No one has to know (open)

[elijah samuel allen]

They say life is full of secrets right, so there was nothing wrong with keeping secrets. Elijah sure had a few secrets, the biggest being the reason for the scars on his arms. Of course those were barely accidental, and if you asked them he would say he fell. In fact that was quite believable, Elijah being as clumsy as he was but the only problem with that lie was, how could a person explain the position of each one. Each cut, each scar was in a perfect straight line. They sure didn't look like anything falling could do, and they were so many there. It was almost impossible for it to be an accident, and yet that's what people seemed to believe.

He fell, he tripped, anything to cover his truth behind them all. People always seem to wonder why he wears long sleeves and is always quiet, they never seem to see any truth. They can just easily believe the lies, and it almost upset him. Sure he knew if people found out they would worry about him, but maybe that's just what he wanted. Sighing a little to his self, he stared down at his arm covered by his long sleeve shirt. It was a nice day out to, all wrong for this kind of attire.

[adele rent baker]

Adele sat on the dock with a cigarette, she was only slightly hungover from her one man party last night. She knocked the ashes into the lake looking at the people who walked by, A lot of families milled by, some couples, they all looked fun to mess with but right now she wasn't in the mood. Maybe later. The day was young after all it was bright and super hot and it was only mid afternoon. But you know what they say the early bird catches the worm. She saw some kid in a lot of clothing walk by, seemingly innocent. "Good enough for me" Adele flicked her cigarette into the lake and stood up and started her walk to the boy, she almost slithered to him. He barely noticed, she walked up right to him. Something was off about him but she barely seemed to notice she was going in for the kill. "Hey kid whats the clothes about?"

[elijah samuel allen]

Elijah wasn’t one to go outside often, but today he needed to thing and outside was always the best place for him to do so. When he was outside he could just sit in the grass and watch the clouds, something he always use to do as a kid. Thing is he wasn’t a kid anymore, so he no longer found his self sitting outside in the grass just staring up at the clouds. To him time just seemed simpler for him back then when he was a kid because there was no one to pick on him and no one to make him upset, but most of all there was no reason to cut. As he got older the stress began to slowly eat away at him and he found his self finding only comfort in a knife, watching blood flow down his wrist. Being trapped in his thoughts he didn’t notice a thing, so clearly he didn’t notice in till he heard a girl’s voice. “My my clothes, what about my clothes” he stuttered out playing with his sleeve. He for one really liked his clothes, even though they made him sweat.

[adele rent baker]

Adele is the most non shy person you will ever meet, she hadn't always been that way though, as a kid she use to hide behind her mom when people would talk to her. Now Adele did almost anything to anyone not caring at all what they thought of it. A example of that being what Adele did next.

Adele took the boy's arm and tugged up his sleeve non to graceful but swiftly, revealing the boys cuts. She had guessed as much, but not as many cuts. Adele had use to cut her arms,(still had the scars to prove it) around the time she had started high school. She had quit though because she decided seeing other people cry or get really mad was just the same. Adele smirked and looked back at the kid.

[elijah samuel allen]

Elijah was very shy, and very fearful of his own self living the life of a cutter. He knew he could easily hit the wrong thing and get his self killed, and a part of him wanted that and a part of him knew it wasn’t the right thing to do. He knew for the sake of things he had to stay alive, and he knew it was going to be very hard to do so. He had his family and his friend, his very best friend though and that was good enough for him. It was what kept him alive, and when the girl took his arms he panicked.

“Please no” he said quietly as she tugged up his sleeves hurting his arms in the process, when they up he closed his eyes. His entire arm was covered in cuts, and it looked horrible and in fact he even felt horrible sometimes. “W-why did you do that” he whispered his face showed fear, what would thi girl have to say about his little issue.

[adele rent baker]

Adele dropped the boys sleeve to tug up her tiny jackets sleeve, showing the kid's her own scars. There was three in all, two one arm and a long one on her other arm that she sometimes counted as two rather than one. "See I use to cut too, but I saw how stupid it was, they were hard to cover up and it was less time I could use partying." Adele shrugged her shoulders dropping her sleeve. She withdrew a cigarette from the back pocket of shorts and a lighter from the other, she lit it and started drawing out long breaths, but after just one puff she threw it to the ground and stomped on it. " You should join me some day, girls fall for your type" Adele had said that honestly enough, girls liked having guys who looked like they were hard to get to.

[elijah samuel allen]

Elijah was really surprised to see the scars that were upon the girl’s arm, although he knew just what it was to have then having cut for so long now. The places that weren’t cut were normally scarred and his skin was always covered by a long sleeved shirt. If he ever did stop he knew there would be scars, not as many as there were cuts but many scars none the less. “I’m not really much for partying and meeting people, I’m kinda shy. Nothing like my two brothers, but uh thanks for erm the offer I mean” he said awkwardly. He was not one from parties at all and pulling his sleeves back down he just shook his head again. Elijah was not the partying type, not at all. To him partying was just not worth it, and he'd much rather just sit at home and read all day.

