Stories:Excerpt 5

“Yes, I will, I would love to be a lawyer,” he said patting his chest with his good hand. I laughed and so did Carson.
I remembered how Lyn did the same thing I did to Ned when I got hurt. Ned must of saw me frowned.
“Mally, don’t be sad,” Ned whispered patting my head with his good hand.
“I wish,” I said and putted everything away.
“Well, at least you have Ned Welch here,” he said smiling at me. “Not everybody have me as their cousin.”
I smiled. “Alright, don’t get your other hand bruised up and I’m going to be glad.”
Ned winced when I said I hope he doesn’t bruise up his other hand.
“I won’t I promised, as long as you’re happy,” he promised proudly. I smiled and went out the door. Carson followed me because he was right behind me after I put the first aid kit back to where it was supposed to be.
“So are you alright,” he asked.
I smiled, but a fake one. “Yeah, why won’t I?”
“Kristi told me what happen,” he said and he caught my surprised look. “Like she didn’t want me to mention anything that would you know... cause problems for you.”
I nodded. “Yeah, whatever.”
“I’m going to go back to Ned,” he said still looking at me. I nodded again and closed the door behind me.
I was wondering how I would react if it was Lyn or the old me. I would have probably flirted with him already, begging him to ask me on a date, but I knew it wouldn’t happen now because I’m starting a new life with no Lyn, no parents, no friends and no one that loves me. Where the old me has Lyn, my parents, a whole school as my friend, and everybody that loves me.
I shut off my laptop and decided to take a nap since I didn’t have the best sleep ever.
I could see her face. I could see how she’s all bloody and how she’s screaming. She’s whispering words to me, but I can’t hear any because the windows are blocking her voices. I could see my reflection and that I’m crying.
“Lyn,” I called, but she doesn’t answer me. Instead, she continues on her words. I couldn’t understand each word she was saying, but I made out the last few words. BE CAREFUL. I screamed. I don’t why I screamed, but I did.
I woke up and find myself sweating again, but this time I was sobbing. I rushed into the bathroom and washed up. I stared at my reflection and noticed that my skin was pale and I looked like I was going to puke. My hair was a mess, so I tied it up to a messy ponytail.
I opened the door and found Carson. “Hey.”
“Hey, are you alright,” he asked. “I heard you screamed.”
“Yeah, nightmares.”
“You look really sick,” he informed. “But you still look pretty.”
I smiled. If I was like my old self I would have jumped out of my pant already. I nodded. “Yeah, pretty loud, huh.”
“Well, not really, but Ned heard it too,” he informed. “He said you were like that last night too.”
“Yeah, I seem to notice that too,” I snapped.
We were silent.
“Sorry, I’m not in a mood for a talk,” I apologized and put my hand on my forehead.
“Yeah,” he said. The front door opened and closed.
“It’s probably Kristi,” I said and I headed down the stairs.
“Hey,” I greeted and saw Kristi lying there on the couch.
“Hey, real tired, I swear I can’t wait until we get back to school,” she said kicking her shoes off. “If it wasn’t for Ned I would never work that late on my summer break, where you’re supposed to have fun.”
I nodded and noticed that now I moved in, I made things harder for her. “Maybe I could get a job or something.”
She sat up. “No, no it’s fine, I didn’t meant you, it’s mostly Ned nothing to do with you.”
“And it’s also my parents fault for giving birth to Ned at the age of fifty something and then said that they should go around the world. I mean really my parents are fags.”
“Really Kristi, I’m still going to live, I can’t just end my life because my sister died and I survived,” I said. “I can’t be like that; it’ll totally be screw up.”
“Oh, I was afraid, you know, that you won’t get over it,” she said. I smiled. Running came into the room and we both knew that it was Ned. He jumped onto Kristin’s lap.