Suicide Room

I just watched this movie. I wonder if it´s popular, I guess it must be, the trailer has scenes of kisses between two girls and another between two boys and there are so many videos with that part only. The tittle says a lot, but I thought Dominik, the main character, and Aleks, the guy that he kissed on a bet, were going to be bullied together or something like that but I was wrong, ironically it all was about Dominik.

It was ironic because he was pretty much invisible there, always, even in the bet, he was just put there to be the one kissed by the other guy. He was so alone, with workaholic parents that even when they saw things were going bad for him they refused to see there was a problem there that needed to be addressed, they care about their meetings and reputation...

I think the internet played a huge role in the movie too... I think many people have gone addict to the internet -I know I've spent a lot of time on line- and the down side of the internet is that as it can be in a way comforting -you can say what you want without being judged because no one knows you and you don´t care what they say- it can be very destructive, that happened to this guy, in one video he was "hot" in the next he was the one to laugh at, but it can be good too, it connects people in some way at least -which it did for this kid too- ofc that this "connections" can consume people as well. I never thought it was possible to make friendship or any kind of bond through the internet to someone you have never met or even see and I guess for someone who hasn´t lived it that part of the movie would seem stupid... I think like everything, balance is the key.

I got a headache due to the movie, but by no means that means that the movie is bad but I didn´t enjoy it either, it was too intense, how the girl Dominik met online wanted to kill herself and how he became tangled in her ways, she wanted to die so bad and he tried to convince her to stay but she couldn´t find meaning I guess, even with how they seem to get along. He didn´t want to die, he said that you should give all that you can give to your loved ones but I guess, in the end everything else became too overwhelming, his depression made him forget what he felt, what was real and what was not... a very sad thing is that his parents never saw him, even with all that, they just wanted him to go according to schedules and according to plans.

There were many comments about the movie, many said that this person was a coward or just plain stupid for commiting suicide for a kiss but I feel compasion for this person, that is fictional but I´m sure there are so many out there, feeling lonely and invisible and maybe even depressed. "I want to hug you" said the girl Dominik met online, it only made me think of all the times I´ve "hugged" and been "hugged" on line, at the beginning it was so weird, the it was just an expression and now, sometimes, it´s like it is real, the thought is...

so...

if there are any Dominiks out there that happen to read this, I want to hug you no matter if you think life is a gift or if like is shit. One day at a time as some other fictional Dominic said.

Double Life: Report

A/N: I´m laughing at the "A/N" thing, that´s your fault Saku :p --anyways, I didn´t care to read it over ¬¬ Nichole made me put it up in the way it is.. oh, also, this and the prior one have been longer than the rest of the posts, at least in pages lenght ofc they have more dialog than others and that´s probably why they took more space...
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“Your mother is waiting for you in your room” Val said when Nichole entered the glass doors, she knew Nichole had not mother but she seemed to enjoy reminding her that. Nichole raised an eyebrow and took a long step to avoid the carpet, her boots were muddy. She walked all the way to the counter where Val was, leaving mud prints on the white shiny floor, once she got to the tall counter she leaned over it, her hair dripping.

“What did you say, Val?” she shook her bangs a little with her hand “I didn´t hear you” the sleeves of her jacked dripped water over the papers on the counter. Val hurried to take them away as Nic smirked and walked away leaving a pool of rain water and mud prints that Vas was going to have to clean. Once the cleaning in the buildings was done, it was Val´s responsibility that the students kept it clean or to make them clean. Nichole snickered all the way up to the floor where her room was. Once she reached the top of the stairs, she sat there and took off her boots.

“What took you so long?”

“Oh, wow! Thank you, I´m fine too, Natasha” the girl walked to the bathroom and came out in her bathrobe.

“Nichole, you´re becoming erratic, you said one thing and do another. That´s dangerous, especially with your responsibilities” Natasha lectured

“Stop complaining, you just had to wait here a little” Nichole threw a paper bag to her

“What´s this?” she took out a plastic box with a sandwich inside. Nichole put on a pair of black pants, a sleeveless fitted dark grey top and a black shirt on top “awww you got me food”

“Those are my left-overs” Nichole went back to the bathroom where she´d let her boots; she came back with the knife she always carried in them.

