Give Me A Sign
Thirty-Five
Jack's POV:
We were in Nyssa's car, we were currently driving on the highway to get to her hometown with the stereo blasting her iPod. We were singing along to Savior by Rise Against and I started head banging. She starts laughing, "Jack stop. I need to concentrate." I laugh to and lean back in the car seat. We soon start passing a town, "welcome to where I grew up. Over there is the new area."
"Where we going first?" "Just drive around and show you places. Guess I should start where I moved to when we moved down here." She drives for 15 minutes, it was nice here. I wouldn't mind raising a kid here one day. She goes over one bridge and then another bridge, until I see a military base and the beach. She makes a left, passing the base. "See those houses?" We were at a red light and she points to a housing development, it wasn't big. "We lived in one of those for a while before we got to move on base, as you can see is across the street from it."
She enters the base and drives through it, we get to one area where it was like a neighborhood but bigger. All the houses looked the same. She keeps driving, "that house is I where I lived for a few years." "Do you know how lives in it now?" She shakes her head, "no one ever does. That was a long time ago." After the base shes drives out and drives away from the beach. "I've been to three elementary schools, just in this area. Four counting the one in Maryland." "Why so many in this area?" "On the base we went to one, then we moved out and they had the kids go to this one school for a year which was way out of our zone. Then finally they put us at the closes school. Which was where she should of been in the first place," she rolls her eyes.
She drives for 20 minutes and we reach a not so looking nice area. "Where are we?" "Going to my middle school." She keeps driving and we pass a really old school. "This was my middle school." She said it so dark, her facial expression changed. "Nyssa?" I hold her hand and she closes her eyes and looks at me. "Are you okay?" "Yeah.. Lets just get out of this area." She drives for another 30 minutes and we reach the area that I saw first.
"See that big building that looks like a prison. That was my high school. Over here, the outdoor mall like place is the place for the high schoolers to hang out on the weekends." "A lot different from your middle school area." She lets out a sigh, "you have no idea how happy I was when I founded out this school opened my 8th grade year. Which meant my 9th grade year was the 2nd year the school was open." "Shit thats crazy." "Yeah. Hungry?" "Yeah." "Good cuz we're meeting up with my parents and younger sister now," she laughs.
We drive into the mall area and find a parking spot which took a while. We walk into Panera and she looks around. "Nyssa!," I hear a girl yell. I turn my head and see a girl who was a half inch taller then her run up to her. She was different from Nyssa. Freckles on her face, curly hair that was almsot blonde, and a lot thinner that didn't look like she was starving herself. It looked normal. Nyssa hugs her back and they smile at each other.
"Jack, this is my yonger sister Katie." Katie takes a double look at me, "woah. Your in that band she loves. Is it... All Time Low?" I smile at her, "yeah." "Nyssa how did you meet him?," Katie whispers. "I'll tell you later," Nyssa whispers back. "Okay, mom and dad are at a table and alreayd ordered." We follow Katie and see a man and woman who stood up and hugged Nyssa.
Her dad walks up to me and holds his hand out and I quickly shake his hand. "Whats your name?" "Jack sir." "You look really familiar...," her mom questions. "I'll explain why soon mom." We sit down and there was already food on the table. I guess Nyssa told them what I wanted because it was on the table. "I have a older sister, I'm the middle child, but she's off on her own now." "What she doing?" "Eye doctor." "Nyssa for years wanted to be a teacher, it was really hard to convince her to switch professions." "We're just glad she also chose media production as a double major."
Nyssa went quiet. She told me her reason why she wanted to be a teacher for years, but she never told them because it was more important then anything to her and she was afraid they wouldn't understand. And she also wanted to get ino the music business but couldn't because of her parents. She's also never told them about the voice in her head, and everything how music saved her. She hasen't told them a lot about herself and its sad to see.
"Nyssa told me she's a quarter Mexican." "Thats from my side of the family," her dad speaks up. He didn't look Mexican either, but he was only fifty percent. Nyssa sort of looked more like her dad then her mom, but had her mom's sweet eyes and smile. We talked for a while, Katie would try to hide the fact that she was stariing at me and it only made me laugh. "Katie its rude to stare," Nyssa speaks up.
"I'm sorry, he just seems familiar. Like I've seen him somewhere." "Jack, what is it that you do?" "I'm in a band." Her dad looked like he wanted to strangle me or something. "Whats the band called?" "All Time Low." "I knew it! Your Jack Barakat!," Katie speaks up and Nyssa covers her mouth. "Shut. Up. Katie." "All Time Low?," her dad was confused. "The band that I been a fan of since 2007 dad." "Oh." I was really glad my shirt could hide my tattoos, especially my Jack one on my chest.
