Boys Fall In Love Too.
Chapter 28

"Your sister is gone," Mrs. Capp said, holding onto the counter as if it was the key to life. Colton looked at her, he couldn't quite process the exact meaning. He took a hopeful guess, "You mean, she ran away from McCay Academy?" It would be better than the other option. "No!" screamed his mother, "SHE'S DEAD COLTON." The words hit Colton like a bag of rocks. First Crissa, now Scarlett, both of his sisters, gone forever. "How-how'd she, you know..die?" he asked, stepping closer to his mother. She was unable to answer, collapsing on the ground in a heap, sobbing so loudly he was sure the neighbors would hear. "Leave me alone, Colton. Please," said her muffled voice. "But, Mom," he said. "Leave me alone!" she said louder and went to the bathroom, slamming the door. Colton didn't remember her reacting so strongly to Crissa's death. She of course had broken down in tears, but she hadn't gotten angry at him when he just wanted to comfort her. Well. This is the second child she's lost, he thought. He walked upstairs and stopped at Scarlett's room, which was pretty bare now, thanks to all of her stuff shipped off to boarding school. He simply shook his head, tears brimming his eyes and shuffled into his room and closed his door softly. He pulled out his phone to text Freddy and Luke, explaining that Scarlett had passed away. As soon as it said message sent he threw his phone down on the floor, not caring if it'd break. He bent over and buried his head in his knees when he heard his ringtone go off. He bent over and picked it up, Luke was calling. "Hello?" he answered, trying to make it seem like he hadn't been crying, he didn't want his friends to ever know he cried. How manly would that be? "I'm sorry to hear about Scarlett, man. How'd it happen?" Luke asked. "That's the thing. I have no clue. I asked my mom and she f*cking freaked out at me and went and locked herself in the bathroom," Colton explained, staring at his red comforter. "My phone's about to die but let me know what happened. Think it was something with drugs?" Luke asked. "She was supposed to be detoxed of them but gurauntee someone at McCay Academy was on drugs and she found out and they shared. I don't know. She wasn't even at McCay very long! But I'll let you go. I'll text you later dude," Colton said. "Bye," he heard Luke say and click off. Colton pressed the end call button and set his bed on his bedside table. He stood up and went downstairs to the hall closet. His family always called it the "growing closet" because on the inside of the door were three charts. One for him, one for Crissa, and one for Scarlett. Every year at their birthdays they'd get measured to see how much they'd grown in the past year and mark it on the chart. Next to each mark was that year's school picture. He stared for a moment at Crissa's and Scarlett's, smiling as he looked at their school pictures from each year. Crissa had always had a genuine smile and looked perfect. As he studied Scarlett's one from this year he noticed that although she was smiling, she looked slightly dazed and confused, like she didn't know what was going on. Colton closed the closet door and went downstairs to the living room to flip through family albums, he wanted to look at all the good memories and try to get rid of the saddness he was feeling for a while.
After about an hour of looking through books Colton's mom walked into the living room, her eyes red and her nose raw. "Hi honey, whatcha doing?" she asked, sitting down next to him. "Just looking at pictures," he said. She looked down at the album in front of him, he was on a page from Easter a few years back. "These are pretty good memories," she said, pulling a Kleenex from the tissue box on the coffee table and dabbing her eyes. "They are," Colton said, staring at the pictures. "So I guess you want to know what happened, huh?" his mother asked. "Yeah," was all he said.

Author Talk: Sad chapter):
Any guesses how Scarlett died? Do you think it was drugs...or something else? Hmm..
So I had someone tell me that this story is stupid because the title is Boys Fall In Love Too and the story doesn't revolve around love. They deleted their comment, but not before I read it. Sorry but just because he's in love doesn't mean other things in his life aren't going to happen. I wanted more plot points then just love, alright? And, one of the plot points is that he's in love with Bridget, so don't tell me there isn't any love in this story.