“This is no left over, I know and you do to –Nichole shrugged- now, tell me why you ditched me in town?! I was almost at the restaurant” the girl shrugged again as she started to dry her hair with the towel “I saw a boy” Natasha said in a sing-song voice.

“I know”

“So, you did ditch me for him”

“Tell me what you found out”

“Tell me who he is”

“How´s Mii doing?”

“Nichole, be careful with the boy…” Natasha got up and took the comb from Nichole´s dressing table

“I doubt he can do anything to me” the girl huffed

“Just be careful” the woman started to blow dry Nic´s hair

“Leave my hair alone!” she growled

“You not only ditched me for a boy after I got you what you want but also made me wait and now you don’t let me help you?”

“Shut up! You had to come anyways to the personal meeting with my homeroom teacher” Once every two months the parents had a personal meeting with the homeroom teacher

“I still had to wait but he told me you have a new friend –Nichole sighed silently- and Val said you have a friend coming up your room too. Is this the same person?”

“Do you like to sound stupid or you just like asking questions when you know the answers already?” Nichole´s voice had an edge to it despite being measured. Natasha laughed

“Little Nichole´s being defensive” Natasha had started to braid Nichole´s hair

“What a bitch” the girl mumbled looking at Natasha through the mirror, the woman chuckled

“Don´t worry, I'll say nothing about him”

“Like I care”

“I´m sure your father would” this time Nichole laughed humorlessly

“It doesn´t suit you to throw threat, you know, especially when you´re in the lion´s den”

“I´m not threatening you, I just want you to be careful specially if you´re bringing him up here. I don´t think Karl would find it amusing if you were expelled for something stupid like that…”

“Make Val keep her mouth shut then if you´re so worried for stupid things like that” she made air quotation marks

“Done, baby, but…”

“I’m not your baby” Nichole´s voice was caustic. Natasha sighed

“I doubt you want to let an accident happen to this kid”

“I couldn´t care less about what happens to him”

“Are you sure?” The woman looked at Nichole through the mirror; there was a slight smirk and a scoff on Nic´s expression

“Just be careful”

“You be careful and talk already of what concerns you”

“So mean”

“You´re one of the intellectual masters of many murders, I must have learned that from you” Nichole smiled sweetly, Natasha looked away. “How´s Mii doing?”

“She’s good, she´s been insisting your father to let you go see her school play” there was a gleam in Nichole´s eyes that she quickly concealed

“When is it?”

“Next Wednesday. I advise you not to go if you are not taken there”

“Whatever”

“Nichole”

“Are you going?”

“Possibly”

“Then don´t tell me I can’t ‘go see my sister if she wants me there! –Natasha sighed- Has her mother done any other little tricks like last time?”

“She tried”

“What do you mean she tried?”

“she threatened him to take Camille away” Nichole´s eyes widened “don´t worry, she´s not really planning to do so, she´d lose everything, she signed a prenup… all the children custody , that is Camille only in this case, would automatically go to your father…”

“She doesn´t have to get divorced to take Mii away”

“Your father said he was going to divorce her if she ever put Camille in danger again and he cancelled you step-sisters vacation”

“Does Mii know of this?”

“No”

“Ok, now tell me about the picture… is that picture of me and my mother with her signature in Mary-Ann Ibsen´s place?” Natasha nodded “how?”

“Your mother sent it”

“Why?” Nichole´s voice was barely audible

“I think you´ll be able to find out more in the place where you´re going tonight… He´s in the mail list of those pictures”

“Are there many in the list?”

“Only two”

“I´ve already seen that picture in two places”

“I think Ibsen sent the others”

“How many”

“According to the photo studio there were made six copies of that picture… five were sent to Ibsen and one was sent to the person you´re visiting tonight”

Nichole wore her beanie and a raincoat and then she hid her knife inside her combat boots.

“Be careful… this man likes guns and he´s good with them” Natasha said and Nichole jumped out the window.

Nichole

I can see Nichole wearing something like this in this last post, with her hair messy like that and not really caring for how she looks in what she is wearing. The feeling around this girl, too, makes me think of Nichole.

