A New Horizon- Chapter 5- Why does it have to be like this
Disclaimer- I do not own any original Higher Ground Characters but I do own the new ones. I also own Mitchell Gregory, Aiken's father.
In this chapter- Aiken's letter and Jacobs Journal
"Damn it. Why does he have to do this every freakin time." Aiken yelled and threw the letter to the ground. He wanted no part in it.
Everyone was shocked at Aiken's reaction and looked at him in surprise. He usually didn't have outbursts like this. He looked at them and ran out of the room. For a moment no one knew what to do and everyone stood there in shock. No one ran after him, they didn't know what to say.
Aiken ran to the Cliffhangers dorm. When he got there he started tearing up his half of the room. Getting letters from his father or anyone from his past for that matter, but especially his father, brought back terrible memories. For the first time in a long time Aiken felt like running from Horizon.
"You can't let this get to you Aiken." A voice inside his head said. "You don't know what that letter said."
Aiken wished he hadn't just thrown the letter on the ground. He wished he had ripped it into a million pieces, or set it on fire. To make the memories go away. He hated to remember back then.
~FLASHBACK~
San Franciso, California - March 21, 1994
"Bye Mommy!!" a little boy around 5 yelled to his mother waving his hand.
"Bye Honey" The woman said and waved to her son as she stepped into her blue van. "I'll pick you up on Tuesday."
The little boy followed his father into the house. He liked staying with his dad but he loved his mommy more. He missed her when he was at his dads house. He started crying.
"I want mommy." He told his father.
The father looked at the little boy. There was a hint of anger in his eyes.
"I know. Quit your crying." The father said angrely to the little boy.
The boy knew better than to disobey his father. Dad was scary when he got mad. The little boy went to his room. Little did he know that day was the last day he would see his mom.
~ END FLASHBACK~
Aiken shook the memory out of his head before it could go on any longer. It just kept getting worse and worse. He threw his picture of Alley and Him across the room, it was the nearest thing to him. He threw a book next and then a pillow, and was about to throw his other pillow when Jacob walked into the room. He barley dodged the pillow that was coming towards his face.
"Sorry about that Jake." Aiken said now kind of embarrassed.
Jacob nodded his head in acknowledgement. He was on shuns anyway. He sat on his bed jumping over some stuff. He had seen these outbursts with his sister and was used to them.
"What happened to you?" He wrote on a back page of his notebook.
"Nothing." Aiken said curtly.
"Fine. You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. Just don't throw things my way okay?" Jacob wrote adding a smiley face at the end.
"Okay. Thanks.' Aiken said as he went to lay down on his bed, there was to much he had inside of him to deal with at the moment. He also knew that Peter or Sophie, or Katherine, would be coming to "talk" to him soon.
Jacob tried to ignore the fact that Aiken was acting just like Jamie, just like the one who had caused him to fight in the first place. He opened his journal to the first page. Like all the Shun notebooks the first about 10 pages had questions on them. He decided to fill some of them in, he had nothing better to do.
QUESTION 5. If you could live any day over again in your life what would it be and why?
My life hasn't been the best in the past few months, almost a year now. With mom and dad getting divorced its on the verge of saying "LIFE SUCKS" I don't want to live any of these days over again. There are to many problems, I wish I knew how to solve them all. But if I had to pick one it would be when Mom, Dad, Jamie, and me went to Niagara Falls. It's because it was the last time we were really together without fighting and stuff. It was before mom started cheating on dad with Bob and everything that followed it. I wish I could stop time right there and have that feeling all the time, I wish Jamie had it more so she could be okay again. But she won't.
Jacob looked at what he had written, he felt kinda weird, and maybe a bit relieved, maybe a bit stupid. He couldn't really tell at the moment. He put the notebook down and looked back at Aiken.
Aiken had gotten up now. He was pacing back and forth in the room. Trying to think about the past and the present at the same time. He had tried to block out all the memories of his past but he couldn't. All the time at Horizon he thought he had but now, just because of one little letter it was all tumbling down again. He felt like he had the first time he walked into horizon, like he was broken inside, and for 2 whole years he had been rebuilding himself bit by bit he was becoming himself again. But now an earthquake had hit.
Aiken's thoughts were interupted by a knock on the door. Jacob went to go get it. It was Peter.
"Can you leave me and Aiken alone for a few minutes Jacob?" Peter asked walking into the room.
