I cant believe that I am on the 12th chapter already! This story is just stuck in my head and I dont think I will be able to move onto anything else until I get it all out. Chapters may be getting shorter, but that is because I divide the story by whose point of view it is in, sometimes I need to focus on others more but still need a small point of interest from anothers point of view to break it up...I think that makes sense... Anyways, I am going to be combining Parker's point of view with that of the squints, the day affected them too! Hope you enjoy!
God this has been a long week and it is only Monday. Last year I went to Mexico to get away only I didn't get away because the memorial services were all over the world. I never thought that I would hear about the sixth anniversary of the Trade Center Attack or the Attack on the Pentagon or the plane that crashed down near Shanksville. I thought I would be safe to escape in Mexico, safe to run away for a week and come back and be fine. I wasn't though. I was not fine and I knew I couldn't run anymore.
I had to go visit their families. Tell them I am sorry for telling them to stay. I called them all and told them the news that they had indeed died in the attack. I told them before we were even done searching and pulling bodies out of the wreckage. I knew there was no way they could have survived so I called them to tell them, sometimes the worry is worse than knowing. I knew, I told.
Only I was too scared to tell them in person. It was my fault and I knew it and I was too much of a coward to go and tell them face to face.
"Bones will you go with me to see their families?" I asked her after hanging up with Cam.
"If you will go with me to visit Shelby's husband and daughter." She answered.
I turned and looked at the clock on the wall. It was eight, we had been up for over twenty-four hours. Without sleep my emotions run rampant. It does not seem to affect her in the same way though, she just stays the same, the Same old Bones, my best friend.
"I want pancakes." She said smiling at me. "If we are going to be hiding out this week I want pancakes. Lets go to the store Booth."
She always had a plan, a logical thing to do to go along with the illogical. She was taking a week off of work for me. Usually I have to practically beg her to go across the street to the diner for lunch.
We went to the store and got enough junk food to feed us for months and about fifteen different movies to keep our minds off of the events of the week, at least for a while. After we made pancakes we sat down on the couch and turned on the movie Men In Black. When that movie ended we watched the second one. Then we watched all five of the Harry Potter movies. Then we turned on Yours, Mine and Ours; not the one that Parker liked, I couldn't stand that movie, we watched the original with Lucile Ball and Henry Fonda. Bones said she watched it over and over when she was younger.
I do not remember falling asleep, I watched as Bones nodded off, she kept leaning closer and closer to me before she finally leaned against me and fell asleep. Having her with me felt amazing. A best friend who would do anything for me, a best friend who has done more for me than I ever imagined even she would be able to do.