This dress makes me think of what Natasha picked for Nichole  when she went and kill this old guy, it was a white dress and definitely something that Nat would pick -ofc Nic wouldn´t b showing her legs like that- but the feeling of this pix is what she has to do when she wears those dresses, elegant and delicate but confident at the same time. The hair is like what I imagined too. But this is not Nichole, just the feeling she gives off

Double Life: Under the Clouds

“How do you find your way in here?” he asked once they got off the bus on what looked like the middle of nowhere. They´ve been silent the whole ride. Joshua had texted to the Art Club kids. Maya ended up calling and Nichole rolled her eyes when Josh answered all the girl´s questions, this made Josh chuckled

“Ever seen the school´s map?”

“Yeah”

“Well, the school is surrounded by forest in three sides this road is in the back of the school; diagonally of this road is the back door that now is sealed”

“That´s not in the map”

“Nope, but you just go in a diagonal way”

“I see no diagonals here, only trees!” he rolled his eyes, she chuckled

“Ok, our school is near the river, so we look for the river but since we don´t want to get close to it even more now that the rainclouds are covering the sky, we just go for the places where there are more trees that often lean to a side and have branches all over the place”

“I see braches all over the place” he looked around and she chuckled

“You´re impossible Joshua” she faked an annoyed tone

“How do you know these things?”

“The same way I know how to walk like I walk and climb in and out of windows” she sounded tired as she confessed this.

The afternoon was cold and dark, the clouds and the trees covered the sun completely. She made sure they walk fast the whole way up, walking in diagonal direction not getting close to the river. Once they got to the stone wall that bordered the school, she climbed first and then it was his turn, he got off but she remained sat with her legs on either side of the wall, he extended his hand up to her, she shook her head right when the wind blew carrying brown leaves. Her hair got messy and she grinned.

“It´s about to rain”

“You better run”

“Nichole you´ll get cold”

“Cold´s good”

“You´ll get s…” he stopped mid-sentence remembering she´d said she didn´t get sick, he´d made a mental note to ask about that but he doubted this was a good time, she finally seemed less upset

“Sick? Only you´ll get sick if you don’t find shelter”

Josh looked at his phone “The guys say it´s already raining in town”

“It´ll be less than a minute for it to rain here”

“We should hurry”

“You´ll get wet anyways” she smiled a little smile as he looked down tapping his fingers against his leg. Suddenly she jumped right in front of him. He looked up.

“Is the rain a problem for you like pools are?” her tone was compassionate. Josh´s green eyes widened and became somehow paler

“I… no”

“Are you sure?”

“I am” he turned to walk away

“Why does it annoy you that I ask you?” she caught his wrist, he didn’t turn “wow! Josh can be annoyed” she said playfully, this time he turned around shaking his head. She sat on the ground Indian style not letting go of his hand, making him bend, she looked into his eyes intently with a small smile on her lips. He sighed and sat too.

“Rain will fall on us” he sighed. She opened her bag and took out a black umbrella, unfolded it and put it over Josh´s head

“Talk” she smiled. He remained silent “It can´t be that bad Josh” she patted his knee

“Nobody but my close family knows about me and my …err… thing with water… I don´t want to be seen as coward…”

“You are not a coward… it just happened… you know I wouldn´t tell anyone about it. Do you dislike rain because of that?” she spoke softly, he was looking down to the grass

“I know you wouldn´t…no, I don´t have a problem with rain… it´s just that… I don´t…”

“Want to be seen like that?” she finished his phrase, he sighed a little “Joshua” she called his name, he looked up “I would never think bad of you”

“You don't mind?”

“I don´t mind –she smiled, his green eyes were as bright as before, he seemed relieved- now –she got up- give me your pass”

“Eh?”

