April 10, 1922
A 7 year old Jimmy stormed into Linny's house that morning, fuming.
"What's wrong?" Linny asked looking up from her book.
"Mommy's dating a mean man!" he cried sitting down with tears in his eyes.
She jumped off the couch and rapped her arms around him.
"What happened?" she asked softly.
"He hit me!" he cried rubbing his cheek were a hand mark resided.
She gasped and laid her head on his shoulder. "Does your Mommy know?"
"Yeah." He muttered wiping his nose on his sleeve.
"Then don't worry. You'll probably never see him again." She said with a smile.
July 4, 1922
Linny was wrong. Jimmy's mother kept seeing the man, whose name was Oscar. He seemed to be a perfect person when he was around Jimmy's mother, but around Jimmy and Linny((I just now noticed their names rhyme!))he was completely different.
He hadn't hit him since, seeing as his mother was totally upset about it.
But the thing was, he gave the children an evil vibe. Like he was the grim reaper himself.
On this evening the children were sitting in the local park watching the fireworks burst in the air. They'd listen to the ooos and awws of the people around them, but they chose to keep their excitement inside. Especially since they were more concerned with the fact that Oscar and Jimmy's mother, Heather, were cuddling in front of them.
They turned towards each other and made disgusted faces. Laughing at each other they went back to watching the sky. And the moment their attention was off them. Oscar pulled a ring out of his pocket, and said 4 little words that crashed Jimmy's world.
July 5, 1922
"I can't believe she's doing this to me!" Jimmy cried packing his stuff. "I don't wanna move away from you. I wanna stay here." He whined.
"I know. But you'll only be on the other side of the city. I can still see you sometimes." Linny the voice of reason said calmly.
"It's not fair." He cried sitting down. "Some birthday this is."
Linny smiled. She carefully pulled a package out of her pocket. "Will this help make it better?" she asked handing it to him.
Confused, he torn off the paper. Into his hands fell a small pencil and a smaller book of paper.
He looked at her his eyebrow raised.
"That way whenever you want to tell me something you can write it down. I have one too. SO then we can just hand each other the papers and have more time to play. You know without catching up. It'll be quicker this way!"
He smiled. "You're a genius!"
August 09, 1922
The paper books turned out to be a very good idea. They hadn't seen each other expect for Linny's birthday party on July 30. Every day the two of them would sit someplace in there house, Jimmy hiding from Oscar, Linny hiding from her parents daily fight.
And each would curl up, pull out the pencil and write. And each one was ended with 'I miss you.'
One important 'letter' of Linny's was this
Jimmy,
I'm so sad. I don't know what to do! Daddy's up in his room right now, cryin. Mommy left last night. When we's woke up all her stuff was gone! She's gone for good this time. And we don't know where she is. Well at least I'll get to see you in school in September if I don't see you sooner.
Bye,
Linny
I miss you
That was the most important letter she ever wrote. And it was never given to the receiver for 2 months.
September 13, 1922
Linny,
He hit me again. Mom didn't see it. She doesn't even believe me when I told her she said I was 8 years old and should act like it by not spreading lies. Can you imagine that! He's done something to her Linny, and it ain't good.
I miss you
October 25, 1922
This was the day they finally saw each other. It was the day when Linny finally returned to school. Her father had kept her home everyday, in hope of her mother coming back. She never did.
When she walked into the school he was the first person she saw. They hugged until neither could breath. When they handed each other their letters the bell rang. Neither learned that much that day, they were to busy reading their notes.
But as bad as the children's life had been. They were going to realize, it was gonna get worse.
Pyra250- thanks for the review. And I know its scattered but it has to be. Cause I'm just trying to write out whats really important to the plot of the story. But I will try to keep them closer together. But I might have to skip 6 or so months at a time. And I'll work on detail. I keep forgetting not everyone can see inside my head.