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"Oh my god, what have I done?" Kenly stood up quickly and retracted her pole. Much to the confusion of both Aaron and Dr. Necros, who had re-entered moments ago, she rushed from the room, hiding her face.
"Kenly?" Aaron asked himself. Is it true, could it really be her? No, he thought. No, she was killed! She was in a car wreck, no survivors. It wasn't her. Perhaps another female Kenly that knew his true name, purely by his looks? Seemed unlikely.
(KENLY POV)
Why, why, why, why, why? No, it wasn't him. I tell myself that, but I know it was. How could he have possibly found me? Not that I didn't miss him, but still. Wait, maybe he didn't mean to find me? Maybe… maybe he was sent here. He looked surprised to discover I was a girl. If he knew, he would have known I was a girl. How could he miss it?
So I sit here, crying to myself. Why you ask? Maybe I don't feel like telling you. Then again, maybe, deep down, I do.
Charlie and I… well, we were in the fourth grade together. We were such close friends, we could tell each other anything. And one day, well, he told me something. I know it was wrong, but I-I couldn't help it! It was digging at me, I even told him I was going to explode. He just looked at me weird and said "I knew I shouldn't have told you."
I'm glad he told me. I'm glad he trusted me enough with this huge secret! And I shouldn't have told anyone. I really shouldn't have.
So I didn't.
And I say it was a bad omen.
I was with my mom, we were driving home on the highway from Take-Your-Kid-To-Work Day. Or as I call it, A-Lame-Excuse-For-Us-Kids-To-Skip-School Day. I wasn't complaining.
But the secret, it was eating at my insides! I was so close to telling her. I didn't. But it was close.
The reason I didn't tell her? I would like to say that it was because that would be letting Charlie down. But it wasn't.
Mom crashed.
There was a four car blockage that we didn't know about. Mom was in the far right lane, and didn't have time to stop.
Serves her right for going 20 over the speed limit.
What am I talking about? She was my mother! I miss her. I miss her laugh; the way she thought I was so pure and innocent. When in truth, I had been taking kung-fu lessons behind her back.
She died on contact.
I survived.
I checked her pulse, made sure she was breathing. She wasn't.
"Mom?" I asked, batting the air bags down. "Mom!?"
I sat there and cried. Then I heard an ambulance.
I crawled away from the wreckage, onto the grass beside the highway. No one saw me. No one knew she was my mother. The police investigated. They realized I was supposed to be in the car after calling Charlie's family. They were speed dial one on my mom's phone. Two was Pizza Hut.
They reported that I was missing.
As I was sitting there, crying my eyes out, a man showed up.
"Kenly?" He asked, so sure that he knew. That he knew what I was going through. "No need to worry."
I turned to him. I vaguely recognized him. Maybe I saw him at the grocery store, or… or at kung-fu practice.
Yeah. At kung-fu. That's how I knew him. He was always showing up at our practices and award ceremonies. Every time someone earned a black-belt, he was there. Watching.
I was the first to earn my black belt of all of the elementary school kids.
I buried my face in my knees. "What do you want?" I asked, my voice lost in my blue jeans.
"I want you to know that I care." For a bit, I thought he was going to attack me, but it was much worse.
"Why, you don't know me. You don't know what happened to me. You just… you just don't know!" I gulped at the air, for sobbing makes it hard to breathe.
"But I do. I know all about your life, your friends, your family. You see, I have been following you for three months now, and I would like to adopt you as my own."
"Why? My mom just died!"
"I know." And then it hit me. Harder than Charlie did when we were playing hand tennis the day before.
"You… you killed her! You planned it; you knew we would be driving home! You flawed her airbag, so it wouldn't go off! You probably killed my dad, too! He wasn't in a plane crash; you probably slipped him too many sleeping pills or something!" I had stood up, and I was marching over to him. But I stopped, two seconds away from hitting his face with my heel. "You… you killed her." I dropped to my knees and sobbed again.
"Yes, but now you have no choice. You must join me. I will destroy your family."
"What family?" I asked, looking up at him. "You've killed my dad, my mom. I'm an only child, so brothers or sisters."
"I think you know what I mean."
Oh no. No, no, no, no, no, no, no!
"I will kill the Landers. Charlie and Jason, their mother as well. You wouldn't want that, would you?"
I just sat there and sobbed. My tears made the cuts in my cheeks sting.
AN: Hoo-Boy! Anyways, Sorry it took me forever :P I hope all you people enjoy it! and also, more Aaron/Charlie POV comin' up in the next chapter! Love you all, I want some reviews before I post the next one. One would be nice, two even better. Three? Well let's just say I'm flyin' with angels. ;)
