"They say when you love someone your heart knows when you have truly lost them."
"I promise I will never let go." Rose whispered to Jack.
Something about those words sent a cold chill through Kensi's entire body. She had never been one much for romantic movies. In all truth she preferred horror movies just like her father. Something about this movie just seemed to have her full attention. Kensi didn't know what it was, she couldn't pin point the commonality between it and her life, but something was there, something she wasn't seeing, but she was definitely feeling it.
Through out the last hour of the movie an uneasy feeling began to form in the pit of her stomach. Her mind began to drift away from the movie into an unknown place. She wasn't really thinking about anything, but at the same time she was thinking about everything. Watching the end of the movie, the pictures displayed from different points in time really got to her. That was her breaking point. Kensi didn't want to cry at no movie, she damn sure didn't want to cry in front of her friends, but her emotions took over. Lucky, for her the other girls were all a blubbering mess of tears too. Unlike the others girls Kensi didn't not cry for the movie, she cried for something else, something that was living deep inside of her and was eating her up. Something she didn't understand.
When the movie had ended the girls made their way out of the theater and onto the darkened streets of their small town.
"So where to now?" Claire asked the group.
"I have to get Kensi home before her dad, and mine notice we are missing, and she kills me." Kate explained to Claire.
"Yeah, she totally might like stab you or something." Claire said.
Kensi glared at the two girls, this is exactly why she hated going out with them, or anyone for that matter. Deciding to play along with their stupidity Kensi smirked, "I would never stab Kate. I would just shot her. Its less messy." Kensi said with a smile as she walked away from the girls.
Kate and Claire stood their side by side as they watched Kensi cross the street.
"I uh better go take her home." Kate said to Claire.
"Good luck with that. Call me tomorrow if you're still alive tomorrow." Claire joked.
Kate ran over to the other side of the street trying to catch up with Kensi. Kate was the complete opposite of Kensi. Kate was a petite, blue eyed, blonde, who was Miss. Popularity at the school. Kensi only recently started talking to Kate because of Claire. Claire was also new to town like Kensi. Claire's family had just moved in less then two months ago from Australia.
"Hey, wait for me. These shoes are killing me." Kate said, as she ran to try to catch up with Kensi's quick pace.
"I imagine so."
"I cant help it you don't understand." Kate said.
"I cant help it you cant walk in the shoes you pick out. If you're going to wear them at least be able to walk in the damn things." Kensi replied looking down to the heals Kate had chosen to wear.
"They are not made for walking. Hello, they are made for pretty." Kate said with an attitude.
"I am sure you're going to be really pretty when you trip and fall and bust your face open. Glamorous!" Kensi retorted.
Kate stopped right before she unlocked the door to her car, "Sometimes I forget you were raised by your dad." Kate replied.
"Sometimes I forget I am surrounded by idiots." Kensi mumbled under her breath as she climbed into the passenger seat of Kate's car.
Kensi sat nervously in the front seat of Kate's car. Kate had been blabbering non stop about the movie, and truthfully Kensi had stopped listening to her about ten oh my gods ago. The rain outside was starting to fall, the wind was howling out of control, a storm was on the horizon. Darkness was moving in.
"Just let me out at the end of the driveway incase my dad is home already." Kensi explained to Kate when they had pulled onto the dirt drive.
"Are you sure, its raining."
"I'm sure. It's just water. It's not like I am going to drown or anything."
"Ok then. Good night."
"Good night." Kensi said as she opened the door.
"Kensi." Kate called to her right before she shut the door.
"Yeah?" Kensi asked leaning her head back into the car to shield herself from assault of the falling rain.
"Thanks for going. You're not all that bad for a marine brat." Kate replied.
Kensi laughed, "And you're not at all that bad for a snob." Kensi said.
"Thanks. See you around." Kate said.
"Maybe." Kensi replied. Kensi shut the door to Kate's car, and took of towards her house.
Once she reached her yard, she half expected to see her dad's car. It was a little after midnight, and he usually didn't stay out that late. He always made such a big deal about leaving her at home all night by herself. Seeing how her house was still vacant, she opted to use her front door, instead of the window she left unlocked in her room.
