Jason stood in the cold snow, replaying the scene that had unfolded moments ago. Chelsea had left him for his worst rival on the baseball team. The blinding pain he felt at first had now reduced to a dull ache. They had been arguing for months, and he had tried so hard to make sure they never split up. Too hard, he thought, gazing at the white snow falling around him in the local park.
Still staring at the pretty, white landscape ahead, Jason heard his younger brother's familiar footsteps beside him. Jaden was one of the few people that understood him. He was quiet, thoughtful, and had coffee-colored skin that reminded him of the bitter cake their mother had tried to make for him on his tenth birthday.
"Do you want to talk about it, or are you planning to spend the rest of today sulking?".
Jason turned his head to the fifteen-year-old looking up at him with sharp, grey eyes that transfixed anyone who looked into them. He would never understand how a kid who hadn't even spent a year in high school seemed way smarter than had ever been in the nineteen worthless years of his life.
"Judging by the look in your eyes and the way your shoulders are slumped, I'm assuming you and Chelsea had another argument".
Jason's shoulders went even lower. Was he that easy to read? He sighed before replying softly, "We broke up".
"You broke up or she broke up with you?".
Before Jason could send a sarcastic response to his brother, Jaden's best friend trudged up to them in an outfit that made her look like a walking rainbow.
"Hiya", she beamed at them.
Dani was small for a fourteen-year-old and looked like the sort of girl that would be bullied a lot in school for her purple-tinted glasses and colorful dressing but, she seemed to drive away any kind of negative energy around her. She was the complete opposite of Chelsea, who was always dressed like a wannabe spider and had a very moody personality.
Now that he looked back at their relationship, he wondered why he dated Chelsea. Maybe it was because she was the first girl who had any interest in him since his dad murdered Tyler.
Jason winced at the memory of Tyler. Tyler had been like a brother to him until his bipolar father had stabbed him to death in the same park he was in. This park was where his mother had left him and Jaden with an abusive father. It was where his brother had nearly killed himself. It was where-
"Jason!"
The sound of his younger brother's agitated voice pulled him out of his silent thoughts.
"Hmm?"
"Dani and I are going to Kaitlin's game and she wants to know if you're coming"
Jason looked at the park that held most of his depressing recollections and, inhaling deeply, he put an arm around Dani's petite shoulder and walked away from the broken memories he should have forgotten a long time ago.509Please respect copyright.ＰＥＮＡＮＡPK7ELtk8a1
