The Hero With The Bubblegum Eyes

Being A Typical Blond

This is Feebee Donnelley's POV of a part in Chapter 40 where Landon's tube gets punctured and they get on with Dean only to be headed towards the wall.

"Go without me, Jay," I order him putting it across his head that I cannot swim, "I'll be fine." I reassure him.

I notice that Jay doesn't even hesitate a second to swim back to me inorder to retrieve me from heading towards the damn wall.

It's only the moments like this that tell me that Jay has constantly been there in my life. He was always there to protect me from all the cruelty in this world.

When I see him nearing me, a million different flashbacks project themselves in my head.

"Uh-oh," I muttered hopelessly as I break a porcelain plate in the orphanage. "They are gonna put me in the dark room as punishment." I tell Jay as tears already start clouding up my vision.

"What was that?" I hear someone's voice and when I turn to see who it was I realise that she is gonna punish me harder. She glares at the broken pieces on the floor and then back to me.

"How many damn times should I tell you to not break anything around here?" She changes her tone to an even scarier one as she raises her hand to slap me through the face. I close my eyes anticipating the pain.

However it doesn't come.

"Feebee didn't do anything. I did it." I open my eyes to see Jay step forward in front of me making himself a victim for something he didn't even do.

"Jay, no-" I am cut off when the woman slaps Jay so hard that his face immediately turned red.

"You are going to stay in the dark room tonight." She bossily commands him before walking in another direction searching for her next victim.

"Jay, I am sorry. You didnt even have to do it for me. You just confess the truth to her. I'll take the fall for my mistakes." I tell him as I hug him from behind.

He wraps his arms around me. "You are like my little sister. What kind of brother I am, if I let you suffer?" He whispers before turning around to face me.

Upon seeing the tears in my eyes, he wipes them away. "Will you promise me one thing?" He asks me holding out his pinky finger.

"Never ever cry again." He tells me before pulling the edges of my lips up as he still holds out the pinky of his other hand.

"Promise."

I am brought back from the memories as I notice that Jay carries me in his arms and swims towards the other side where all the others are waiting for us.

I stare into his eyes as another memory resurfaces in my mind.

"What are you doing, JT?" I ask my best friend as I notice that he is unscrewing one of the windows in the orphanage.

He turns around and places a finger on my lips.

"Pheebs, listen here. I am gonna run away from this place and find a new home. I'm gonna make sure that the place is safe for us and if I can I'm also going to inform the police about what is going on in here. I am gonna come back for you." He then procceds to remove his finger from my lips.

I don't know what to say so I just hug him as tight as I could.

"I know you will Jay." I release him from the hug. I watch for another five minutes as Jay successfully managed to escape through the window as he asks me to watch if anyone is coming. He turns around and gives me the warmest smile and shouts "It's my promise,Feebee. And with those words out of his mouth he begins running away.

"Bye, Jay." I shout as loud as I could even though I knew he wouldn't be able to hear it.

However everyone else in the orphanage heard me.

That was how I ended up getting locked in the dark room where a woman hit me with an iron rod and I felt blood trailing down my head.

"Don't cry, you promised Jay that you wouldn't cry." I kept repeating it over and over again hoping that somehow it would ease the pain.

The pain went to such a point where it became completely unbearable.

He promised that he'd come for you... I muttered to myself as black spots clouded my vision.

When Jay finally lets me down I realise that a single tear trip trailed down my cheek. However Jay spots it before I could wipe it away.

"You promised that you wouldn't cry." He tells me as he wipes away the tear for me.

"You promised that you would come back for me."

" Guess, some promises cannot be kept." He tells me as his gaze trails over to Aqueela.

"We did keep up our promises, Jay. I never shed a single tear until this very moment." I tell him proudly.

"But I didn't come back for you." He tells me as guilt cocoons his eyes.

"Oh you did come back, Jay. To the orphanage? No. To me? Yes. Even when we met after all those years, you were the same elder brother who looked out for his younger sister. As promised you made sure that the world was safe for me. My world is safe as long as you are in it, JT." These are the most genuine words that I've ever spoken. I hug him back and he doesn't hesitate to return the hug.

He always looked out for me. Even now, no one, not even The Dung Beetles, came to save me but he did. He always looks out for me. He always complys to all that I say. I know taht a huge part of him I know that he still regrets leaving me behind in the orphanage on my own. He had not changed at all. Even after all these years, he is still the small boy who will take the fall for me to ease up my pain.

Jay Taylor, you are like nobody else.

You are my hero...