Jaden held Izzy's hand as they walked down the church isle way to their seats, next to Zack's family. He watched as tears fell silently from her eyes, he knew something wasn't right. Every night since his moms had sat them down to say that Zack had been killed he had heard Izzy cry. No one knew that he could hear her but it was deafening to him. He would stay up till she stopped crying, worrying about his sister. So today when Izzy was crying and she had stood up to leave, Jaden had followed, he followed her right into the women's bathroom.
"Izzy…" He said feeling very small all the sudden.
"Jaden, what are you doing in here?" Izzy said wiping her tears away.
"Take my hand, let's go back out there together and prove to them that you are strong, that we will make it through this." He said and Izzy took his hand. "Anyway, Zack wouldn't want you to be sad. He loves you, and no one that loves you wants to make you cry." Izzy let out a short laugh and ruffled his hair, looking at him she rolled her eyes, her mothers had dressed him very prim and proper like. Untucking his shirt, taking off the belt and tie, she looked at his pants and tried to wrinkle them.
"Zack would want you to be happy too." She said kissing the top of Jaden's head. Jaden smiled up at her and pulled at the hair tie she had.
"He liked you with your hair down." He said as she pulled it out the rest of the way.
So there they walked right down the isle to the front of the church, when Izzy had to stand to give her speech Jaden stood with her, he walked perfectly in step with her till they were both standing looking out over the crowd.
"I'm supposed to say how amazing Zack was, and how much he'll be missed, and a bunch of stuff. Yet all I really want to say is he loved everyone no matter what, if you looked like a million bucks or like you haven't seen soap in years, if you were gay or straight, if you were young or old, if you were all dressed to the nines or looked like you just came in from playing. So from this moment forward, I feel we shouldn't morn his death but celebrate his life." She said and Jaden squeezed her hand. "That he's looking down on us all right now and asking why are we not saying things like… my favorite memory of him, when we barely knew one another and he took my hand and Jaden's and dragged us out into the middle of main street in Magic Kingdom and started dancing along to the music right there, in front of all those people, and he got me to do it. He was always so carefree and amazing. I will never forget him." Izzy said and walked with Jaden back to her seat. Emily smiled and pulled her into a hug when she got close, everyone else applauded.
