Lost Locket

"No, give it to me!" She laughed jumping in the air for her cell phone which her older brother, Hayden had. When she finally had caught on to his arm, she dangled like she was on a cliff. Hayden was much taller than her, making this very hard to get the courage to jump to the ground.
"Jack? Help me?" Kim pleaded with a puppy dog face.
"Sorry, not gonna get in between some family feud." He glumly smiled and continued to punch a dummy. But she could tell that he was watching them from the corner of his eyes. As she dangled from Hayden's arm and he stood there laughing, moving his arm drastically up and down, making Kim's stomach turn in circles.
"Hayden, Seriously! Stop. You know I hate heights. Just put me down and give me my phone." She begged. As he laughed to himself one last time he set her down and passed her the phone.
"Kim-1 Hayden... oh wait.. nothing!" She gloated and smiled big. Kim showed him her phone and skipped off to the changeroom. As Kim left the room Jack smiled at Hayden and kept quiet.
"So, Jack. You and my sister-" Jack cut him off to set everything straight.
"Are just friends. Don't worry, no need to give me the 'hurt her and I'll hurt you' speech" Jack assured him. He glumly smiled to him and continued doing what he was doing.
"Good. Because she really likes you Jack, and she needs someone like you in her life. She might not have told you about her past. So I'll keep it simple. She can trust you. Keep it that way." He finished saying and headed off to his hockey practice. Before he left he stopped and yelled to Kim telling her he was leaving. She opened the door, just peeping her head out, hiding her body behind the brick wall.
"See ya." She smiled big, showing her teeth. Her tone in her voice said she didn't care but she still liked that she had been told. She closed the door, and Hayden spun his keys on his middle finger. He whistled as he left. When he left Jack smirked to himself and went back to punching the dummy. As Kim skipped back out in her pink tank top and blue training shorts, along with her cute pig tails that were firmly tied at the back of her head with 2 neon pink elastic's. As she acted like the total girly girl who was deep down in heart, Jack admired her, the way she wasn't afraid to be herself and that no matter how old she was she could really rock pig tails.
"So Kim, you and your brother are really close?" Jack said, trying to make small talk with her.
"Yeah, but you knew that." She smiled, and gave out a slight laugh while opening her locker. In it hung a picture of Kim and Hayden. Along with a news strip of when her dad came back from the war, he died 3 years later. She was 5 and her and her father were hugging, clinging to each other like they were never going to see each other again. Hayden was hugging his father, along with a bit of Kim's legs. She dug into the depths of her locker searching for something.
"Jack? Have you seen my locket. I can't find it anywhere."
"No, Sorry. Haven't seen it." Jack shook his head, Kim groaned to herself. She searched and searched everywhere for a simple locket, Jack thought abouslutley nothing of. But to Kim, it meant everything to her, nobody but her brother really understood why she was always wearing it and never took it off. As Kim searched for the locket nobody knew anything about, she was getting more and more frustrated. It then got to the point where she was throwing things out of her locker. When she threw her water bottle out of her locker, Jerry and Eddie walked in, hitting Jerry in the head with the bottle.
"OMG! I'm so sorry Jerry! I-It's just I have no fricking clue where my locket is and... I'm sorry." She sighed.
"Don't worry Kim. He has no brain cells to lose anyway." Jack joked. Kim slightly laughed.
"Yeah, Kay. So who wants to help me find it?" Kim begged.
"Where do you think it is?" Jerry asked.
"I don't know, I took it off when I took a shower here, yesterday, and now I don't know where it could be." Kim explained. Jerry started looking lost. "Jerry? Jerry?JERRY!"
"Sorry, you said you got in the shower, so I was thinking of you in the shower." Jerry bluntly explained.
"Gross, gross." Kim said whispering to herself, walking away, with her hand facing Jerry. When she left all the guys faced Jerry. With the 'Really Jerry' look.
"What!? You can't say that you weren't thinking about it too!" He looked at Jack. He shrugged as Kim walked back out of the bathroom. She had a worried face on. She sighed and started to show that she was probably going to cry.
"I can't believe that I can't find it."
"Why is it so important?" Jerry asked her.
"It doesn't matter.. All that matters is that it's missing." She didn't want to tell them why it made her feel safe and why she always had to have it on, or even why she was so upset about its missing presence. All they needed to know is that it was important to her and that she needed it. Kim went searching in her locker again. She was digging into the corners and even through her bag all over again. When she couldn't find it she looked in to the mirror that stuck to the door of her locker by a magnet. She blinked and let a tear fall, she quickly wiped it away and faced the boys again, closing the locker.
"I think that I'm gonna go home and check there. See ya later." She was about to leave the dojo as one Jack Brewer stopped her and sat her down on the bench.
"Kim.. Tell us why this necklace is so important to you." He looked around the room for agreement from the other boys. They all shook their heads and smiled to her.
"No. It's too personal and upsetting to me." She explained avoiding contact with any of them. Jack walked up to her slowly and placed a hand on her arm, lighting leading her to the bench.
"Kim.. you can tell us. We're your friends." Jack gave a slight reassuring smile. She sighed as she gave in to his smile that she loved so much.
"Fine. I'll tell you, but if I do you have to promise that you won't tell anybody!" She demanded. They all shook their heads in agreement and sat by Kim's feet, like little kids during story time, Except Jack. He happily placed himself by Kim. Almost close enough that if he moved the slightest bit he would brush along her arm.

"OK. So it all started when my dad was on a mission and he found out that my mom was pregnant. With me. She told him over video chat and he was so happy. He had only been gone for a few weeks and before he left they decided to try one more time, before he got dispatched home. Anyway. Months went by and my mom found out I was going to be a girl.. And again my dad was so excited. Sure he liked having a son, but he wanted a little girl to put in ballet and shit like that. So when I was born my dad was home, but 2 weeks later he found out he would be dispatched in another month. When he was I wasn't more than a month and a half, and again he came home. I was 6 when he left again. But when he came home he had a locket. For me. I wore it everyday. Even sometimes to bed, even though my mom told me not too, I would forget. Anyway. So when I was 12 my dad left again.. but this time.." She stopped herself, due to the fact that she was tearing up. "He didn't come home, and after his funeral we found out my mom had cheated on him. A year later she got married to the guy she cheated with and had Molly. But the reason why its so important to me is because before my dad left on that mission he told me to never give up on my dreams and that no matter what happens to him, he'll always be with me as long as I have that locket." She let a tear slip down her face. Jack noticed and asked the guys to give him a second. They left the dojo and Jack got closer to her. He wrapped his arm around her and she turned into the hug he was offering. She cried into his shirt and he just stayed there. Jack then lifted uo her head, wiping away her tears and looked deeply into her eyes.
"Kim, I know it's not the best time to do this, but, I love you." She sniffed and looked into his brown eyes just like he did to hers.
"I love you too." She kissed him. When they pulled away she smiled and bit her lip as Jack smirked.
"Now lets go get that locket." He said getting up and offering her his hand.