"Nyssa was in love with you," Katie laughs. "Katie! Shut up!" "So how did you two meet?" At their concert at the House of Blues. Me and Bonnie ran into one of the members earlier in the day and he asked if we wanted to hang out and watch the show side stage." "That is so cool," Katie sighs. "Since then, we've been glued." Nyssa seemed to be hiding something from them. I look down and see that she was messing with her promise ring. She hasen't told them we're dating.
Nyssa lets out a sigh, "we're dating," she says quickly. Katie spits out her drink, her dad looked like he was going to lunge over the table to strangle me and her mom just smiled. "What!?," Katie squeaks. "Yeah. We been dating for over a month now." "Why didn't you tell us!?" She goes quiet and looks down. "Because she didn't want you guys to know she's dating someone from a famous band who has tattoos and drinks." "KATIE."
"You ahve tattoos?," her dad sounded pissed. "Yeah. Everyone in the band has tattoos." "What are they?" "Everyone has a skull and cross bones, its basically our logo. A Jack the Skeleton playing one of my guitars, and the Blink-182 bunny." "Whats Blink-182?," Katie asks. "Katie you are no longer my sister," Nyssa snaps. I smile at Katie, "its one of the bands me and your sister grew up to. They were one of the main influences on my band when we first started." "What other bands influenced you," her dad seemed interested.
"Green Day, Face To Face, Nirvana." "Really." "Yes sir." He nods. I'm guessing he knows who those bands are. "We get to tour with Green Day this summer, something we would have never thought would take place." "Thats really cool." Me and her dad talked more about music, and Nyssa slowly relaxed seeing how well we got along.
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We were at the beach now walking on the edge of the water. "I did not expect to happen." "What?" "You an dmy dad getting along. Your the first guy I ever brought to them because your my first boyfriend." I smile at her and kiss her. "Well I'm glad that I am." She smiles back and she wraps her around my neck to pull me back down and kisses me again.
I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her to me, the sound of the waves crashing around us. "Hey Nyssa!" We hear a guy yell. We pull away and see a guy running to us. He had tan skin, dark brown short hair, pale blue eyes almost like glass. Nyssa went really quiet and wrapped her arms around me tighter. He smiles at her, "Nyssa. I haven't seen you in years. How have you been." She wouldn't look at him. "Um hi. I'm Jack." He looks at me, "I'm Carter."
I didn't like this guy one bit. Nyssa was scared of him. "Can we go Jack," she whispers. I nod, "well we're leaving." "Nyssa your already leaving? I haven't seen you in a long time." "We're leaving," I tell him. We walk away and she was sort of shaking. "Nyssa whats wrong?" She looked haunted. "Nyssa I didn't say you could leave." I feel her get pulled away from me and Carter forces her to kiss him. She screams under the kiss and I pull her away and punch him in the face.
"Is that really how you treat me Nyssa?" He spits blood out and glares at her. "Why the fuck did you do that!!!" "And who are you?," he snaps. "I'm her boyfriend." "Then let me introduce myself. I'm sure Nyssa told you about her first kiss right? Well your looking at him." All she told me about him was that she doesn't count it and that we has a complete perv.
"Actually, I'm her first kiss. She told me." "Really Nyssa? You lied to him?" "Don't talk to her." "You have no idea who she is, so how about you shut the fuck up." "I know her better then you ever will." "Nyssa. Baby. Don't you miss me?" "Don't call her that!!" "I can talk to her however I want. Baby, come with me." "Don't call me that Carter." "You know better to not talk back to me baby." "I was never your baby. Your the one who stopped talking to me a week after we met." "And I never forgot about you. I have dreams about you, you know. How I could be your first. You even almost came over because I tricked you." "But Bonnie stopped me."
Nyssa grips my shirt and she was shaking more. "Come on Nyssa," I whisper in her ear. She nods and we walk off, this time I was holding her against my side with my arms tightly. "You know you miss me Nyssa!!! I know you'll come back to me!!"
We get to her car and I get in the drivers seat and she gets in the passengers. She starts crying and I hold her. "I hate him I hate him," she sobs. "Your never going to see him again Nyssa, I promise."
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We get back to her apartment, Alex and Bonnie were already gone. We were staying for another day to pack her stuff to ship. I lay her down in her bed and lay by her. She fell asleep in the car half way home. I had played Spirited Away playlist so she would sleep better.
I run my fingers through her and watch her. I never thought that I would meet the ass that forced her to kiss him when she was 16. But now I know there's more then that.
Why do I have the feeling that he's the reason why she's so innocent.
