I brought you my bullets, you brought me your love
But this time, I mean it
I'll let you know just how much you mean to me
As snow falls on desert sky
Until the end of everything
- Demolition Lovers, My chemical romance
Many years before Syndrome tried to kill Mr. Incredible and his family…
A loud voice was heard outside their garage. A voice of a girl.
"Buddy? Buddy!"
Buddy looked at where the voice is coming. A girl entered the garage, she's a teenager, with a burgundy hair and goth like look.
"Hey, I've been looking for you." She mumbled to him.
He never did bother to look. He was busy doing something.
"Have you already finished the Abraham Lincoln report?" she asked him. He didn't answer.
"BUDDY!" she shouted. Buddy was shocked.
"Wha-? What were you saying?" he stammered.
"I said are you finished in the Abraham Lincoln report?" she repeated. He just nodded.
"God, Kerry, you almost killed me." He scolded her.
"You weren't listening. You busy doing that-. What is that?" she looked at what Buddy was doing in the garage. "It's a zero point energy."
"Wow. Amazing." She stared at his invention.
"You're a genius."
Buddy chuckled. "You know you can sell your inventions to make money." She muttered.
He looked at her. "That's a great idea."
She stood up and look at the trash can.
She saw many of Buddy's Mr. Incredible collection. She sighed.
"You finished cleaning your room." She said.
Buddy looked at her and at the trash can. "Oh, yeah. I did."
She walked towards the trash can and looked at the crumpled poster of Mr. Incredible.
"Maybe you shouldn't be hard on-."
"Hard on him? Kerry, he threw me away and disposed me. What do you think I must do?" he angrily said. He stood up, took the trash can. Kerry followed him.
He put the trash can in their front yard. Kerry put back the poster in the trash can.
"I hate supers, Kerry. I hate them with all my heart." He mumbled. Kerry looked at him worried.
The next morning, Kerry went to Buddy's house before going to school.
"Mrs. Pine, is Buddy still here?" she asked his mother.
"Yes, he's still here. Come on in. Buddy! Buddy!" she called. Buddy comes rushing down with all his things almost falling from his bag.
"Honey, I told you to prepare your things at night." She scolded him.
"Yeah, mom. Kay, we gotta go. Bye." She kissed him and said goodbye to her thirteen year old son.
"Your mom's sweet." Kerry giggled.
"Yeah, her sweetness almost kills me."
"Your so lucky." She muttered.
"Why? Doesn't your mother do that to you everyday?" he laughed.
She weakly smiled.
"Oh, I'm sorry."
"It's okay. She died three years ago. Cancer."
"Oh, hey. I just upgraded my flying boots, they're awesome. I might even send it as an entry in a science fair."
"Oh good luck then." She smiled. Buddy looked at her.
"Derek is going with Stacy on the Eight grade dance. Who you comin with?" Buddy asked her.
She gave him a surprised look. "Ah, I'm not going."
"What? You're not going? That's unfair."
"Buddy, it's boring. Besides I don't-. Ah whatever."
"You don't have a date?" She nodded.
"I don't have a date too." He said.
"You can take Miranda with you." She muttered. "Miranda's going with Karl." He answered.
"Wanna go with me?"
Kerry looked at him. "Here's the deal, genius. If you can make me go to that dance, yes I'll come with you. If not, then I'm so sorry."
"You will have fun in the dance I promise."
"Nah, it's much more fun at home."
"Where infront of the t.v.? When all your friends are out there dancing and you are all alone in your house watching Addams family?" he teased her.
"Here's the catch, genius. First, it's really fun watching t.v. Second, I don't dance and third, Addams family is my favorite movie."
Buddy looked at her and laughed.
"You don't know how to dance!" Kerry looked at him and shushed him.
"Come on, psycho. We're late for our first class!"
At lunch, Buddy sat at Kerry's table. Usually it's just him and Kerry.
"So about the dance—"
"I'm still not going." She said.
"Oh come on. Please come to the dance. Please."
"You have to give me puppy eyes before you can make me agree." She said while eating her lunch.
He looked at her. "Alright, if you come to the dance I'll give you a gift."
"You can do that anytime."
"Nope. I won't give you anymore gifts if you don't come to the dance."
"Are you threatening me?"
"I think yes, you didn't set any rules about threats." He teased.
She looked at him and rolls her eyes.
"Yeah right, I'm going."
Buddy smiled and hug her. "Hey stop with the huggin we're in public." She scolded.
The night before the dance Buddy took almost the whole afternoon to get dress. When he picks Kerry at their house, he was amazed by her looks. She was wearing a violet, scarlet and black dress. Her hair was all tied up except for her straight cut bangs. Her hair band was color black. Her hands were covered by a dark fishnet gloves and she was wearing a punk style boots.
"Don't look at me like that, Melonhead." She muttered. Buddy just smirked.
"You don't want to be late for your dance, baby." Her dad told her.
"Dad.." she interrupted. Buddy stared at her.
Kerry's dad noticed Buddy. "Hey you. If anything bad happens to my little angel. I'll show you what hell looks like."
"Dad, you know I hate it when you call me like that."
"Okay, go on."
She kissed her dad goodbye.
Buddy looked at her all the way to the school.
"Buddy if I'm an ice cream I'm already melted." She teased.
"You look… beautiful." He muttered.
"What?"
"You look like Evanescence"
"Oh she's one of my favorite singer." Kerry exclaimed.
"I thought you won't go to the dance but it seems to me you're to one whose prepared for it."
She looked at him. "Oh this dress? My mom made it. It's just stuck in my wardrobe so I wore it."
When the dance started, Buddy looked for Kerry who was lost in the crowd. He found her at the hall. "What are you doing here? Everyone was dancing." He asked her.
"I don't dance"
"Come on, you gotta try."
"I can't Buddy. I can't!" it was too late. Buddy already pulled her in the dance floor. She was going back when Buddy pulled her.
"I can't do this Buddy!"
"Just eyes on me!" he smiled. "Like what we learned in the dance class."
"I didn't learn anything from that class!" she almost screamed at him.
The music started to roll in. Her hands were on his shoulders. "Don't look at our feet, look at me." Buddy scolded.
"Don't blame me if I always step on your foot." She said.
"Hey, isn't that Kerry?" a girl beside them mumbled.
"She looks pretty."
"Wow she's stunning."
"They noticed you." Buddy teased. "Thanks to you, genius, I won't have a face to show to the whole class." She angrily mumbled.
"Don't worry. They won't say a thing." He smiled.
After the dance, Buddy took Kerry home. "Kerry!" he called. The girl looked back. "What?"
"This… this is my gift. For you." He handed him a box wrapped in a beautiful wrapper.
"Thanks I'll just open it later." She said. "Bye Buddy. Goodnight."
"Bye Kerry, goodnight…" he stared at her as she walk inside the house.
Kerry opened the gift when she was in her room. It was a hologram, a girl dancing in the stars. Beautiful. Kerry put it next to her bed.
Buddy and Kerry stayed bestfriends for so many years until their Senior year in High school.
College is a hard year and Kerry didn't had time to see him lately. Until there was no communication at all. Until one day…
