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It is such a shame that most of my life I had looked up at her during class, trying so hard not to cry as she reads a note from Eric about how he is going to still kill her parents. I had been going out with her until a week ago, though I knew it wasn’t going to last because I had violent outbursts. Now she’s not going out with anyone and it’s all his fault.

“You know that I can’t stand him Eliwood, and you also know that I want to really do something about what he is doing to Lyn.” I tell my best friend Eliwood. He just nods because he knows that if he tries to disagree with me it won’t work, I was right for one. “Maybe you should talk to your brother about what you can do that won’t get you in jail.” he suggested to me. I thought about it and I had to shake my head. Uther, my big brother and my guardian, wouldn’t even notice me at all if I went to jail.

All of a sudden Lyn ran by us crying and I could hear Eric laughing hysterically. Eliwood went after her as I just stood there looking at Eric. He had stooped laughing when he noticed me looking at him. “What are you looking at stupid?” He always called me that and I didn’t care because I was stupid. “What did you do to her? Whatever it was, it must have a cruel joke.” I asked him. “Why should you care?” Now I was getting irritated. I told that I wanted to know because I was her friend and that he would never have any friends. “Well I just told her that her parents were in a terrible accident and that one of them was in critical condition. I thought she would have wanted to know, is that now a crime?” I was shocked to hear that and I knew that his dad had something to with it.

When I left the school I found Eliwood just standing there staring at nothing. I smacked the side of his head. “Earth to Eliwood… Are you in there? If not I guess you don’t want to go to the hospital and be there for Lyn.” He didn’t even budge, but then I seen that he had been shot. “Hector? H-help me.” he finally said and I snapped out of my trance. I took out my cell phone and called my brothers cell, hoping that he would pick up. In the background behind me I heard Eric laughing again but I tried to ignore him. “Come on Uther, pick up please! I need you to pick up-” “What do you want Hector? I better be -” “Eliwood got shot and I need you to get him to the hospital!!” I had practically yelled so that everyone around stooped what they were doing and started to gather around us. There was silence on the other line and then Uther said that he would be there in a few minutes. We hung up, told Eliwood that everything was going to be ok and I led him to a bench so that he could sit down. When I did that, I started to get up when he grabbed my arm. He tried to say something but blood came gushing out instead. “Don’t try to say anything, I stay here until Uther comes, ok?” he nodded. I was starting to panic when Uther came and with him was Juniper, his girlfriend. They lied him down in the back seat of the car and they drove but not before Juniper hugged me and said she would call me later to tell me if he was going to be ok. I didn’t even seen them leave, I just kept worrying about losing Eliwood.

After awhile I had started to wander around town, not noticing anything at all. The only thing I knew was that the bullet was meant for me not my friend. I was about to text Lyn to see if she was ok when I was attacked. Me and my attacker fell to the ground and the attacker put a gun to my head before I even did anything. I just stared at the gun as he pulled me to my feet and shoved me into a van. My cell started to ring, I seen that it was Juniper and was about to pick it up when he took it from me. He must have knew her because he just handed it right and signalled me not to mention anything or else he would shoot me. I nodded as I picked up the phone. She told me that he was going to be ok and that he wanted to see me. I told her that I was a little tied up at the moment and that I wanted to talk to my brother, to thank him for bringer Eliwood there.

It took what seemed like an eternity but he finally said hello. By then I knew that Eric’s dad Darin had me and was taking me to his mansion on the rich side of town. I told Uther as quickly as possible and then I was shot in the leg but I didn’t care, I just kept repeating until he understood. By the time he understood, I was bleeding from four different spots, my lower legs, my left arm and my chest. Darin had took my cell and told Uther that if my brother wanted me alive he had to give him 1.5 million dollars by midnight tomorrow. I knew that never happened and decided to give up on everything.

I must have fallen asleep because when I woke up I was in a large room with only a bed in it. I noticed that I still had my cell phone so I decided to now text Lyn. Our conversion was pretty much me telling her that I was kidnapped my Eric’s dad and that was slowly bleeding to death. At that moment I felt like doing something that I had never done since I was 2 years old, cry, but then the door suddenly opened and Eric walked in, I told Lyn that I would talk to her later. “Well, well, well. You look a mess Hector, does it hurt if I do this?” He asked as he kicked my leg. I grunted but never said anything, but he must have knew that it did hurt because he laughed. I looked away from him as he pulled out a gun. “You know Hector, if you wanted me to I could put you out of your misery. But that is if you really want to leave your ‘friends’.” The way he said friends made me shiver, but I could have shivered because I was cold and hungry. “Are you afraid of this?” he asked as he shoved it in my face. I backed away slowly nodding. I hated to admit that I was afraid, but I was to weak to argue with him. He laughed and mumbled something under his breath. I heard voices that was seemed like they were just outside the big metal door. It was my brother and he was calling for me to answer him. I tried to but all that came out was a croak. I tried again and I knew that he heard me, because he tried to open the door. Eric flew around and pointed the gun to the door. I didn’t want him to hurt my brother so I attacked him and we hit the floor. He had managed to get out from under me and shot me in the back. I knew I yelled but all I could hear was Uther trying to kick the door open. I looked up to see Eric facing the door again, so I attacked him again, this time I managed to take the gun from him even though he was probably stronger then me now. I told Uther to hurry, that I didn’t know how long I was going to be conscious for. As I said that, I had fell over in pain.

