Monday, April 04, 2005

Tears are warmer than the atmosphere:

Chapter 3: Sore
The next day Bella went to Aprils house for the slumber party.
ding dong.... Ding dong
April answered the door. " Hey Bella , come on in and take your stuff to my room."
Bella walked into Aprils room she set her stuff on the chair and went and sat by April.
" My mom said you called yesterday, but then she heard a smack at something and then a dial tone" April began the conversation.
" Yeah that was me, Sorry about that, you see I kind of fell and the phone hit the counter, and then it hit the wrong button, I thought about calling back but then maybe your mom would be more mad at me." Bella felt a lump in her throat as she told the lie to her best friend.
"It's ok, my mom thought a mishap had happened with the phone." So what do you wanna do?"
April asked.
" Anything really would be fine by me. "
Quickly without really thinking about it, like she knew what she wanted to do all along, April replied. " Let's go swimming,"
Bella thought that might not of been the greatest plan, but she decided she would swim with a t-shirt on to cover up her arms. " Okay."
"last one in is a rotton egg!" April yelled while running down the hallway towards the back door.
Bella heard a splash and then she heard her voice being called.
Bella got her suit on and pulled over a large t- shirt.
" Aren't you going to take off your t-shirt? the water feels good."
" No way!" then to quickly end the converstation Bella did a cannon ball into the water.
" So how does it feel to be ten, when I turned ten it was awesome... Bella whats wrong?"
Bella couldn't hold the tears back anymore. Aprils mother must of heard Bella crying because when Bella was telling April what happened she heard every word. Aprils mother grabbed the phone and decided to call 911.
Bella remembered moving in with April, and her sister being put in a foster care program, The bruise on her mothers' leg turned out to be from her father the last night she ever saw him. Bella wondered how all this was to be, She never knew 5 years down the road shed' soon find out. but before that memory another heart ache happened in her mind, this time not to Bella. It all happened 5 years later...

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