We were in Nyssa's car, we were currently driving on the highway to get to her hometown with the stereo blasting her iPod. We were singing along to Savior by Rise Against and I started head banging. She starts laughing, "Jack stop. I need to concentrate." I laugh to and lean back in the car seat. We soon start passing a town, "welcome to where I grew up. Over there is the new area."
"Where we going first?" "Just drive around and show you places. Guess I should start where I moved to when we moved down here." She drives for 15 minutes, it was nice here. I wouldn't mind raising a kid here one day. She goes over one bridge and then another bridge, until I see a military base and the beach. She makes a left, passing the base. "See those houses?" We were at a red light and she points to a housing development, it wasn't big. "We lived in one of those for a while before we got to move on base, as you can see is across the street from it."
She enters the base and drives through it, we get to one area where it was like a neighborhood but bigger. All the houses looked the same. She keeps driving, "that house is I where I lived for a few years." "Do you know how lives in it now?" She shakes her head, "no one ever does. That was a long time ago." After the base shes drives out and drives away from the beach. "I've been to three elementary schools, just in this area. Four counting the one in Maryland." "Why so many in this area?" "On the base we went to one, then we moved out and they had the kids go to this one school for a year which was way out of our zone. Then finally they put us at the closes school. Which was where she should of been in the first place," she rolls her eyes.
She drives for 20 minutes and we reach a not so looking nice area. "Where are we?" "Going to my middle school." She keeps driving and we pass a really old school. "This was my middle school." She said it so dark, her facial expression changed. "Nyssa?" I hold her hand and she closes her eyes and looks at me. "Are you okay?" "Yeah.. Lets just get out of this area." She drives for another 30 minutes and we reach the area that I saw first.
"See that big building that looks like a prison. That was my high school. Over here, the outdoor mall like place is the place for the high schoolers to hang out on the weekends." "A lot different from your middle school area." She lets out a sigh, "you have no idea how happy I was when I founded out this school opened my 8th grade year. Which meant my 9th grade year was the 2nd year the school was open." "Shit thats crazy." "Yeah. Hungry?" "Yeah." "Good cuz we're meeting up with my parents and younger sister now," she laughs.
We drive into the mall area and find a parking spot which took a while. We walk into Panera and she looks around. "Nyssa!," I hear a girl yell. I turn my head and see a girl who was a half inch taller then her run up to her. She was different from Nyssa. Freckles on her face, curly hair that was almsot blonde, and a lot thinner that didn't look like she was starving herself. It looked normal. Nyssa hugs her back and they smile at each other.
"Jack, this is my yonger sister Katie." Katie takes a double look at me, "woah. Your in that band she loves. Is it... All Time Low?" I smile at her, "yeah." "Nyssa how did you meet him?," Katie whispers. "I'll tell you later," Nyssa whispers back. "Okay, mom and dad are at a table and alreayd ordered." We follow Katie and see a man and woman who stood up and hugged Nyssa.
Her dad walks up to me and holds his hand out and I quickly shake his hand. "Whats your name?" "Jack sir." "You look really familiar...," her mom questions. "I'll explain why soon mom." We sit down and there was already food on the table. I guess Nyssa told them what I wanted because it was on the table. "I have a older sister, I'm the middle child, but she's off on her own now." "What she doing?" "Eye doctor." "Nyssa for years wanted to be a teacher, it was really hard to convince her to switch professions." "We're just glad she also chose media production as a double major."
Nyssa went quiet. She told me her reason why she wanted to be a teacher for years, but she never told them because it was more important then anything to her and she was afraid they wouldn't understand. And she also wanted to get ino the music business but couldn't because of her parents. She's also never told them about the voice in her head, and everything how music saved her. She hasen't told them a lot about herself and its sad to see.
"Nyssa told me she's a quarter Mexican." "Thats from my side of the family," her dad speaks up. He didn't look Mexican either, but he was only fifty percent. Nyssa sort of looked more like her dad then her mom, but had her mom's sweet eyes and smile. We talked for a while, Katie would try to hide the fact that she was stariing at me and it only made me laugh. "Katie its rude to stare," Nyssa speaks up.
"I'm sorry, he just seems familiar. Like I've seen him somewhere." "Jack, what is it that you do?" "I'm in a band." Her dad looked like he wanted to strangle me or something. "Whats the band called?" "All Time Low." "I knew it! Your Jack Barakat!," Katie speaks up and Nyssa covers her mouth. "Shut. Up. Katie." "All Time Low?," her dad was confused. "The band that I been a fan of since 2007 dad." "Oh." I was really glad my shirt could hide my tattoos, especially my Jack one on my chest.
