What's happening everyone! It's ButterHunter again and welcome to the newest chapter in my fanfic! I really hope you all are enjoying this story. I'm having the best time writing this. Anyway, enjoy the new chapter! It's a little bit shorter than the last one but what are you gonna do eh?

Chapter 5: The Confession (Part 2)

I sighed. Guess now I have to tell her.

I reach into my bag.

"What are you getting?" Susie asked, curious.

I didn't respond. Instead, I reach in and grab a loose string in the bag. I pull it and it opens a large patch on the side of the bag. I then grab my secret.

"This," I say, showing Susie what I grabbed, "is my biggest secret. Why I was running."

It's my one personal memento of my old life.

A family portrait. Me, my sister, my mom, and my dad, all of us smiling at the camera. I had just turned 10 when this was taken. Now, six years later, this was the only thing I had left of my family.

"What is this? Your family?" Susie asked.

"Yeah, or at least, it was…" I trailed off.

"What do you mean 'it was'?" Susie asked.

"You really want to know?" I asked, my voice dead serious.

She hesitated at my voice, but said calmly, "Yes, I do want to know."

"Ok well, you asked for it." I started, pausing to collect everything. Then, I began.

"It was six years ago…"

6 years, 2 weeks, and 5 days ago…

It all started the day after my birthday.

I had just turned 10. It was awesome to be so old, at least that's what young me had said.

I was walking around the village, enjoying the pocket money my parents had given me to buy something as my last birthday present.

Then, the village alarms sounded. That only meant one thing: monsters were coming for us.

Doing exactly as I was taught by my school and parents, I ran back home. Luckily, I lived close by. Even so, by the time I got home, my parents, who were part of the villages defense team, were already in their armor, and were getting my sister, Paige, into the safety bunker. They quickly got me in there too, and they went off to fight.

For the next hour, we couldn't hear much, just a lot of bangs and yelling. I was getting very nervous.

Then, slowly, the noise died. For a minute, all was quiet.

Then, the door opened, and my parents stepped in. We had won the fight.

Present time…

Susie was looking at me confused. "That doesn't explain why you ran away." she said.

"I'm getting to that. I just need to collect my thoughts for a second." I said, needing a break. I looked out at the sunset. I estimated maybe still another hour or so before we really needed to get back.

"OK, so, where was I?" I started. "Oh yeah, so my parents came back. We had just won the biggest fight anyone had seen ever in the village."

Flashback…

Barely two hours after the fight, the entire village had set up a massive event to celebrate the victory. Every last person was in the party.

Everyone… except me and my family.

While everyone else thought the fight was over, my parents thought something was wrong. It seemed to have been too easy of a fight to them. They thought something else was coming.

They were right on the money.

At exactly 4:00 p.m., the party had started. It looked like it was amazing, and I was thinking about sneaking in… but then…

The mobs launched a second massive attack.

I saw it first. I saw a shadow above the house next to me. I looked up… and saw my worst nightmare.

Creepers were raining from the sky. They had jumped off of a platform that wasn't there an hour ago. Of course, the first thing I did was run faster than I ever had back inside and yelled at my family about the attack. No sooner had the words escaped my lips, the creeper dive bombers started blowing up when they hit.

Quickly, everyone got into the special bunker and we all huddled together.

If I had known it was that last time I would feel them hug me… I would have hugged tighter, or stopped what was about to happen to them…

After about ten or so minutes, the sound of explosions slowed, then stopped completely. We waited a little, and then my parents left to check the damage. They told us to stay put, stay hidden.

After a minute, they called us to come out, that we needed to go.

And then… as Paige was walking to them… as I poked my head out in fear…

Present day…

"T-then…" I stammered. I couldn't finish. I could feel the tears well up in my eyes.

"Cameron? Are you OK?" Susie asked, very concerned. I looked at her… and started talking again.

"Y-yeah kinda." I managed.

"A-anyway… it happened so fast… t-t-the last c-creeper fell down… right in front of my p-parents… and i-i-i-it… b-b-b-b-blew up… (Susie's expression went completely shocked at this point) and when the dust cleared… I… I saw… them… b-b-broken, bloody, and d-dead… I… I remember f-falling down on my knees, s-s-shaking them to get up…" at that point, I couldn't take it anymore…

I started bawling. I couldn't help it. I had so much pain and suffering inside of me, and sharing it with someone for the first time pushed me over my limit.

Susie POV…

I had been staring at Cameron for the longest time as he relived his sad story. Then he suddenly lost all control and started crying very hard. I was shock, at both the sad story and his sudden outburst. After a second, I gently pulled him toward me, and tried to comfort him. He just sat there, crying his eyes out.

"WHY?! WHY DID THEY H-H-HAVE TO K-K-KILL MY ONLY FAMILY?!" he shouted out, stuttering so badly. I just hugged him, rubbing his back, trying to calm him.

"I…" I tried to start with. I was looking for something to say to him, anything, but all I could do was try to calm him down. I could feel my eyes getting watery at the sight of him so sad…

Cameron POV…

I think I could only cry for the longest time. I couldn't help myself. I needed to release all of the pain I had stuck in me for the longest time.

