A.N. I'd just really like to thank everyone who reviewed and I'm glad that
most of you don't care who Scott's with b/c at this moment I don't know who
he'll be with. So please just keep reading.
Cahill spent the rest of the day just hanging out with Jules; she wasn't really in the mood to play basketball so she passed on the offer. Her and Jules sat off to the side and just talked about a lot of things but the basic stuff, like their favorite movie or actor. And Jules filled her in on all the latest gossip including Shelby and Scott's breakup, "So Barbie and Ken really aren't the perfect couple then huh?"
Jules laughed before answering, "I think this is just one of the off again phases of their relationship but who knows." Then she looked up and studied Auggie and sighed, "God he is so cute."
Following her gaze, Cahill nodded, "Yeah I guess he is." Then her thoughts drifted back to Rocky and she was silent for awhile, "You know what Jules, I gotta go, I've got something that I have to do."
She jumped up before Jules could ask what she had to do and jogged back to the cabin, she pushed the door open and opened the top drawer to her dresser and pulled out the paper that she had stuffed in there. Then she grabbed a pen and hard book to write on and laid down on her bed and started to write the letter she'd been putting off for months. She didn't know how to start it though, she looked up and grabbed the picture that was on her dresser and pulled it down to lay it on the bed next to her.
Rock,
This is it, the last time I'm writing you. I just thought that if you did ever decide to mail me a letter again then you'd like to know that my address has changed. I need to know that you're okay and I just need to know where we stand because I haven't heard from you in months and it's starting to worry me. No, I'm past being worried, right now I need to know that your still there so write back at least once. The address is on the back of the envelope.
Dag
She folded the letter up and then put the picture back on her dresser and left the rest of the paper strewn around on her bed, not in the mood to clean it up. She walked out the door, the letter clutched in her hand and walked towards Peter's office, hoping that he was still in there. Along the way she began talking to herself, "Okay this is the right thing to do, I mean there's nothing else to do. I have to know that he's okay, but what if he isn't?" She turned around on her heel and started walking back to the cabin, and started the debate in her head. 'I don't think I'm ready to know whether or not he still loves me. COWARD just turn around and go back to Peter's office.'
Once again she turned around quickly and slammed right into someone, she stumbled back a step and then caught her balance and glared at the boy standing before her but then she saw his face and her defense crumpled. She walked around him and started towards Peter's office, but he grabbed her arm, "Hey are you okay?"
She pulled her arm from his grasp, "I'm fine jock boy not go away." She headed off then ignoring the curious gaze that followed her, she just couldn't stand to be around him, it gave her the creeps to be around him because he looked like Rocky. As she got to the main building she knocked on Peter's door and when she heard his voice say come in she pushed the door open.
Peter smiled at her, "What are you doing back here so soon?"
Cahill shifted her weight from one foot to the other before deciding to just get this over with, "Can I have an envelope and stamp, I have something really important that I need to mail out."
Studying her Peter took out the envelope and stamp and handed them to her, "Here you go, you can give it back to me because I usually am the one who send out all of the mail anyway."
Cahill was hesitant to do that but then decided that it didn't matter one way or the other right now and she quickly sealed the envelope shut and wrote the return address and then the address where she was sending it and handed it to Peter. She left before he could even look at it and when he did glance down he was mildly shocked that it was going to be sent to the Illinois state prison but then he figured that being that she was here, she would probably know a lot of people who were in jail.
He took out her file and started to study it, it stated that she'd been arrested several times but mostly for minor things and nothing major stuck out. Also it said that she'd run away several times and had now been living on the streets for a solid four years before ending up at the hospital badly beaten, where her step-father had found her and then sent her to come up here. He knew that there were a lot of things that were left unsaid but that was usually how it went with these kids. He sighed and threw the folder down on the desk and then grabbed a stack of mail and headed for the mailbox that was just at the edge of the campus.
Cahill spent the rest of the day just hanging out with Jules; she wasn't really in the mood to play basketball so she passed on the offer. Her and Jules sat off to the side and just talked about a lot of things but the basic stuff, like their favorite movie or actor. And Jules filled her in on all the latest gossip including Shelby and Scott's breakup, "So Barbie and Ken really aren't the perfect couple then huh?"
Jules laughed before answering, "I think this is just one of the off again phases of their relationship but who knows." Then she looked up and studied Auggie and sighed, "God he is so cute."
Following her gaze, Cahill nodded, "Yeah I guess he is." Then her thoughts drifted back to Rocky and she was silent for awhile, "You know what Jules, I gotta go, I've got something that I have to do."
She jumped up before Jules could ask what she had to do and jogged back to the cabin, she pushed the door open and opened the top drawer to her dresser and pulled out the paper that she had stuffed in there. Then she grabbed a pen and hard book to write on and laid down on her bed and started to write the letter she'd been putting off for months. She didn't know how to start it though, she looked up and grabbed the picture that was on her dresser and pulled it down to lay it on the bed next to her.
Rock,
This is it, the last time I'm writing you. I just thought that if you did ever decide to mail me a letter again then you'd like to know that my address has changed. I need to know that you're okay and I just need to know where we stand because I haven't heard from you in months and it's starting to worry me. No, I'm past being worried, right now I need to know that your still there so write back at least once. The address is on the back of the envelope.
Dag
She folded the letter up and then put the picture back on her dresser and left the rest of the paper strewn around on her bed, not in the mood to clean it up. She walked out the door, the letter clutched in her hand and walked towards Peter's office, hoping that he was still in there. Along the way she began talking to herself, "Okay this is the right thing to do, I mean there's nothing else to do. I have to know that he's okay, but what if he isn't?" She turned around on her heel and started walking back to the cabin, and started the debate in her head. 'I don't think I'm ready to know whether or not he still loves me. COWARD just turn around and go back to Peter's office.'
Once again she turned around quickly and slammed right into someone, she stumbled back a step and then caught her balance and glared at the boy standing before her but then she saw his face and her defense crumpled. She walked around him and started towards Peter's office, but he grabbed her arm, "Hey are you okay?"
She pulled her arm from his grasp, "I'm fine jock boy not go away." She headed off then ignoring the curious gaze that followed her, she just couldn't stand to be around him, it gave her the creeps to be around him because he looked like Rocky. As she got to the main building she knocked on Peter's door and when she heard his voice say come in she pushed the door open.
Peter smiled at her, "What are you doing back here so soon?"
Cahill shifted her weight from one foot to the other before deciding to just get this over with, "Can I have an envelope and stamp, I have something really important that I need to mail out."
Studying her Peter took out the envelope and stamp and handed them to her, "Here you go, you can give it back to me because I usually am the one who send out all of the mail anyway."
Cahill was hesitant to do that but then decided that it didn't matter one way or the other right now and she quickly sealed the envelope shut and wrote the return address and then the address where she was sending it and handed it to Peter. She left before he could even look at it and when he did glance down he was mildly shocked that it was going to be sent to the Illinois state prison but then he figured that being that she was here, she would probably know a lot of people who were in jail.
He took out her file and started to study it, it stated that she'd been arrested several times but mostly for minor things and nothing major stuck out. Also it said that she'd run away several times and had now been living on the streets for a solid four years before ending up at the hospital badly beaten, where her step-father had found her and then sent her to come up here. He knew that there were a lot of things that were left unsaid but that was usually how it went with these kids. He sighed and threw the folder down on the desk and then grabbed a stack of mail and headed for the mailbox that was just at the edge of the campus.