p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jackson- Jay's Wing The Actual Jay's Wing/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree, Jay- 17 ½/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Hadara, Jackson- 18/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Thin Mint High/span/em/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay stumbled back, "W-What?" He spoke with genuine shock in his tone, "You thought I was your childhood friend?" His well-known temper emerged sparked at the thought, "You didn't like me for who I really am?!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Jay-" Hadara reached to console him but he recoiled a vicious snarl on his face, "Jay please-"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""No. I thought you loved me like I thought I loved you!" Jay cut her off, fists tightening into fists, blind blue eyes narrowing with fury, "but I see it's all a lie! A vicious one at that! Have fun with your 'Jackson' and stay out of my life!" He crashed through the trees, branches whipping at his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Hadara sighed, she never thought she'd ever call this person but Jay needed someone to comfort him, if not her how about his best friend? Pulling out her phone she hesitantly dialed a number Jay had made sure she had. "Hey… Yeah, I didn't think I'd ever call you either… Jay needs someone to comfort him… Can you do it?"/span/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree had been sleeping when her phone went off in her ear, startling her enough to fall off the bed and onto the floor despite her inability to move her legs. Reaching her hand up she managed to slap the phone to accept the call before using her forearms to heave her body up so she was sitting on her knees, which she couldn't feel either. "Hello?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Hey…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Oh! Hi, Hadara! I didn't think you'd ever call me!" Bree smiled, forcing the jealousy down to her unfeeling feet./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Yeah I didn't think I'd ever call you either... Jay needs someone to comfort him… can you do it?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Instantly the jealousy she had been feeling moments before vanished, replaced with worry and concern. "Of course! I'll be over there as fast as I can, where are you?" She dragged her wheelchair over and plopped down into it and checked everything over for kinks, issues, and problems before promptly freezing at Hadara's next words./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""We're in the Thunder woods."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I'm on my way." Bree hung up and quickly left the room, rolling down the stairs and bursting out the front door that her brother so kindly left open. Pumping her arms as fast as she could she crossed the street and hurried towards the school where the woods were located. Bree's arms burned at the idea of rolling through the grass, undergrowth and rough terrain. "Oh dear." She sighed but determinedly pushed herself harder rushing to help her friend./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span(Jay's view)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"'emI'm an idiot.'/em I thought miserably, 'emA fool'/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Jay? You over here?" I heard Bree's voice call and heard the sound of tires crunching twigs and berries. "I know you're in here somewhere." 'emHow in the world is she here? Her chair isn't made to be in the woods.'/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I'm over here Bree," I said clearly, bitterness in my tone. I heard the rolling get closer and heard her grunt in frustration as a branch probably caught in her hair. I waited sitting on the tree stump my head in my hands as she rolled closer. I felt the fabric of my jeans move slightly as she rolled to a stop next to me, I could hear her heavy breathing like she'd been pushing herself to get here. I listened to fabric scrap against metal and wood before I felt her manage to sit next to me on the stump,"How'd you get here?" I asked in a gruff tone, attempting to hide my pain from her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I got here myself, but that doesn't matter, come here." She pulled me to her and locked her arms around my back, "You're hurting, I can tell. It's ok to cry, Jay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""No, it's not," I replied gruffly, her kindness tearing at my walls. "I'm a guy, I'm not supposed to cry." I could feel the fabric of her shirt beneath my chin, ruffled like she had been struggling against some unseen force./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""There's nobody here but me, you know I'll never judge you." She said gently in an honest tone that always broke through my mask. Burying my face in her neck I cried, for how long I don't know but Bree stayed there, holding me comfortingly and rubbing my back, her ear against the top of my head./span/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree's heart ached for her friend as she listened to his heart-wrenching crying, she quietly comforted him, rubbing his back and humming random tunes so her throat vibrated adding more comfort. Her head was tilted so her ear was pressed against his head, amber eyes gazing out at the dreary woods, her eyes locked on the slowly setting sun that sent rays of red, pink, and orange light through the gaps in the trees. 'emI was supposed to be sleeping right now, but it's worth it helping Jay. If only I knew why he was so hurt!'/em Jay's crying turned into hiccups but Bree didn't move, instead of tightening her grasp around his back, using one hand to gently run her fingers through his black hair, somewhere in the back of her mind she registered the texture but stayed focused on helping him. After while Jay seemed to fall asleep and Bree fidgeted, she was starting to get chilly having rushed out of her house in a t-shirt and capris, not prepared to stay out in the freezing cold of the night, her hair was billowing sideways from the chilly breeze. Finally, Jay moved back and she let him go, "Are you ok?" She asked gently./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Yeah, thanks, Bree." He replied, rubbing his blind blue eyes that were red around the edges. Bree used her fingertips to remove any trace of his tears,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Do you want to go back home? I need to get going or my mom's going to freak." She said using her arms to heave herself back into her wheelchair, her legs and arms were scratched up from all the undergrowth but her amber eyes were worried. "Can I trust you not to do anything stupid?