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Always Be My Baby	By : GetYourShineOn Category: -Misc Cartoons > Het - Male/Female Views: 2736 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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"When I got to Alden's house, his mom answered the door." Brock started, tears flowing down his face. "Alden's parents and Violet and Daisy had been up all night crying. They were too upset to answer the phone and explain it to people. Alden was in a car accident last night. He was hit by a drunk driver. Alden and the other driver were both killed on impact. He's dead! My best friend is dead!" Brock took off his glasses and rubbed his eyes. He could no longer control how hard he was crying.
The entire group of friends spoke in unison. Brock's news was followed by a bunch of "Whats?", "Oh my Gods!", "Nos!" and "This can't be happenings!". It was hard to tell who was saying what as the shocked teenagers frantically chattered in reaction to the news.
"I don't believe you!" Sharon yelled out among the crowd. She was so loud that everyone stopped talking and stared at her.
She continued. "I don't know what you're trying to pull here, Brock. But it's not funny! Now cut the crap and tell us where Alden really is!"
"I would never joke about something like this, Sharon. He's really gone."
"Stop it! You're lying!"
"Sharon..." Maria said softly, as she put a hand on her best friend's shoulder in an attempt to comfort her. "I think Brock is telling the truth. He really wouldn't joke about this kind of thing. And he's crying! Have you ever seen Brock cry before?" Maria had tears slowly flowing down her face as well. She wiped them away with her hands, smudging her perfectly applied eyeliner.
"Oh my God, Maria!" Sharon shouted, as she pushed her best friend's hand off her shoulder. "Don't fall for your boyfriend's crap! He's obviously lying!"
Sharon walked over to Brock and pointed a finger at him. "You've always been jealous of Alden and everybody knows it! You're always accusing him of taking over everything! Especially when it comes to Mangled Metal! You said he was an egomaniac! The truth is, you just can't handle the fact that Alden has better ideas than you!" She was yelling at him the whole time.
Connor walked over to Sharon and took her hand. He had clearly been crying too. "Look, Sharon. I know this is a lot to process. Why don't you come for a walk outside with me and Alyson? He was our friend too. I think it would be good for us to talk about it."
Sharon pulled her hand away from Connor. "Seriously, Connor? Don't tell me you're falling for this too!" She then continued to give Brock a piece of her mind.
"Not only have you always been jealous of Alden, but you've always been jealous of my relationship with him! Hell, it was partly your fault we broke up for a while in 9th grade! You just had to fill his head with all that crap about how it was so much better to be unattached. And you convinced him to hang around Tess, who you knew liked him and wanted to steal him away from me! If it wasn't for you, I never would have written the email that I accidentally posted on the school website. And we would've been together the entire time he was dating Marlo. But noooo, you couldn't handle the fact that we were starting to get serious and it was cutting into how much time he was spending with you! Just admit you're jealous! That's why you're making up this sick lie right now!"
"That's not true!" Brock shouted back. "Don't you remember how I helped you guys get back together at Enviro-Camp? Would I have done that if I was jealous?"
Alyson was the last person to try to get through to Sharon. She walked over to the blonde teenager while sniffling. "Sharon, I really think some fresh air would do you some good. I know how much you love Alden and hearing that he's gone must be difficult..."
"And you believe Brock's lies too?" Sharon said, cutting the brunette girl off. "Why am I the only one who wants to know the truth? You know what? Fine! If you guys won't help me, I'm just gonna go straight to the source myself!" The blonde girl ran out of the garage as fast as she could, not looking back once.
"Sharon!" Alyson called as she started to run after her. But Connor pulled her back.
"No, let her go." He told his girlfriend. "I think she's gonna have to hear this from Alden's family in order for it to sink in."
"I'm still having a hard time believing it myself." Carmen stated. His eyes were red and puffy from crying.
Maria walked over to Brock and hugged him. "You know Sharon didn't mean all those things she said, right? She's just having a hard time dealing with this right now. But believe me, I know my best friend. She's gonna feel bad about the way she talked to you very soon. She will apologize. Just give her time."
Brock nodded his head as he and his girlfriend continued to hug. They were both crying again. In fact, there was not one dry eye in that garage at the moment.
