Part 14
"Bray, what are you doing out here?" Amber asked as she opened the door to the roof.
"I was just thinking." Bray said turning to Amber.
"About Danni?" Amber asked.
"Yeah and about you and Martin and Ryan and Salene, and all the mallrats." Bray said smiling at her.
"Oh." Amber said putting her head on his chest.
"I miss him, a lot. It had been almost four years Amber." Bray said.
"Yeah but remember he died trying to help you." Amber said.
"I guess, but then Danni and Johnny. I still can't get over the fact that I had a son and didn't even know it until a few days ago." Bray said putting his arms around her.
"Okay well then why were you thinking about Ryan and Salene?" Amber asked.
"It's just been so long since I have seen Salene happy and it's good to see her smile again." Bray said.
"Yeah." Amber sighed.
"Don't you want to know why I was thinking about you?" Bray asked.
"No because you should be thinking about me." Amber said with a smile.
"Well I was thinking about how you want the baby raised with the Eco-Tribe." Bray said.
"Really?" Amber asked surprised that he even remembered that.
"Yeah." Bray said smiling at her.
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Cloe was sitting on the bed when Jack came into her room. She had finally convinced Ved that she wasn't going to fall asleep, but that she just wanted to sometime alone.
"Cloe what's going on?" Jack asked as he held her body tight.
"Ellie paid me another little visit today." Cloe said not letting go of him.
"Cloe, did she hurt you?" Jack asked pulling away so he could see her face.
"Kind of." Cloe said pulling back, she moved her hair to show him.
"Cloe what happened?" Jack asked looking at her head.
"She pushed me and I fell. I hit my head pretty hard. Ved is worried I could have a concussion. That's why I was with him at lunch, he doesn't want me falling asleep." Cloe said.
"Cloe I'm so sorry. I should have been there." Jack said sitting down by her. "Amber and Bray had to talk to me."
"Talk to you about what?" Cloe asked knowing it wasn't good.
"About us." Jack said.
"I knew I shouldn't have talked to her." Cloe said looking down at her feet.
"Did she talk to you to?" Jack asked.
"She came by and saw the blood. I asked her if she needed a dictionary to look up the word friend." Cloe said.
"She told me that I should stay away from you that you're still a child." Jack said taking her hand. "I had a few choice words for her."
"It's like no one wants us to be happy." Cloe said putting her head on Jack's shoulder.
"I only care about what going to make us happy." Jack said.
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Ved was going to check on Cloe, but stopped when he heard voices coming from her room.
"Jack, will you just hold me?"
"Of, course."
He smiled to himself. It was glad there was competition, it made everything so much more interesting.
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"I wish we could just stay like this forever." Cloe said as she laid down with Jack's arms around her.
"We will think of something Cloe." Jack said looking her. She looked so beautiful with her eyes closed. "You gotta keep those eyes open though."
"I know, I'm not tried, just trying to remember this." Cloe said.
"Maybe you should try living in the moment." Jack offered.
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"You know it's not healthy to think about me all the time." Jay said as he walked into Ebony's room.
"What do you want?" Ebony asked, shoving papers back into the bag on her bed.
"Nothing." Jay said smiling at her. "I just thought I would see what you are doing."
"Nothing that concerns you, so you can go." Ebony said turning back around. She wasn't used to people not following her orders, she wasn't used to people seeking her out. The mallrats only put up with her, because there always had to be a villain in the story.
"Why do you go between here and the hotel?" Jay asked.
Ebony turned back and looked at him, annoyed he hadn't left. "What does it matter to you?"
"I was just wondering." Jay replied.
"Don't wonder about me, it's not flattering on you." Ebony rolled her eyes.
"Why stay in the mall, if you're not a mallrat?" He asked.
"Maybe you should ask yourself that." Ebony shot back at him.
"Do you ever answer questions?"
"Do you ever stop asking them?" Ebony asked.
"Why don't you like me?" Jay asked. "Do I annoy you that much?"
"Everything about you annoys me. From all the questions, to you simply standing there." She waved her hand at him. "Mind leaving now, I'm busy."
"Haven't gotten what I want yet." Jay said shaking his head no.
"What do you want?" Ebony was becoming more and more annoyed by the moment.
"Are you stupid, or do you not listen?" Jay asked.
"Did you just call-" Ebony said but was cut off by Jay kissing her.
Ebony pulled away and looked up at him. Then she kissed him again.
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Rain started to pour down before Bray could tell Amber what he had thought of.
"Let's go inside." Amber said pulling him into the building.
"Yeah. I think I'm going to go change." Bray said when they got inside.