When I awoke, or so I thought, the room was really bright. Then it hit me. I was in Heaven. I looked around and there in the distance was my parents. How did I know? The male looked a lot like Uther and the Female looked like… Well I am not quite sure on what she looked like. As much as I wanted to go and hug then, which I wanted to hug them badly, I had to find a way back to my body.

What seemed like an eternity, no pun intended, I seen my body in a hospital room with doctors trying to revived and I also seen my brother yelling at them to keep trying or to try harder. I never thought he cared for me, I mean he never acted like he cared. Then I seen Juniper, Lyn and Eliwood, who was in a wheel chair, looking through the glass of the emergency door. I noticed that Lyn was saying that she should have never hurt my feelings or to have never broken up with me. Juniper was crying silently hoping, no I should say wishing that this was just a horrible nightmare and then when I looked at Eliwood I was surprised. He did not look at all sad, he look almost like he was happy that I was dead. I guess he should be happy, I mean most of our lives I had insulted him in some way or another. I was going to show that our friendship meant everything to me as soon as I return to my body.

It was harder then I thought to re-enter my body but when I did, I swear I made some of the doctors run out of the room screaming their heads off. The only doctor I recognized was Lyn’s mother, Madelyn, who had stitches. “Welcome back to the world of living!” she said happily but also tiredly. I looked at Uther and I tried to say something but all that came out was a whimper. He smiled and came to hug me. I noticed that he was crying and he motioned me to not tell Juniper, who was coming in with Eliwood and Lyn was right behind her. Lyn hugged her mother saying thank you for bringing me back and then she came over to my left side, Uther being on my right, she crawled onto the bed next me and she hugged me. “I’m sorry that you-” “Lyn…I love you but I think you and I should remain friends. I missed you kitty-lizard.” she looked at me and the she stuck out her tongue and laughed, we both laughed. I looked at Juniper and said thank you, though I was not sure why I said that, and then I looked at Eliwood. He never looked at me and that still affected me. I had asked Uther, Juniper and Dr. Madelyn if I could be alone with my friends and to my surprise they left.

When I was alone with them I snapped at Eliwood. “Are you disappointed that I am not still dead?? What can of friend are you to wish me dead? Well guess what?? I thought of you when I was kidnapped! I thought of you when Eric’s dad and Eric himself shot me. You think 0I wanted to be there? No! I wanted to be with you, to see if you were alright!!” I had stop because I realized that I had tears running down my face. “Eliwood…I’m sorry. If you want you can lea-” “Leave? Why should I leave in your time of needing friends? Also I should be the one to apologize. You are the greatest friend I ever had and I would probably go in a depre-” “So you’re alive, eh Hector?” I looked up from Eliwood and seen Eric. I must fringed because Lyn got off of me. “Sorry. Was I interrupting something. I was just passing through and I seen you here. What happened to you?” I tried to look at something else but I couldn’t because I knew he had his gun with him. “Earth to Hector? I asked you what happened!?!” “I got…Shot at by someone from…School.” He laughed and I fringed again. Lyn must have felt something was wrong so she went to the hall and called for Uther to come here. That was when Eric decided to push her out and to shove Eliwood in the bathroom.

“P-please Eric! Don’t h-hurt me. I just want to live my life. If it’ll make you happy I wo-!” He took out his gun and I went silent. I seen my brother and he was about to open the door when Eric spun around and signalled to Uther that any sudden movements and he was going to shoot me. “Hector…You’ve been such a bad boy. I wish I could have been your friend instead of Eliwood.” he looked at the door then looked back at me. I just looked at Uther with fear in my eyes that he opened the door. Eric spun to face him and he shot at my brother. I closed my eyes because I did not want to watch my brother fall to the ground and watch Eric turn to me just to shoot me.

Awhile later. I opened my eyes to see my brother standing in front of Eric, one hand on the gun that Eric had, and then I seen Darin pointing a gun at him. Lyn was next to me again and was trying to keep me calm. Uther yelled at Darin to leave me alone and to never bother my family ever again. Darin mumbled something and nodded while at the same time motioning his to leave. When they left I so scared that I started crying again. “Don’t worry little brother.” Then to Juniper, “Bring the car to the front, we’re bring these kids to your house.”

I must have fallen asleep again because when I woke up I seen that I was in Juniper’s house, which turned out to be an apartment room. I tried to get up on my elbows but it turned that Lyn was hugging like she was afraid that if she let me go I would disappear. Juniper came in, she must have wanted to check on me, she told me that supper was almost ready. I nodded and went back to sleep.

When I had at last woke up. I heard crying in the kitchen so I went in there to see Juniper cradling the phone while she cried. She had never noticed me take the phone from her. “Hello? Who is this?” I said. “This the Officer Kent and I am sorry to say that Uther has been killed. Do you know if his bro-” when he said that Uther was dead I just hung up the phone and went towards the door to go outside. There was a song that I could hear and the part that it was made me think of how I felt that my brother had finally joined Mother and Father. I hope that one day I make them all proud of me and that I avenge my brother’s death because I just realized who it was…Eric’s family. The sound in the background replayed and all I could hear was this:
Everywhere I go
Everyone I meet
Every time I try to fall in love
They all want to know why I’m so broken
Why am I so cold
Why am I so hard inside
Why am I scared
What am I afraid of
I don’t even know
This story never had an end
I’ve been waiting
I’ve been searching
I’ve been hoping
I’ve been dreaming that you would come back
But I know the ending of this story
You’re never coming back
Never
Never
Never.