After Notch knows how long, I finally was able to stop crying. I didn't feel like I could talk much right then, so I just sat sit, and let Susie calm me down.

"Thanks Susie… for listening to me… I sorry I dumped such a sad story on you… I don't blame you if you want me gone now that you know who I am…" I said in a sad voice. I had just dumped every last bit of my sadness and anger on her, and I thought she wouldn't want me around because of it.

"No, Cameron, it's… it's okay…" she said. I looked up in shock at her. She hugged me again, a gentle, warm hug, making me feel better. I was surprised at her. Here I was thinking she didn't want me around anymore, and yet, she proved me utterly wrong. I didn't know what to think.

"You… you don't want me gone? You still want me around?" I asked shocked.

"Well… yeah, I mean…" she started, looking strange. She seems to be trying to put her thoughts together.

"I… I don't think I can just let you go away, not after you just told me that story… I don't want to think about what might happen to you if I let you go… you understand?" she asked.

I did. I looked at Susie with a mixture of emotions. Shock, joy, confusion, and a lot of others. After a short moment, I quickly embraced Susie in a loving hug. She sat there for a second, before hugging me back. For the longest time, we just sat there, enjoying the hug.

"Thank you so much Susie. For… everything." I said, close to tears again.

"It's no problem Cameron." she said sweetly. I never wanted the hug to end. I wanted to be in this moment forever. Me and her, hugging together forever.

Eventually, we stopped the hug, but I wanted to continue. I needed comfort.

"A-anyway," I said, trying to finish my story, my voice still stuttering a bit, "after I came to my wits, I r-ran back inside, and opened the emergency supplies safe in the bunker. Inside was all kinds of things I would need. Armor, weapons, food, supplies, and many more things. I-I also grabbed that photo, to always carry with me. I had seen my parents die, but n-never checked my sister, she had flew backwards and part of the house had collapsed on top of her. I don't think she could have survived that. After running around the destroyed town a bit, gathering more supplies, I began to run. Always running. Never stopping. Always trying to get further away from that place of death."

"But every night since then, after I fall asleep, I always return to that time. It always replays the same way again. And again. And again. Never ending. I… I want to forget the pain. The suffering I have carried for so long."

I looked back at her. She was staring at me, tears in her eyes. Seeing that, I wanted to help her feel better. So I hugged her again. She returned the hug whole-heartedly. I could faintly hear her sobbing behind me. I said softly, "It's okay. It's okay." It felt weird, I was comforting her after I had told her my sad story now.

"But now, all of that has changed. I now have someone out there who cares about me. Someone who has taken care of me when I needed it most." I said, pulling away so that I could see her face, while still hugging her. She looked at me, not saying anything.

"Thank you so much, Susie." was all I said. She smiled again. It was her best smile I had seen yet.

My heart started pounding. I realized just how firmly I was holding Susie. I could feel my temperature rising. I… couldn't take it anymore.

I was in love with Susie.

I needed to tell her.

"But, there is one more reason that I want to stay here with you." I said.

"Mm?" Susie said. She had stopped smiling at me and was looking at me with curiosity.

"I bet you can guess what it is." I said.

For a second, she just looked confused. Then, she got it. Her eyes widened. She started to have a faint blush in her cheeks. But she never broke eye contact with me. She still had a few tears in her eyes.

The next thing I know we were eye to eye, close enough to feel each other's breath. I couldn't think of anything else but how beautiful she looked in the light.

One of my hands moved to her face, to wipe a tear from her cheek. But I kept my hand there. She didn't move it away. Instead, she hugged me tighter.

My face moved closer to her's. She moved her's towards me at the same time.

We were an inch apart. And then…

We kiss. At that moment, all my fear, anger, sadness, and confusion drained away from me. All I could think about was Susie.

Her lips were soft and warm. She pulled me closer to her. She had nothing but love for me too.

I never would forget this moment. The day where all of my dreams would come true. Never again would I have to share my pain, happiness, or fears alone. Now I had someone else who would be there for me. Someone who cared about me.

Someone who loved me.

After what felt like forever, we pulled apart. I was blushing bright red. She was blushing very hard too. She blushed a darker green instead of red though.

"I… I love you Susie." I said, with all my heart.

"I love you too, Cameron." she said back, in the same loving tone.

We shared another kiss. The more we did, the more love we felt to each other. The more we wanted to protect one another. The more we wanted to be with each other.

After some time, I looked back out at the sun, to see it almost completely gone from the sky. "Oh shit, how long were we out here?" I said, surprised.

We quickly got up and headed back to the house. On the way, I had only one thought in my head.

'I can already tell, life is about to get a lot more fun.'

They kissed! YAY! They love each other! I hope you guys enjoyed this tragic backstory and first love chapter to my story. I'm having a blast writing it (err, typing it). But don't expect chapters so often anymore, with school starting and work happening on the weekends (BOO!). I might have the next chapter posted by Monday, if not the weekend, but that's just a rough idea. Don't worry, I will still be writing this fanfic for a long time. It's just a bit hard right now with work taking up a lot of my weekends. As always, if you guys want to play Minecraft with me, PM me with your MC username, and what server you want to play on, and what time. As always, leave you comments down below, and until the next chapter, stay awesome.