A Collection Of Shorts by ArtL Nightshade (you can read anyone .TXT) 📖

Short Story 1: Walk Away, Fly Away

PLOT

 

Cameron Fox is used to having people walk away from him. From his parents to his siblings, friends and lover, he's used to it, but they are not used to him walking away. What happens when things go too far and not only he walks away, he flies...

 

STORY

 

Seventeen year old Cameron Fox woke up on a sunny yet, dull day, turning his head towards his digital clock which was displayed on his night stand, he jolted up. He had only twenty five minutes before school started, running in towards the bathroom, he cleaned himself up and put on some clothes before walking out the door without breakfast or a "good morning" to any of his family.

 

As Cameron walked to school, a cool breeze hit his body, he purposely forgotten a jacket, he liked the cold weather much better than the warm or even hot weather. People thought of him as insane when he wore shorts on a snowing day, five people walked away from him and Cameron watached.

 

"Yo! Cam!" Lucas, one of Cameron's friends, who have not yet walked away, waved over to his friend to join. Cameron obliged and turned his body and headed over to the picnic table set outside of the school. "Hey Cam, we were just talking about you."

 

Cameron only nodded, not speaking a word as usual. Cameron's friends knew he was mute, not deaf, mute. No one knew how he became mute whether it was on purpose or something raptured in his brain that caused his speaking abilities to fall.

 

"Oh yes, we were talking about you letting people take advantage of you then walking away. Doesn't that hurt you?" Tamara, a crush Cameron has had since the fifth grade as well as his few close friends asked, swinging her legs.

 

Cameron Fox shrugged as the bell rang.

 

***

 

"What were you're going freak." Liam, Cameron's long time bully since kindergarten scowled as he ran towards his group of friends, one of them being Jamie, a former friend of Cameron's who walked away. Jamie eyed Cameron with both a cold and a lonely impression before he walked away with his buddies.

 

Grabbing his books, Cameron set off for his first period by lunchtime, he would do his daily routine and ditch the second half of school, walking to the park, to think, to swing, to imagine what would it be like to fly.

 

"Does anybody know where Tamara is?" Ms. Frankline Moore asked as everyone in her class, including Cameron Fox, looked around, suddenly, they heard the door knob jingle and someone coming in. Tamara.

 

"Sorry I'm late, I had to just the restroom." Tamara apologized as she took her seat next to Cameron ignoring the flirtatious looks from Cameron's former friends now bully. The girl turned over to Cameron and smiled her sweet smile before paying somewhat attention to the teacher.

 

Cameron Fox blushed.

 

***

 

Oh how he would die if he didn't ask her out, no, how he would die a slow painful death if she rejected him and went with someone else, someone better than him. Lucas, Issac, Elijah, and Cameron himself knew how much Tamara meant to him and how much she made his life seem so much easier when it doesn't look like it.

 

Cameron had a purple envelope, a small envelope, and inside was a small poem, a poem he had told her long ago, in freshman year and she loved it. He still remembered what she told him the evening he read it to her.

 

"When you find just the right girl. The one that makes your heart beat like a racecar and your soul soar like a bird, give this to her and she'll know, she's the one you've always thought of."

 

Cameron knew purple was her favorite color so not only was the envelope purple but so was the note inside of it. As he walked towards her locker, he waited until the hall was clear enough to slip the note inside.

 

Cameron Fox, hoped, prayed, and dreamed.

 

***

 

As she skipped to her locker, she didn't pay attention to the group of boys gawking and eyeing her, like a hawk ready to strike against it's prey. When she opened her locker, a small purple envelope dropped down at her feet and when she picked it up, the smell of lavender, her favorite scent filled her nostrils.

 

She opened the envelope to reveal a purple note, a smile formed on her face as she read the note with a giggle here and there for every joke put on it. Then, her eyes widen at the poem, it was the poem he shared with her way back then.

 

"Hey! Someone left a note in my locker. Whose it from?" She yelled out, waving the note, the boys all shrugged their shoulders and shook their head, all but two. "Well then, step foward if you are the young man who wrote and gave me this wonderful note."

 

Before he could walk towards her, he was pushed roughly onto the cold hard ground of the hallway by none other than the one guy he wished he never see or hear from for hours and hours to come. Fear conquored him as the guy wrapped his arms around her waist.

 

"I did." He said with a smirk.

 

*****

 

*One Week and Three Days Later*  

 

Cameron got up from a good night's rest minus the nightmares he would get and checked the time, 6:20am and then the calender, it has now been a week and three days since Tamara and Liam have been dating, it did hurt Cameron a lot when Tamara accepted Liam as her secret admirer and his proposal for her to be his girlfriend.

 

He didn't know what hurt the most, the fact that she accepted or the fact she kissed him, in plain sight, where he would see. He now dreaded going to school, having to see the two so happy, so in love, Tamara will walk away from him. She will, and the others will join.