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Probably not."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Well, I have to. Don't do anything stupid Jay, I'll come over before Cynthia and Leon leave alright?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Okay." He murmured. Bree leaned forward and gently kissed his forehead before starting to roll away, looking back a few times./span/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Later that night Bree opened her eyes with a snap, feeling someone's breath on her face. For a moment she stared at a pair of blind blue eyes before she yelped and pushed Jay back sitting up, "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!" She managed through a strangled voice. Jay's eyes locked on hers and he just stared at her, no visible emotions in his eyes. She recognized the blank look and spoke hesitantly, "You got thin mints again didn't you?" He nodded getting closer Bree pushed her back against the wall behind her and sighed, "They always make you drunk so why do you eat them?!" She pushed him back in one arm firmly, "Look, while I'm happy you aren't moping I didn't mean for you to eat those stupid cookies and find me!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I wanted to." He replied, moving her arm to the side./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I don't want you to get in my bubble Jay,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Why not?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Because every time you eat these you either try and kiss me or pass out in my room, not a good situation when my parents come to investigate." Bree deadpans, looking up at the ceiling and purposely avoiding his eyes. The last time this had happened was a year ago when he was bullied by his cousin Dawn for accidentally letting her brother drown in the frozen lake, the last time she had let him, understanding he didn't know what he was doing and just wanted someone to show they appreciated him. But this time she didn't want to start anything when she didn't know why he was hurt in the first place. Because she liked the actions it was extremely hard for her to avoid it as demonstrated right now as she covered her mouth with a hand and pushed him farther back./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Bree," He huffed insistently getting closer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Jay." She replied in the same tone, "I don't want your relationship with Hadara screwed up because you're drunk off sugar."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay frowned, "I don't have a relationship with her anymore, she thought I was her childhood friend." Bree froze in shock, her arms slipping down to her side, that moment of her shocked state let Jay get close enough to be breathing on her face. "See, so there's nothing to mess up."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Except for the fact, you're drunk on sugar."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""No, I'm not." Jay huffed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Yes, you are-" She paused to push him back before finishing her sentence, "Maybe someday, but not while you're on a sugar high Jay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay suddenly grinned his usual gruff grin, blind eyes filling with curt annoyance like normal. "I'm no a sugar high Bree, I'm fully aware."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree's face went pink and she narrowed her eyes at him, "Trying to steal something from me?" She snorted./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Maybe, but you've already had a first kiss so technically I'm not stealing anything."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Sure." Bree rolls her eyes, "Then why are you here?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Because I want to be."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Sorry Jay, but I'm not your rebound, wait a while first."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Ok fine. But, I don't want to be normal friends."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree thought about it for a moment before sighing reluctantly, "Alright fine. Friends with benefits, that better?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Very." Jay smiled a rare genuine smile before leaning farther forward and pressing a kiss to her nose. Bree rolled her eyes but let him, contently half closing her eyes./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Character Emails (all are gmail accounts)/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Caylee and any other side character – youngcrazyteenageauthor/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Cynthia – athleticsapphiresinger/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Leon – athleticgoldenboy/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree – cheerfulcuriosity/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay – perfectgrumpytone /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Holly – emeraldintelligencequeen/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Fini – gingerandwhiteteenager/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"WHSS Art/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Deviantart: tigercryrocks | Instagram: tigercry/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"WHSS Audiobooks/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"strongemspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"*Coming Soon*/span/em/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree, Jay- 17 ½/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Hadara, Jackson- 18/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Thin Mint High/span/em/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay stumbled back, "W-What?" He spoke with genuine shock in his tone, "You thought I was your childhood friend?" His well-known temper emerged sparked at the thought, "You didn't like me for who I really am?!