Who's afraid of the big bad wolf?
"What's the matter Reid? Cat got your tongue?"She said seductively, like she knew the agony and the pain I was going through right now, in fact she even seemed to enjoy it, like my personal torture was some kind of pleasure for her.
No, no it couldn't be! This, this had to be a dream, no! A nightmare! Like the ones I had back when I was a kid, a stormy night, a girl with bright eyes and a puddle of blood…No, it couldn't be her. She was long gone; this stranger was nothing, just a creation of my imagination to remind me of today's date- September 13, the day no one ever saw her again. Funny, after four entire years and a very satisfying number of laids I still couldn't say her name. The very first days she went missing everyone thought she had run away, Caleb and the guys searched everywhere for her and I mean everywhere, cities nearby, and cities far away from Ipswich , hell they even used, casted spell to just see if she was in danger or needed help- nothing worked. The first month none of us talked, Caleb stopped coming to school, Tyler stayed in his room and Pogue just vanished, we were lucky if we saw him once or twice when he came to oil his bike, then he was on the road again. Kate even went to a shrink; her parents said she wasn't sleeping well at night's anymore-nightmares. If someone had told me three years ago that girl sitting under that tree next to the lake (tree on which she wrote her initials – M.L.C.) Would make us feel so much pain I probably wouldn't have believed them, the key word here thought is probably.
As for me the booze, drugs, sex and use made me forget about her even for a little while. But in the morning, right after you wake up, while being hangover you look outside your window and remember every little detail about her-how her hair flowed around her, her big grey eyes, her smile, the stupid jokes she liked and laughed her heart out at, what kind of songs and movies she liked and the ones she hated. You know the kind of stuff that the guy (that gets the girl in the end) notices and admits under the rain in those cheesy romance movies she liked to watch. Gets the girl my ass!
And then pain. Lots of it, throbbing at my right arm. Somehow without noticing it or knowing how, I was outside facing a wall that I apparently I had punched. What the fuck is going on? When had come outside? Then I heard Tyler's voice
"Man where did you go? What happened? You look like you just 'seen a ghost" he said laughing slightly. If you had seen what I saw kid trusty me you wouldn't look that well either. "Trust me Ty; I think I just did… Anyway what is it?"
"Caleb's mom called, she says we need to go to her place ASAP"
"Why? Did something happen?"
"I don't know man; she says she says she has this huge surprise for us"
"Well then, let's get going"
"Oh by the way, what happened with the babe inside? She smiled at you and you just run away like she was a freaking wolf or something. Seriously dude what's gotten into you? Did you see her? I mean actually see her? She was freaking hot at the very least! And I'm talking beyond Megan Fox hot!"
"Yeah, yeah I saw her... What can I say? Not my type" I said while trying to hide my terror.
"Not your type? Man woman is your type-your words not mine" he reminded me of that stupid line I said every now and then.
"Yeah, whatever" I replied. During the ride to Caleb's house my mind was going through different scenarios about the girl in the bar, maybe she was just someone who looked like her. Yeah, someone who had the exact same eyes, hair, smell and knew my name. What are the odds? As we climbed off the car and walked inside I suddenly got the chills. Every single time… She used to spend so much time in here, boyfriend's house –do the math. As I walked inside and passed the living room I could still see her laying on that window seat , reading a book, raising her eyes and smiling "hey Reid!" A 16-year-old Mandy said to me. I need therapy.
"Where have you been?" the bossy voice of Caleb said. It took all the will power that I never knew I had to not walk right in his face and make him remember what today's date was- ever since Sarah came in the picture (and trusted her with the secret after the Chase incident) it's like he forgot everything before she was here. No, I will not lose my temper, not in here.
"Sorry, got held up" Tyler apologized- like we even had to explain where we were! Who does he think he is, my mom? Even she doesn't control me! Actually she hasn't even seen me for quite some time-almost a year if I remember correctly. She has been travelling the world ever since my dad died. The thing is that she wasn't the only one who lost him- the thing she forgot was a kid inside a big house crying day and night, drinking, using. Pff, like she cared.
"Well anyway she won't tell me what's going on unless we are all here, I just really hope it's not like the last time" Caleb said. Last time his mom called us and brought us over only to find her on the floor saying that Caleb's dad and Mandy came to visit. Right to her a bottle of scotch was placed on the table, empty-figures. After her husband died she became an alcoholic but when Mandy was gone, let's just say that saying she got worse is an understatement.
