Control - Enoch O'Connor [ON HOLD]

AFTER AN eight and a half months of grief,Miss Peregrines house of peculiar children had finally come back to life. Children now played in the garden,ate together,came to every meal,talked and smiled.

Even Bronwyn let out a laugh every now and them but she would still stop sometimes,feeling guilty she's living her life without her brother and that she's s smiling and laughing while his lifeless body is sitting in his room,alone.

Abe would still call everyday but his letters to Emma seemed to become less and less. Fiona and I caught her crying to Olive about his last letter in which he only wrote a few sentences and had forgotten to write 'I love you' back to the girl.

"You know how you said Abe is going to fall in love with someone else?" I asked Enoch,sitting down on his bed while he was at his table as usual,dismembering a doll he stole from Claire a few days ago.

"What,it already happened? Shit,I said after the war not while it's still ongoing." He let out a mocking laugh,not even looking up.

Him and I have become close enough,given we've been talking to each other for only eight months. Still we mostly talked to each other than to anyone else. Fiona was most of the time with Hugh so I couldn't talk to her as Hugh would not let her alone,as if he would get lost and Enoch was cold and rude to most people in this house so he didn't have that many options.

"Can't say I'm certain he found someone but Fiona and I saw her crying to Olive about how he's using less and less words on his letters." I said to him,getting up and taking a seat next to him.

My previous sentence earned a scoff, "That's pathetic on her part. Really,he's fighting in a war,how the fuck is he supposed to write her,she should be thankful she's still getting letters."

"So you think he's coming back?" I asked,putting my elbows down and leaning on them while giving Enoch a smile, "You think their love is stronger than the war?"

Enoch let out a laugh,moving his head back, "Fuck no,he's not coming back." He let out another laugh, "He will stop writing eventually,he'll get bored."

"So much hope in you,you have enough for the whole island." I shot him a glare despite having a smile on my lips.

I stayed in Enoch's room for a while before we went down for dinner with him behind me. After dinner,we all went into the living room so we could watch Horace's dream that he had last night.

After the lights were shut off by Miss Peregrine,Horace appeared on the screen with Millard next to him,giving him a few compliments on the suit he was trying. The scene then changed to Emma crying to Olive about something on one of the couches in the living room,their voices begin muffled,the angle moving back to the point you could see Fiona and me standing at the door,listening to the two girls. Emma and Olive didn't seem to mind,Fiona's and my habit for over listening already known.

The scene changed again to Emma receiving a letter,opening it,letting it fall down on the ground and running away crying. The letter showed the second Emma run away. It was a photo that captured Abe with a woman,holding a baby. Under the photo were the words 'This is why.'.

The scene caused Emma to run out of the room,tears forming in her eyes and Miss Peregrine to turn the light back on,telling everyone it was time for the reset.

"Told you." I heard from behind me while walking outside.

"Fine,you win. Now put you mask on,shut up and stop smiling." I said,putting my own mask on.

A/N
Such an uneventful and short chapter but I need it for the story to make sense..
12:09 am
15 nov