Her Name Was Lana

~3 - Thinking Be Hard Guys.

     "Hey! You still haven't answered my question!", I wheezed, speed walking beside her. We were outside now. The evening was beautiful.

"I already told you, Keon. My name is Nico Kalista", she answered back.

"I know that, you've told me like a bajillion times, but who are you? How old are you? Where are you from? How do you know me? Are you an assassin? Where am I? how-", she stopped walking, turned around and stared at me with those beautiful hazel eyes.

Those eyes.

SNAP OUT OF IT KEON! YOU'VE GOT A GIRLFRIEND TO SAVE!

I realized I was staring and quickly down at my shoes, blushing.

I could literally feel her smirking.

"Well, KEON, my age is none of your beeswax, I'm from Greece, Ill get to the next question over dinner, I might-"

"I'm staying for dinner?!"

"I MIGHT be an assassin, that would be awesome, right?", she asked, completely ignoring my question, then looked up a me, beaming with a smile.

"Uh-Huh"

Wait! Dude, stop turning into jelly!

Well, again, she is incredibly ho- NO! Snap out of it!

"Keon, were you listening to anything I was saying?", she said, suddenly annoyed.

Maybe if you weren't so darn cute, I would be listening instead of staring at your FACE!

She stared at me, then started laughing. Not the cute giggling girls always do. Uncontrollable piggy laughter. With the snorting and everything. All she needed was a curly pink tail.

 Oink oink.

"What? Why are you laughing?", I asked, frowning. Its my turn to be annoyed.

"Nothing, just thinking"

"Well, okay then"

Awkward silence for about two minutes

I coughed.

"Well then", Nico said, startling me. "I better show you to your room. Its getting late. You can freshen up, then come for dinner". Then she started walking away.

"Wait", I grabbed her arm and pulled her to face me. She tripped and almost fell, but I caught her.

It took me a moment to realize how close she was. She looked at me, wide eyed, but didn't move away. She was so close, I could smell her breath.

Cinnamon.

I pushed her away so she could stand, mumbled a sorry and took a step back.

"Could you show me my room? If I want to go home tomorrow, then I have to be alive, right?", I said, looking at my shoes, then looked up, smiling sheepishly.

"I guess. Follow me"

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   "Woah" . That was al I could say. This room was incredible. It had all the things I wanted in a room, almost as if it was designed just for me.

Almost.

"Enjoy", Nico said, then she closed the door with a smirk.

I looked around my one night room. For one, it was way bigger than my old closed sized room. It was green, my favorite color. I looked on the long shelf which ran across the room, running my fingers on its cold wooden surface. There were a couple of pictures of my favorite rock band, Evanescence.

 As I glanced at them, I abruptly stopped at the picture frame at the end of the shelf. My eyes widened.

There, in that photo, were six year old me, with my sister both my parents . We were at the carnival I begged my mom to let us go to. When she said yes, I was thrilled. In that photo, I was showing off my two my two missing front teeth, my sister was rolling her eyes at me, smiling, while both my parents were laughing at us. 

That was the best day of my life. Until it became the worst. That was the day I lost everything. It was the last day I was happy and care free. The day of the fire.

Next to it was a picture of my parents. My mom was slapping the back of my dads head while my dad was laughing his butt off. Clearly, he said something stupid. My mom had long black curly hair and milk chocolate colored skin. Her eyes were a light shade of brown, which in the photo, were crinkled at the sides, hiding a smile. My dad. My dad had blond hair and beautiful emerald blue eyes, filled with mischief. He was the type of guy to steal the last cookie and blame it on his poor, young, unsuspecting children. I smiled sadly at that memory. I miss those guys.

My sadness quickly turned to confusion. How was this photo here? It got burnt along with my house nine years ago....

"Keon, we only have pepperoni pizza, so if you're vegetarian, too ba-", Nico said as she barged into my room.

I slowly turned around, eyes blurry from the tears they held.  I glared at her through them.

"Where did you get this?"

Sorry this was so late. School plus me equals Excessive Fatigue.

Also, i couldnt come up with a name for this chapter, thus the name for...this...chapter...

What do you think will happen next? Make sure to leave a vote and comment! Also, LeO vAlDeZ iS bAe!!!