I looked up. The flames from the campfire was casting a shadow across everyone's faces. This is the first time in years the family has done this. Rogen started the first story. The story of how he ran across Fern's Shadow. I put in my ear buds and listened to 'Cry for You' I got up and left. I stopped at a cliff and sat down. I paused the music and plugged in a speaker, then hit play. I listened in silence then turned around. Laughing Jack came out of the tree line.
"What are you doing here?" Laughing Jack came over and sat to my right.
"Could ask the same for you." I looked away from him, and at the moon. I felt his arm around my shoulders. I glanced at him.
"What's wrong, Broken Shadow?" I shook my head and looked at the moon again.
"Valentine's Day is tomorrow." Laughing Jack nodded.
"So it is. Do you have a Valentine?"
"Had." Laughing Jack looked at me.
"What?" I put my head on my knees
"Forget I said anything." Laughing Jack stood up.
"Well come on back when you feel like it. You're telling the next story." I nodded and watched him leave. I waited until the song was over before I got up and joined walked back to the fire. Everyone looked at me. Laughing Jack smiled. I sat down next to him.
"Okay Broken Shadow. Tell us a story." Offender Man smiled and sat next to me. I took of my scarf and pulled back my hood. Everyone looked at me.
"A rose with a circle and an 'X' over it?" I nodded.
"I'm Offender Man's proxy." I ran a hand through my hair.
"How about I tell you my Valentine's Day thirty years ago?" Everyone nodded, and Offender Man licked his lips.
"Very well… The sun was barley coming up. The sky was a blood red, and where was I? Trying to find Paige, my sister." I glanced and Toby and Sally.
"Or foster sister. Anyways screaming was everywhere. Hawk Wish was running with me across the blood covered floor. I knew I could be killed but I didn't care. I sunk my sword inside of anyone that was trying to hurt me." Fear burned Masky's gaze as he listened.
"I kept running. When someone came and held me to the ground by my throat I opened my mouth and let out a stream of fire. Something that is very rare." My speaker was still on and 'Lavender Tone' turned on.
"I got up and kept running. Hawk Wish had already gotten to Paige and held her close. I slid down next to him and started to heal her. I kept my eyes on her until her eyes opened. I looked up only to see Jeffery aiming his knife at my head. I closed my eyes as he released his knife, but opened my eyes again. His knife hadn't hit me, but it did hit Hawk Wish in the throat." I stood up and paused my song and plugged in my ear buds.
"That is why I hate Valentine's Day, because Hawk Wish, my soon to be husband, died on that day thirty years ago." I hit play and began to walk. I glanced behind me once I was sitting at the cliff again.
"Ah hello reader. Enjoy the story? Good, because it wasn't one. It was all true…..Sweet Dreams…."