Chapter Five
Before time for everyone to get home rolled around, me and Buck were left alone. And the "lord of the flames" had left a fire going already. It didn't look like "lord of, touch me and you're dead" was coming either, if he didn't I'd send Crash or Eddie to get Zeke and he'd get Diego's meal. speaking of meals, I had to go get Sophie, or else she wouldn't eat, and that would not do. Not a'tall.
"Buck," I started, looking at him, he was on the ground, sharpening his knife.
He nodded his head, "Aye?"
"I'm goanna go get Sophie, she needs to eat, she wont unless I make her." I answered, excusing myself.
Nothing in the world could have prepared me for what awaited at that tree house, nothing. It was horrible, shocking, horrifying. My heart went cold at the sight of her, lying there, motionless. She didn't look like she was breathing, I went over slowly and checked her pulse. She was dead. My best friend had died; the last time I saw her she hugged me, and I ran away. On the wall was a leaf note, it read:
Dear Suzy,
By the time you read this, I'll be gone. I know my choice was wrong, (I didn't commit suicide moron, I mean I starved cause I wouldn't eat) but I feel like I'm dying, so as my last will and testament, I want you to sing our favorite song to remember me by, sing a sad one to match the pain, and a happy one to lift your spirits. Burry me under the willow tree at noon, with that little dino-tooth necklace you gave me. I also want you to, as my dying wish, go for it with Buck. You know that's what I would want. I may be dead, but that doesn't mean I'll be some serious old fuddy-duddy deciding who gets my tree, now does it? We're still just two twenty-three -ear-old teenagers aren't we? Tell my family I love them, and I will see them when it's time to go home. I love you, Red.
-Sophie.
My heart was broken, dead, shattered beyond repair. "Oh Sophie, why?" I said shakily. I couldn't be there anymore, I was too much, too much for me to bear. "I love you too Bumble Bee." with that I slid down the tree trunk and ran away as fast as I could. I clutched the leaf note in my hand, fingernails digging into my palms all the way.
"Buck! Buck!" I yelled as I entered the cave. I hadn't realized I was crying until that moment. "She's dead, Sophie's dead! Oh god… she's gone, Buck…" and you better believe I fell into those arms and cried just like a baby, total waterworks fest.
"Oh my god, Suzy cue…" Buck said, barely audible through my sobs, he held me closer, at this point we were both on our knees on the ground. "You're sure?"
I held out the leaf note, he understood right away. "Oh Jesus, Buck, I don't know if I'll get through this!" I sobbed, "How could she? She was a beautiful, sweet, wonderful baby-blue eyed girl! She was so young, Buck!" I said between wails and sobs, "How could she? Her family will be crushed…"
"Shhhh, it' okay Suzy cue, she'll be alright." he was rocking me now, "Don't worry, I'll be here, I'll help you through it." he said soothingly.
"Oh my god." I whispered.
"What?" Buck asked.
"People will be here soon." I go, "I need to pull myself together." I tried to get up, but Buck kept me down. I couldn't remember the last time I had fallen into somebody's arms and just cried; that somebody had held me.
"You don't always have to be so though, you're always keeping it together, staying strong. But you can only do that so long before you need to let go. And for you, that time is now."
"Buck, that may be the smartest, sanest, most sensible thing you've ever said to me. And, I want to admit something." I said the last part more quietly.
"Aye?" he answered, even quieter than me.
"I love you." I said so quietly it was barely audible, "And I know you wont stay, but, I just wanted-" I was caught off guard by the shock of my life, Buck leaned in and kissed me! No cheek action, nuh uh, right on the mush, the business end o' my face! If I didn't believe in chain-letter texts before, I sure as hell did now! When it ended I was full-on enchanted, putty in his hands, so to speak.
He caressed my cheek ever so gently and said the million dollar words, "I love you too, Suzy cue."
After I'd stopped crying, I rested my head on Buck's shoulder, and absent-mindedly began to sing,
"Sophie cannot, finish her dinner
She said she's had too much
Sophie's trying to make herself thinner
She says she eats enough
And her brother says, "you're joking"
And her mother's heart is broken
She can be like all the other girls,
Living in an ordinary world,
Be just like all the other girls
Sophie's losing weight by the minute
The doctors say it's not good
And her sister won't stop crying,
Cause her daddy says, Sophie's dying
So she can be like all the other girls,
Living in an ordinary world,
Be just like all the other girls
So today Sophia is with Jesus
Cause she never thought she could please us
But she was nothing like the other girls,
Living in some old ordinary world, ordinary world
Nothing like the other girls."
I could tell Buck was crying, because a tear fell on my right shoulder.
(Author's note)
Ray: Oooooh! Omg! Holey shit! #$%!
Asia: Ray… Ray calm down!
Ray: Can I tell the next part?
Asia: Yes Ray.
Ray: Yayuh! Good cause they wouldn't get it if I didn't.
Asia: I know huh? ^^
Rose: *sniffling* Oh my poor Sophie! *bursts into tears*
Asia: I know huh? *hugs Rose*
Diego: *whispering* Who's she?
Asia: You'll meet her in the next chapter… now shut up, she's hurting.
Diego: Oh, I see.
Sid: Poor Sophie!
Crash/Eddie: *in unison* I know huh?
Sid: *Crying* She was so young!
Asia: Nobody else cries! Or else I'm goanna cry and it'll just be a mess!
Buck: What did I just get done telling you in that last chapter?
Asia: …Shut the hell up -.-
Crash: Can me and Eddie give the teaser?
Asia: No teaser this time, it's too good to give any of it away ^^ P.S. me and my friend haley wrote that song and we have legal copyright! and i stress the legal part, we got the damn papers signed and everything!