"Nyssa was in love with you," Katie laughs. "Katie! Shut up!" "So how did you two meet?" At their concert at the House of Blues. Me and Bonnie ran into one of the members earlier in the day and he asked if we wanted to hang out and watch the show side stage." "That is so cool," Katie sighs. "Since then, we've been glued." Nyssa seemed to be hiding something from them. I look down and see that she was messing with her promise ring. She hasen't told them we're dating.
Nyssa lets out a sigh, "we're dating," she says quickly. Katie spits out her drink, her dad looked like he was going to lunge over the table to strangle me and her mom just smiled. "What!?," Katie squeaks. "Yeah. We been dating for over a month now." "Why didn't you tell us!?" She goes quiet and looks down. "Because she didn't want you guys to know she's dating someone from a famous band who has tattoos and drinks." "KATIE."
"You ahve tattoos?," her dad sounded pissed. "Yeah. Everyone in the band has tattoos." "What are they?" "Everyone has a skull and cross bones, its basically our logo. A Jack the Skeleton playing one of my guitars, and the Blink-182 bunny." "Whats Blink-182?," Katie asks. "Katie you are no longer my sister," Nyssa snaps. I smile at Katie, "its one of the bands me and your sister grew up to. They were one of the main influences on my band when we first started." "What other bands influenced you," her dad seemed interested.
"Green Day, Face To Face, Nirvana." "Really." "Yes sir." He nods. I'm guessing he knows who those bands are. "We get to tour with Green Day this summer, something we would have never thought would take place." "Thats really cool." Me and her dad talked more about music, and Nyssa slowly relaxed seeing how well we got along.
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We were at the beach now walking on the edge of the water. "I did not expect to happen." "What?" "You an dmy dad getting along. Your the first guy I ever brought to them because your my first boyfriend." I smile at her and kiss her. "Well I'm glad that I am." She smiles back and she wraps her around my neck to pull me back down and kisses me again.
I wrap my arms around her waist and pull her to me, the sound of the waves crashing around us. "Hey Nyssa!" We hear a guy yell. We pull away and see a guy running to us. He had tan skin, dark brown short hair, pale blue eyes almost like glass. Nyssa went really quiet and wrapped her arms around me tighter. He smiles at her, "Nyssa. I haven't seen you in years. How have you been." She wouldn't look at him. "Um hi. I'm Jack." He looks at me, "I'm Carter."
I didn't like this guy one bit. Nyssa was scared of him. "Can we go Jack," she whispers. I nod, "well we're leaving." "Nyssa your already leaving? I haven't seen you in a long time." "We're leaving," I tell him. We walk away and she was sort of shaking. "Nyssa whats wrong?" She looked haunted. "Nyssa I didn't say you could leave." I feel her get pulled away from me and Carter forces her to kiss him. She screams under the kiss and I pull her away and punch him in the face.
"Is that really how you treat me Nyssa?" He spits blood out and glares at her. "Why the fuck did you do that!!!" "And who are you?," he snaps. "I'm her boyfriend." "Then let me introduce myself. I'm sure Nyssa told you about her first kiss right? Well your looking at him." All she told me about him was that she doesn't count it and that we has a complete perv.
"Actually, I'm her first kiss. She told me." "Really Nyssa? You lied to him?" "Don't talk to her." "You have no idea who she is, so how about you shut the fuck up." "I know her better then you ever will." "Nyssa. Baby. Don't you miss me?" "Don't call her that!!" "I can talk to her however I want. Baby, come with me." "Don't call me that Carter." "You know better to not talk back to me baby." "I was never your baby. Your the one who stopped talking to me a week after we met." "And I never forgot about you. I have dreams about you, you know. How I could be your first. You even almost came over because I tricked you." "But Bonnie stopped me."
Nyssa grips my shirt and she was shaking more. "Come on Nyssa," I whisper in her ear. She nods and we walk off, this time I was holding her against my side with my arms tightly. "You know you miss me Nyssa!!! I know you'll come back to me!!"
We get to her car and I get in the drivers seat and she gets in the passengers. She starts crying and I hold her. "I hate him I hate him," she sobs. "Your never going to see him again Nyssa, I promise."
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We get back to her apartment, Alex and Bonnie were already gone. We were staying for another day to pack her stuff to ship. I lay her down in her bed and lay by her. She fell asleep in the car half way home. I had played Spirited Away playlist so she would sleep better.
I run my fingers through her and watch her. I never thought that I would meet the ass that forced her to kiss him when she was 16. But now I know there's more then that.
Why do I have the feeling that he's the reason why she's so innocent.
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