/Also short, but when you combine it with chapter 9 it is long. :O...I'm working. . Reviews would be greatly appreciated. What do you guys think?/
"Hi.", was all Ava could manage to get out. Why was Violet inside Tate's old room? They stared at each other in a awkward silence.
"Ava, right?", Violet asked as she stared at the short girl. Ava felt somewhat uneasy at the way Violet studied her. It felt like she was mentally pointing out each and every one of her flaws.
"Yea, Veronica right?" Ava said with a fake sweet smile. She should have stayed with Tate on the roof. Violet looked at her with a smirk. She made Ava uncomfortable, and liked it.
"Violet actually. So..what are you doing wandering around the house so early?, Violet asked as she crossed her arms.
"Just looking around. It's been a while since I have been here, and I wanted to see what has changed. I thought I would start with the room I spent most of my time in.", Ava said with a shrug. Violet narrowed her eyes at Ava.
"Well there isn't much in this room. Just some boxes left by the last family that lived here and a chalkboard with chalk that was here from before I moved in.", Violet said. A smile spread on Ava's face.
"Chalkboard? Is it about this big, and this wide?", Ava asked as she held out her arms. Violet looked at her slightly shocked. How did she know about the chalkboard.
"Yea, how did you know?", Violet asked. Ava's eyes lit up and she rushed past Violet and straight to the chalkboard.
"Shit, I didn't expect this to still be here.", Ava said with a happy smile as she lightly touched the plain black surface. "I gave this to Tate when he lost his voice after that Nirvana concert so we could still talk to each other without wasting paper." Ava said with a small smile as she thought back to all the conversations they shared on that chalkboard. "I stole it from the school."
Violet looked at Ava unable to think of what to say. So the chalkboard she had in her room was a gift from Ava to Tate. The chalkboard that he used to tell her that he loved her for the first time. Violet wondered if he did the same with Ava. She looked back at Ava who took a piece of chalk and wrote one word on the board, TAINT. The exact same word Tate chose to write the day they met.
"Taint, why the word taint?", Violet asked Ava. She couldn't help but ask. She wondered the same thing when he wrote it.
"I don't know, seemed like the right thing to write.", Ava said with a shrug. She began to draw on the board. Violet sat down a few feet away from Ava watching as the image took shape. Before Violet could stop herself she let out a humorless laugh, of course Ava would draw a bird.