Twelve

And that's where I was now, sitting in the middle of the abandoned car park 20 minutes after I had sent the last DM, I didn't have his number because I wasn't on that level with him where I called him a friend, we were helping each other, yeah, helping each other see that we both had our mentality wrong, I had to be more positive and he had to been more careful.

An hour had gone by and I was starting to get the picture that he wasn't going to show up, so I just decided not to waste a beautiful night and skate around and just embrace the night, I was also going to think of a few ways to get Helena and her mum to talk again because the house's atmosphere was unbearable, I think even my mum caught onto it.

I had stopped skating around and just decided to lay down in the middle of the car park, when I heard a voice from the distance then feet get closer and closer to me rather fast, I had my eyes closed so I couldn't see the person until I heard the voice.

"YOU CAN'T BE DEAD! WAKE UP" The voice shouted sounding panicked as it got closer to me, I slowly rose from where I was laying and looked directly at the boy I had hoped would show up about an hour ago, I shot a smile and stood up, before he could stop he charged into me grabbing me by the knees and flinging me on his shoulder and spinning us both around, "You scared the living day lights out of me Delilah" a smile evidently plastered on his face as he returned me back to the ground and we were now face to face.

"You thought I was dead? really? what made you think that?" I asked as he looked at me with a serious look on his face and then rolled his eyes "you were laying down with your eyes closed in the middle of an abandoned car park, tell me that doesn't sound like a possible death situation?" he asked as I shrugged and then swatted him round the shoulder, he flinched and rubbed his shoulder "what was that for?" he whined as I rolled my eyes and crossed my arms "for making me wait well over and hour for your grumpy ass" I said as he smiled weakly and I went in to hug him.

I don't know why I did, to be honest I think it was an impulse decision and I didn't think much about it, I could tell we both didn't expect it as it took him a few minutes to return the hug back, awks.

"So what did you want to tell me, now's your chance to be inspirational" he said as we were sitting in the middle of the car park on our boards facing each other, I rolled my eyes and stifled a laugh "I wanted to get you out the house, have you seen how bad you look? you look like you haven't slept for days, you smell like a dealer and my I remind you that you actually are supposed to shower" I said as he widened his eyes and then laughed, I think in shock but I am not sure, ''I said inspirational not be a bully" he said as I playfully rolled my eyes and he shook his head agreeing with what I said, "it's been difficult ya know, dealing with my dad and everything, he isn't talking to me much and well I haven't heard anything from Helena so that's a downside, I am just all over the place as well as still trying to work" he said as I painted a weak smile on my face "look nobody is telling you to be everyone's superhero, I am just telling you I'd rather have you alive then die before me" I said as he was originally looking at the floor then looked up at me, "don't say that, you aren't going to die, I don't want you to and you can beat this for a second time, as much as you were very annoying and rude, you've grown on me" he said as I rolled my eyes and stood up picking up my board in the process "I can say the same" I said as he looked up at me confused. "let's go somewhere" I added.

We ended up in the park in the pitch black of night, in this park there was a hill that look over the whole of the city and you could admire its beauty from the top, it was a cute place, I didn't visit it a lot seen as it's a place my brother used to have "Garden" parties with his friends till the police shut them down. "It's super pretty up here" Vincent broke the silence as he turned to face me, we were both lying down taking in the stars, if you hadn't noticed already I love star gazing, the whole mood of it really puts me at ease. "Yeah it really is, my brother used to come here and we used to do the same thing when he wasn't throwing park parties" I said smiling at the memories and thought of my brother and his antics, I could hear Vincent take a deep breath "what happened to him?" I turned to face Vincent and sighed "hope you're ready" I asked as he nodded.

I told Vincent my whole family story from the start to the end with him staring at me with sadness in his eyes the whole way through, I even think I started crying a little because he wiped a few tears from my eyes, "you are super brave and your mum is incredible" he said as I smiled weakly and he scooted closer to me, "this is why I don't want you taking drugs and drinking too much, I am scared for your safety and you are well know I wouldn't want anything more tarnishing your already tarnished rep" I said with a snicker, still with a weak smile plastered on my face, he looked at me so deeply in the eyes I was scared for my own breathing, did it stop? was I feeling okay? he placed his finger under my chin and leaned in "I'm sorry, I promise to be careful" he said as he closed the space between us and pressed his lips onto mine ever so gently.

My whole body exploded and I was feeling all sorts of tingling sensations through my spine and my cheeks where beginning to heat up, I held his face as he pulled me closer, I didn't even think we could get any closer then we already were, but somehow we did, the moment was perfect, I don't mean to be cliché and stereotypical, but even though I hated this man's guts and he was someone that I hated then turned to like, he needed fixing and so did I, I was showing him what it's like to not take things for granted and he was showing me that I have to live a little.

As if we were in some kind of movie the rain started, Vincent pulled away and just looked at me square in the eyes "um, sorry for that, you know emotions running high" he said as he started to then look everywhere but me, how flattering. "no oh God no it's all good man! I mean it was like you said emotions high and you probably haven't kissed a dying girl before" I said as I quickly got up and brushed myself off "well I should probably head home ya know my mum is gonna freak" I added as he nodded getting up and dusting himself off as well, the silence that followed was awful, we just stood there waiting for one of us to make the first move and leave, which ended up being me because he didn't want me being behind him in case anything was to happen.