By dark its only Ash and myself that remain. Lyrica has fallen asleep in my lap, her head resting in the crook of my neck. Ash sits beside me his arm resting on the lounge above me and the other rests in his lap holding my free hand. Alex and Cooper sit on the couch across from us, talking and laughing about things that had recently happened. By eight, Ash and I decide that we should get out of there hair. Alex seems slightly upset, but she understands. Slowly I climb of the lounge, Lyrica sleeping soundly in my arms. I take her up to her bedroom and lay her softly in her beautiful princess looking bed and tuck her in. Giving her a soft kiss on the head. I walk out of the room and back down to the guys at the front door. Cooper gives me a quick hug before going to turn all the lights off and making sure that the backyard isn’t completely destroyed. Alex throws her arms around me once more and whispers in my ear “Your going to be a great mum, and Ash will make a great dad. Don’t
I’m pulled from my thoughts from a feather light brush against my arm. Looking around I see Alex standing beside me her brows furrowed. “Is everything okay?” Her voice is like light pulling me out of the darkness of my own thoughts. “Yeah, everything okay. You’ve done a magnificent job with the house, when you first told me you were going to buy a house that you would have to renovate I thought I dear, hows she ever going to get the time to do that. But its come out beautifully.” Her eyes seem to twinkle with amusement as the words tumble out of my mouth. “Yeah I’m sure thats why you where staring of into the distances with no light in your eyes. Hows the nightmares going?” She smiles softly, its obvious that she knows me too well. “There getting better slowly, Ash is the same. But every night I wake up and try and move his arms tighten around. I think its his new fear, of losing me like he nearly lost me so many times all those years ago.” Her head bobs in understanding. Wh
Ash pulls up the car out the front of Alex’s new place. Cars seem to line the streets for there new house party. We struggle out of the car, after a ten hour trip both our legs are a bit wobbly. Everyone from the gang has been invited. Ash and I are a bit nervous about seeing most of them because we haven’t really talked to them since school finished. We had gone back to Riley’s boot camp after Blue told us about the missing monster, he had turned up about 10 years ago. He tried to attack Ash and I when we were at home, but these days nothing catches us unawares. We had heard rumours of something unnatural floating around the neighbourhood. So we had prepared ourselves. In the end we had to kill the monster and let Black know what had happened in case the monsters though that we were going to start another war. Walking up the front steps, Ash wraps an arm around me. I was nervous, these people were our friends and now twenty years after the battle. They were getting close to 40 year
Walking to the bathroom door I tap on it softly, “Cooper...” I sigh softly “Please Cooper, its me.” My voice is strained, I can’t loss another friend. The door opens slowly just enough for me to enter. Walking in I instantly find him and wrap my arms around him. “Are you going to leave me too? Is this why you've come looking for me?” “Oh, Cooper.” I sigh again. “We aren’t going to leave you, you are family. We have all lost someone, so we must create something new. A new family.” He sighs before burying his face in the crook of my neck and holding me tightly. “On the inside Alex really doesn’t want to leave you, but what she is doing, she thinks is going to make her future better. Enable her to go to college and get her degree. This is what she has always wanted, you have to understand that. She doesn't want to leave you, she’s practically been in tears since you stormed into the bathroom. She needs you just as much as you need her. So get your ass out of the bathroom and go t
The day passes quite quickly, school flying by as we see all our friends and I even welcome Josh with open arms. At lunch there seems to be a massive group of us, everyone from the battle sits with us. This seems to confuse the popular people that some of the gang use to hang with. Everyone seems to be recovering slowly, but steadily. The darkness that seemed to float around us seems to have disappeared and light and happiness is coming to the surface. Many of the groups parents where all fine, some seemed to have a bit of amnesia but other then that they were fine. All the pets are still at home and everyone seems to have overlooked the weird explosion of my house. I get a lot of sympathy from the staff and even some students come up to me and offer there condolences. Yes, now that everything has finished Ash and I have both been given time to grieve, grieve the deaths of our families and of our friends. But we are both trying to look at the bright side and believe that there sacrifi
The next morning after the party everyone seemed ready to move forward. After we had all cleaned the house, people started leaving. Riley and his gang were the first to go, having come the furtherest. They had quite a long drive back to there bootcamp training arena. As they drove away, we promised to stay in contact with them, and when that still didn’t encourage them. Riley had to sneak up to me and give me a kiss on the cheek. Ash’s face had been hilarious, and Riley and his group had fled. Practically running to the car, yelling there goodbyes. Ash had looked at me as if to say I told you he had a crush on you. But I just shrugged my shoulders and laughed at him. The rest of the group left in trickles, Josh and his group all hugged me and shook Ash’s hand. Most of them would see me at school next week. As the summer holidays were literally just coming to an end. Everyones families had come back safely from there holiday that they didn't even remember. Alex had been over there