Jacob nodded for an answer and walked out of the building. When Peter and Aiken were alone Peter sat on one of the beds and withdrew the envelope Peter had in his pocket.
"Your taking this hard aren't you Aiken?" Peter asked looking at him.
Aiken couldn't answer he just nodded.
"Don't you even want to know what he says in the letter?" Peter asked handing it to him.
Aiken wouldn't take the envelope. He looked at it with almost a look of pure hatred.
"You weren't there Peter. You wouldn't understand what he but me through." Aiken said with the same hate in his voice that was in his eyes.
"No I don't Aiken. But there is hate in you right now and you need to face those demons sometime you know." Peter said.
"Yeah well that time isn't going to be now." Aiken said as he turned his back on Peter.
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE
Jacob was writing in his journal again. He didn't really want to because there was the fact that Katherine would read it and then show Peter and Sophie. But he couldn't stop writing. It was like a force was driving him to do it.
2. NAME 3 THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU ARE THE PROUDEST OF, NAME 3 THINGS YOU ARE MOST ASHAMED OF.
I am most proud of:
1. the fact I can protect Jamie
2. the way I think
3. I guess being here and choosing it
Thinks I am most ashamed of
1. All the crap I did before here after the divorce
2. Not being able to Help my own sister sooner
3. Fighting and my temper (they both suck)
7. WHY ARE YOU WRITING IN THIS RIGHT NOW? WHAT CAUSED YOU TO DO
WHAT YOU DID?
I'm writing this because I got in a fight with Andy. It was stupid and now I have to
do this stupid thing even though I'd rather not. I lost my temper which I have been doing a
of lately even though I don't really mean to. But he said something about Jamie and I'm sick of people saying things to her and about her and saying it so she can here when they mean to "talk to themselves" I hate that so much. And usually it would annoy her and she'd come to me and cry about it and I didn't want that to happen again so I just SNAPPED!!!!! I didn't mean for it to be Andy, I guess it really didn't matter at the time who it was, I just wanted it to stop. But Peter and Sophie went over board. I CAN'T EVEN TALK TO MY OWN SISTER. IT BITES!!!
Jacob put down the notebook and looked at his watch. It was almost time for kitchen duty. He was suppose to be helping to cook. Along with Andy and his sister. He knew that was going to be torture. He got up and started trudging towards the lodge.
KITCHEN
Jamie stood at the oven and looked across the steaming kitchen for her brother. At the moment she was hating his guts. She knew Andy was only trying to be nice but Jacob had taken it the wrong way but she felt sorry for him to. Not wanting to think of the reasons that went along with that "Why?" she shook her head and went over to the fridge.
As soon as she reached the fridge Katherine came up to her.
"Jamie, can I talk to you?" Kat asked kindly to Jamie.
"Sure." Jamie said.
Jamie followed Kat to the lake. As they got to one of the little benches there Jamie and Kat sat down.
"Do you know what caused the fight between your brother and Andy Jamie?" Kat asked nicely.
"Um.." Jamie said. "No, not really."
"Because if Jacob gets caught fighting here again he might have to leave Horizon." Kat said trying to give Jamie some incentive to tell.
"No, you can't do that." Jamie said all of a sudden. "He can't go back. I NEED him." Jamie said almost screaming.
"I know Jamie, calm down." Katherine said as she tried to get Jamie to sit back down. "We didn't say it was going to happen now, did we?"
"No." Jamie said whispering.
"There's still a lot of give and take here. He can always shape up and then he won't have to go away. And you two will be together for a while longer." Kat said.
Jamie gave no reply to the statement Kat said. The little "experiment" Peter and Sophie were trying to conduct on Jamie wasn't having the effect that they wanted. Katherine knew that and decided to give up. She knew she probably had put Jamie in a bit of a shock.
"Why don't you go to the dorm and lie down Jamie." Kat said looking at the teen girl's face.
Kat scanned the girls distraught face again. There was a look on it that scared Katherine.
Jamie started to walk away. Her legs felt weak. She didn't want to think about being without her brother. She felt the blood rushing though her body and knew that she had to get to the dorm as fast as she could.
Katherine looked at Jamie as she ran. She still felt that something was going to happen. She didn't know how right she was.
THE END...
Sorry. I know this isn't the greatest ending but I want something to happen in the next chapter that needs to be on its own.
ALSO: Who wants to see Aiken's letter? Do you feel you need to know more about him first or not? Because if enough people want it I will show it. THANKS!