Kensi used her key and made her way into the house. As soon as her feet crossed the threshold she was hell bound on getting to her room, and changing before her father caught her. She took the stairs two at a time on the way to her room. She stripped her clothes off, and shoved them underneath her bed so her father would not notice them. Note to self, wash them tomorrow when dad is at work, Kensi thought to herself. She redressed in her night clothes, and slipped under the covers of her bed. She exhaled, she was so glad she had made it back home and into bed before her dad had noticed her missing. Closing her eyes, she let sleep overtake her.
Kensi opened her eyes to the bright sun assaulting her vision first thing on this particular morning. She rolled over to look at her clock on the bed side table. 9:17, strange she thought to herself, her dad never let her sleep in past eight. Kensi yawned, then pulled herself out of bed.
"Hey dad. You awake?" Kensi asked knocking on her dad's door. No reply, Kensi opened the door. His bed was still made, not slept in from what Kensi could tell. Kensi crinkled her nose in confusion, he has never not come home she thought to herself. Deciding he would be home any minuet now, Kensi made her way downstairs to start her morning routine.
Kensi opened the cabinets above the stove, to grab one large mixing bowl, and the pancake mix. Before she even started on this adventure the door bell rung.
"Did you forget your key dad?" Kensi asked as she flung open the front door. Standing there in the door way was Jake, her father's best friend.
"Hey Jake!" Kensi said cheerfully, she left the door wide open for him to enter her house and she returned to her task of attempting to make pancakes.
"I'm making pancakes for breakfast want some?" Kensi asked dumping the batter into the bowl. Jake said nothing, he just continued to stare at Kensi.
"What? I promise I wont catch anything on fire this time. Last time it really was an accident, I didn't mean to lay the dish rag down so close to the burner. Besides I am sure dad will be hungry when he gets here. By the way, where is he? I thought he was with you last night?" Kensi said.
"Take a walk with me Kensi." Jake said.
"Jake, I'm making breakfast for dad." Kensi said.
"Trust me Kensi, it don't matter."
"Jake, you're really creeping me out." Kensi said stepping back way from the counter.
"Come with me Kensi, please. We have to talk. It's about your dad." Jake explained.
"What about him? Where is he?"
"Kens."
"I am not going anywhere with you till you tell me where the hell he is at." Kensi demanded.
Jake exhaled, he hated to be the one to do this. He hated being the one to have to tell this little girl he watched grow up that the thing she loved most in the world was gone. He wanted to do it, sure he was a MP, but he was more then that, he was Donald Blye's best friend, and he owed him that.
"He is gone Kensi." Jake whispered.
Kensi walked up to Jake so they were now standing face to face. "Gone? Gone where? He wouldn't go anywhere with out me." Kensi shouted at him.
"Kensi. Baby, last night after he left from having drinks with us, he was in an accident. They found his car this morning in the ditch. He didn't make sweetheart."
"No! No! You're lying." Kensi shouted to him.
"I wish to God I was." Jake said trying to fight back his own tears.
"No…no." Kensi cried as she fell to her knees on the kitchen floor. Jake rushed to her side, he wrapped his arms around the hysterical girl, and held her while she cried.
"I'm so sorry. I'm sorry Kensi." Jake repeated over and over again as he rocked her in his arms.
"Why did this happen? Why? Is this my punishment?" Kensi cried.
"Dear God, no child." Jake pulled back so he could look Kensi in the eyes. "Look at me, this is not your fault."
"You don't know that. You don't know me. You know nothing. Get off me." Kensi said as she shoved Jake on his butt, and took off out the front door.
She didn't know where she was going, she didn't know what she had planned to do. She just knew she needed out of there, she needed to be alone. She didn't want to believe it, there was no way her father could be gone. Not now, not like this. What would she do without him? Who would she become? That uneasy feeling that had been eating at Kensi since last night had just devoured her completely. Her world, her everything, it was gone, there was nothing left, no one left, she was completely and utterly alone in this world.
A/N: Hope you all like enjoyed it thanks for reading.
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