 

Cameron got dressed, skipped breakfast once again, and walked to school, ignoring all the students yelling, screaming at each other as he walked inside to come in contact with Tamara's legs wrapped around Liam's waist, one hand in the mess of his hair as he supported her. The two were kissing, kissing like lovers.

 

Cameron Fox left the scene, heart broken, and soul shattered.

 

***

 

Liam smirked a devil's smirk at the reaction of his victim, Cameron Fox. Liam knew well he wasn't the one who wrote and gave the note to Tamara but that was his oppertunity to get his hands on her and break Cameron to the core.

 

He had succeeded.

 

"Hey babes, we better get going to class." Tamara giggled, tugging on his hair, a moan escaped from his lips in which she kissed. He nodded with a smile and placed her down as they walked together to class hand-in-hand.

 

As they walked inside their first class, he noticed Cameron sitting amongst his friends, Lucas, Elijiah, and Issac, the same devil's smirk appeared on his face as he took his seat next to his new girlfriend, a sinister thought appeared in his mind.

 

"Let us see who you fare when you are alone." Liam thought as he leaned back against his chair and acted like he was interested and paid attention to the teacher teaching Physics.

 

***

 

Cameron knew his friends were acting weird and so was he, he actuall stayed passed lunch, did not ditch or even tried to. He wanted to see how Tamara was doing with her new boyfriend, if she was happy then he will try as well, for her.

 

He leaned against his locker and waited to Tamara and Liam so they could maybe have lunch together with Lucas, Issac, and Elijah along with Liam's friends. When he saw them coming his way, he moved away from the locker and waved at them with a smile.

 

Cameron's smile dropped when Tamara did the one thing she promised she never do, wrapping her arm around Liam making him pull her closer to him, Tamara Parks, walked away.

 

A large piece of Cameron Fox's heart flew away as he ran out of the school, crying, frusterated, angry.

 

***

 

"Oh  come on, you know how Liam means to me and if he says walk away from Cameron Fox, you better or else we will make school one big hell hole." Tamara threatened. Being with Liam changed her, not only her clothes revealed so much, she no longer wore her usual pony tail or braid but kept her hair down, her attitude changed as well, she now acted like a spoiled, rotten, Queen Bee.

 

Lucas, Issac, and Elijah all looked at each other with concern for her and worry for Cameron. When they were about to shake their head, Jamie presented three brown paper bags full of money, hundreds of them.

 

Their eyes widen as they dug into their own bags to feel and see the money, their first thought was it's fake but after examining the money, all was real, as real as they are, as real as the clothes they wear, and the places they've been to.

 

"All you have to do is walk away from Cameron Fox and all of that will be your's plus popularity." Liam said as Jamie took the bags of money and took a step back until he was next to his friend, his boss.

 

Once again, the three friends looked at each other, silence filled the room as they either nodded or shook their head while mumbling so no one but the three can hear. Not long after, Lucas stood up from his seat and walked towards Liam.

 

"Deal." Lucas said as they all shook hands.

 

***

 

Cameron Fox couldn't believe what he saw, what his friends did. When he saw them coming right towards him, he thought they had managed to threaten Liam and his friends to stop bullying him but he was wrong, dead wrong.

 

Instead, when he saw them, their clothes were rich, they had boys and girls swoon over them, Cameron tried to speak but all, ALL, walked away from him but not before they all took turns using him as punching bag.

 

Groaning in pain, Tamara and Lucas both kicked him in the stomach and ribcage before they spit at his face and taunted him. Tears threatened to fall down Cameron's face as they walked away from them. As he watched, Cameron Fox lost the will.

 

"Let's fly." He whispered as he got up and left the school.

 

***

 

Cameron Fox did not bother with a note for he knew and everyone knew what the reason was and why. It was all their fault, they all made promises and none of them kept it.  Cameron now hated people and promises. He let out a roar and demolished his whole room, he was glad his parents were gone and his little brother was still at school. He checked the time, 3:40, they were all either at home or at the mall.

 

It's time.

 

Wearing only jeans and a t-shirt, Cameron began to walk outside and towards a bridge, along the way, he saw Liam and his friends, Liam slowed his car so his speed was the same as Cameron's, all together they threw trash at him.

 

"Hey Cam wanna come oh wait, you can't!" Elijah shouted out as they all laughed and Liam speed up sending mud and tiny rocks flying towards Cameron.

 

Cameron Fox had no more tears left.

 

***

 

As Cameron stood on the ledge of the bridge, he looked down to see the cold ocean below calling for him. He smiled then looked behind him and a flashback appeared, they were the times when he was not lonely, and no one walked away. The images changed and it was when one by one, they all walked away from him.

 

Cameron Fox looked to the sky and whisperd, a smile, a true happy yet sorrowful smile formed on his lips