“Your permit, your school ID? The thing where it´s been recorded you went out, it´d be bad if you didn´t return in the records”

“Right”

“Quickly, the rain will be hard! Give me that and go to your room, I´ll take it to your room”

“You´ll get wet”

“I love the rain but it might make you sick. Josh don’t make me look for you ID in your pockets”

“You wouldn´t do it” he took a step back, she smirked taking a step forward

“You took a step back… I know guys almost always have their wallets on in their back pockets… I bet yours is there too” she tilted her head still with a smirk

“Fine, fine, just stop it” he took out his wallet and ID out

“Stop what?” she tilted her head the other way with her eyebrows slightly furrowed. She took the ID “get going boy” he didn´t move, she rolled her eyes “go, Josh” she started to walk on the wall fast towards the main gates.

When she got there it was already raining hard, she put on her hoodie and pushed up one of the windows where the guards were, they turned surprised to close it, just as she passed the code bars of Josh’s ID on the reader.

“Boy! Take shelter here!” one of the guards said when the machine beeped. She raised her hand and ran inside. “Hey! At least take an umbrella” another guard shouted. She laughed as the hard cold rain drenched all of her.

“You shouldn´t leave your window open” she said getting in Josh´s room

“Nichole!” he gasped when he saw her “so loud! My roommate could´ve heard you!”

“Pfffft! He's not here!”

“How do you know that?”

“You´re not the only one sneaking in and out of the girl’s dorms, you know”

“What?! How do you…?” she shrugged as she gave his ID back

“You´re drenched!”

“And you just noticed that?” there was a laugh in her voice

“I... I´ll get you a towel”

“I´m going now”

“Nichole! It´s dangerous that you climb out of two or three story buildings but that with rain is worst. Stay until it stops raining”

“I want to go get changed -she tugged at her hoodie- I doubt you have girl clothes and I won’t around on the nude” she rolled her eyes, his eyes grew wide and he shifted uncomfortably, she laughed

“you´re such a boy” she said through her laughter, his cheeks became a light shade of pink

 “Later, Josh” she went out the window as he shook his head with his index finger and thumb rubbing his eyes.

Double Life: Pick a Date

A/N: I wrote so much yesterday, it didn´t seem fair to have it there on Word... I just typed this one though and didn´t re-read it though I quickly checked it... I guess it´ll b one of the many that I´ll have to re-read and edit later.... oh, wel

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In the middle of their lunch Nichole felt a buzz on her pocket, her eyes immediately changed, they were cold now. She took the phone to her ear and listened for about a minute then she hung out and got up, her meal wasn´t finished.

“Are you going now?” Josh hurried to ask

“Your group must miss you, you should go back to them” she said as she took money out of her pocket

“I texted them. Are you ok?” his voice was soft

“Sure” she started to walk

“wait please” Josh took her hand, she looked right into his eyes, her gaze was fierce, as piercing as it had been when they first met, until now Josh hadn’t realized how much her gaze had changed “stay, at least finish your lunch”

“Let go of my hand” she said despite him having a loose grip on her hand

“Don´t let me having lunch on my own”

“Go to your group”

“Nichole, just please, just once”

She shook her head “why not” he asked

She closed her eyes for a second and sighed “I can´t stay here any longer”

“Ok, I´ll ask for our food to be takeout food… just sit and wait a minute longer, it won´t be that long, ok?”

“I´ll be more than a minute”

“I´ll do whatever if you just wait” he said and she felt like chuckling

“You boys are too easy to promise doing anything” she mumbled. Josh raised an eyebrow “you got less than a minute now” she stated emotionless

“Where to?” he asked once they got out of the restaurant

“I´m going back to Burgeoys” she said and he made a face

“So early?”

“Go back to your group, you came with them. I need to go”

“What is it that you have to do?” he asked and she didn´t answer “Can I do something to help you?” he offered after a long silence. She only shook her head. “Come on! You shouldn´t go back to the school so early!”

“I don´t even have permission to be here!”

“When have you asked permission to go out of Burgeoys?” he rolled his eyes

“More times than what you seem to imagine”

“You love trees, let´s go to the park”

“I don´t want to see people”

“Well, there´s people everywhere!”

