"Wow~ Y'all look like shit." Cherry commented as we sat down around our usual table in the cafeteria, so as to grab some breakfast before our lectures commenced.

"Thank you very much, Cherry. A perfect morning greeting." I looked around the table, of course the four of us ; meaning me, Felix, Lorenzo and Neil, who had opted to sit with us, had a late night, but why was Clarice looking like a zombie.

Cherry saved me the effort of asking as she questioned her best friend, "They have their reason, but why do you look like a dessicated vampire?"

She glanced over Clarice's shoulder,"You know what? You don't have to explain." She rolled her eyes as Kai walked towards us, looking like 'shit'.

Clarice just rolled her eyes as her boyfriend took a seat besides her, and leaned his head on her shoulder. "If you could use my name to lie, then so could we." She said, looking particularly at Felix.

"It's fun to watch them bicker." I don't know why I whispered this to Lorenzo, who was sitting besides me. He chuckled in agreement.

"You already have so much on your plate, skipping classes for one day wouldn't have killed you." Cherry stated looking at the four of us, but I could see she was more worried about Felix, but did not want to say that out loud.

"I didn't want my parents to suspect my last night plans, also I wasn't in the mood to lie." Felix replied, cracking his neck in the process.

My neck was also sore from last night,"I have a test, it's a small one, but it counts so..." I trailed off, massaging my neck as well. "That's the only reason I came, but I don't think I'm in any condition to answer it after last night's events." Clarice added on, smirking at Kai.

"Gross, TMI..." Felix squinted his eyes, fake gagging. Clarice swatted at his arm, making him laugh.

"Me and this asshole have swimming practices. The coach, he'll kill me if I miss even one day." Kai agonized, speaking for his best friend as well.

"He probably won't, so that job falls on me. Why'd you have to wake me up, fucking 27 missed calls!" Lorenzo groaned out loud.

"I wasn't that tired." Neil chuckled awkwardly, he had his laptop opened in front of him. He was working on something or probably he was just avoiding getting awkward with the new people, surrounding him.

"You and your stupid reasons, now go on dead walk the whole day."

So that's what we all did; dead walk.

I was so grateful when the day ended, wanting nothing more than to curl on my bed hugging my favourite plushie. But life was not on my side, for when the classes for the day ended, Clarice had gathered us all in college grounds.

"Y'all let's go shopping."

I opened my mouth to protest, "Don't you dare say no, London. You have been dismissing the whole plan too many times." Clarice spoke sternly, "the wedding is in less than two weeks."

Lorenzo visibly tensed besides me. "If that's what you are going to talk about, I'm leaving," he scoffed.

Before he could turn around I caught him by the arm, but took off my grip instantly and whispered, "Please join in. Please... If you are there we could end the rendezvous sooner, or else she'll take forever. Please don't make me suffer alone." I pleaded.

Lorenzo looked amused by my pleading, "So what if, I come with you and help you get out faster, what will I get?"

Of course he would ask for something, Mr. Frost knows no selflessness.

"Whatever." I rolled my eyes, "I'll buy you something at the mall, but it would be of my choice."

"Okay sure, but it better be worth it." We were suddenly cut off as Kai spoke,"What are you two whispering there?"

"Nothing, just that Enzo will join us as I have no source of transport, I didn't get my Harley today." I confessed in a breath making up a plan in the very second.

"Enzo is coming with us?" Cherry asked with exasperated surprise.

"Problem?" Clarice nodded in denial.

So the five of us went over to the mall, Felix hadn't joined since he was feeling faint and dizzy, he blamed it on the lack of sleep.

Clarice jumped from stores to plazas, never satisfied. "The design is good, but the colour.... This one is nice, but it won't match with Kai's blazer.... This is the one that I wanted, damn but there is no size available." And on it went.

Finally it was almost late evening, when we were done. Cherry, Clarice and Kai's hands were full, Kai was mostly holding on his girlfriend's bags, Me and Lorenzo were the ones with the least baggage. I had bought myself a pair of clothes and two t-shirts for casual use.

We bid each other farewell as we got on our respective transports, Lorenzo was dropping me off, while the other two joined Kai in his Sedan.

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"Here have this..." I looked up sideways handing the bag I had been holding to Lorenzo. He had parked in front of my bungalow.

"What's it?"

"A gift as promised." I spoke, curious to see his reaction.

"But I didn't even get you out of there," he looked away, but I could see he was taken aback and probably was interested in knowing what's in the bag.

"Open it already." I chuckled, opening the door, in case I needed to escape.

He eagerly took hold of the bag and peeked in. His expressions which were on hold to not seem interested suddenly shifted to what seemed like annoyance,"A Jack Frost toy? Really? I was really excited for a minute."

"But it's so cute, and it did remind me of you." My face suddenly heated up, when I realised what I had just said. "I'm going then, I'll see you tomorrow... probably." I skipped out of the Thar, just to see my Harley out of the garage.

"What the hell," I shouted, "who put my Harley out here?"

"No one, I mean no one touches my Harley!"

"Hey?" Lorenzo called me, bringing back my attention. "What's wrong?"

"It's my Harley, I parked it in the garage and now it is out in the cold." I replied walking towards my dear bike.

"Wait," he called again, "you might having burglars in the house! You want me to come in there?" He asked, in a worried tone, I might add.

"Shut up stupid. Why would burglars get my bike out, they would rather take it with them." I laughed at the notion.