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Jay-" Hadara reached to console him but he recoiled a vicious snarl on his face, "Jay please-"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""No. I thought you loved me like I thought I loved you!" Jay cut her off, fists tightening into fists, blind blue eyes narrowing with fury, "but I see it's all a lie! A vicious one at that! Have fun with your 'Jackson' and stay out of my life!" He crashed through the trees, branches whipping at his face./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Hadara sighed, she never thought she'd ever call this person but Jay needed someone to comfort him, if not her how about his best friend? Pulling out her phone she hesitantly dialed a number Jay had made sure she had. "Hey… Yeah, I didn't think I'd ever call you either… Jay needs someone to comfort him… Can you do it?"/span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree had been sleeping when her phone went off in her ear, startling her enough to fall off the bed and onto the floor despite her inability to move her legs. Reaching her hand up she managed to slap the phone to accept the call before using her forearms to heave her body up so she was sitting on her knees, which she couldn't feel either. "Hello?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Hey…"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Oh! Hi, Hadara! I didn't think you'd ever call me!" Bree smiled, forcing the jealousy down to her unfeeling feet./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Yeah I didn't think I'd ever call you either... Jay needs someone to comfort him… can you do it?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Instantly the jealousy she had been feeling moments before vanished, replaced with worry and concern. "Of course! I'll be over there as fast as I can, where are you?" She dragged her wheelchair over and plopped down into it and checked everything over for kinks, issues, and problems before promptly freezing at Hadara's next words./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""We're in the Thunder woods."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I'm on my way." Bree hung up and quickly left the room, rolling down the stairs and bursting out the front door that her brother so kindly left open. Pumping her arms as fast as she could she crossed the street and hurried towards the school where the woods were located. Bree's arms burned at the idea of rolling through the grass, undergrowth and rough terrain. "Oh dear." She sighed but determinedly pushed herself harder rushing to help her friend./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"span style="mso-spacerun: yes;" /span(Jay's view)/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"'emI'm an idiot.'/em I thought miserably, 'emA fool'/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Jay? You over here?" I heard Bree's voice call and heard the sound of tires crunching twigs and berries. "I know you're in here somewhere." 'emHow in the world is she here? Her chair isn't made to be in the woods.'/em/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I'm over here Bree," I said clearly, bitterness in my tone. I heard the rolling get closer and heard her grunt in frustration as a branch probably caught in her hair. I waited sitting on the tree stump my head in my hands as she rolled closer. I felt the fabric of my jeans move slightly as she rolled to a stop next to me, I could hear her heavy breathing like she'd been pushing herself to get here. I listened to fabric scrap against metal and wood before I felt her manage to sit next to me on the stump,"How'd you get here?" I asked in a gruff tone, attempting to hide my pain from her./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I got here myself, but that doesn't matter, come here." She pulled me to her and locked her arms around my back, "You're hurting, I can tell. It's ok to cry, Jay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""No, it's not," I replied gruffly, her kindness tearing at my walls. "I'm a guy, I'm not supposed to cry." I could feel the fabric of her shirt beneath my chin, ruffled like she had been struggling against some unseen force./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""There's nobody here but me, you know I'll never judge you." She said gently in an honest tone that always broke through my mask. Burying my face in her neck I cried, for how long I don't know but Bree stayed there, holding me comfortingly and rubbing my back, her ear against the top of my head./span/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree's heart ached for her friend as she listened to his heart-wrenching crying, she quietly comforted him, rubbing his back and humming random tunes so her throat vibrated adding more comfort. Her head was tilted so her ear was pressed against his head, amber eyes gazing out at the dreary woods, her eyes locked on the slowly setting sun that sent rays of red, pink, and orange light through the gaps in the trees. 'emI was supposed to be sleeping right now, but it's worth it helping Jay. If only I knew why he was so hurt!'/em Jay's crying turned into hiccups but Bree didn't move, instead of tightening her grasp around his back, using one hand to gently run her fingers through his black hair, somewhere in the back of her mind she registered the texture but stayed focused on helping him. After while Jay seemed to fall asleep and Bree fidgeted, she was starting to get chilly having rushed out of her house in a t-shirt and capris, not prepared to stay out in the freezing cold of the night, her hair was billowing sideways from the chilly breeze. Finally, Jay moved back and she let him go, "Are you ok?" She asked gently./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Yeah, thanks, Bree." He replied, rubbing his blind blue eyes that were red around the edges. Bree used her fingertips to remove any trace of his tears,/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Do you want to go back home? I need to get going or my mom's going to freak." She said using her arms to heave herself back into her wheelchair, her legs and arms were scratched up from all the undergrowth but her amber eyes were worried. "Can I trust you not to do anything stupid?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Probably not."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Well, I have to. Don't do anything stupid Jay, I'll come over before Cynthia and Leon leave alright?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Okay." He murmured. Bree leaned forward and gently kissed his forehead before starting to roll away, looking back a few times./span/p