"Yeah I should get my things out of the shoe store." Amber said smiling.
"So you're going to move back in?" Bray asked.
"Yeah. I'll see you in a minute." Amber said as she started to walk toward the shoe store.
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"What do you miss most?" Cloe asked Jack.
"What do you mean?" Jack asked opening his eyes to look at her.
"What do you miss from before the virus?" Cloe asked opening her eyes.
"Well I don't know I guess I don't think about that very much. What do you miss?" Jack said.
"My friends, TV, the internet and my mom." Cloe said with tears in her eye.
"Cloe don't be sad. There is no reason to be sad." Jack said pulling her body closer to his.
"Jack I miss the butterflies and the real flowers" Cloe said.
"Oh Clo, some day we will have it all back." Jack said.
"No we won't Jack. I bet you anything I will die in this mall." Cloe said looking at him.
At the moment Amber walked by and stopped dead in her tracks.
"What is going on here?" Amber asked with huge eyes.
Cloe pulled away from Jack and sat up in the bed.
"Nothing." Jack and Cloe said.
"Yeah laying in bed together isn't nothing, and it certainly isn't what friends do." Amber said.
"We are talking if you must know." Cloe said getting mad.
"Oh about what?" Amber asked.
"About how much at hate this place because of you." Cloe said getting up and leaving the room.
"Jack, I thought we already talked about this?" Amber said after Cloe left.
"No you talked about it Amber. And we were only talking. You won't open your eyes and see what is really going on around you. Amber you have been living in your dream world ever since Dal died." Jack said getting up.
"Jack she-" Amber stared when she was interrupted put a noise coming form the entrance.
Both her and Jack left the room to see Pride, Lex, and a very familiar face to Amber.
"Oh my god!" Amber whispered when she saw Sasha.
"Lex!" Tai-san said as she ran down the stars and into Lex's arms. "Where have you been? Don't ever do that to me again."
"I found him walking around." Pride said. "I also found this guy wondering around and I didn't want him to say out in this storm." Pride said pointing to Sasha.
Amber slowly backed up before anyone saw her. She was in the hallway watching from where no one could see her.
"Oh good, Pride you're-" Bray said but stopped when he saw Sasha.
"You know I think today is going to be a very good day." Lex said with a laugh.
"Lex!" Tai-san said stomping on his foot.
Everyone just stood still not knowing what to say until Salene walked in.
"Where's Amber? I wanted to go over wedding plans with-" Salene said but stopped when she saw everyone standing still. "Did I miss something?"
"Yeah Pride found Sasha." Lex said with a smile but then Tai-san stomped on his foot again. "Are you trying to break it?"
"Do all of you know Sasha?" Pride asked. He could tell that no one knew what to do.
"Yeah." Amber whispered as she walked into the room.
Everyone looked over at her.
Sasha's face light up when he saw her put then died down when he saw that she was pregnant.
"Lex I think we should go." Tai-san said puling him up the stairs.
"Yeah Pride can you umm…help me with something?" Salene asked.
"I'm going to go find Cloe." Jack said.
"Jack go to your room we aren't done talking about this." Amber said looking over at him.
"Yeah we are, you're not my mom Amber, you can't ground me." Jack said before leaving.
Sasha waited for Bray to leave as well but he didn't.
Bray stood here, unsure of what to do. Sasha had looked at him four times waiting for him to leave and Amber was still looking at Sasha. Bray knew he had to do something.
"Umm…I should go." Bray said hoping Amber would say something.
Amber didn't even hear Bray speak. She couldn't get over the fact that Sasha was back and right in front of her.
"Yeah I'll just go." Bray said before he turned and stomped off.
That time Amber heard him speak but was too late to tell him to stay.
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Bray walked into the café only to see everyone sitting quite and waiting to see what happened.
"Well?" Salene asked.
"Well nothing. They are still standing in the same spots they were when you saw them before." Bray said shaking his head.
"Is there anything we can do Bray?" Tai-san asked.
"Ask them, not me." Bray said.
"Bray, are you okay?" Trudy asked.
"What do you want me to do? I'm taking this just like she took Danni coming back." Bray said sitting down.
"Well Amber left and you don't have that option." Lex said.
"I need to go." Bray said getting back up and leaving.
"You know I don't see why this is any different than when Danni came back." Patsy said.
Everyone looked at her.
"Patsy, he was her first love. Danni wasn't Bray's first love Amber was." Salene said.
"But still they're going to have a baby and get married so why should it matter that Sasha is back?" Patsy asked. "Plus, her first love? Really? He wasn't around that long."
