Key of Darkness/whispering/ hi all…I have got to be quiet tonight, I'm not supposed to have dads laptop upstairs and most definitely not at night. but I've got to fill in time before I sneak downstairs to watch my fave program.
Justin: sneaking around now are we? I thought you were a good little girl.
Key of Darkness: You can't talk, and keep your voice down, I think mums still up.
Adam/holding head/ just shut up both of you, I have a head ache.
Key of Darkness: might as well get straight into the story.
Justin: disclaimers?
Adam: Warnings?
Key of Darkness: Disclaimer is the usual, I don't own anyone… and as for the WARNING, there will probably be SLASH in this one guys and girls…
PRJustin stood in the park, waiting, watching, listening. Something was going to happen today, and he was going to be ready. Nothing was going to take him by surprise anymore. To many times had he lost because he wasn't ready. Too many times.
Barely a hundred meters away, another figure was doing the same. To the observer, he was just standing minding his own business, casually leaning against a lamppost.
Tommy Oliver turned his head slightly and his gaze landed on his younger friend. He kept one eye trained on him, the other taking in his surroundings. Something was wrong; he could just feel it,
Justin had long ago noticed Tommy leaning against the post, but he had not moved, feeling betrayed by his 'friends' lack of contact.
Tommy silently debated whether he should go over to him. He looked lost and lonely standing in the large park.
Justin turned and walked away and Tommy acted. He sprinted over to him and Justin only walked faster, having heard the sound of foot falls behind him.
"Justin! Stop!"
To Tommy's surprise, he did. He stopped wrapping his arms around him, waiting for him to catch up to him.
"What do you want?"
It was more of a statement than a question.
"To talk."
"You never wanted to talk to me before. You just left."
You just left…Tommy's shoulders sagged. He had known that this was coming. In Justin's mind, he had abandoned him, leaving him and taking off into a new life, one without him. And he had. He had made no contact with his younger friend and obviously that lack of contact had cut him deep, very deep.
"Look, I'll buy you a soda and we'll sit and talk."
Justin spun round to face him, fire in his eyes
You just left…
"You Honestly think that a soda and a talk can fix anything don't you? Well let me show you cold hard truth of reality Tommy, it takes a lot more than that to heal a broken friendship."
You just left…
They stood staring at each other, ones eyes full of sorrow and the others full of pain and unshed tears.
"I'm a fool Justin, we both know it and one of it deigns it, but I am a fool. It is my fault that your upset, and you have every right to be, but just, please listen. You are the most amazing kid in the world, and I don't want to loose you forever."
Justin looked down at his feet, trying to stop himself from yelling, crying and running away from his old friend in front of him. Tears ran down his face anyway and he couldn't hide them as the fell onto the ground before him.
Tommy carefully reached out a hand and placed it gently on the young boys shoulder.
You just left…
Justin didn't pull away, he was just too upset to do anything.
Tommy wrapped his arms around him and Justin accepted without protest.
You just left…
"Why did you leave me Tommy? You just seemed to disappear."
Tommy pulled back and let Justin stand. "You had new friends. They were closer to your own age. You seemed to get on with them okay, so I took a few steps back to let you have a little space and time to be yourself. We all did. Plus and we had just left high school, we were teen's trying to get jobs and put out mark on the industry. Or all least I was. I was travelling and my mind was on other things."
"Racing."
"Racing." Tommy nodded.
"It wasn't just you who left."
You just left…
"Adam and Rocky left too. And the girls. Well, not Kat, I still see her every now and then, but only when she needs to use me as a test subject.
Tommy raised an eyebrow.
"Have you not noticed the hair?"
"I noticed it, but didn't comment."
"is it that bad?" Justin asked, referring to the blond and chestnut streaks that Kat had put in his hair. She was doing a Hair Dressing apprenticeship and she had asked Justin if she could practice on his hair. There had been quite a lot of disasters during the first few months.
"No, not at all. It looks great. I just thought it wasn't a great moment to say, hey, great hair! By the way, long time no see! How long has it been? Three years? I just didn't see it going down to well."
"has it really been three years?"
Tommy nodded guilty. "I'd been trying to find you for about six months now. But I kept hitting dead ends. You moved.
"So did you."
Tommy looked deep into Justin's pure sky blue eyes.
"Will you forgive me Justin?"
You just left…
You just left me…
You left me…
Will you forgive me Justin…
"I already have you boof head. Do you think I'd be standing here listening to you pour your soul out if I hadn't?"
"I guess not." He answered slightly sheepish. "I feal every bit the fool I am."
"Your not a fool Tommy, you can just be a bit thick sometimes, but you always see it in time."
"Thanks. But really, I've screwed up big time… and I've hurt you in the process. I've had to live with that for three years. As soon as we lost contact, I knew that I'd stuffed it… I'm sorry."
I've screwed up big time…
"Hey, we're here now, and I have no idea why, but this probably will seal out fate. You're not going to be able to get rid of me now!"
"Damn! Just when I was free."
You're not a fool…
I've hurt you…I'm a fool…
You're not a fool…
"You know, I knew that something was going to happen today."
"Same here. I just felt as if there was something going on that I wasn't aware of, but I was part of it."
"And I've found that the friend I lost never really was. I wish the others were the same as you. But their all gone, off in a happy life I hope…"
"I'm sure they never really meant to desert you Justin. Rocky asked me the other day if I knew where you were, and Adam was talking about you just last week when I last spoke to him. He wanted to know how you were, but none of us could find you.
None of us could find you…
"I guess it didn't help that I moved. But you still hurt me, all of you guys. Them more than you i guess... Some part of me knows that you guys had to move on, hell you just left school, but another part of me says that you guys were completely unfair and diserted me with no warning. I guess that i know that you guys are really busy and that you don't have any time thing thing of the littlest things like keeping intouch with old friends. I thought Rocky at least was above that. It stings..."
None of us could find you…
"That shouldn't have stopped us. We all should have kept trying, but we didn't. None of this was your fault… it was all ours. Don't be angry with them…Esspecially not Rocky."
None of us could find you…don't be angry with us…
Forgive me Justin…
Key of Darkness: That's the end of chapter. I'm still awake and I feel so proud. AAAARRRRGGG! My program started ten minutes ago!
Justin: I thought you wanted to be quiet.