“Mmmh”

“You don´t want to go back to Burgeoys, you want to go to the woods” he suddenly said, she only glanced his way

“I´ll go swimming” she said after a brief silence. He gasped

“I won´t leave you, I know you enough to know you´re upset”

“you don´t know me, Josh” her voice had a tinge of sadness that she hadn´t planned on showing, if things kept like that she was going to let herself slip through the cracks of her well-studied self

“I won´t leave you”

“I know… it doesn’t mean I won´t”

“Come” he took her hand and made her go in the movie theater where he bought tickets. The room was pretty much deserted; just a couple of old people were in. They sat at the top chairs on the left side.

“You won´t see people here” he said and a long silence fell between them.

“Why are you upset?” he tried again but she didn´t answer “every time you get a call you go like this, what´s going on?” silence again

“Nichole, what…?”

“Please don´t ask me… let me enjoy the silence or noise or just say something else” her voice sounded almost lost as if she was too tired to speak

“Ok” he watched her close her eyes and lean her head back on the chair after a couple of minutes it looked like she was sleeping.

“Is today your birthday?” Josh asked, the mumbling sound of the voices from the film were the background to his voice. She shook her head with her eyes still closed and her head still on the chair. “When is it?”

“I don´t have one”

“I saw the purple box” he said touching her gloved hand

“I couldn´t avoid that, I didn´t expected people to be there so early on a weekend”

“Jonah's been practicing all year…”

“It shows”

“So, birthday…?” he prompted, she remained silent “I want to be able to get you a present like you did for mine”

“I don’t want anything”

“I want to give you a present” he stressed the word want

“Then do it”

“A birthday present”

“Pick a date, it´ll be it”

“I want it to be the real one”

“The one you pick will be that” she wondered how he didn´t get annoyed at her or even mad

“I´ll go to the school records” he said grinning, she huffed

“My file´s confidential… sealed”

“I´ll break in”

“You´ll be discovered. It´s not worth it”

“I´ll ask a teacher”

“Confidential”

“Jonah obviously knows, I´ll just ask him” Josh smirked

“Why would he know?”

“He gave you a present”

“Who says it was a birthday present”

“It wasn´t?” he was almost sure it was but her words made him doubt a little, she shrugged

“I´ll ask him anyways”

“You´re so stubborn” there was a laugh in her annoyed tone

“We could avoid all that if you told me”

“I could just ask him not to tell you if you were right on your theory of him knowing”

“He´d die if you approached him, you don’t want to kill him!” he laughed, she was silent for a long time after that.

“Nichole?” there was no answer

“Nichole?”

“Mmh?”

“Are you ok?”

“I´m breathing”

“I know you’re alive but are you ok?”

“Same thing”

“Not really”

“I´m fine”

“It doesn´t sound like that”

She stayed silent for a while until she sat up, opened her eyes, they were calm and enticing even, she smiled brightly “I am fine, Josh” she used her rehearsed smile and faked voice, he blinked a few times

“That´s not your real smile” he said with a crease between his eyes, her eyes widened a fraction

“After the movie, I´ll have to go”

“Where are we going?”

“You can´t go with me”

“Why not?”

“I don’t think my father would approve of that”

“I thought you said he didn´t care about who you were with” he made air quotation marks

“He doesn’t care who I take to my room, he cares who I take when he requests me to go to places”

“He´s got his priorities wrong” he huffed angrily she felt like smiling but she didn´t

“He´s got his priorities where every business man has them”

“Are you defending him?” he turned to see her, she huffed

“It's been a long time since I stopped dreaming… I was just stating a fact”

They stayed quiet after that, only watching the foreign movie, when it ended Joshua insisted to go back to the school with her, she kept telling him to go back to the group. She wondered if he was going to be mad like he had been once she almost wished he got mad so that he go but she also wished he didn´t get mad and stay.

“I´m free to walk where I want” he said

“walk then” she started to walk swiftly with her characteristic walk feeling his eyes on her for a bit before he started to follow her, she didn´t stop at the bus stop but kept walking up the hill, he jogged to catch up to her.

“Are you mad at me?” he asked mentally kicking himself at how silly the question sounded, she sighed deeply

“I could´ve easily lost you” she said above a whisper, almost mumbling, he grinned

“So you want me to stay”

“I didn´t say that”

“Too bad for you that I saw you at the restaurant” he reached for her hand, laced two of his fingers with hers and shook their hands lightly

“I could´ve left when I saw you see me” she looked up the sky. Her words startled Josh, she wasn´t even looking his way when he saw her

“You wanted me to see you?”

