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Ch. 2 Plastered Smile

POV: Kuki

Noon, later that day-

"Kuki? What are you doing in here? I thought you were still talking with Wally", Abby asked me. I looked up to see her leaning against my door way. I smiled up at her.

"I was but he wanted to be alone." She sat down beside me and looked at the box I was going through. She picked up a picture frame and smiled.

"Abby remembers this. This was when we all went to the park and had that picnic." I reached for the picture and looked at it. Yep. It was all of us, at the park, smiling at the camera.

"That was a great day," I smiled. Abby put that picture on the ground and grabbed another frame. She didn't look at it for 10 seconds when she broke out laughing. She handed me the picture and kept laughing.

I looked at her confused, until I saw the picture. It was the picture of Nigel's butt. I couldn't hold back a laugh. So for about 5 minutes Abby and I sat there on my floor laughing our hearts out. This was exactly what I needed after crying for so long.

I grabbed another picture this one was of Wally and his family and I gave it to her.

"Why do you have this picture?" Abby asked me, she gave me a confused look. I looked down shyly and turned the box to show her what it said on the side.

'Wally's kep safe box' it was written with his hand. Even the word keep was spelled wrong.

"I took it from his room when Nigal and Hoagie was putting him to bed," I laughed nervously. Abby gave me a look that told me she wanted to know why I took it.

"Abby! You know Wally. He would probably throw away all the pictures of his family. Abby, you know as well as I do, when something bad happens to him he likes to get rid of everything s that reminds him of the pain. So that he can forget about it," I started to cry again. I could almost feel the pain Wally was going through. Abby moved over and gave me a hug.

"Shhh, Kuki. It'll be ok," she let go of me and patted my back. I smiled at her and wiped my tears away.

"I'm sorry Abby. I just don't know how to help Wally. And I want to so bad! He forgot how to smile and I don't know how to teach him again," I sobbed. Abby got a real serious look on her face. She stood up, with the picture of Wally's family in hand.

"Abby?" I asked nervously. She looked dawn at me. She sighed and kneeled down on one knee. She looked me in the eyes. The moment I saw her eyes, I saw that she was just as worry as I was. She smiled at me gently and put a hand on my shoulder.

"Kuki, you said it yourself, Wally likes to run away from his fear and his pain. He…he needs to face what happened before he can move on with his life," she told me with both compassion and sadness in her voice. I looked at her with a confused look.

"What are you talking about Abby?," I asked. I tried to sound confused but, I could hear the sadness in my voice. Abby sighed again and looked at the floor.

"Kuki, you did let him cry. And only you could do that, with your gentle spirit and giving heart. But now it's my turn to help him. I'm the only one strong enough to help him face his pain. Kuki for the time being, you can't do anything else to help him." I could feel more tears coming on but I held them back. I could tell this was just as hard for her to say, as it was for me to hear. So I took her red hat and playfully hit her with it, like she does with Hoagie.

She looked up at me confused. I smiled at her and put her hat back on her head.

"Go help Wally. Your right, you're the only who can help him right now," I told her. She grabbed me in a hug. Without a word she stood up and left with the picture that would either completely destroy Wally or help him.


POV: Abby

Abby looked at the picture in her hands. Wally was ten and holding his baby brother with a scowl on his face. His mom and dad both stood behind them, holding each other. Abby went to her room, grabbed a bag and gently place the picture in it. Abby grabbed her license and keys from the desk beside her bed and went to wally's room.

As Abby walked by the windows leading to Wally's room, she noticed storm clouds rolling in.

"Abby hopes the storm holds for a while," Abby mumbled to herself. Finally Abby made it to Wally's room. She found him, sitting on his bed, staring into space. Abby could see by his eyes that he had been crying. Abby went over and grabbed Wally by his arm and pulled him off his bed and out his room.

Wally didn't put up a fight at all, he just kept quiet and let Abby lead him to her car. Abby sat him down in her car gently and looked at him. His eyes were glazed over, like he couldn't register what was going on around him.

As Abby was driving, a few rain drops landed on her windshield. It stopped a second later, but the minacing gray clouds didn't get any brighter. Abby looked over to look at how Wally was doing.

He had his head pressed against the window. He was looking out the window but it was like he wasn't looking at anything. Abby made a turn, at that moment Wally's eyes lit up alittle bit.

"Abby. Where are you taking me," he whispered. Abby could hear how terrified he was, she sighed and answered in the only way she knew how.

