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Jimmy who had just turned eleven, was sitting at his desk trying to get some homework done, when he heard a light rapping on his window. At first he chose to ignore it thinking it was a tree branch getting knocked around because of the storm raging outside, but when the tapping became more insistent, he sighed and closed his math book before looking up and spotting his best friend Violet crouched on the windowsill, soaking from the rain, and making a motion for him to hurry up and let her in, which he did almost immediately.

"Violet," Opening the window he pulled her inside before ripping his quilt from his bed and wrapping it around her shiver form. "I know your main purpose in life is drive me towards the brink of a nervous breakdown, but one of these days you are going to end up killing yourself. You could end up catching pneumonia pulling a stunt like that. If you wanted to come over then all you had to do was knock on the front door or use this little invention called the telephone."

Violet looked down as she shrugged. "My parents were fighting again and I didn't want to take the risk of going downstairs and them finding me before I could sneak out the front door and they would know if I tried using the phone since that too happens to be downstairs. You know I would have asked first if I'd had any other choice-'"

Jimmy pulled her in to a tight hug and shook his head cutting of anything else she may have been planning to say. "It's ok Vi, I get why you didn't call ahead. I just worry about you and if something happened to you I'm not sure I would be able to take it because you are my best friend, my only friend. Any time you need to escape you know you're welcome here; Ma adores you and if she had her way we would have been married the day we met. What were your parents fighting about this time?"

The younger girl moved to sit down on the edge of his bed. "Dad accused mom of taking money from his account without asking first when what really happened was his latest no so hidden fling stole his card. The last thing I heard was mom threatening to leave and dad calling her bluff saying she had nowhere to turn. I had no interest in sticking around to hear anymore. Do you think it would be alright if I stayed over tonight?"

He knew why she didn't want to go home; she was scared though she'd never admit to that being the reason. Violet feared ending up like her parents. Jimmy knew because he often had the same fear about ending up like his deadbeat father he had never met. He knew Violet understood in a way nobody else ever could because her dad was a dick as well, but at least Jimmy had his mother, Violets mom acted as if her daughter no longer existed; it had been that way ever since she had started school. The older Harmon female lost interest in her child the second Violet started to grow up. Vivian was all for the diapers and toddler years because it made her feel needed, but after that she simply stopped caring.

Moving to the bed, he positioned himself behind Violet so she could lean against his chest and cover her hands with his own, something he would never do with anyone else. Violet was the only girl he ever let see his hands let alone touch them without the lingering fear of rejection or disgust "You're always welcome to stay here Vi, you know that."

"Mom wants to have another baby." She stated after a few moments of silence had passed. Her fingers lightly stroking his palm tracing the vein. "Like she thinks a baby will fix everything wrong between she and dad. She blames me you know? She never outright said it, but the insinuation is always there lacing her words or in the looks she shoots my way. Sometimes I think about running away and never looking back, but then I think about you Jimmy. You are my only reason to stick around this place otherwise I'm not sure what I would do. Sometimes I'm afraid of the thoughts in my head because I know I shouldn't think some of the things I do. What if I'm going crazy?"

Shaking his head, the redheaded male held her even tighter against his chest. "If you ever left I would find you Violet, I would follow you if you asked me to and if you're crazy then I'm crazy as well, we could be crazy together. Whenever you feel like life is just to much all you have to do is tell me and I will make sure to bring you back to the land of the mostly sane. Just remember Vi, once we turn eighteen we are both out of here. We agreed to travel the world and see things most people only ever dreamed of."

Violet grinned at the reminder. "Yeah, I remember how originally we were going to join the circus, but you argued a freak show would be better. I am so glad we both agreed it would be better to just explore the world. I still have the list we made and I add all the places we want to go whenever one of us mentions a new place."

"That has to be a long list though I think we are going to have to remove the moon from the list." He teased with a smile. "Then again with the technology coming out lately it may actually be possible. Sometimes I think anything is possible as long as I'm with you."

The pair became silent after that because nothing more really needed to be said. It was just how the friends were. While most people needed conversation in order to feel comfortable, Violet and Jimmy could be content in complete and utter silence.

TBC...