div class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"hr align="center" size="2" width="100%" /div
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Later that night Bree opened her eyes with a snap, feeling someone's breath on her face. For a moment she stared at a pair of blind blue eyes before she yelped and pushed Jay back sitting up, "Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!" She managed through a strangled voice. Jay's eyes locked on hers and he just stared at her, no visible emotions in his eyes. She recognized the blank look and spoke hesitantly, "You got thin mints again didn't you?" He nodded getting closer Bree pushed her back against the wall behind her and sighed, "They always make you drunk so why do you eat them?!" She pushed him back in one arm firmly, "Look, while I'm happy you aren't moping I didn't mean for you to eat those stupid cookies and find me!"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I wanted to." He replied, moving her arm to the side./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""I don't want you to get in my bubble Jay,"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Why not?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Because every time you eat these you either try and kiss me or pass out in my room, not a good situation when my parents come to investigate." Bree deadpans, looking up at the ceiling and purposely avoiding his eyes. The last time this had happened was a year ago when he was bullied by his cousin Dawn for accidentally letting her brother drown in the frozen lake, the last time she had let him, understanding he didn't know what he was doing and just wanted someone to show they appreciated him. But this time she didn't want to start anything when she didn't know why he was hurt in the first place. Because she liked the actions it was extremely hard for her to avoid it as demonstrated right now as she covered her mouth with a hand and pushed him farther back./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Bree," He huffed insistently getting closer./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Jay." She replied in the same tone, "I don't want your relationship with Hadara screwed up because you're drunk off sugar."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay frowned, "I don't have a relationship with her anymore, she thought I was her childhood friend." Bree froze in shock, her arms slipping down to her side, that moment of her shocked state let Jay get close enough to be breathing on her face. "See, so there's nothing to mess up."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Except for the fact, you're drunk on sugar."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""No, I'm not." Jay huffed./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Yes, you are-" She paused to push him back before finishing her sentence, "Maybe someday, but not while you're on a sugar high Jay."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay suddenly grinned his usual gruff grin, blind eyes filling with curt annoyance like normal. "I'm no a sugar high Bree, I'm fully aware."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree's face went pink and she narrowed her eyes at him, "Trying to steal something from me?" She snorted./span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Maybe, but you've already had a first kiss so technically I'm not stealing anything."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Sure." Bree rolls her eyes, "Then why are you here?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Because I want to be."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Sorry Jay, but I'm not your rebound, wait a while first."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Ok fine. But, I don't want to be normal friends."/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree thought about it for a moment before sighing reluctantly, "Alright fine. Friends with benefits, that better?"/span/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal;"span style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;""Very." Jay smiled a rare genuine smile before leaning farther forward and pressing a kiss to her nose. Bree rolled her eyes but let him, contently half closing her eyes./span/p
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p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Character Emails (all are gmail accounts)/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Caylee and any other side character – youngcrazyteenageauthor/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Cynthia – athleticsapphiresinger/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Leon – athleticgoldenboy/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Bree – cheerfulcuriosity/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Jay – perfectgrumpytone /span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Holly – emeraldintelligencequeen/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Fini – gingerandwhiteteenager/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"WHSS Art/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; text-align: center; line-height: normal;" align="center"emspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"Deviantart: tigercryrocks | Instagram: tigercry/span/em/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: center;" align="center"strongspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; line-height: 107%; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"WHSS Audiobooks/span/strong/p
p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto; line-height: normal;"strongemspan style="font-size: 13.5pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman',serif; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; color: black;"*Coming Soon*/span/em/strong/p