Pacey
"Pacey time for dinner," my mom yelled from the door "You have been playing long enough!" She was referring to me playing basket ball; i've been outside since i got home from school. I just can't seem to make a single basket, the only thing i keep thinking about is how much i hurt Kairi last night, but Harley needed me a lot and i had to be there for her this time. I can't do to her what i did last time, she will never forgive me, she needed me back in eighth grade and I wasn't there. My head started racing again.
"I'm not hungry!" I yelled back, my mom had probably closed the door already but i didn't care, i tried again for another basket. This time it bounced of the rim and rebounded back at me, for the split seconds that i look away it hit me square in the face. "Damit!" I screamed into the air picking up the basket ball and throwing it against the wall to the garage. This time the ball barley missed me and rolled to my feet, i kicked it away and crumbled into the driveway. "I can't pick two girls," i whispered to myself "Why can't i just not hurt either one of them." Kairi's face that night and Harley's face the night i found her at Andrew's parkway they both looked so scared and confused but i knew deep down that i couldn't help both of them. I had been there for Kairi for those two years we dated, now it was my chance to be there for Harley. For right now i think Kairi can take care of herself. I had just started to get myself together when i felt a hand on my shoulder. I turned around and there was Harley.
"I think i'm ready," she whispered
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Kairi
I sat in the passenger seat as we drove around Conner's neighborhood trying to find him. It was Pacey's neighborhood too so it brought back a lot of memories. From the little playground at the end of the street where we use to take his little sister Jordan down to play. She is six now and well into first grade which still amazes me, she just grew up so fast! Then there was the field behind his yard, where we once spent the night in, at first it was amazing we laid in the grass together gazed up at the stars, it was beutiful. That didn't last long though by the time it was about twelve at night Pacey decided Ghost Stories would be best suited for the occasion, needless to say we ended up running home and spending the rest of the night in Pacey's backyard. His mom must have knew we would never last there, she never gave us a tent when we went to the field just sleeping bags, however in the backyard she had already set up the tent. I was surprised though that she trusted us that much though to be in a tent alone with each other. I mean we were two sixteen year olds, not saying we did anything, we just slept next to each other which was nice because i could feel his heart beat against mine back as a i fell asleep.
"He isn't here!" Bennett said breaking into my thoughts "Do you know of anywhere he would go?" I turned to look at him. "Are you okay?" He asked turning to look at me and noticing the tear stains on my cheeks.
"Yah, i'm fine" I said reaching up to brush the tears away "He might be in Sandy Park," Bennett looked at me, he knew i wasn't okay but he dismissed it and nodded taking his next right and heading in the direction of Sandy Park. I didn't know for sure that that was where Conner would be but there was another memory, a special one that Conner shared with Pacey, Bennett and I that happened there.
It was a nice autumn day with a nice breeze and everything. Pacey, Bennett and I where walking to Sandy Park to go walk in the woods like we use to do on nice days like this. Pacey had said there was a new family moving in down the street, he heard they had a girl and a boy our age, so Pacey though that maybe we could just check it out. So, instead of taking our first right off of his street we kept walking and sure enough at the house on the end there was a moving truck. A young boy taking stuff out of the van, Pacey ran over and greeted him and we talked for a little bit, then we learned that his name was Conner. We never met Skyler that day, I don't exactly remember why, but we invited Conner to come with us so we could show him around the neighborhood. He nodded a smile spreading across his face, he asked his dad and off we went. Once at Sandy Park, Pacey and Bennett showed him the rope swing into the creek, and the old make shit tire swing some kids had designed way before any of us had even discovered it the first time when we where like eight. With Conner close by Pacey, Bennett and I decided to go deeper into the woods then we had ever gone before. We trudged through the leaves, i mean there was a path we had just never decided to go this far into the woods we usually just stayed at the creek. But, this time we decided to go farther. I'm pretty sure Conner had never done anything like this before the excitement on his face was like that of a little kid at Christmas. We rounded a bend and there in front of us was this huge tree house. And i mean huge, it had a slide and a rope ladder and a balcony. There where no houses around here which means someone had to have lugged all the stuff here and built it. It looked like it hadn't been used in years. Being curious ten year olds at the time we quickly became attached to the place, we called it "KPBCF" also known as "Kairi's, Pacey's, Bennett's and Conner's Fort" we where ten that was all we could come up with.
"Your thinking about the club house arn't you?" Bennett said again interrupting my thoughts "You heard the burned down a few months ago right? There was an article on it in the newspaper, i guess someone set a match to it, they still don't know who." I nodded. I had heard about it and I knew who did it too, but Bennett didn't know so that wasn't something i was about to talk to him about. "Well we are here if we want to get out and look around in the woods before it gets too dark outside." Again i nodded to him and we took the flashlights he use to keep in his car just in case, that was always Bennett, he was always prepared.
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