"You're right Patsy." Tai-san said. "It shouldn't matter. Bray and Amber are in love now, that's what counts."
"Tai-san you have to be joking. I mean if my first love came back then I would want him more than anything in the world. You never get over your first love." May said not realizing that Pride was in the café.
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Bray walked into Jack's room and found him sitting on the floor. "Hey Jack can we talk?" Bray asked sitting down next to him.
"If this is about Cloe, then you can just go." Jack said.
"It is about Cloe but I want to say sorry." Bray said. "For me and Amber. We had no right to but in like that. It just that Amber wants to keep everyone so safe. She doesn't want to see you get hurt again Jack."
"Thanks Bray. But why aren't you with Amber now?" Jack asked.
"She doesn't need me with her." Bray said looking down at the floor.
"So you are just going to leave her alone with Sasha?" Jack asked.
"What else can I do? I can't tell her not to talk or see him. I mean he has like only been here for 10 minutes." Bray said.
"Yeah well if it was some guy Cloe liked I won't be very happy about it." Jack said.
"You really like her don't you?" Bray asked.
"You know we haven't even kissed yet. There is something different about her. We like to just talk, and goof around, she's fun." Jack said with a smile.
"Yeah?" Bray asked.
"Yeah, just a little bit ago she asked me what I missed most about before the virus. And it was really out of nowhere." Jack said with a little laugh.
"Yeah girls are like that." Bray said smiling. "Well I should go." Bray stood up and left a smiling Jack sitting on the floor.
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Sasha stood watching Amber for a moment. Then he started to walk toward her. It had been almost four years since he had seen her.
"What…what are…you doing here?" Amber finally got out.
"I came back for you." Sasha said. "I see you got the necklace."
"Bray gave me this-" Amber started but stopped when Sasha touched her hand.
"I left it on your bed last night." Sasha said.
Amber could tell that tears where welling up in her eyes and there was no controlling them. 'Was everything coming together or falling apart?' Amber thought to herself.
"But - you - I'm." Amber said knowing the whole sentence didn't come out right.
Bray stood at the top of the stairs watching as the women he loved wrapped her arms around another.
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Pride walked out of the café after May's harsh words. But she didn't care anymore. She was getting tired of pretending. First Pride wanted her to keep their love a secret. Then he tells her that he doesn't want it at all. Then he comes and takes her to live with the tree huggers. Oh and not to forget saying that he is in love with Amber. May had had enough of it. It just took her a year to realize that.
"May that was kinda harsh don't you think?" Trudy asked.
"Yeah well what I think doesn't really matter." May said looking down. "I'm tired. I'll be in my room if anyone needs me."
"What is up with her?" Lex asked after she left the room.
"Why don't you tell us what is up with you Lex. Where were you all night?" Tai-san asked.
"Nowhere." Lex said looking down.
"I could have used you last night Lex, I could have used the company." Tai-san said getting up and leaving.
"Tai-san" Lex called after her.
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"Salene can we talk?" Ryan asked looking at her with anger and sadness on his face.
"Sure what is it?" Salene asked.
"Can we not talk in front of everyone?" Ryan asked.
"Sure." Salene said.
They walked out of the café and into an empty hallway.
"So what is it?" Salene asked.
"I know I have no right to ask you this and you probably won't answer me but I still need to know." Ryan said looking at her.
"Ryan you're scaring me." Salene said.
"Was Bray your first love?" Ryan asked after a long silence.
"Your right you have no right asking me that." Salene said getting mad.
"Salene I have to know. You said that you never get over your first love." Ryan said.
"Yes I did say that but you still shouldn't have asked me that." Salene said storming off.
"Salene wait." Ryan said going after her. "Salene I'm sorry I just wanted to know. You don't have to tell me."
"I should tell you though." Salene said looking up at him with tears in her eyes.
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Ebony walked into the café and saw also most everyone sitting there is quite.
"What did I miss?" Ebony asked.
"Why don't you tell us? I mean you do seem to know everything about everybody these days." Trudy said rolling her eyes at her.
"Well I was busy." Ebony said as Jay walked in behind her.
"Yeah, I think we all know what you were doing." Lex said.
"No Lex, I didn't sleep with him. I have my principles too." Ebony said shaking her head. "So where are the love birds?"
"Bray is off and as for Amber, look for yourself." KC said pointing down stairs.
Ebony walked over to the stairs and saw Sasha and Amber hugging.
"So I didn't have to find him." Ebony said coming back into the café with a laugh.
"You mean you knew that Sasha was here and you didn't tell anyone?" Alice asked.
"Like Trudy said, I know everything about everybody." Ebony said looking over at KC and Patsy.