Sharon continued to run from Brock's house. He had to be lying. He just had to be! There was no way Alden was dead! She needed some answers. She found herself wishing she had worn sneakers instead of 2 inch heel boots with all the running she ended up doing today. She stopped running when she got to the familiar house. She rang the doorbell, all out of breath from running. Alden's oldest sister, Lily Jones, answered the door.
"Lily?" Sharon asked in surprise. Lily had moved out of the Jones residence when she got married last year. So what was she doing there now? Alden didn't mention anything about her planning a visit for today.
"Hi Sharon. Good to see you." Lily sniffled. Her face was puffy and her eyes were red. Had she been crying?
"Good to see you too, Lily. Is Alden home?"
"I guess Brock didn't tell you yet, huh? Why don't you come inside?"
Sharon's heart stopped as she walked into the Jones's house. This couldn't be happening! Lily led Sharon over to the living room couch and motioned for her to sit down. Sharon did so as Lily went into the Jones's kitchen. After a minute, she entered the living room with the rest of the Jones family.
Daisy had offered to make Sharon some tea, but she politely declined. She just wanted to find out what was going on.
Mrs. Jones started to talk, but broke down in tears and could no longer speak. Mr. Jones took over and repeated the same story Brock had told them. Sharon couldn't believe it. Alden really was dead! How could this be happening? Right after she had just had sex with him for the first time! And now that would be their only time! She would no longer be able to kiss him, hug him, cuddle with him or tell him how much she loved him. She could no longer hold back her tears. She finally broke down and sobbed uncontrollably. Every member of the Jones family gave Sharon a hug in an effort to try to comfort her.
"There's something I think you should have." Violet finally spoke up. She walked upstairs then quickly came back down, holding Alden's hockey jacket in her hand.
"He would want you to have this." She said as she handed the jacket over to Sharon.
"Thank you..." Sharon replied in barely a whisper as she took it .
She couldn't believe it. She had always wanted Alden's hockey jacket. She just never imagined she would only get it once he died. She would much rather have Alden alive and with her right now.
When Sharon left the Jones residence, she slipped Alden's jacket on. It still smelled just like him. And every memory she ever had of Alden came flooding back to her. She had so many firsts with him. He was her first major crush. Her first boyfriend. First kiss. First guy she loved and first guy who loved her back. He was even with her when she got her period for the first time on their first date. He mistook the terrible cramps she was having for an appendicitis attack, so he called an ambulance. While Sharon had been totally mortified by it at the time that it happened, it ended up being a situation they both looked back on later and laughed about. It certainly made their first date memorable! Though her first official date was actually with Connor, but she and Connor had mutually decided they were better off as friends.
Hell, as far as first times go, she had just lost her virginity to Alden 2 days ago! How could her first time with him also be their last and only time? She didn't regret sleeping with him at all. If anything, she regretted not having sex with him sooner. If only she had known. She would have given it up to him a long time ago and had more intimate moments to share with him. She was now mad at herself for holding out until the perfect moment. And for what? For her to lose him forever 2 days later? Throughout all these firsts, who would've ever guessed that they were on borrowed time?
By the time she arrived at her own house, she still had tears pouring down her face. How was she gonna explain what had happened to her whole family? A family which had definitely gotten bigger. Helen had married her longtime boyfriend, David, last year. As a result, David and his twin daughters, Sara and Lara, had all moved into the Spitz residence. Since Sharon's older brother, Adam, was away at college, the twins had taken his room. And it was being planned for one of them to take Sharon's room when she goes off to college next year. And of course her younger brother, Josh, was still living there too.
When Sharon walked though the front door, she was all teary eyed and her face was red. She was shaking too. Helen and David were sitting on the living room couch watching tv. When they saw how distressed their daughter was, they immediately got up and ran over to her out of concern.
"Sharon, honey!" Helen exclaimed. "What happened? Are you ok?"
All the young blonde could do was shake her head no in response.
"Did somebody hurt you?" David asked, looking very concerned.
Once again, the teenage girl shook her head no.