[adele rent baker]

Not the party type, Adele snorted and looked at the ground quickly and looked back up. “That means you’ve never partied where I have partied” Adele rolled her eyes at the kid. She thought of the small clutch bag she had still had slightly falling out of her coat pocket. Adele grabbed it and opened it in the same moment. She didn’t really have to rummage she found the little cards with her number quickly. She took one out and handed it to the kid.”If you change your mind.” Adele took out her cigarettes and lit one then put it in her mouth. She threw the rest back into her clutch bag. She shrugged and made her way back to the dock. The kid was already tiring her. Adele looked back at the kid not even pausing her walk. There was a fisherman exactly where she had been, and Adele didn’t like that she wanted to sit there. Adele didn’t want to mess with him though, right now she just wanted to dangle her feet in the water and not have to deal with a angry fisherman or better yet, the police.

[elijah samuel allen]

Elijah looked down at the card in his hand confused, he had very good reasons to not be the partying type and he wasn’t going to sit there and name them all. He knew the reasons he had and that was all he really even cared about, looking back at the girl he was almost very confused. He had no idea what her name really was, but it wasn’t that he minded that much either, he had a feeling they wouldn’t speak much. “Wait aren’t you a sophomore?” he asked almost called to the girl. He had a very good feeling she was and if she was one he had to have saw her before, probably just in class or around the halls.

[adele rent baker]

Adele turned around. How had the kid recognized her? It was almost impossible! Adele was confused she had seen the kid before, but she hadn't put two and two together. Adele didnt know what to say. She threw her cigarette on the ground and stomped on it, twisting her foot. "I might be, I might not." Adele didn't have one of her usual witty responses, then again she hadn't been asked more that two times before now. "Whats it to you anyways?" Adele looked back the kid. Adele sneered. She didn't like to mix her life, and school life. It was a big no no, unless you were talking to her at school, you didn't talk about school.

[elijah samuel allen]

“I have a feeling you are one, because I’m a sophomore. Elijah Allen, if you don’t know my name you know one of my brothers names. More people seem to know them than they know me, and I think I saw you in school before if not in class. You have to be a sophomore or I’ve been going slowly mad” Elijah shook his head slightly pretty sure he was right, the girl just had to be a sophomore because he just couldn’t be wrong. He had a feeling he wasn't to, he knew faces pretty well with being shy and just sitting there looking around all the time. You got to notice things easier that way.

[adele rent baker]

Adele sighed, then looked at the boy. "Yes, I have heard of your brothers, and yes we go to the same school." Adele was borderline furious . She acted like she did now at school. Except she was a tad bit nicer out of school. In school she reined havoc and the teachers hated her. Outside of school she was much more smooth and at lot more outgoing. She wasn't shy at school, but you couldn't exactly stop a teachers lecture to go talk to someone. "Is there reason you need to know?" Adele only asked because unless this Elijah kid had something important to say, she didn't want him telling everyone at school about her. She guessed from just looking at him that he didn't do that sort of thing, but she still needed to cover all the bases to reassure herself.

[elijah samuel allen]

“That’s what I thought” Elijah muttered under his breath shaking his head slightly, he just really wanted to know if he was right or not. He actually hated being wrong, and he wasn’t going to tell anyone about this. Who would actually listen to him anyways, no one ever really did since he was always the quiet type. He hardly talked to people to begin with, “no there really isn’t a reason was just curious was all and sorta was wondering. Now I know though” he shrugged his shoulders looking at the lake, Elijah could hardly swim. In fact he hated deep water, it always had a way of freaking him out and he always had the idea that he was going to drown if he dare venture into it.

[adele rent baker]

Great."Whatever" Adele muttered. This was one of the most peculiar boy's she had ever met before. Adele turned around and started making her way back to the tiny dock in the lake. The dock stretched out to the middle of the lake where there was a tiny little island where some people use to hang out. Know the little bridge at the end of the dock was broke, and most people were to lazy to bring a boat to just get onto the tiny island.To get over there without a boat was easy though, you just needed to have balance. You could teeter on the tiny rail on the side, but you would have to shuffle one foot in front of the other. You risked falling and hitting your head though which most people didn't want to risk.

[elijah samuel allen]

Elijah was a lot of things and he knew it, he was a very curious and sometimes nosey. He was even more so when he was younger, he got himself into a lot of trouble because of that. “Okay uh I’m just gunna go, clearly you aren’t much of a talker and if you are you don’t want to talk to me” who did though. People hardly wanted to talk to him since he was so quiet and always reading, he was a geek and he knew that. That was just why he was always picked on, sighing he just began walking away, he might as well.