A LONELY Game (EDITING)

||A DIFFERENT TUNE||

'Say would you like to have a snack outside my little spark?' Grandma said , abruptly stopping her hands movements as she'd did time and time again. Which I should have found peculiar due to her constant (don't stop till I've finished and like what I've made) mentality but my observational skills always seemed to lesson in places and with people I felt comfortable with, which even as a child was rare . Turning to me frozen in fear.

Silence had filled the room as I took a moment trying to pull the darkness from my thoughts, eagerly I'd nodded hoping the breeze delivered from thr sicamore branches I'd played in countless time ,and the tickling texture of the grass I'd rolled in a hundred time would blow my troubles away .

Oblivious to the anxious look on grandmas face. I took her extended hand and dragged her out of the rooms patio door toward the familiar gazebo in the garden where the sun always seemed to shine and the spiteful words of my family and peers seemed to disappear with the flapping of a butterflies wings.

Years later I'd finally learned why she always stopped her ministrations so quickly. Panic attacks . She'd always known when I was about to have them .

"Do you always do that?"a deep baritone voice gruned out it's question in the distance, immediately drawing my gaze foreward .

"What?" I question no longer trapped in my favourite memory ,now drawn foreward to reality.

"Daydream".

"Its quiet rude you know ? Not anwering to your host" hed added from his computer seat completely facing me now .

"Wha- I don't do it all the time" I responded lying.

"Really because since I've met you most of our time in each others precense you've been day dreaming".

"What's wrong with that" I question growing agrivated.

"Nothing it's just a rather stupid use of your time".

"What's got your boxers in a twist"I mutter .

"Nothing but a nosy pre-teen making her rather vexing presence known" .

"Jeez is this how you treat people who are trying to help you?" I say exasperated .

"Help?" he questioned a slight glint of amusement present in his eyes while his face remained black.

"Well obviously why else would I risk life and death climbing up the side of a building

"Maybe your just mental" came his immediate reply his voice succeeding at holding no emotion whatsoever, once again facing his laptop

I don't know whether to be offended or slightly flattered it's not every day someone says mental in place of clinically depressed.

"Maybe this is how I treat everyone ." He murmurs ,no movement in his body language indicating that this was a lie nor that it saddened him ,as if it were common knowledge.

"I don't believe that" I whisper

"You don't have to believe it ,the best part about the truth, it never needs validation" he said with such finality .

A long pause streched itself throughout the room almost suffocating me at the idea of being alone in my mind with my thoughts.

"You're loud"he interuppted .

Oh thank the Gods.

"Sorry" I apologies immediately as if by second nature ;which it was . Before digesting what he said and letting my confusion appear upon my face .

"Huh?" I question unintelligently

"When I first pulled you in you wanted to know how I knew you'd been outside ,answer your rather loud" he elaborated .

"Oh well um-".

"Right then I believe that's enough sharing for one day Martin will drive you home"he stated getting up from his seat making his way to me taking my still full cocoa mug and helping me of the bed hastely ,escorting me to his door he motioned for me to exit first leading me down an almost endless hallway we finally reach a staircase which lead down to the very door I'd seen him enter some nights ago .

"MARTIN!!" I jumped in fright as he shouted .

"Yes sir" came a reply as I tried to soothe the savage beating of my heart ,keyword tried .

"I need you to deliver ,miss...?" Stopping looked down at me .

"Melody-Anne'' I clearify .

"Miss Lane home safely".

"Its Melody-Anne ".

"I heard you I just don't care" he smirked a playful air surrounding him ,wow you'd hardly believe he was capable of a serious much less sombre moment when he's like this.

Flustered I make my way down the stairs out the door accompanied my Martin ofcourse ,before spining on my heel .

"Wait how did you know I didn't-" come with my car ,I didn't get to finish ,a door slammed in my face .

Ass I mutter in my head, definetly still an Ass .

The ride home was a silent one ,not that Martin wasn't just bursting with great conversational trivea, yeah...not .

I sat stiffly in my spot affraid that any slight movement might provoke Martin . He just gave of the predator about to pouce vibe also that I might somehow damage the leather interior in this town car which is clearly more valuable than my life . Exhaling slowly I watch as we pass house after house the transition from mansions to modest flats seemless .

Looking forward once again I contemplate just how I was going to get back in my room earlier I'd thought of just climbing back up my bedroom tree but there is no way I'm about to do that ,I've climbed enough buildings for one night . Gods I was developing such a headache from all this shit ,I felt like just collapsing into a heap on the ground .

I'm exhausted .

Why ?, why me? , why this? . I couldn't have just one year ,one year of simple. I don't need this ,for once ,just once I want my biggest fear to be what to wear to school in the morning . I dont need unnecessary complications . Not again . Flashbacks of 2 years ago flooded my mind taking me over . When I'd lost him . And the last time I felt normal.

And now this , God's why couldn't my life be that of a boring social outcast nerd ,the way it's supposed to be .

"We've arrived ma'am" I heard Martin announce.

Yipping I frantically looking around I'd realised I was indeed home ,sighing I grabbed the door handle ,when I heard Martin clear his throat,seeing he gained my attention he stared at me over the front seat ,making me fidget like a child about to be scolded.

"Ma'am if I may ,I believe it'd be in your best interest if you'd no longer bothered master Ace"he advised.

And something told me his reasoning was meant protect me ,rather than the son of his own employers . Odd .

Seeing no reason to fight this I only nodded, getting out of the car. I watch it kill away.

As it drives away I imagine it becoming the thin but ever present rope which held mine and Ace's connection to each others lives ,the further the car got the more taught the rope grew ,finally snapping once the car was out of my sight.

Shoulders slumped ,Turning around I walked to my front door , moving one of the flower pots on the porch I grab the extra house key beneath it .

Once inside I walk through the house in the dark headed upstairs unafraid of being caught red handed for leaving in the fist place, mounting the stairs ,I heard hushed voices coming from my parents room ,groans filled the air . Disgusting . Especially since my dad was having a late night at the resturant ,and wouldn't be home till at least 3:00 am .

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