Until
I met
you.
Chapter
Four:
I
woke up confused to see light pink walls, and me covered in a
floral blanket, and instantly remembering that I slept at
Melanies house last night. Before you get ahead of yourselves,
let me explain.
So
We've been hanging out for like 2 weeks everyday now, and
it was always the same thing, going to the beach, walking down
a path we found by accident, and I remember the day
perfectly.
We were
walking and we saw some people trying to 'get it on' in
the sand, so we decided to cut through the boulders. We came to
a cave, It wasn't dark and scary likke you'd think it
was actually illuminating, luring us in. Our faces must have
just about fallen off. our jaws almost hitting the
ground.
Walking in
farther, I kept Melanie close, not wanting her to get hurt by
any possible danger, which seemed to me impossible in this
place. "Wow, look." She pointed at the water
reflecting off the speckling walls of the cave. I walked
closer, Melanie not too far behind. "Mel, be
careful." I felt her there but her mind was somewhere
else.
The sounds of trickeling water was the only
thing you could hear in that cave. It was absolutely soothing.
"Issac..." I snapped my head back to look at her, and
saw that she had gotten farther than I had. "You're
going to pee yourself when you see this." I slowly made my
way to her.
The view was mirraculous. Shimmering water, the small
amount of water streaming dow the side of the cave and into,
what I could only assume was a swimming hole. The sun was
shining in, and some waves coming in from the ocean just
outside the other end of the cave.
"This is the single most amazing place I have
literally ever seen." I looked over at her glimmering eyes
as her face hit up. The lighting was extremely flattering to
her, every lighting was.
We've been
coming here ever since. After going to our swcret place, we
would go to the diner down the road, and eat dinner. And then
we would go back to one of our houses to watch a movie before
we said our goodbyes for the night.
Yesterday was
different. Yesterday was amazing, frightening, and confusing
all together. It started off as just a regular day, until she
didn't show up after leaving to grab her swim suit from her
house. It was the first day we would swim in our special
swimming hole.
My phone rang.
"Mel?" She was sobbing, I couldn't make out a
thing she was saying. "Issac....Please come." I
instantly jumpred from my seat running to her house. I ran,
watching as I pass every house, which is a complete blu until I
freeze up in front of Melanie's house.
Sirens, The
flashing lights, the stretchers going into the house.
"No." I ran through the crowd and passed the cops,
detectives and straight into the house. Instant flash back.
"Issac, I need you to remember what happened for me buddy,
okay? I know it's hard, but we need to keep you safe."
I remember Nina calming me as the detectives continued asking
me questions.
"Issac?!"
I snapped out of it, instantly running onto the stairs, holding
Melanie as close to me as I could, I could feel te shoulder of
my shirt getting cold and wet, and I rubbed her back, and
holding her head.
'Issac, I
know you miss them." I hugged Nina, she was holding me
closely, petting my hair. I couldn't help but scream at
night, I still do from time to time.
"Issac....they're
dead." I pulled away looking her in he blood-shot eyes.
"Who?" She chocked back the ongoing sobbing she would
have for the rest of her life. "My parents." I held
her close, knowing exactly what she was feeling right now. This
would never leave her.
"Melanie...I
cannot begin to explain how sorry I am..." She hugged me.
"I saw him you know....He came in my room first." I
shook my head, not believing what I was hearing. It was
impossible that it was the same guy, right? Maybe I am just
over thinking this.
"I hid
under my bed, he kept yelling that he was sorry for what he was
going to do. He got caught, he's in the car." I looked
over, sighing that it wasn't the same man. "They say
that he was an ex employyee of my Dad's
company."
I just held
her close. "Melanie Cowwell. We're going to need you
to come down to the station and give your witness report. She
held onto me tightly. "Issac, please don;t leave my
side." I held her close, "I wont let you be alone,
ever again."
"You did
an amazing job giving the details Issac, how about we go and
get you some icecream?" I smiled at Nina, she seemed to be
a really nice lady. "I don't want to be left alone
forever." She held onto my hand, walking to her car.
"I won't let you be alone, ever
again."
After going to
the station, and listening to Melanie sob and stutter for an
hour as these detectives tried their best to be nice, while
asking questions. "And who is this with you?" I spoke
up, knowing that Melanie didn't want to talk anymore.
"Uh, Issac. Issac Frans." The detective on the right
sipped from his coffee. "Where you from?" I told him
and he held his hand out and onto my shoulder. "I was
there." I furrowed my eyebrows, confused.
Oh? Oh....OH,
was he? I suppose he looked like he was old enough to have been
there, he did have greying hair after all. "I looked down
at Melanie, and back up to him as he spoke. "It must be
hard to be around all of this." Melanie looked up at me,
her eyes swollen and red, tears on her cheeks. "What does
he mean?" Oh boy. Now I had to explain it to her, and
while she's going through all of this. I simply nodded at
the man, and put my arm around melanie, and walking out of the
door with her.
She looked up
at me, still waiting for an answer. "Lets discuss this
over ice-cream, deal?" She nodded. We ate ice-cream, and I
explained everything, her face as less puffy and red, the
ice-cream and my story had helped. She was understnding in why
I hadn't just told her in the first place. She told me how
she felt a little better, knowing she had someone to understand
what she was going through.
And then I
walked her home.
"Issac,
I'm scared." I scratched the back of my neck, sighing.
I was nervous for what i was about to say. "I could, uh
you know. stay the night. Only if you wouldn't mind, to uh,
be there for you and stuff." Asmile grew across her face
for the first time since I had seen her leave for her
bathingsuit this morning. "I would love
that."
Long story
short, she had a nightmare, so I I went to check up on her.
"Melanie, are you okay?" I peek my head into the
door. I could see her face in the little luminant glow coming
on from the street lights. She looked like she had seen a
ghost. "Issac, I don't want to sound creepy
but.." She scooted toward the wall on her bed opening the
covers. "Could you?" I nodded.
I could barely
fall asleep, I thought about my birth parents. "Sweetie,
we love you so much, you don't have to be afraid." I
held my stuffed dinosaur close. "But mommy, I'm
scared." I walked up to the pre-school doors, other kids
walking in willingly. She bent down hugging me. "Issac,
you're so brave, you'll get through it." Then I
thought back to the night they would be gone forever,
remembering how much I tried myself I could get through
anything, but I was too young, I couldn't do this, no
matter how strong I was. Eventually, I had fallen
asleep.
And that's
how we got here, I woke to the smell of bacon. Mmmmm bacon. I
walked into the kitchen, my nose filling with multiple
fragrances. "You looked so peacefull, didn't want to
wake you." She held up a plate for me. "Thanks."
I groggily walked over into the seat she set the plate in front
of, in my blue pajama pants, and white tanktop, my hair looking
a mess. "Oh and Issac? Please call me
Mel."
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