Chapter 1 Surprise

It was a night of full moonlight, the room was silent and murky for the moonbeam that peeked through the curtains by the window when the wind blew them back and forth they landed on the bed.

     A clinking sound of footsteps that were heard behind the door something was coming suddenly the door knob was pressed and twisted to the left, the door was flew wide open and the cold breeze  entered the room and the curtains danced more as if their master has arrived. Light turned on, the door was closed behind the footsteps continued until they reach the window a hand leaned the edge of the window and then a head went through the curtains brushing the face a boy.

        He turned right and left as if looking for something the eyes scanned every corner but the only thing was seen was the backyard of the house, in the middle of the grass there was a treehouse it was surrounded by tulips and vine.

    The vine covered every inch of the branch to the celling of the treehouse, the eyes stopped wandering when they saw the lavender and iris flowers that have grown in a pot side by side a word repeated in his head 

        "Take a good care of those flowers I will ask you when I return and remember me when you do that and if they die I will go forever! But I will promise I will be back once am fine."

       It was a girl socked in tears of sadness but there was a bitter smile on her face showing determination that she will be back. He sighed and shook his head to remove the thoughts but there was no avail.

      How could he forget those sad, tiered, hopeless face he then closed the window and sat at the edge of the bed and took of his sneakers shoes and throw it right and left as if he was getting the anger out of it he threw his self on the bed closed his eyes and try to fall asleep, he tossed for long 'where are you?!' he mumbled to himself, he continued tossing till he fall into hypnosis.

      A fragment of memory came to him mind. Beep...beep...beep the hospital machine sung a song of revival and then there was little laughter and tears of joy.

       He gave a  faint smile to him self, and hugged him self tried to be comfortable,  his buzzing phone wake him up, he sighed and took his phone from his back pocket,swing his leg, brushed his face with his hand but when he saw the person who called him he stood up from the bed and answered it "Josh..." a voice trailed off for what seemed forever the room was silenced.

        He has caught his breath for so long where he was about to faint he called out her name with so many emotions "Elenore how..are you. !?" his broke off.

       "Am ok Josh am fine... will you sit down? Am not your master or something" Josh heard her last word and chuckled sat on the bed "ok Missy continue, you still know me better even when we are long apart for 2 years but it felt like a millennium for me huh" he said it all at once not taking a breath there was a chuckle from the other side of the phone "oh now your laughing good God fine then tell me something good" he sounded so pleading, he crossed his fingers there was a short silence but "ok ok Josh jeez I have a surprise for you"

      Josh on the other side blinked several times and the word echoed in his head 'surprise' what would it be, all of a sudden he was nervous started tapping the floor with his feet "Are you there?" The question wake him to reality " uh.. yes yes what is the surprise tho?" asked out of curiosity

      "you know that there is a week left for school to start so I decided to spend my last year of high school senior back there for some reason I needed a distraction from all of my thoughts was the reason we moved out and you know the rest of the story....we all have been through a lot and I need my last year of school in my life to be memorable not miserable and I ...missed you a lot" he heard those warm words and sobbing he knew she was crying he cursed under his breath, her decision was a huge leap for her, him, her future for everyone in her life, he found him self smiling until his cheeks hurt

       "please don't cry Elly, this is a good thing oww.. wait this is great I get to see my best friend and spend time with her OMG Elly you have no idea what am feeling right now I miss you too I wish I could hug you!" He exclaimed and rushed his hand through his hair "I know Josh and here is my surprise, I've decided to be there by tomorow my parents have  arranged everything we will live the same place we did, next to your house so everything is gonna be normal like before I hope so!?" 

    He couldn't believe what he just heard there was too many emotions through his head he stand up from the bed and paced back and forth his mouth was wide open but he covered it with his hand then his eyes were about to leave their socket "Elenore am lost of words I don't know what to say am supper excited tell me the time you arrive I will come there? And do you need anything?" He was giggling like a child who just received too many sweets

    "No there is no need for you to come my dear I will come directly to your house but I do need something if you don't mind" replayed Elenore with a teasing tone "What is it just spit it out and I will do it". " ok then I need you to prepare the treehouse cause I missed the vibe so much" Josh put his hand on his waist and bended and then lifted his upper body straight up and with a determined tone he said " I will just call me when you are about to reach home" he exclaimed "sure thing Josh, now sleep well and we will talk everything tomorrow love you." "You too Elly love you" and the call was disconnected.

    He became restless after the call he needed to calm down, he had been eager to see her face thousands of question swirl in his mind he muster up some courage and opened his laptop then started browsing for 'welcome back decoration ideas' but none of them satisfied him, he took a deep breath and cleared his thoughts, he closed his eyes and let his self loose on the chair.

   All the good memories started flooding in his head, from the moment they got the idea and till they build it. A victories smile spread on his face and opened his eyes he took a paper and started writing a to do list he wrote it in sequence and cross checked it he was satisfied. He went to his bed and set an alarm for 5pm.

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     Buzz...buzz ....buzzz

       The alarm was telling him to wake up, he turned it off and went it to a deep slumber. 5:10, 5:20...5:50 all this minutes passed and he was filling that he had missed something 'what did I forget?' he mumbled but then his eyes were wide open in shock and inhaled as much as air he could take, he stood on the bed and watched his alarm 6:10 'fuck' he cursed and jumpoff the bed but he hit the chair with his toes and felt the tip of his toes burn 'shit shit' he repeated the word as it is a prayer. He opened his door and went to the next room to the bathroom his toes were burning and he tried to avoid it and washed his face and brush his teeth all in a rush like the water is gonna leave him, back to his room he took white shirt and grey shorts with comfy sneakers picking up his phone and the list he dashed to the kitchen but in the mid way he almost bumped his big brother