Prologue
Jeremy wasn't a bad kid, just a boy unloved by his family which caused him to do bad deeds. He always had been hated by his mother who always blamed him for everything. Many wrong doings of his were done for me. I was his best friend and he was mine.
I was always a kind of outcast because of my "unique" personality and because I'm so shy. When we first met, I was in kindergarten and he was in first grade. We met in assembly when we came up for the school to sing "Happy Birthday" to us.
From then on, we hung out and were the best of friends. Every time he would commit a crime, he would come to me, tell me what he had done then moved on so I wouldn't get in trouble too. This went on for a while until I was ten and he was eleven.
We knew we were really young and shouldn't have crushes on each other but we didn't care. We started dating when I was eleven and had the best of time together.
I was completely devastated when his mother and sister came back from an ER visit in Nebraska. I knew it was wrong for me to still love him when Ms. Sayer explained what had happened to me and that he was in a Nebraska hospital under the protection of the "Safe Haven" law.
He had done many bad things but nothing like this...even when he put rat poisoning in their Thanksgiving meal. I missed him horribly but I knew it didn't matter anymore, he was gone to a different state. I didn't realize then that he would be back soon.
I sulked the rest of that day since I didn't have any other friends to hang out with on such a beautiful Saturday. I was angry. I was angry at Jeremy's sister, Anne, because she had prompted him to break her arm, even if it was just barely calling him a name. I was angry at Jeremy's mom for taking him away.
She knows I can calm him down no matter what the situation. I was angry at Jeremy for committing the attack. Most of all, I was angry at myself for not being there to stop it all from happening.
If I had been there to stop Anne from calling him a "butt-head, and to keep him away from her and calm him down, his mother wouldn't have seen it fit to take him away.