“No, that was a coincidence, I thought you had arrived already, you were not supposed to be there at that time”

“It was fate then”

“Fate likes to throw stubborn kids at me” she said with a hint of humor in her voice “picked up your pace –she took hold of his hand- else we won´t get to be at the bus stop when the bus arrives” she walked faster

“It´s not even coming” Josh looked back

“Stay then” she loose her grip on his hand but he didn´t let go, she glanced at him with a light smirk

I´m hurt

I´m hurt and don't want to make it a big deal but I feel like complaining -sigh. --warning of complaint should go here now...

My stupid car had to be repaired...twice. My sister in law borrowed me some money. This morning I was asked if I was going to pay that... I don´t know why but I commented this to mother who commented it to father... He´d paid already that money and I was asked if I was going to pay back?? what´s with that?? Did they want to charge it twice? I feel it´s so freaking unfair, I never asked to be paid back when I´ve bought the milk for their baby, when I bought the vitamins during the pregnancy all the times my car´s been used and I had to paid for the gas... I never asked for anything, we´re supposed to be family and I was going to pay them -n it wasn´t eve that much money- but come on! father had already given back that money for me and I was asked if I was going to pay back??? Did sister in law didn´t tell brother or did he just thought I should paid? I feel so hurt right now, I don´t even want to see them...
I never use that money for things I want, my brother knows, it all goes to all of us, to the house... but now this? I don´t even know what to think.

Double Life: Unexpected

This is in Germany... it feels like a place that Nichole would pick haha 

A/N: I´m not sure about this tittle -again- mmm oh, well...

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“We’re so very sorry we´re late but Josh hadn´t even gotten up” Maya complained as they got in the Art Club Room

“I didn´t even know we were coming to your rehearsal!” Josh defended himself, Jonah smiled amused.

“Maya forgot to tell him” Jill rolled her eyes and they all took seats on the floor, Jonah hurried to them and his violin. Josh walked to Nichole, the rest hadn´t seen her until he kept walking to her work space, she´d been partially covered by one of the canvas in which she was working. When the rest noticed her Jonah started to play a quick song and they all focused on him.

“Hey! I didn´t expect to find you here” Josh smiled and glanced at the purple box she was putting in her bag

“I know” she said quietly, he looked up at her with a small frown and then he pulled one of the tall stools and sat close to her. Everybody was quiet the whole time Jonah was playing song after song, when one song ended they clapped and made cheering sounds.

“Are you going? “Josh asked above a whisper, she shook her head and then looked out the window.

“Do you want to go now?” Josh smiled touching the hand she had on her knee, their little fingers lingered for a second as he passed his hand on her palm, she watched their hands and then at Josh´s green eyes and narrowed her eyes just a fraction, and there was a tiny smile on the side of her mouth. He winked as he got up to take a guitar out of the cabinets, he walked to where Jonah was and sat next to him, right in front of where Nichole was. Josh lifted the guitar when Jonah looked at him, the other boy grinned and nodded as he started to change the melody so that the two of them could join in a song, the rest clapped and after a while they all joined in the playing and singing to end up improvising.

“That sounds really well –Mike said right when he entered the door- we could use that for our presentation” he grinned and everybody copied him

“The girls will need to practice until their throat bleeds though” Bryan said. Jill rolled her eyes and Maya playfully hit him.

“The girls will commit to it –Mike said and they narrowed their eyes- Sorry I wasn´t here, you guys, the meeting got longer than expected”

“Don´t worry about that “Jonah replied.

“Where's Nichole?” Mike asked looking around; they all looked at her working space and immediately after to Josh who just shrugged

“Ok, I guess you’ll have no grade for today´s practice, you´ll have to ask her for that later –the teacher grinned- ok, we´ll practice on Monday” he said walking to his desk. The boys went to put the instruments back in their cabinets.

“Josh, didn´t you invite Nichole to go with us? She´ll think we are ignoring her” Jill asked while they were all going down the stairs out the arts building.