Disclaimer- I do not own any original Higher Ground Characters but I do own the new ones. I also own Mitchell Gregory, Aiken's father.
In this chapter- Aiken's letter and Jacobs Journal
"Damn it. Why does he have to do this every freakin time." Aiken yelled and threw the letter to the ground. He wanted no part in it.
Everyone was shocked at Aiken's reaction and looked at him in surprise. He usually didn't have outbursts like this. He looked at them and ran out of the room. For a moment no one knew what to do and everyone stood there in shock. No one ran after him, they didn't know what to say.
Aiken ran to the Cliffhangers dorm. When he got there he started tearing up his half of the room. Getting letters from his father or anyone from his past for that matter, but especially his father, brought back terrible memories. For the first time in a long time Aiken felt like running from Horizon.
"You can't let this get to you Aiken." A voice inside his head said. "You don't know what that letter said."
Aiken wished he hadn't just thrown the letter on the ground. He wished he had ripped it into a million pieces, or set it on fire. To make the memories go away. He hated to remember back then.
~FLASHBACK~
San Franciso, California - March 21, 1994
"Bye Mommy!!" a little boy around 5 yelled to his mother waving his hand.
"Bye Honey" The woman said and waved to her son as she stepped into her blue van. "I'll pick you up on Tuesday."
The little boy followed his father into the house. He liked staying with his dad but he loved his mommy more. He missed her when he was at his dads house. He started crying.
"I want mommy." He told his father.
The father looked at the little boy. There was a hint of anger in his eyes.
"I know. Quit your crying." The father said angrely to the little boy.
The boy knew better than to disobey his father. Dad was scary when he got mad. The little boy went to his room. Little did he know that day was the last day he would see his mom.
~ END FLASHBACK~
Aiken shook the memory out of his head before it could go on any longer. It just kept getting worse and worse. He threw his picture of Alley and Him across the room, it was the nearest thing to him. He threw a book next and then a pillow, and was about to throw his other pillow when Jacob walked into the room. He barley dodged the pillow that was coming towards his face.
"Sorry about that Jake." Aiken said now kind of embarrassed.
Jacob nodded his head in acknowledgement. He was on shuns anyway. He sat on his bed jumping over some stuff. He had seen these outbursts with his sister and was used to them.
"What happened to you?" He wrote on a back page of his notebook.
"Nothing." Aiken said curtly.
"Fine. You don't have to talk about it if you don't want to. Just don't throw things my way okay?" Jacob wrote adding a smiley face at the end.
"Okay. Thanks.' Aiken said as he went to lay down on his bed, there was to much he had inside of him to deal with at the moment. He also knew that Peter or Sophie, or Katherine, would be coming to "talk" to him soon.
Jacob tried to ignore the fact that Aiken was acting just like Jamie, just like the one who had caused him to fight in the first place. He opened his journal to the first page. Like all the Shun notebooks the first about 10 pages had questions on them. He decided to fill some of them in, he had nothing better to do.
QUESTION 5. If you could live any day over again in your life what would it be and why?
My life hasn't been the best in the past few months, almost a year now. With mom and dad getting divorced its on the verge of saying "LIFE SUCKS" I don't want to live any of these days over again. There are to many problems, I wish I knew how to solve them all. But if I had to pick one it would be when Mom, Dad, Jamie, and me went to Niagara Falls. It's because it was the last time we were really together without fighting and stuff. It was before mom started cheating on dad with Bob and everything that followed it. I wish I could stop time right there and have that feeling all the time, I wish Jamie had it more so she could be okay again. But she won't.
Jacob looked at what he had written, he felt kinda weird, and maybe a bit relieved, maybe a bit stupid. He couldn't really tell at the moment. He put the notebook down and looked back at Aiken.
Aiken had gotten up now. He was pacing back and forth in the room. Trying to think about the past and the present at the same time. He had tried to block out all the memories of his past but he couldn't. All the time at Horizon he thought he had but now, just because of one little letter it was all tumbling down again. He felt like he had the first time he walked into horizon, like he was broken inside, and for 2 whole years he had been rebuilding himself bit by bit he was becoming himself again. But now an earthquake had hit.
Aiken's thoughts were interupted by a knock on the door. Jacob went to go get it. It was Peter.
"Can you leave me and Aiken alone for a few minutes Jacob?" Peter asked walking into the room.
Jacob nodded for an answer and walked out of the building. When Peter and Aiken were alone Peter sat on one of the beds and withdrew the envelope Peter had in his pocket.
