Chapter: 10
No one's P.O.V
Kandy sat outside the small tent on the steps that led to the door. She had her head in her hands and tears were pouring from her eyes. She was so wrapped up in her thoughts she didn't know that someone was standing behind her in the darkness that surrounded both of them. Squid sat down next to Kandy and put his arm around her.
"Are you ok?" Kandy jumped when he put his arm around her; she had been thinking that she was alone. Kandy quickly reached up to wipe away her tears but her hand was met by Squid's hand. He wiped her tears away and asked her again is she was ok.
"Yeah, yeah I'm fine." But Squid was not convinced by her answer.
"Why are you crying? What's wrong?" Squid was now looking into Kandy's eyes and was searching them for any kind of idea as to why she was crying but they didn't give him any clues.
"I, I don't know it's nothing I shouldn't be crying. I just…I wish that I could go to my parent's funeral." Squid had never Kandy talk about her parents.
"Your parents died? Why can't you go?" Squid asked still looking into Kandy's eyes.
"Yes, they died about two weeks ago. And tonight was the night of their funeral. I just wish that I could be there, but I'm here and there is nothing I can do about it.
"Kandy, I'm so sorry, what happened to them?"
"My dad had a drinking problem, but I never though it as this bad, and my parent they never really got along. Well, we had just moved back to Minnesota from Guatemala…"
"Wait? You lived in Guatemala?"
"Yeah, I also speak Spanish. But anyways I never thought that it would lead to this. About two weeks ago my mom got a nice dinner ready for him because it was their anniversary, and he came home real drunk. So they started yelling and then he shot her, then realizing what he had done he reached for the gun again and killed himself."
"Oh my God!" "Kandy, why didn't you tell anyone this?"
"No one ever asked and I didn't want to talk about it." "I mean do you know what it's like to have no one to talk to? I mean I'm alone in the world. I HAVE NO ONE SQUID! There is no one there to help me though this! The only people who loved me is now gone and I can't even go to their funeral! And you ask me why I haven't talked to someone about it! Well maybe it's because the only people here are heartless boys who don't care about me. Or maybe it is because everyone else is too busy digging or too busy with their own problems to even think about mine! There have been so many nights I have stayed up half the night thinking and crying about this, but crying has done nothing for me it does not change that I am alone in the world I am alone."
Squid sat there with his mouth open surprised that Kandy had kept all of this from him and that she felt so passionately about it. "Kandy, first of all you can always talk to me, and second, don't ever think you are alone you still have the guys and they care about you very much. And you still have me and I care a lot about you too. I am here and I will help you through this. Please don't do this to yourself I know what it is like to be alone and you don't have to feel that pain not as long as I'm around. You are the first person to ever care about me or even care about my life. So I do know what it is like to be alone and you're wrong your not alone you do have someone you still have me."
He then took Kandy's hand and kissed her softly on the lips. She pulled away but only for a second before she went close to him again and they began kissing much more passionately and with more emotion. Kandy's eyes were still streaming with tears. But they were no long tears of sadness and hate, but tears of joy. For the first time in a long time Kandy felt that she was truly loved and that she had someone she could rely on.
They continued to kiss until the morning bell went off and they were forced to part. Kandy looked Squid in the eyes and thanked him for making her feel better. She wiped the tears from her eyes and walked in the tent to get ready for digging, leaving Squid on the stairs to think about what had just happened.
