Chapter 1

Thirteen year old, Kelly Paz was sitting on the swing set with her friend, Clive Dove. They wait for their nanny to tell them what will happen to Constance Dove after months of a serious disease that Kelly was too young to understand. Clive being fifteen, however, was old enough to know that Miss. Dove had no hope of making it, not at her age.

"Do you think she'll be okay?" Kelly asks as she looks up at him. Clive says nothing and she understood, he didn't want to talk about it. He never really told her why he became an orphan like her and the same goes for her, but that doesn't mean that they can't be friends. Friends can keep secrets too from each other, at least one, right?

The nanny walks out of the mansion and signal them both to come inside. "I'm sorry you two, but Lady Dove has passed away. Go upstairs and pack your things quickly, her last wish was for you two to not see her at this state and she had enrolled you both to a private school." she states as she leads them to the corridor to their room.

They both said nothing, just pack everything they can and in a blink of an eye, they were sent off to a boarding school four hours away. They both end up sleeping halfway through the trip after sharing a number of puzzles with each other that they came up with and wake up in separate rooms of the campus with children who wouldn't understand their situation. As Kelly learn to make friends, Clive stayed as far away from everyone and neither of them saw each other throughout the term in the enormous school until a lawyer had came about Miss. Dove's will.
"I'm sorry about you two's lost, but Constance Dove has given you something in her will. She gave you each both 500 thousand pounds once you graduate from your paid for colleges of your choice." the lawyer announce as the two exchange glances.

"Clive, she has given you her father's pocket knife and Kelly, she left you her mother's necklace" he states as he places a bag on the desk and reaches in for the items.

He picks out the silver leathered pocket knife that seemed to have description on it, but it was a puzzle on how to open the knife. Clive solves it immediately and smiles to himself.

The lawyer then takes out a golden necklace with a unique looking charm of scrambled shapes of a rose, a heart, a moon, and a key. Kelly smiles at how beautiful it looked and quickly puts it on as the lawyer leaves with a goodbye.

Kelly smile fades when she sees that Clive was looking straight into his reflection on the blade. "Clive?" she takes a step forward.

He sharply looks up at her and sees that her dark brown eyes were twinkling. He gulps a little and asks, "Yes?"

"Promise me you won't use that thing on yourself" she commands, knowing that face too well from when he nearly jumped off a tree when they were young. "I promise" he sighs and walks over to her as he puts the closed pocket knife into his pocket. Kelly gives him a hug as tears fall one by one.

Clive blushes and hugs her back as he whispers again, "I promise" the next day, Kelly went missing When Clive heard about this, and he searched high
and low in the school for her just to find nothing.

•••

"Why do you have a pocket knife?" the guard asks after giving Clive a body search.

"Not like I was going to use it," Clive smirks, "I got it from a will" the guard places it in a box along with a wallet and keys.

"You'll get these back when you get out of jail" he says as he hands Clive the black and white striped pants and shirt, "now get out of those clothes and put these on"

Clive eyes the clothes and then the guard, "now?" he asks.

"Yes now, don't think I enjoy the idea, but I have to make sure you don't do anything funny" the guard growls. Clive sighs and takes off his jacket, vest, and tie. He then unbuttons his shirt and tries to hide his arm, but the guard saw the scars. "Did you cut yourself?" he asks.

Clive jumps and covers the scars as he reaches out for his shirt. The guard decides to leave it, but he was going to have to report this so they could decide if Clive needed to be in an asylum instead of prison. Clive changes his pants and was guided to his cell.

To think, that this young man was in a boarding school just five years ago and was now in jail for another ten years of pain, what a waste. At least the last had people that cared, here they will probably put salt in his already wide wounds. He felt lucky that he had his own cell and doesn't have any intimidating neighbors that would have beaten his hide if they caught him crying.

And that's what he did; he cried all the tears he's been holding since that day she vanish. He promises himself he wouldn't cry because it showed weakness, but it was the only thing he was capable of.

Once his eyes were swollen and he couldn't cry anymore, he smiles, feeling as if the weight of the world has been lifted off his shoulders. He then smiles at the memory Kelly and he last saw each other.

•••

Clive sighs at her sweet smell and kisses her forehead, "Kelly, I'm glad you're here."

Kelly looks up at him with curious eyes and a slight blush, "why is that?" she asks. He smiles and kisses her tears away. "Because you're the last person in the world who cares" he whispers in her ear and finally kisses her.

She closes her eyes and kiss back, even if the school forbids any personal contact. "I like you, Clive" she whispers as she lays her head against his chest. Clive lays his head on top of hers.

"I like you too, Kelly" he whispers back and then they had to part.

"I'll see you later then?" she asks as she puts his hands into hers. Clive blushes some at their hands and then looks up to see her still twinkling eyes, but this time, it came along with a smile.

He smiles himself and kisses her cheek, making her blush, "yeah, I'll see you really soon." Kelly smiles again and was off. Clive smiles to himself as he imagines having Kelly as a girlfriend and then strolls out of the dean's office.