Hey. I hope you guys had a happy Thanksgiving, for all the Americans. Sorry I didn't update sooner, but you know how it is during the holidays. Thanks for being patient. Also I recently saw this anime show called Elemental Gelade. Search it on Youtube 'cause it was amazing! I'm thinking of doing a fanfiction on it when I'm done with this one. Huge thanks to all of my reviewers! We made it to 100! Yay!
Chapter: Little picture, littler world
"No. No. No. Stop it! Stop! NO!" Sophie sat up straight in bed, clutching the sheets to her chest. Out the window, the moon hung bog and low in the inky blue sky littered with small specks of stars. Her heartbeat started to slow as she took deep, shuddering breaths. She had to remind herself where she was, who she was.
"I'm Sophie Jennifer Casterwill. I'm 15, and my mom is dead, and my dad is abusive. Lok found me, and now I'm in my room at his house. I'm safe here."
"You're damn straight you're safe." Sophie turned her head to see Lok's shadowy outline. He moved slowly over to her side. The bed sagged as his weight fell upon it. Sophie leaned against her best friend as he played with her hair.
"You have no idea how worried I was. I thought you were gone. The doctors didn't come to talk to me for the longest time. Longer than last time. Why didn't you tell me?" A small sigh escaped the strawberry girl's lips.
"I didn't want to scare you away. You were the first friend I have had in years. I just didn't want to face the world alone anymore. Many people wouldn't have bothered making friends with me in the first place. After you apologized for lying about the silliest little things, I was afraid if I came clean you would hate me." Lok turned Sophie's face to look at him.
"I could never hate you. So, can you come clean now?" As she gazed into his sapphire depths, she found courage to speak.
"It started when I was five or six. Dad had started to drink. He and his friends would bet, drink, and gamble all night. One night, mom confronted my dad and he beat her, then me. I had no idea what was going on. It continued for two years, then my mom died.
"My dad was totally intoxicated that night. He tried to beat only me, but mom fought back. But her body was battered and hurt from previous beatings. My dad murdered her. Originally, she was put in the ground, but the night before the funeral, my aunt and I stole her body and sent her out to sea. Dad never and still doesn't know.
"Soon enough, Scarlet started to bully me because I stood up to her. No one would talk to me. Peter did for a bit, but my dad scared him away. Zhalia would talk to me outside of school, but never around other people. Between Scarlet and my dad I started to break. I started cutting myself. That didn't last long because it hurt too much. But I noticed Scarlet was cutting herself. We made a deal and now if she cuts herself, she doesn't bully me for a week. If she bullies me, I spill her precious secret.
"I was about ready to kill myself when you came along. I had a knife in my locker that day. I was planning to stab myself during a presentation that day. You saved me Lok. Thank you." At one point in her sad history, Lok wrapped his arms around her. Now he puled her close to his chest.
"Sophie, you were going to... kill yourself?" Lok felt her nod in reply. "Well, I'm glad you didn't. You're the bestest friend I've ever had. I think Billy would like you." Sophie felt a blush dust across her cheeks.
"Thank you, Lok. Thank you for everything. Most of all, thank you for being my friend." Lok gave her a reassuring squeeze.
"No, Sophie. Thank you for letting me in. Thank you for giving me the chance to protect you. I don't know what I would do without you." They sat in dark silence until Lok felt Sophie fall asleep. Gently, he rearranged the sleeping beauty into a more comfortable position. He quietly tiptoed across the shadowed hall to his room. The blonde boy turned over in his bed to look at a picture of a young, very young, him and a little girl about the same age. We were three, he recalled. A small smile played on his lips as he fell asleep staring at the picture of him and a strawberry blonde little girl with bright green eyes.
In case you didn't know, it was him and Sophie. They used to live in that town, but after Ethon died, they moved. After Billy died, they moved back. So yeah.