"I'm sorry Wally." Wally gave Abby a look of sheer terror, his eyes went big and his whole face went deathly white. At that moment Abby stopped the car and opened her door. Wally sat every still, as if trying to look like he wasn't there. Abby opened his car door and gently grabbed his arm. He swapped it away, and hugged himself.

"Numbuh five....I-I can't do this...please don't make me," he said. Abby could hear the tears in his voice. Again Abby grabbed his arm, and roughly pulled him out of the car.

"Wally. You need to face what happened. You can't run away from this," Abby told him sternly. Wally tensed up and looked down at the ground. He shot Abby a glare and faced her with anger.

"I don't run away from anything," he told Abby coldly. Without a word Abby let go of his arm, opened her bag and brought out Wally's family picture. Abby held it out to him. He had a look of anger and determination.

"Then prove it." Wally looked at Abby, then at the picture. He was hesitant but he grasped the picture in both hands. He looked down at the picture, he just looked at it. His face was blank, like he couldn't think of what to do.

We both stood still, not knowing if the other person was going to move first. Light rain started coming down. Wally raised his sights to the sky, as if looking for a sign only he could see, and then back to the picture in his hands.

Finally he started walking towards the two crosses, set up at on a country road under an old tree, where the accident was. Abby walked behind him to make sure he was ok. As Abby got closer she saw a lot of people have visited the crosses. Wally knelt down in front of the crosses, he sat there in silence.

Abby noticed something was off, that something had been added. That's when Abby noticed a new sign has been put up. Abby walked over to the other sign to take a look. It was a simple sign but it had a lot more meaning then it let on.

"Please slow down. Sharp turn ahead," Abby read out loud. Abby walked back over to Wally. He had put his family picture with the flowers and other things, other people had put there. There was flowers on his mother's cross and a baby blue stuffed rabbit on his little brother's.

Wally's body started shaking but it wasn't because of the rain. Abby went over and stood closer to him. His shaking didn't let up it just got more noticeble.

"Wally are you ok?" Not a second later he punched the ground. Dirt and mud smeared on Abby's and Wally's clothes.

"No! I'm not," he yelled with anger. Abby took a step back and waited for him to get the anger out of his system.

"Why in the hell do people ask someone if their ok! When they know that person is falling apart! Why?!," he screamed. He pounded the ground with both hands. He stopped punching the ground and stood. He stood in front of the tree that Wally crashed that night of the accident. He stood there breathing heavy. When he took a deep breathe and let out a loud, painful scream. He started punching the tree.

"Why didn't I slow down?! Why couldn't I protect you two?! WHY?!," he screamed. He took one final punch at the tree and crashed to his knees holding his hands against his chest. Abby walked over to him and noticed the tree lost some bark and there was blood.

Wally wasn't crying loudly anymore, he was letting silent tears run down his face. It wasn't for his hands, it was more for the regret he felt, at least thats what Abby thought. Abby bent down and gently layed her hands on his shoulders. Wally looked up at Abby.

"Come on. I want to show you somthing," Abby told him softly. Wally stood up, he stumbled a bit but Abby gently put one of his arms over her shoulders. Every slowly we made it to the sign I wanted to show him. Finally we stood in front of it. Wally raised his gaze and saw it. He lifted his arm off Abby's shoulders and walked a little closer. He looked at it and back at Abby.

Abby smiled and stood beside him.

"This sign was put up so no one else will ever get hurt on this road," Abby told him calmly. Wally looked away from me and touched the sign. His anger seemed to melt away. It turned into somting calmer, it was like he was thankful.

Wally tried to walk to the car but he stumbled again. Abby put his arm over Abby's shoulders again and helped him to the car.

On the ride home, neither of us talked. Wally popped in one of Abby's favorite bands, Death Cab for Cutie. Neither of listened to the music.

We finally reached the tree house. Abby turned off the car and so did the music. The rain had stopped five mintunes ago so we didn;t have to worry about getting wet. Abby unfastened her seat belt and was about to open her door when Wally spoke for the first time since we left the crosses.

"Thank you, Abby," he told me. He left the car without another word and walked inside. Abby found herself smiling.

"Your welcome, Wally."


What did you think of this chapter?

This was probably the hardest chapter I have ever written, thanks to Abby always talking in third person. lol.

But seroiusly I had to think of how this chapter was going to go. I hoped you like.

I'll try to update soon.