If Only His Voice Was Heard

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The voices in the halls where getting much quieter now, not many families where still awake at ten pm. The hotel was just off of a busy street, and the cars zoomed by noisily, making it difficult for anyone to get any rest. Room 717 was not quite at rest though. Two boys were gaming it on Halo 3 on their game console, a few other people were sitting around playing cards and eating popcorn, a girl was lying down, talking to another boy who was lying beside her with his eyes shut. His phone would vibrate now, and then, with text messages from his mommy. Now he wasn?t quite a, mamma?s boy, yet he tried to keep a good relationship with his mom. As he spoke to the girl, he told her about his life, and how everything seemed to be going wrong, and how it seemed to all begin about two years ago. The video game noises seemed to be faint sounds in the distance, and the giggles of friends slowly seemed to disappear. The boy talked on, his eyes still shut, the girl looking at him hopefully, although what he was telling her was not hopeful at all. Tears welded up in her eyes, and she laid her tired head on his shoulder. He wrapped his arm around her. His eyes opened up; there where painful tears in his eyes as well. He looked at her with damp cheeks, and told her that he didn?t want her to think he was some idiot for crying, but the girl knew what he was going through, and she didn?t know why he hadn?t cried sooner. The girl knew he was struggling, she knew things where not for him, she knew his pain, she could just understand him for some reason.
Earlier that night, the guy had done some drinking to get his mind off all that was going on. He hadn?t seemed too out of his normal personality, but he must have been. The group of five headed to the mall. The girl and the boy, boy?s other two friends and another girl. They headed to the Zellers at the far end of the mall, were the people flow was slowing down. Before hand they had decided they would have some fun there, they would do what ever they wanted, and right then, they wanted to get kicked out of the store. They started making a racket at a closed milkshake bar inside the store. Then they went down the candy aisle and grabbed twisted marshmallows in plastic wrapping, and whipped them at each other. Some landed on the floor when their package ripped, and where left lying there. They opened packages of chocolate and ate them right there. Next they headed to the bike racks where they got on tricycles, and had races up and down each aisle. So far no clerks had noticed what was going on. After the races, they headed to the shoe section and on the way they grabbed a couple shovels that where on display. The guy walked down the shoe row, knocked shoes down, then shoveled them up into a pile. The girl started realizing how bad they were being, and she walked over and pulled the guy away from his shoe pile. They headed to the cashier and one of the boy?s gaming friends nicknamed ?Manfred Alejhandro Clementine IV? gave the woman two dollars, told her to keep the change, then they all booked it out of the store just as security was called.
When back in the mall, the boy and the girl began to talk again, they where in the back of the pack of five, and slowly the others just seemed to disappear. The guy?s girlfriend included. The boy and girl talked about everything, and then decided to forget about the group, and go check out EB Games. It was getting late now. As the girl and boy played the video games together, while laughing and having a good time. They decided to head back to the group about twenty minutes later. The boy discussed his relationship problems with the girl. He told her how he thinks his girlfriend was cheating on him, and how he wanted to show her that he was annoyed and almost didn?t care about her anymore, then they decided to try and get payback on her. When they came in sight of his girlfriend, their plan turned into action. They had planned to make her jealous, because then she would feel bad for what she had done, so they held hands and hugged right in front of her. She got mad and then she began to hate the girl. They didn?t want it to be such a big deal; they even thought it would make her laugh, but it didn?t. Now back at the hotel, he just had finished getting heck from her. The boy got up and went into the bathroom, and turned on the water. The girl thought he was just having a shower, as did the rest of the guys hanging around in the room. Manfred Alejhandro Clementine IV was there also. The girl had secretly loved this boy from the day she met him. They had hung out, and had a lot of fun with each other. As he sat playing a video game with another friend of his, the girl climbed into his lap, and just sat there. He put his arms around her. About five to ten minutes later, the water got turned off and the boy stepped out of the bathroom. He was wearing exactly what he wore going into the washroom, and his hair was not wet at all, he said nothing at all, and went straight to the bed where he was lying before. The girl slid off Manfred Alejhandro Clementine IV?s lap, and walked over to the boy. When she was a foot away from him she paused. She breathed in through her nose, and her eyes widened, then she turned to the bathroom, and threw open the door. The room smelled of weed, and smoke. She hacked as she left the bathroom. Then Manfred Alejhandro Clementine IV got up and went into the bathroom coming out surprised. The boy lied still on the bed, and didn?t move. Soon everyone left the room, except the girl and the boy. He rose slowly from the bed, and walked to the bathroom and tried doing anything he could to get the smell out. It worked, but it was too late. Another guy who was in the room had an asthma attack, and someone else found out, and then managed to get him kicked out of the hotel. And that was the last time the girl got to see the guy, for a long time.
Weeks later, the girl was getting dropped off at school, and saw the guy getting out of his vehicle. She called his name, and he turned. They talked for awhile on the way inside. He told her about how he was suspended, and how he was now on probation. The girl wanted to tell him of how much she had missed him, but couldn?t get the guts to tell him at the time. Then they gave each other a hug, and went their own ways through the different halls. The next day, the girl saw him again, he was just getting out of a class across the hall from her, and she ran to him and hugged him. Many people stopped and stared at a girl who was kind and good, hugging a guy two years older than her who was on drugs and alcohol. The girl didn?t care. They talked again for a short time, and then headed for their next classes. When people asked her about him she just told them about how he was the nicest and most caring guy she knew, despite the fact that he was on drugs and took in alcohol very often. She hates it that people don?t see him for who he is, and they don?t take the time to listen to his life story, and see the big picture. There will always be that bump in the road that no one wants to go over, but you must be strong, she shares. No one knows his past or present, no one understands him, but she does. And I know she does, because I am her.
Life is starting to go more smoothly for him, we are talking more often, and I?ve been talking to some people in his grade and trying to convince them that he is better than what the world is making him seem like, it is hard to convince 15 and 16 year old, but I can do it. Me and Manfred Alejhandro Clementine IV have become the best of friends, and I am very thankful for him, and his other friends. Now I know that with love and understanding, anything is possible. My friend has now quitting his drug use with some help and guidance from me. No matter what anyone says I know he is trying. You are mine, you are my friend, and I love you.