Category : Stories

Sub Category : Drama

    "Julien, come back! I want to talk to you!" I yelled to him. He has always been the bipolar type. He would be really happy sometimes...and sometimes he would be really angry. I've wondered why those boys would pick on him. Why did he have to be the victim even though he doesn't act like  he is.
      Since that day...I have  wondered when he will come back. Two years ago maybe by the crack of tenth grade, he went completely missing. I watched his parents, his family grieve of his absence...but I was much worse.
   Julien has been the first friend I have ever made. He has always looked out for me. Especially with friends I try to make. He would prevent me from having any friends other than him. Sometimes he was being funny with that effort of doing so. It just made me laugh. But the week before he disappeared I told him I had a crush on someone. 
     All I could remember is us arguing about dating back and forth. Why did we argue over that? Why was he against that? He was my best friend...wasn't he supposed to encourage me? Still I ignored him and dated my crush. For days I haven't heard from him or even see him. 
    On Sunday, I finally saw him. He looked a little different. Maybe pale. I wanted to speak to him. We both made eye contact. He looked as if he wanted to say something... until Josh came. Julien walked away, but I ran after him. Still he didn't listen to me and I never saw him again.
      Two years have passed and all I have been through was the worst. I've prayed and prayed he would come back. I didn't feel safe in high school anymore. I realized that he set the limits for me and that made things a lot easier. Still I ruined it just by defying him and shutting him out on my "poor choices". They weren't "poor choices" then but are now.
     It will be senior year in high school. I broke up with Josh over the summer after I found out he wasn't as loyal as he claimed, I dissociated from my friends who were nothing but like Julien said "fakes", and that left me alone with no one. All of this was depressing. And now I don't want to find out what happens when a new school year begins tomorrow...
      August 20 I had come home from the store. A surprise was waiting for me there. Tears for him from me. So I went upstairs and saw him...Julien. I thought I was hallucinating...
   "Come with me, Alex. I want to take you to a place far, far from here." I cried with a smile. And so I went with him to that place far, far from here.
    Two minutes later...
"Alex, Julien's parents have left....Alex! Alex, wake up! No, no! Joel, get up here now!" 
     I'm sorry we weren't able to say our last goodbyes, mother....