"Your taking this hard aren't you Aiken?" Peter asked looking at him.
Aiken couldn't answer he just nodded.
"Don't you even want to know what he says in the letter?" Peter asked handing it to him.
Aiken wouldn't take the envelope. He looked at it with almost a look of pure hatred.
"You weren't there Peter. You wouldn't understand what he but me through." Aiken said with the same hate in his voice that was in his eyes.
"No I don't Aiken. But there is hate in you right now and you need to face those demons sometime you know." Peter said.
"Yeah well that time isn't going to be now." Aiken said as he turned his back on Peter.
MEANWHILE OUTSIDE
Jacob was writing in his journal again. He didn't really want to because there was the fact that Katherine would read it and then show Peter and Sophie. But he couldn't stop writing. It was like a force was driving him to do it.
2. NAME 3 THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT YOU ARE THE PROUDEST OF, NAME 3 THINGS YOU ARE MOST ASHAMED OF.
I am most proud of:
1. the fact I can protect Jamie
2. the way I think
3. I guess being here and choosing it
Thinks I am most ashamed of
1. All the crap I did before here after the divorce
2. Not being able to Help my own sister sooner
3. Fighting and my temper (they both suck)
7. WHY ARE YOU WRITING IN THIS RIGHT NOW? WHAT CAUSED YOU TO DO
WHAT YOU DID?
I'm writing this because I got in a fight with Andy. It was stupid and now I have to
do this stupid thing even though I'd rather not. I lost my temper which I have been doing a
of lately even though I don't really mean to. But he said something about Jamie and I'm sick of people saying things to her and about her and saying it so she can here when they mean to "talk to themselves" I hate that so much. And usually it would annoy her and she'd come to me and cry about it and I didn't want that to happen again so I just SNAPPED!!!!! I didn't mean for it to be Andy, I guess it really didn't matter at the time who it was, I just wanted it to stop. But Peter and Sophie went over board. I CAN'T EVEN TALK TO MY OWN SISTER. IT BITES!!!
Jacob put down the notebook and looked at his watch. It was almost time for kitchen duty. He was suppose to be helping to cook. Along with Andy and his sister. He knew that was going to be torture. He got up and started trudging towards the lodge.
KITCHEN
Jamie stood at the oven and looked across the steaming kitchen for her brother. At the moment she was hating his guts. She knew Andy was only trying to be nice but Jacob had taken it the wrong way but she felt sorry for him to. Not wanting to think of the reasons that went along with that "Why?" she shook her head and went over to the fridge.
As soon as she reached the fridge Katherine came up to her.
"Jamie, can I talk to you?" Kat asked kindly to Jamie.
"Sure." Jamie said.
Jamie followed Kat to the lake. As they got to one of the little benches there Jamie and Kat sat down.
"Do you know what caused the fight between your brother and Andy Jamie?" Kat asked nicely.
"Um.." Jamie said. "No, not really."
"Because if Jacob gets caught fighting here again he might have to leave Horizon." Kat said trying to give Jamie some incentive to tell.
"No, you can't do that." Jamie said all of a sudden. "He can't go back. I NEED him." Jamie said almost screaming.
"I know Jamie, calm down." Katherine said as she tried to get Jamie to sit back down. "We didn't say it was going to happen now, did we?"
"No." Jamie said whispering.
"There's still a lot of give and take here. He can always shape up and then he won't have to go away. And you two will be together for a while longer." Kat said.
Jamie gave no reply to the statement Kat said. The little "experiment" Peter and Sophie were trying to conduct on Jamie wasn't having the effect that they wanted. Katherine knew that and decided to give up. She knew she probably had put Jamie in a bit of a shock.
"Why don't you go to the dorm and lie down Jamie." Kat said looking at the teen girl's face.
Kat scanned the girls distraught face again. There was a look on it that scared Katherine.
Jamie started to walk away. Her legs felt weak. She didn't want to think about being without her brother. She felt the blood rushing though her body and knew that she had to get to the dorm as fast as she could.
Katherine looked at Jamie as she ran. She still felt that something was going to happen. She didn't know how right she was.
THE END...
Sorry. I know this isn't the greatest ending but I want something to happen in the next chapter that needs to be on its own.
ALSO: Who wants to see Aiken's letter? Do you feel you need to know more about him first or not? Because if enough people want it I will show it. THANKS!