Jackson Overland

I go to my bedroom and I decide to clean it.

I do my bed sheets then I organize my wardrobe and I see a piece of paper in the very corner of it.

Then I see a terrible drawing of 5 people holding hands in crayon. And it says at the top in preppy grade writing 'My family will always be there for me.' I turn to the back and it said, Sophie.

I looked at the drawing and I wanted to tear it into shreds. But instead I made it into a tissue and I cried on it.

"Why .. did this have to happen to me?" I whisper. "You were so young and full of life ... Sophie. Sorry Sophie ... I wasn't there for you." I whisper.

I wasn't there for Elsa either.

I fold the piece of paper and return it's spot.

I go into the lounge room. "The previous renters didn't clean the house properly." I tell James.

"Good to know. I have to repeat my last year because of my hospitalization." James says.

"Elsa is in the hospital now ... she was in the car accident." I inform him.

"Huh?!" He exclaims.

"She's fine though." I add.

"Good. Because if she was gone, you'd cut off all connections." He says, "Then you'd change your name again into 'Emanuel Martinez Estenban Rivera'."

"Stop it freak." I growl at him.

"Hey James ... do you keep anything from our family?" I ask him.

"Wow. You brought them up. Well I guess I don't have much because you put them out of my sight. But I've got an album. That's about it." He tells me. "Hey Jack I mean- yeah Jack. Instead of grieving about the past or forgetting ... why not embrace it? A person wouldn't want to be known for all the mistakes they've done but for all their achievements." He says to me.

"Don't tell me that. Just because you got over their death easily." I say, pissed off.

"You know why I moved on so quickly? ... It's because they told me so." James tells me.

My eyes widen.

"I was squashed in the car and my eyesight was blurry and I heard a faint voice of mom's voice. She said, 'Move on ... please.'." James quotes.

"Why didn't you tell me earlier?!" I shout at him.

"Because ... I didn't want the memory of seeing mom in the state she was in. She was horrific ... and honestly I thought that was her voice whispering in my dreams. I was diagnosed with mild amnesia so that small memory came rushing back." James says.

I rush back into my bedroom. This whole time she just wanted me to move on?!

Why didn't I?!

Why didn't I do as they wished?!

Instead I tried to forget about them!

James comes in. "Hey you alright?" He asks me.

"Yeah."

"Elsa was the only brightest thing in your dark past that's still alive. Stop treating that as a bad thing." James says to me and leaves my bedroom.

Elsa ... you were my answer the whole time.

A/N

Short Chapter but I'll be publishing another chapter soon! Be sure to vote and comment ;)