Suddenly a tall dark haired, green eyed woman came into view with tears running on her cheeks, Evelyn - Caleb's mom.
"Mom, what's wrong? Are you hurt?" Caleb immediately came in front worried about his mom. A massive sound consisted of "Ms Danvers, are you ok?" And "Maybe you should just lay down for a while" came out of nowhere guess everyone was pretty worried. Don't get me wrong I was as well but I was kind of used to this situation –the come-home-find-your-mom-drunk situation- so I was more carefree with the whole scenario I was seeing. But the point where the nightmare began for all of us was when she said: "Oh darling I'm fine, really. It's simply tears of joy! You will never guess, not even in a million years who is in our kitchen. Oh my boys, it's been so long and now-oh god!" she said with a smile that reached up to her ears, while new tears where beginning to show.
I could see from the corner of my eye Caleb and the guys looking at each other, we all knew what it meant- she hadn't been this happy since Mandy was around. For Evelyn, Mandy wasn't just her son's girlfriend; she was the rope she was holding on, her own personal guardian angel, keeping her away from the bad things, people or anything else that could harm her.
As we walked inside the kitchen all of us were trying to figure out who the fuck was waiting for us. If it's a teacher, I'm royally screwed and if it's the police, well I hear that Mexico is really nice during September-maybe it's time for a visit. But none of us could ever under any circumstances guess that on that kitchen stool a set of two endless legs covered up –unfortunately- with jeans, a one shoulder t-shirt that showed just the right amount of skin and a waterfall of soft curly hair were waiting for us. A statue made by Michelangelo was far too ugly for this beauty. Smirks and small smiles where formed on all of our faces feeling that this just might be our lucky day, but they disappeared as fast as they came when the angel with the hot body spoke:
"Ms. Danvers your cookies are truly amazing! You have to tell me your secret" a sweet soprano voice said. All of us immediately took a step back, in fact several steps back , hell we all felt like we had just been electrocuted – and trust me : been there, done that and it aint pretty. Tyler's hands were shaking, Pogue's breath stopped and I was just standing there watching with mesmerized eyes, wishing that this was a joke, a prank, a dream, something-anything but not reality! The only one that had the courage (courage, curiosity, the anger that was hidden all these years and just surfaced when he used the "authority voice" , the pain he tried to hide , even right now , at the very end I never understood) to speak was Caleb : "M-ma-many?" he asked in a whisper , like he was afraid that a sleeping baby might wake up if he raised his voice higher, like only the thought of her gave him pain, fear, anger, more pain but also a small sigh of hope , hope that she came back to him , that she came back for him, hope that she was even alive and well, that things could go back to the way they used to be, but then all the things that had happened the past 4 years kicked in: accidents ,laughs, pain, loss ,tears, Sarah, Chase and the pain left from a small fainted memory was left. Stupid that I was back then all I could see was acting, very big deal of it actually. Liar, cheater, he had no right to feel those things-much more to fake them for the sake of the others in the room. He had no right to think of her anymore, to say her name-he didn't know what it was like to lose her the way I did, to think the things I did every time I heard her name, to even think he knew the slightest bit about being hurt!
But where I am know I see things clearly, and I wish for the sake of all of us, that I could have taken this moment back, as if we never arrived at that house that night, but at the same time I keep this memory with me for life-does it make any sense? Wanting to regret something you did but also want to hold on to it forever? Guess not…
And there we were, waiting for a response from the girl with the voice of a ghost to turn around, prove us wrong and get on with our lives. But fate had different plants-the girl that turned around to look at us was anything but a stranger.
She wasn't a blonde or a redhead, she didn't have brown or green or blue eyes, and she didn't have thin small lips. There on that stool sat a girl with a set of two grey eyes looking at us not with "amazement and curiosity "like they used to but with some sort of twisted entertainment and a smirk on her face.
"Hey boys…Missed me?"
"There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you."
~Maya Angelou (American Poet)
Hey guys! (: I know that I have no excuse for actually taking an entire year to write a third chapter but I had to face some very important issues technology and exams got in the way so I had so little time to rest and I was in no mood to start writing again-but all that is gone now and IM BACK! :D Be sure that updates will be posted very very soon, maybe even sooner than you think (; Anyway thank you for even taking time to read my story, you really are making my day! Oh and yeah, comments are more than welcomed (any questions, suggestions etc just ask) Thank you (: