly after my first encounter with you). I tried stealing his money, since he was waving it around without a care. He was going to kill me. This was long before he was his gang's leader. But he must have saw something in me. I honestly have no idea what it was. But he brought me and Eden in.
     Eden didn't know we were in a gang. At least, I was. She just stayed at the house they used, minding her own business. I got into the more serious parts of it. Dealing. Killing.
     I didn't want to. But when Aj became leader, he forced me to do all kinds of shit. I tried to refuse him on multiple occasions, but he threatened me with Eden. Turning me over to the police. Torture.
     That's the reason why Miranda is my baggage. I was threatened. You can think that makes me less guilty, but it doesn't. I should have done something then, not after. I should have done something before she repeatedly begged me. "Alexander, please. Don't do this."
     That is the reason I hate the name. It haunts me to this day.
    A week after I killed Miranda, I couldn't take it. I told Aj that I needed to be independent with Eden. Aj understood, but he asked us one thing. To let him move us around everycouple of months so we had less chance of being caught. So I agreed.
     Then I met you, two years later. I don't know why you followed me on your birthday. I kind of think you're an idiot for following me. But at the same time, I'm glad you did.
     I've never felt this way for anyone. Yeah, I've been with girls for a night or so. That didn't mean anything to me. I got to know you. I got to actually interact with a person. A genuinely good person.
     I don't know if what I felt was love. I don't think I could ever feel true love for anyone. Eden is the only person that's ever been there with me, so I only know what I feel for her is the sibling love.
     But you changed me. I started being different. Nothing colossal, but I felt it. Eden felt it. Aj, too.
     I wish I could go back and change things. But I can't. What I can say is that the change you brought me was good enough.
     So thank you, Jessica, for doing the impossible.
Your knight in stolen armour,
Xander

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:( this is it.

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Well hopefully y'all enjoyed this. Sorry for any tears (jk I'm not that good)

This is that last update for this story. No more. Zilch.

Buuuuuut, for those interested, there is the story of Marisa and Aj's situation in Seattle. I metioned this before. The first chapter is up right now, so if you want to go check it out you should definitely do that :) go search Silent City.

This was fun. Hopefully Silent City is just as fun.

Adios. Au revoir. Ciao. Bu-bye.