Title: Promise

Author: RuBis

E-mail: buffy_flower@hotmail.com

Rating: G

Disclaimer: I don't own Amy, Matt, Jeff, Shane, Shannon or any of the characthers in the story.

Distribution: Ask first

{ Chapter 22 }

Arrived at home, I'm assembled in my attic, leaving my mother with the police. I wasn't ready to talk with anybody.... except Matt, maybe. I was going to call him, to apologyse, when I heard my name shouted at the window. It was him, naturally.

- I'm sorry to have left like that, I say

- It's nothing, but I don't believe that your mother appreciates me much, he says while laughing. How could it laugh at it? It was one of these things which I liked with Matt... he could find something to laugh at the worst situation.

- Then... what happened? ask Matt. Come here to tell me.

- I can't. My mother.... ,I say.

- She's with Shane's mother. Don't worry. After a short hesitation, I said:

- OK, I come.

'm going down stairs. The moon lit the backyard. I told him the story. The death of my father. His last words.

- It's necessary that I acknowledge ... the first time that I saw you, I believed that you were like all the girls: a simple life, without obstacles, but to complain all the time nevertheless.... I smack him on the shoulder for what he has just said.

He laughs gently. I like this laughter so much. He tell me :

- But I was wrong. You're different. I love you, Amy...

He looked me in the eyes. This time, I didn't want to leave.

- I love you too.

He kissed me.

It was... magic. This time, I did not have "the emotions of through". I felt good, it's all. I almost forget that I was going to leave.

When he stopped, I looked at his eyes. To the thought to leave him, the tears are assembled into my eyes. But I tried to retain me. I didn't want that he thinks that I was weak and I had cried enough for today. He murmured:

- You don't have to hide that with me, you know.

I cried a little, and then he brought me back home, kissing me in front of the door. I was afraid that my mother returns from Shane's and caught me with him, but that was worth the sorrow. We were left there, to go to sleep.

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