Chapter 6

Tommy's point of View

I am holding her as tight as I can. I have been for five minutes now, but I don't want to let go. Neither does she. She is still crying. Whatever happened is really bad.

I have to talk to her. I have to find out what is wrong. "Kim?" I whisper. Her arm tighten around my neck.

"Please, please don't be mad at me," she cries. I know what she is talking about of course, the Letter. Ten minutes ago I was mad, but when I saw her crying, my heart just broke. I couldn't hate her anymore. No matter how much I wanted to, I couldn't hate her.

"Beautiful, look at me," I say in a soft, gentle voice. She looks up at me. She is shocked that I used her nickname. She thought I was still mad at her. "Please don't cry. What's wrong? What did Tyler say? What made you so upset?" I ask all at once. I think I threw out more than she could handle. She starts to cry again. She is shivering so much, even with my sweatshirt. She needs dry clothes. I decide that I need to bring Kim home.

I go to stand up. She thinks that I am going to leave her. "No! Don't leave me. I'll do anything. Just don't leave," She tries to pull me back down. She is physically weaker than I remember her to be.

"I'm not leaving. I need to bring you home. You need dry clothes. You'll get sick." I am almost scared now because she is shaking so much.

"No. I don't want to go home. Please, I'll tell you what happened, but don't bring me to my house," she pleads looking up at me.

"Alright. I'll bring you to my house." Without waiting for an answer, I pick her up bridal style. I don't run, I'm afraid that I'll drop her. I go back through the orchards where I find both Rocky and Kat. They say the rest are at my house. I send Kat ahead to get Kim some clothes from Kim's house.

I send Rocky ahead to tell the others I have Kim and to tell Aisha and Mom to get some towels.

When I get to my house, I bring her straight upstairs to my room. Rocky, Aisha, and Mom are there with around ten towels.

I take my sweatshirt off her. Rocky immediately starts to towel dry her hair. Mom and Aisha each get an arm and shoulder. I dry her face and try to warm her ears and her neck. Kat comes running in with some clothes in a plastic bag.

We let Kim go into my bathroom to change with a towel to dry herself off. Mom tells me that she wants Kim to lay down when she comes out. "She needs a lot of blankets, and make sure she stays covered. I'll bring her some soup up a little later."

Kim comes out a minute later. Her wet clothes are in the plastic bag. Kat had brought her a pair of pink sweatpants, some socks, and a white t-shirt. I take the bag from her and drop it on the floor near the bathroom door. I hug her as tight as I can. She wraps her arms around my neck and buries her head in my neck. I kiss the top of her ear.

I pull away only enough to pick her up again. I carry her over to the bed. The covers are already folded down. I put her in between the sheets. I pull the covers up to her chin and tuck the blankets around her. I lay down on the covers next to her. Using one arm to prop myself up, I let my other hand feel her forehead before using it to massage her scalp. "Well, as of right now you don't have a fever." I inform her jokingly. I turn more serious. "Can you tell me what happened now?"

"I guess I should get it out." She takes a shaky breath. "My mom left for France this morning. Around one in the afternoon the plane crashed. Tommy, there weren't any survivors. She's gone. My mom is gone." She breaks into tears again, repeating gone, gone, gone...

She cries herself to sleep.

I understand why she doesn't want to go home now. Her mom won't be there, but all of her mom's stuff will. All of it will remind her that her mom is gone.

I look out the window. The rain has stopped. There is a rainbow. Maybe this will turn out ok. I hope it will.

For Kim.

Sorry, it was short again...

SPOILER: Kim cries more!

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