Disclaimer: I don't own AJ Roberts, his parents or Harmon Rabb II. The song is "My Sundown" by Jimmy Eat World and I don't own it either.
Author's Notes: Thank you all for reviewing it really means a lot to me! I'm not sure how this chapter is it might be a little choppy, but I'm trying a new style. Well, Kinda of. I love John Bender! Can you tell I just got The Breakfast Club soundtrack and have been listening to it all evening? Thanks for getting me hooked Rainshower :) Anyways, this chapter begins to tie things back to the prologue and I'm not going to say anything else:) Enjoy!
The Why
AJ Roberts couldn't explain why he choose to look out his bedroom window at the pierce moment the small Albo came into view. He knew who owned it. Tyler Connell. Tyler had been his good friend until AJ quit the football team right after their first varsity game. He knew Tyler saw it as betrayal, but AJ knew that if he stayed on he would be betraying someone more important. His little sister.
He continued to watch the car through the rain in his boxers. He knew he should go to bed. It was late.
He knew it was very likely Tyler wasn't driving. It was a Friday night, actually Saturday morning now probably, which meant that Tyler had done what he had done when they were still friends. Go and drink himself silly and then run off to a back room with a blonde. He knew that Tyler wasn't dating the same blonde as he had been before, but he knew that the blonde he ran off with hadn't changed. It made him sick.
I see it around me
I see it in everything
I could be so much more than this
The car started to veer a little to the right. AJ moved around to other side of his desk so he could see better. He really should go to bed.
The new blonde was driving. Which was probably all she was now to Tyler. AJ felt sorry for her. She knew. She had told AJ that she knew over a chemistry lab. He had nodded. She told him that it wasn't his fault. The drinking made him do it. AJ knew that was bullshit.
Said my goodbyes
This is my sundown
I'm going to be so much more than this
The car took a sudden left and then a right and then tumbled down the slope and into AJ's front yard. The small underside of the car stuck up and seemed to shield the world from the top that had been smashed into the side of the grassy slope.
AJ ran out his room not even thinking. He ran down the stairs hoping to get to the accident scene as soon as he could. He wanted to save her. She deserved to be saved.
Suddenly he was flung forward. He wasn't thinking, he should have turned a light on. Jenny, Harmon and Kenzie always had stuff out. Even know Jenny was thirteen, Harmon was eleven and Kenzie was seven, they left their toys out like a bunch of toddlers. He wouldn't be able to save her.
With one hand high you'll show them your progress
You'll take your time
But no one cares
No one cares
The light at the top of the stairs went on. AJ squinted in the yellow light and slowly picked himself off the stairs, "What are you doing down there?" Harm, AJ's Godfather, inquired from the top of the stairs. AJ noticed that he didn't ask if he was okay. His REAL Dad would have.
"I thought I'd inspect the carpeting while a good friend bleeds to death out on the front lawn," AJ stated angrily, as he turned to face the man who had taken him in after his real parents had died in a car accident.
"What happened?" He asked. And this time AJ thought he saw concern in the older man's face.
"Her car flipped over the edge of the slope," AJ explained,
immediately regretting telling Harm at all. He would mess things up and she would die. If she hadn't already.
I need you to show me away from crazy
I want to be so much more than this
AJ headed out the front door, into the pouring rain, with Harm following close behind. The cement path that lead to the door was a dark tan from the rain and the grass sloshed under his bare feet as he walked across it.
He hadn't been that close to a car accident since he was five, but he could still see it in his mind's eye. He stood there just shocked by it all. He didn't know how to save her. She was going to die. And he couldn't do anything about it.
Goodbye, lovely time
Goodbye, tinsel shine
Goodbye, I'll be fine
Good good bye
Good good night
Author's Notes: Thank you all for reviewing it really means a lot to me! I'm not sure how this chapter is it might be a little choppy, but I'm trying a new style. Well, Kinda of. I love John Bender! Can you tell I just got The Breakfast Club soundtrack and have been listening to it all evening? Thanks for getting me hooked Rainshower :) Anyways, this chapter begins to tie things back to the prologue and I'm not going to say anything else:) Enjoy!
The Why
AJ Roberts couldn't explain why he choose to look out his bedroom window at the pierce moment the small Albo came into view. He knew who owned it. Tyler Connell. Tyler had been his good friend until AJ quit the football team right after their first varsity game. He knew Tyler saw it as betrayal, but AJ knew that if he stayed on he would be betraying someone more important. His little sister.
He continued to watch the car through the rain in his boxers. He knew he should go to bed. It was late.
He knew it was very likely Tyler wasn't driving. It was a Friday night, actually Saturday morning now probably, which meant that Tyler had done what he had done when they were still friends. Go and drink himself silly and then run off to a back room with a blonde. He knew that Tyler wasn't dating the same blonde as he had been before, but he knew that the blonde he ran off with hadn't changed. It made him sick.
I see it around me
I see it in everything
I could be so much more than this
The car started to veer a little to the right. AJ moved around to other side of his desk so he could see better. He really should go to bed.
The new blonde was driving. Which was probably all she was now to Tyler. AJ felt sorry for her. She knew. She had told AJ that she knew over a chemistry lab. He had nodded. She told him that it wasn't his fault. The drinking made him do it. AJ knew that was bullshit.
Said my goodbyes
This is my sundown
I'm going to be so much more than this
The car took a sudden left and then a right and then tumbled down the slope and into AJ's front yard. The small underside of the car stuck up and seemed to shield the world from the top that had been smashed into the side of the grassy slope.
AJ ran out his room not even thinking. He ran down the stairs hoping to get to the accident scene as soon as he could. He wanted to save her. She deserved to be saved.
Suddenly he was flung forward. He wasn't thinking, he should have turned a light on. Jenny, Harmon and Kenzie always had stuff out. Even know Jenny was thirteen, Harmon was eleven and Kenzie was seven, they left their toys out like a bunch of toddlers. He wouldn't be able to save her.
With one hand high you'll show them your progress
You'll take your time
But no one cares
No one cares
The light at the top of the stairs went on. AJ squinted in the yellow light and slowly picked himself off the stairs, "What are you doing down there?" Harm, AJ's Godfather, inquired from the top of the stairs. AJ noticed that he didn't ask if he was okay. His REAL Dad would have.
"I thought I'd inspect the carpeting while a good friend bleeds to death out on the front lawn," AJ stated angrily, as he turned to face the man who had taken him in after his real parents had died in a car accident.
"What happened?" He asked. And this time AJ thought he saw concern in the older man's face.
"Her car flipped over the edge of the slope," AJ explained,
immediately regretting telling Harm at all. He would mess things up and she would die. If she hadn't already.
I need you to show me away from crazy
I want to be so much more than this
AJ headed out the front door, into the pouring rain, with Harm following close behind. The cement path that lead to the door was a dark tan from the rain and the grass sloshed under his bare feet as he walked across it.
He hadn't been that close to a car accident since he was five, but he could still see it in his mind's eye. He stood there just shocked by it all. He didn't know how to save her. She was going to die. And he couldn't do anything about it.
Goodbye, lovely time
Goodbye, tinsel shine
Goodbye, I'll be fine
Good good bye
Good good night