They both led Sharon over to the couch and sat her down. David went to the kitchen and got her a glass of water. She drank it and eventually calmed down enough to explain what happened to her mom and stepdad.
"Oh, sweetie! I'm so sorry!" Helen said as she hugged her daughter. David gave her a hug as well.
She cried in the living room for a long time. It was almost midnight when Sharon finally fell asleep on the couch. Helen put a blanket over her and kissed her cheek. When she came downstairs at 7 AM and saw that Sharon was still asleep, she decided not to wake her up. She called the school and let them know Sharon would not be in that day. In fact, Helen ended up letting her take the rest of the week off. Sharon hadn't been sleeping well at night and Helen knew she would not be able to focus in school with everything that was on her mind. Connor stopped by everyday to bring Sharon her homework since he lived right across the street. He tried to comfort her, but she wasn't ready to talk about it yet. She would just thank him for getting the assignments to her and let him be on his way.
Alden's funeral was that weekend. Sharon attended wearing the one black dress she owned, a black cardigan sweater, black tights and black ballet flats. She couldn't remember the last time she wore this much black in her life.
Sharon sat in a row of chairs with Maria, Brock, Carmen, Alyson and Connor. She cried the entire time the pastor was speaking, barely even listening to what he was saying. She already knew everything there was to know about Alden and his life.
She was so glad to be sitting next to Maria though. Her best friend repeatedly reached over to squeeze her hand, rub her shoulder, and stroke her hair. Even though her boyfriend was gone, Sharon was grateful for the amazing friends she had. Although. she was feeling guilty about all the nasty things she said to Brock when he broke the news. She was just in denial and didn't want to believe Alden really died.
After the service, Sharon was approached by a teenage girl with dark skin and shoulder-length red hair. She looked familiar.
"Sharon?" The girl spoke up.
Sharon immediately knew who it was in that moment. Someone she hadn't seen in almost 2 years. It was Alden's ex-girlfriend, Marlo. She ended up moving to a different school district with her family about a year and a half ago.
Even before that, she pretty much drifted apart from the entire gang. Sharon tried to stay her friend after she broke up with Alden, but things were just too weird between them after the whole incident where Sharon accidentally came along on the cottage trip because she never got the message that she'd been uninvited. She knew Marlo didn't appreciate the fact that Alden had dedicated a song to Sharon during one of Mangled Metal's gigs either, despite the fact that Sharon helped write it.
And of course, things became even weirder when Sharon and Alden officially got back together. Marlo was never really able to maintain a friendship with Alden either. So it was only natural that she didn't stay in touch with any of them.
"Marlo?" Sharon responded. The 2 girls hugged.
"I'm so sorry, Sharon!"
"Thank you. I'm sorry too."
"I'm not just sorry about Alden. I'm also sorry for being so cold and distant after I broke up with him and then refusing to keep in touch with you after I moved. I really liked Alden a lot and it was just hard to see the 2 of you together. But I knew he always had feelings for you, which is why I broke up with him. I lied when I said the break up had nothing to do with you. You were a good friend and I just didn't want you to feel bad about us breaking up. But I guess I ended up making you feel bad by cutting you off anyway. If I knew that this would happen to Alden, I would've tried to work through my feelings and stayed his friend like you managed to while him and I were together. I guess I just never realized how short life really is until now."
"Yeah, tell me about it." Sharon sighed. "How did you find out about Alden's death and funeral?"
"Daisy found me on MySpace and messaged me about what happened. She thought I would want to come here. That was really nice of her considering how badly I treated her brother towards the end." Marlo started shedding a few tears.
Sharon gave her a hug. "Shh, it's ok. Don't worry about that. I knew Alden very well. He was extremely forgiving. And I'm sure he forgave you too."
"Thank you, Sharon." Marlo whispered.
"You're welcome." The blonde whispered back.
When the funeral finally ended and Sharon returned home that night, she got ready for bed and wondered how she was gonna live the rest of her life without Alden.
Sorry for killing off Alden! I actually felt sad writing this. And I feel so bad for Sharon! But she has another surprise coming her way. That's all I'm gonna say for now. Keep reading to find out more! Chapter 6 coming soon!
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