Tom's chapter...

Dear Tom,
I am leaving this in your care. I am sorry for what I did and the things this I said. But in all honesty, you deserve so much more than me. A prettier, nicer girl that can give you so much more than I can. When you look at Loki, think of me. I am so sorry. I love you so much, but it is better this way.

I love you...
~Ali

Her Loki doll sat on my counter top with this little note. I took it out of the box and held it in my hands. I immediately felt a deep resentment toward this little representation of her. I hated it, but I loved it. It was her, she loved it, it took her forever to get it.

The thought of her not coming through my door again, or us falling asleep in each other's arms, or seeing her come out of the bathroom looking so beautiful. Her beauty is effortless, she didn't even have to try and astound me with all of her. I just wanted to make her feel loved, and wanted. Something she seemed like she never had. I sat on the floor holding this figure of me essentially and cried.

I hadn't hurt this bad since Grace left me. I thought I loved her more than anything, but that was what?...ten years since then. I was young and naive then, before I knew what it really meant to love someone. She was beautiful, she was a model for Victoria's Secret beautiful. With long blonde hair that curled softly. I still think about her every once in a while. We didn't have nearly the fun that Ali and I had. Grace was snobbish and wouldn't do anything that wasn't the highest profile.

Ali was... Just. There aren't words to describe how she made me feel. She was just so easy to be with. I didn't have to try to be anything for her. I could just be me. I picked myself up from the floor and got in the shower. I had to take Avery now. The girl that my mom had adopted because she couldn't go back in the system. Too old they said. I didn't know her very well, but I did know that she was 15, dark, and had a very huge attitude problem. I got dressed in my nicest suit making sure I didn't look like I had just been crying and headed down to the café. The bell dinged as I opened the door. It was dark and just after two days without her was empty. The place wasn't as warm as it usually is. I went into the library and sat down in the spot that Ali used to sit in. Her pile of books still sat right there where we would sit together for hours. I heard Avery banging around in the kitchen so I got up and went into the kitchen.

"Hey brother..." She mumbled. Her eyes were just as puffy as mine and she looked worse than me. Or at least how I felt.

"You don't have to call me that, if you don't want to." I said.

"No. You are all I have left." She said trudging up the stairs to the little apartment where her and Lily lived. "Hey, what happened to the girl? I thought she would have come with you." I looked down at my shoes and shoved my hands in my pockets.

"No. Um, we uh, broke up." I managed to choke out.

"That's too bad. She seemed nice."

"Yeah, she is. Why don't you finish getting ready, just holler when you are ready to go." She nodded her head and disappeared up the stairs. I went back to the library and picked up the book that was in the top of her pile. The Great Gatsby, a good one. This book was one of my first classics. I got up and looked around the shelves, my eyes stumbled upon the set of Harry Potter books. Lily had had these forever. She loved them. I remember when the Philosophers Stone came out. She wanted me to read it so badly but I refused. I grabbed all 7 of the  novels and went back into the kitchen. I will read them for her. Avery came back down the stairs wearing something I had never seen. She was wearing tan shorts and a flowery tank top. Which surprised me because she was always in black. Her jet black hair was flowing freely over her shoulders.

"Okay, I am ready." She smiled and handed me a box. "I've only got a couple." She said nodding to the boxes.

"Do you want me to call Luke?" I asked. 

"No, I think we've got this one." I put the boxes on top of the boxes that I carried and we walked out to my car. We loaded it up pretty quickly and drove back to my flat.

"Okay. Here's the dilly. I've got two flats. One is mine, it has two rooms, both are pretty large. And the other one is its own floor, with one bedroom where Ali lived. She cleaned it out yesterday morning. So... You can have the room in my flat. Until you turn 18. On your 18th birthday you can pack up your room and head down there or get your own place. It's up to you."

"Thank you Tom. I really appreciate it." She said hugging me around the waist.

"I really misjudged you kid."

"A lot of people do."

"Well I look forward to getting to know you."

"You too brother."

Yay! A little ray of sunshine for Tom. I really like Avery because she is so dynamic and because Lily was so important to the both of them. So she is going to be in this A LOT.

There will probably be more POV changes for a little while longer cuz they aren't together anymore and they can actually do different things.