ok as i promised there is the next part! it's a bit long but it's very very interesting..
and kinda emotional xD
Part 26“So that’s it! I’m done!” I hoped on my feet and took my plate into the kitchen sink, then I moved forward to the door “See ya”
“Where are you going?” my mom spoke as they were all still being gathered to the table.
“Um..out! obviously, I’m going to meet the girls..” I answered confused.
“No for today honey, we have to talk about something”
I got more confused “can’t it wait?”
“No”
I sighed. Okay.. That was not the first time that they were playing pesky “Ok then tell me” I said and sat on the chair again impatient.
They were all silent.
“So…?? What is it?” I asked more impatient.
“You have to stay at home” my mom finally spoke after she had looked dad and David.
“Ok.. for how long?”
“For a while”
“Huh? Why?”
“Things got little dangerous for you out there and we have to be aware…It’s not only you, all the parents have these conversation with their daughters right now” mom said little guardedly.
I made a grimace “Mom..i really don’t understand what’re you saying”
“It’s what we talked yesterday Carol. You’re not gonna get hurt with a little abstinence” dad said.
“What??” I shouted and stood up “please tell me that this is not about Ryan! For God’s sake!”
“It is honey! It sounds silly but it’s not! It’s serious! More than we expected.”
“Oh kill me now please!!!!” I shouted.
“Your mother has right Carol, there’re things you don’t know.. and we just learnt about them” dad spoke and looked at David seriously, when their eyes met David looked down miserable.
“What things?” I made an inquisitive look at David and then looked my father.
Mom looked at David.
“Did something happen? Someone got hurt? Is everyone alright?” I shouted anxiously.
“No everyone is ok, nothing happened..not recently at least.. it’s in the past” mom answered.
“oh! So why we have to care so much about?”
“Because it came on the surface now! And concern us all!”
“So what is it! Speak! Someone! I’m not famous for my patience” I yelled one more time.
“It has to do with Ryan and his pack..and Eric” David said almost whispering.
I was way too shocked to concentrate to the question my father made to David when he told Eric’s name.
What Eric has to do with all of these?“What do you mean?” was the only thing I could ask. My father was still confused about the new character in the story.
“I wish I have seen it before, at the first time he came in town but it has been years and I could barely remember him since I had seen him only twice in my life.”
His words was like a rush.. I concentrated so I could catch them all, I didn’t speak and I let him finish.
«It was the summer in 2005 when I used to hanging out with Ryan and his pack (Peter and Joe). The same summer when Eric and his family came to town to spend the holidays. We met him in a bonfire, him and his sister Amy- »
shocked encircled me as the sound of her name sent cold shivers down my back.
«- Eric wasn’t really outgoing, he wasn’t talking too much, just the typical words but Amy was…boy she was different!» David said shaking his head “you could tell that she wasn’t like the other usual girls from town, she was unique! Her laugh, her sense of humor, her knowledge, her confidence, her outstanding beauty even her voice! Everyone loved her that day!”
»Of course Ryan couldn’t just let such an opportunity go, so he soon enough got to know her.» He made a grimace and continued. «We didn’t want a fight with him so we backed off, she was interested too anyway, so we let them be. The one who couldn’t stand his sister’s new boyfriend was Eric, he was younger than her, younger than Ryan but he still had the guts to threaten him thinking that he could protect his sister like that.» David chuckled.
»Two weeks had past and Amy and Ryan were still together, we used to hanging out with them a lot so I got to know her better as time went by, she was really an interesting person, she had her opinion for everything! We became great friends… » he made a miserable face.
»but then.. they had a fight and Amy kept her distance from all of us, at that time some old friends of Ryan came to town, they were those guys who think that they can have whatever they want and do whatever they want, they were rude and we’ve been fighting with them a lot. Peter and Joe decided that they would take a break from all these until they leave and I agreed with them. We kept our distance too but one night, I don’t know how that happened but Amy called me, her voice was trembled I could tell that she was shaking, she was crying. The only thing she said was my name and then she hung up»
He looked at me with bleeding eyes as I was deep in the story. Mom made a short gasp.
»I couldn’t do anything! I didn’t know where she was living, I didn’t know any phone number, the only thing I could do was to go look for Ryan. So I did, he was somewhere near the beach when I found him, he looked terrible like he was drank or something, I got close to him and demanded to know where Amy was.. he didn’t answered me and he was denying everything I was telling him and he was blaming his stupid friends, then I understood.. Whatever Amy had, whatever had happened to her was his fault or theirs!»
»I fought him, it was the first time I was fighting with hate and eager, I wanted to kill him for what he had done. After we finished and we were both bleeding he threatened me that if I ever opened my mouth to give him in he would say that we were together in that. I was too young and too frightened to think clearly, I agreed. I went back home and never talked about that, even if it hurt me.»
Tears were rolling on my eyes as my mom put her hand on her mouth to hold back her sob, dad was listening carefully still serious looking at David who continued..
»The next morning the news said that they found her dead in the bathroom, she took overdose and they couldn’t save her, they said that they found her in awful condition. Nobody talked about it later, she was like any other simple girl whose fate betrayed her.»
»After that I learnt that it had been a case and Ryan was on trial, because according to some people he was the last person she saw, but he managed to take postponement to a year imprisonment and leave town for couple of years. The case closed and Amy’s death became a history, her parents decided to leave Capitola and never come back and the last time I saw her brother was in the funeral.. He wasn’t crying, he wasn’t replying to people’s ‘sorry’ he had that blank face that couldn’t be talked. I tried to talk him after that but he looked at me hatefully and then he left. I had never seen him since that day.. »
»Things changed few days ago when I met Ryan, Peter and Joe again, they were upset about something and they wanted my help. They told me that Eric was in town and he wanted revenge! He had a plan, they were sure about that. They also told me that he met you, and… you were a couple- »
he looked at me half smiling with an apologetic look as dad opened his mouth to speak but David caught him.
«- they said that he was probably using you to take his revenge but I didn’t know why he would do that, I found it unreasonable. But then it came to me the picture of the last day I saw him, his hard face, his hateful look and I understood why he was like that, he knew that I was Ryan’s friend and he knew that Ryan and his pack did that to Amy..he thought that I was responsible for her death as well… that I killed her!»
Mom and dad were breathless, mom touched David’s arm.
»Ryan suggested me being a member of his pack again, now that his brother, Ben, was in it we could ‘fight’ Eric back and win, we would be more- so more powerful- whatever plan he had.»
Mom gasped and David shook his head «I didn’t accept, I know Ryan and I know how he likes to work. Whatever issue he’s got he has to deal with it alone, but I promised myself that I would do something about
my issue, and that is you Carol… I wish it was a lie but it isn’t, it makes a sense… I’m sorry I haven’t seen it at the first time but now that I know, forgive me but I won’t allow you see him anymore. Not until I find out what he really thinks and deal with it.»
He was staring at me when he was speaking in order to see my reactions but I really couldn’t react. I should have screamed I should have drowned myself into tears but I did nothing. I was looking at him full of tears trembling from eager and disappointment. If that wasn’t true, it was true, but if it wasn’t true then could I stay with Eric after that story? Could I live with a person that all he wants in his life is revenge that he’s still living in the past? Is this really the reason why he couldn’t tell me all about his past? Because I would be so scared that I would leave him and ruin his plan? All these words, all these promises, all these days we spent together, last night… Have these things meant something to him? Have he ever loved me?
Then everything went black…