“I told her but she had things to do, maybe next time” he replied somehow hesitant

“She´s such a busy person –Maya said- Do you think she didn´t want to go with us?” he voice was always child-like, she always sounded like pouting

“She must be busy, she´s one of the students on the top list… that can’t be easy” Bryan commented mostly to himself.

They went to the main entrance where they walked to the bus stop.

“Aw! Why didn´t you guys let me call the driver?” Maya pouted

“Walking makes you good, besides, rich girl, you never lived if you didn´t ride a bus” Bryan teased Maya

“That´s not my fault” she lightly pushed him “I bet no one here has ever taken the bus anywhere!”

“I have” said Josh. He’d taken the bus with Nichole except they had gone through the woods first.

“You have?! –she gasped- when?” Maya asked

“Huh? You´re not like the other rich kids then?” Bryan commented

“The other rich kids?” Josh repeated. Bryan pointed to the rest of the group. Jill rolled her eyes.

“He´s one of the few with scholarships in here –Jill explained- you gotta remind us how smart you are don´t you?” she poked her tongue at him. He gasped

“I´ve never said that! Besides my brain brought me here, why should I apologize for that?” he said crossing his arms

“Oh so smart, guide us on our way” the girls said at the same time and immediately laughed

“You girls are like twins separated at birth” Bryan shook his head

“Ugh, don’t associate me with her!” Jill wrinkled her nose

“Aw, you know you love me” Maya grinned

“I hate you” Jill said

“I hate you too!” Maya replied lovingly. They both hugged. The boys shook their heads

“That thing was so slow” Maya complained once they were already in town

“You’re so whiney!” Jonah huffed, she gasped.

“Are you mad at me?” she grabbed him by his arm; he shook his head as they walked.

“Thank you!” she kissed her cheek

“Where are we eating” Jonah asked to no one in particular

“Pasta” Maya said in a high pitched voice

“Ugh! No! Maya, that´s all you eat! It´s a miracle that you aren´t over weighted” Jill wrinkled her nose.

“Pffff! I make my miracles at the gym” she poked her tongue out to Jill

“We should go to the mall, to the food court, that way we can get what we want” Bryan suggested

“Walk fast, people! I'm hungry!” Maya prompted walking faster still holding Jonah´s arm

“I pity you… the flea is stuck to you” Jill laughed

“Food´s first, I´ll get back to you later”

“She´s so hyper” Josh commented

“She´s excited of being out here and not in the school”

They kept walking; Jonah and Maya were lost on the street. They were walking faster than the rest.

“Walk ahead, I´ll catch up to you in a while” Josh suddenly said and walked the opposite way. Bryan and Jill looked at each other dumbfounded but they shrugged and kept walking after a second.

“I thought you wouldn´t come” Josh sat on a chair and was met with an almost imperceptible smile “Why don´t you join us?”

“I like it here”

“This is where we came the first time we came to the town”

“The day you got a scar”

“Nichole…”

“You should sit if you´re staying or leave if you´re not, people´s staring at you standing there” the girl interrupted him

“You´re inviting me to stay?” he smiled with the side of his mouth

“Or to leave” she raised an eyebrow. She pushed her French fries plate to the middle of the table. His forest green eyes seemed to smile as he sat in front of her.

“What are you having?”

“A turkey sandwich”

“I didn´t think I´d see you today” he said after ordering his lunch.

“Same here, it´s late”

“We came in a very slow bus”

“When you take it at the main gate, it takes twice as long…”

“I don´t think I could remember your path”

“Never take that path on your own” her tone was serious

“No?” he raised his eyebrows

“Please, no” she stared into his eyes intently, he furrowed his eyebrows “We´ve only been to the clearer part of the woods, you could get lost there, anything could happen”

“Have you ever gotten lost there?”

“I have a good sense of direction but yeah, I got lost a few times but that was a long time ago –she seemed to be remembering those times, his face became sad as he saw her expression, she seemed to notice and in a second her face changed to her usual nonchalant demeanor –just don´t go there”

“I won´t” he smiled a little, she slightly bowed her head.