"They might have wanted to park their vehicle inside?" He wondered aloud.

"Why would they want to park? They would likely leave it on road so they can make a run as soon as they are finished." He just stared at me, as I continued laughing, " I can't believe I'm standing out here in the cold evening discussing burglars with you. C'mon be off now."

"You're sure?"

"Yes. And take good care of Jack Frost." He snorted, but started the engine, I turned around to my bike waving at the blue haired male.

He acts normal when in person alone. A smile lingered on my face thinking about his reaction to the mini Jack Frost.

Soon I heard the engine roar, as the Thar took off from our driveway.

I took my bike to the garage, but what I saw made me regret not taking up Lorenzo's offer. There was a brand new Fiat parked, besides Dad's Ford. Dread struck me, but soon I waved it off, thinking there might be a guest, and not a burglar. For all the movies I had watched burglars didn't have brand new cars. So leaving my Harley at the corner of the garage, I walked to the front door.

I rang the door bell, but soon realised that it wasn't ringing. "Ugh I'll have to call the electrician soon." I muttered to myself. I knocked on the door but after getting no reply I started banging, that's when I heard the voices coming from inside. My stomach dropped, as fear curled in. I followed the voices from around our backyard till I reached my parents' bedroom.

The screens were closed, reprimanding me from getting the view of the room from the floor to ceiling windows. I knocked on the windows, but no one seemed to hear, for the shouts inside were too high. I decided to try opening the window, and thankfully it opened. The moment I stepped in the noises suddenly went dead, I looked around the room grasping what was going on. My mum was backing a suitcase, and  lot of papers were scattered around the bed along with some clothes.

Not able to take anymore of the silence, I asked, "What's going on here? Where are you going mum?"

"It's nothing Blue, just go to your room, you look tired."

"No I'm not letting you keep me hanging this time. Tell me what's been going on," I said gesturing towards the mess spread across the whole room, "Here? And why is there a brand new car parked in the garage?"

"Your mother is going for a medical conference at Georgia and she felt it was a good plan to buy a new car just to go there." Dad grunted throwing an angered glare at mum.

"I needed one, I bought one." She replied carrying on by throwing clothes haywire in her suitcase.

"You didn't even bother to ask me once, just once. I could have driven you there or you could have just told me you wanted to buy a fucking car." I was surprised hearing my dad curse. He NEVER cursed.

"I'm sorry I didn't feel like troubling you. It's my work I can handle it on my own." Mum said frustrated, as she threw in more clothes into her open suitcase.

"Couldn't you have even told me that you are going tomorrow!"

"No I couldn't, I didn't even know it myself till yesterday. But why are you even reacting so much, I'm going for the conference on my own, I'm not putting you in any trouble. Why are you making it into such a huge thing?"

"Because you never listen, never talk, you never converse like adults should and you know what the way this is going on it's all going end up like it did eighteen years ago. But this time you wouldn't just lose your kid but even me, cause I cannot put up with this for any longer."

"You know what just say it out loud. Say that you are jealous, say that you hate it that I'm the Head of the department, you hate that you have to work beneath me. And you know that you cannot do anything about it, so you take the dirty way, dig into the past and throw it in my face. Every fucking time. Yes I made mistakes, I lost him too, but I'm not gonna let you hold me back because of it anymore." My mum was fuming, while tears ran down her face.

"So he didn't mean anythi-"

"Can anyone just tell me what the fuck happened eighteen years ago?" I cut my dad off before he could finish his rant any further. Both of them went silent, finally realising that I was present in the room as well.

"You should go to your room London." My mother told me sternly, wiping off the tears.

"There's no need for anyone to go anywhere," My dad looked at my mum and then at me, "let it be known, how your addiction for work resulted in losing London's literal other half."

"Stop Demian! Why are you doing this, don't make the kid suffer through it-" I cut in yet again.

"What do you mean my other half?" Now I felt like I was finally losing my senses.

"You had a twin brother, but he couldn't take so much strain, as your workaholic mother worked even with the both of you in her womb. Her work always meant more to her than her family ever did." I felt myself floating off, as they both continued to shout at each other, I couldn't absorb what I was hearing. But everything suddenly made sense, all of my nightmares, my fear of drowning, everything.

"It was his name,wasn't it?" I asked suddenly ceasing the shouts around me,"Blue, it was his name,wasn't it?"

"You know what, I am leaving right now. Don't bother talking me out. I'm going." She shut her suitcase and left, I heard the unfamiliar engine roll off. And soon enough the front door was thrown open as my dad marched away, the Ford rolled off too. While I stood there trying to immerse whatever that had happened. Trying to sink in with the load new data from all these years. I felt the unfamiliar fear of my family being broken apart creep in.

I couldn't feel the cold air coming through the window I had left open, as it engulfed me, I curled on the cold floor and soon enough the familiar nightmares seemed pretty near, but this time I welcomed them with open arms.

But I felt myself floating on a cloud, I couldn't feel anything.

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(A/n:
*Deep breath*
So lots, I mean lots of things happened in this chapter. To me it was a rollercoaster through London's emotions.

I hope y'all enjoyed for it's gonna be a long ride ahead. It's almost 2 am here right now, and I have a test coming up for which I'm not at the least prepared. *Huff* Wish me luck fellas. Goodnight, y'all.

~Aarch;)