I Wrote A Song For You

Talk

Are you lost or incomplete?
Do you feel like a puzzle, and you can't find your missing piece?
Tell me how you feel.
We played for hours, but it only felt like we played for a few minutes when Chris called up to us to say that dinner was ready.
"Yay!" Moses screamed with excitement. He ran ahead of me and Apple.
"Every Friday we have chicken nuggets and fries. It's his favorite." I nodded as I followed her out of the room, down the stairs and into the dining room. Chris was already sitting at the table with food on his plate.
"Take as many as you'd like." He said, and the three of us got our servings and sat down to eat.
"Today was so fun Daddy!" Moses exclaimed.
"Yeah! We played Wii and board games!" Apple joined in.
"Wow Rose, I guess they really like you." We both smiled.
After eating for a while in silence, we were about to clean up when the doorbell rang.
"You might want to stay in here." Chris said to me before going to answer the door.
"Hi." I heard a woman's voice talking.
"Hello." He replied. "Apple, Moses, mom's here!" He called for them, and they ran out of the dining room to hug their mom.
"Hi guys!" She lifted them up and kissed them.
"Okay, I'll see you Thursday." They said goodbye, and Chris was about to close the door when Apple stopped him.
"What about Rose?" She asked. "Will we get to see her when we come back?"
"Yeah, will we Daddy?" Moses questioned. I could hear him stuttering.
"Who's Rose?" The woman, who I realized was his ex-wife, asked.
"Just a friend." Chris replied. "She'll probably be here. If not, come say goodbye to her."
I could hear tiny footsteps coming my way, and the two of them ran into me and hugged me tight.
"Bye Rose!" They said in unison.
"Bye guys!" I watched as they left with their mom, leaving just me and Chris in the house.
"We'll be heading to Guy's house in about an hour. What do you wanna do until then?"
"I'll probably just go watch TV." I was about to leave when I stopped. "Do you have any music I can listen to?"
"Of course." He left for a moment, then came back with an iPod in his hand.
"Thanks." I went to the music app to see what songs he had. "You like Coldplay?" I asked.
He laughed before answering. "Yeah, I'm a pretty big fan."
"I used to listen to them all the time." We both smiled. "Of course, I wasn't a huge fan. I only know a few of their songs. But I really liked their music."
"They still make music, you know."
"Really?!"
"Yup." He replied, and I smiled. "I'll see you in an hour."
"Okay." I nodded and headed to the guest bedroom with Chris' earbuds in.
The time went by pretty slowly, but sure enough an hour had passed and we were heading to Guy's house.
"I think we should take the car, since it's pretty far away." He stated. I agreed, and he got into the driver's seat while I hopped into the passenger side.
"Who else is gonna be there?" I asked.
"Our other friends, Jonny and Will. They're kinda shy at first, but once you get to know them I think you'll really like them." He winked at me and gave me a smile I couldn't describe in words. It was just so... perfect. Was I starting to like him? Like like him?
"I'm still finding it hard to believe that you just... took me in like this. Nobody's ever been this nice to me before."
"Really?" He seemed surprised. "I thought the people in this area were really nice. At least, that's what it seems like."
"Who wouldn't be nice to you? You've got money, a family, a huge house... there's no reason someone would be mean to you."
"How bad were they?" He asked.
"Huh?"
"The people that made fun of you... they weren't really bad were they?"
I could feel my eyes swell up with tears. "They had a knife. I was cornered in an alley with a knife to my throat. A man saved me before they had the chance to kill me."
"Rose, I... I didn't know..." There was a long silence, neither of us making eye contact with the other.
"I'm sorry to ask, but when did this happen?" His eyes looked as if he felt terrible for what I went through.
"Last year. May, I think." I paused for a moment. "Why?"
"Rose, I was that man."
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"No, please!" I held my hands up and begged.
"Shut the hell up and get on the ground!" He held the knife in his hand in a way where it looked like he was used to it.
"Someone! Help!" I gasped as he put the knife so close to my throat that if I swallowed, I'd be cut. I breathed heavily as the knife went closer and closer.
"I bet you wish you didn't come here. Isn't that right, hobo?" He laughed and made a mischievous grin.
"Put the knife down NOW!" The policeman had a gun in his hand.
"Fine." The gang member said, throwing the knife against the wall.
"Back away from the woman slowly." The cop approached him.
"Now that I won't do." He grabbed my neck with both hands, held me up against the wall and choked me as hard as he could. I struggled to breathe. With one hand still pinning me up on the wall, he took a gun out of his pocket and shot the cop before he had the chance to shoot.
"Get the hell off of her!" I heard a deep voice yell.
"Who are you, exactly? Her boyfriend?" He laughed again.
"No, but it doesn't matter. What you're doing right now is wrong, and I'm just trying to make it right." He began to approach the gangster.
I saw him try to shoot the man, but he already ran out of bullets. I felt his grip on my neck suddenly loosen, and I fell to the ground. The last thing I heard was a knife going through his chest before the world turned black.
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"Oh my God." I just looked at him for a while. The alley was dark when it happened, so I couldn't see his face very well. But I suddenly realized that the man who saved me actually was him.
"You saved my life... twice. I don't know how I can repay the favor."
He sighed. "When you were playing with Apple and Moses... that was the happiest I had seen them in weeks. Just to see how much fun they were having with you made me so happy. And my kids being happy is one of the most important things in the world to me." I saw a tear roll down his cheek.
"Rose, I love y-"
We were t-boned by a truck, and the car was hit high into the air.
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