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This time, This place
Misused, Mistakes
Too long, Too late
Who was I to make you wait
Just one chance
Just one breath
Just in case there's just one left
'Cause you know,
you know, you know
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I miss you
Been far away for far too long
I keep dreaming you'll be with me
and you'll never go
Stop breathing if
I don't see you anymore
On my knees, I'll ask
Last chance for one last dance
'Cause with you, I'd withstand
All of hell to hold your hand
I'd give it all
I'd give for us
Give anything but I won't give up
'Cause you know,
you know, you know
So far away
Been far away for far too long
So far away
Been far away for far too long
But you know, you know, you know
I wanted
I wanted you to stay
'Cause I needed
I need to hear you say
That I love you
I have loved you all along
And I forgive you
For being away for far too long
So keep breathing
'Cause I'm not leaving you anymore
Believe it
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Keep breathing
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Hold on to me and, never let me go
Hold on to me and, never let me go
"Far Away" Nickelback
It was a typical day at Kansas City Elementary school. Everyone seemed to have a great number of friends in elementary, the kids were always sohappy and carefree. Nothing could go wrong. Bradin, obviously, had a lot of friends at the time. But one of them, the one who actually cared and listened to him, the one who he'd always pick outof a crowd of a million, was his best friend Kristen.
The two were playing on the swings when Bradin's mother came and picked him up from school.
"Bye Kristen!" Bradin said to her in his squeaky little seven-year-old voice. "I'll see you tomorrow!"
"See ya Bradin!" She replied.
His mother drove back to their homey Kansas home. Little Bradin burst through the door with his brightly colored backpack on his back, and his plastic, cartoon-themed lunch box in his hand. His father greeted him, holding baby Derrick in his arms. Nikki also ran from her model play-do set on the dinner table and went to give her older brother a hug.
Bradin's family seemed to be your average perfect family. Unfortunately, all of that had to change now.
The doorbell rang; and Bradin's mother went to go see who it was.
"Well, hi Diane." His mother looked surprised that their neighbor would ring their doorbell. Their neighbors weren't really the "socializing"type of people.
"There's a water leakage, down by the supermarket." Their neighbor said in an anxious voice. "And the lake nearby is starting to overflow. If it starts raining, we mightbe havinga full-size flood heading our way."
Bradin's mother looked up into the foggy sky. By the looks of it, there was a high percentage of rain that day. "Ok, we'll come down as soon as we can to help out." His mother told her. She turned around informed her husband. With a worried look on his face, he turned and looked at his children.
"Bradin, Nikki, me and mommy have to go help out downtown for just a little bit. I want you both to be on your best behavior for the nanny." He kissed both of their heads and Derrick's and handed his children over to the babysitter.
"Bye! We'll be back soon!" Their mother said.
Sadly, they wouldn't see them again soon. That would be the last Goodbye ever said.
Two hours later...
I was getting late and the babysitter started getting worried. Derrick was wailing from his crib and Bradin was chasing his little sister around.
As bad thoughts started to fill the poor babysitter's mind, the phone suddenly rang.
"Hello?" She said into the receiver. "WHAT! Oh my goodness, you can't be serious! No this can't be happening! I can't break this kind of news to the children! They'd be devastated. Are you sure? Ok thank you.". The nanny put down the phone slowlyand a tear slowly started rolling down her cheek
Bradin stopped chasing his sister around and looked up at his babysitter.
"What's wrong?" He asked.
"I'm so sorry." She cried. She was really close to the Westerly's, and to hear this sort of news made her heart break.
"They're gone." She trembled with words. "Your parents. I'm so sorry."
"What?" Bradin's playful smile slowly disappeared. "You're…you're just kidding right! This is a joke!" He laughed uneasily. "Stop it! This is just a joke! None of this is real! Right? Right nanny!"
"It's no joke honey. I just got a call from the hospital. They're gone." She whimpered.
Bradin couldn't believe what he heard. He crashed down to the ground and cried his eyeballs out, making Nikki and Derrick cry also.
The next day…
Bradin's grandparents came the next day to pick up their grandchildren. They had to decide who would take care of them, since they were aging unwillingly. They decided to switch them over to their daughter, Ava, currently living in California. It would've just broken their hearts to have their grandchildren living with complete strangers of foster parents.
"Grandpa?" Bradin looked up at his grandfather as he was driving the children to the airport. "Can we make one last stop? I want to say goodbye to someone."
His grandfather agreed. Soon they were right in front of the house that Bradin would never return to. Never again, would he come back to play hide and go seek, never would he come back to have sleepovers, and never again would he come back to see his best friend Kristen.
Tiny little Bradin jumped out from his grandfather's Volkswagen and walked up to the front door, planning on how he would break the upsetting news to his best friend.
He rung the doorbell and soon, little seven-year-old Kristen appeared at the doorway.
"Hi Bradin!" She said in her usual perky way. "Want to come in and play?"
"I can't...I'm sorry but I'm m-m-moving." He said glumly. "For a very very very long time."
"What! No! You can't move! I'll miss you too much!" She said shockingly. "I won't have anyone to play tag or hide-and-seek with!"
"My parents died yesterday, in a flood." He said, tears started forming at the memory of it. "And my grandparents said I have to move in with my aunt. All I know is that she lives very far away, in this place called California."
Kristen's eyes went watery. "I'm really sorry about your parents." She said in her squeaky, but sympathetic voice. "You promise you'll come back?" She asked.
"When I grow up I'll promise to come back!" He said, a small smile forming.
"You have to pinky promise!" She said, holding out her pinky.
Bradin linked his to hers gratefully. "Promise!" He said.
The kids waved bye to eachother for the last time; ina long time.
A/N: How is it so far? Pleaser review! The next chapter is gonna take place ten years later when both Bradin and Kristen are 17. Again, review!
