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[Elena Hykes]

Elena hurried to lunch she was starving. She was not able to have breakfast this morning she was in such a rush. She got in line and got a cheeseburgers and curly fries and a large coke. She carried her tray over to a table and sat it down and put her bag on to the table. She took her lap top out of her messanger bag and opened it up and started it up. She hated the clear bags she did not like leaving her bag out of her sight. She knew people stole lap tops and she would not let hers get stolen.

She opened her web browser and clicked on her email link. She saw some new mesages from friends and co-workers. She about squeal when she read one from her boss. They were a go on the trip to Gettysburg over the summer. They were going to stay a week and invisitage all of the propertly haunted places. Hopefully to they get one of the haunted hotels which more then likely they would knowing her boss.

When someone sat down across from her she smiled at them and shut her lap top. "Hi." She took a sip of her drink real quick. She loved her sugary drinks, that and coffee does good keeping her up when she needs to stay up late.

[Blake Patterson]

Blake was positively beaming from ear to ear, anyone who knew the boy would probably be very worried by this turn of events. Any time Blake was happy, usually meant that the boy was up to something or he was planning something that would not be healthy or funny for someone else. This mornings victim was one Ashley Bolton, the complete twat that was involved with his sister to some degree.

The one with the kid, he didnt have to know the boy, he didn't have to meet the boy. He hated the boy already he wanted to make sure said boy knew he was not good enough for his sister. It was also true that in Blake's opinion no guy was good enough for his sister. Absolutely no guy would be good enough for his sister.

So the smile was in part thanks to his plotting for said guys downfall, embarrassing his sisters crush would be one more notch on his bed post. So he got his lunch and took a seat at a table that was all but empty, he was for once actually looking for company, the loner was not looking to isolate himself today. Was that a sign of the apocolypse, almost certainly if it was Blake Patterson.

"Hi, hows the food in this place today?" he asked.

[Elena Hykes]

"Good which is suprising with some of the food they use" Elena said with a smile. She popped a curly fry in her mouth and pushed a piece of her long dark wavy hair behind her ears. She has seen this guy around, he has always been a loner. And she use to be that way but she was very slowly coming out of her shell. "Of course that all depends on what you get" she said with a grin. She looked over his tray and nodded. "I think you are safe with yours to, that looks good."

She took a sip of her drink and took a bite of her burger. She loved meat she could never be a vegetarian. She loved her burgers way to much. She kind of wondered why this guy was talking to her, he did not seem like the type to just sit down and start a conversation with anyone. "I am Elena Hykes. Figured I should give my name before we get deep into conversation" she told him. She heard her computer ding she had a email but ignored it. If she had any clue it was work again, those were the peopel she spent most her time with, so they were in constant communication. "I am curious how come you are talking to me. I don't mean to be offensive or anything, I am just blunt" she said as a warning.

"I mean I have seen you around but you keep to yourself like me, or like how I used to be" she said to him and took a sip of coke. "So it is very suprising you sat down and talked to me" she said honestly.

[Blake Patterson]

Blake grinned at her, "Oh I'm having a good day, someone has brightened it hugely." Blake said with a glittering in his eyes that would suggest trouble to any one who knew him at all. "So I'm in a chatty mood, people might call that seriously worrying in and of itself I suppose. My parents would definitely wonder who I was and what I had done with the real Blake. Personally I couldn't careless how I may come across to people who will see me being chatty with someone." Blake said smiling almost like a predator would as he sized up his next meal.

He knew how some people saw him in the school, he liked the reputation he had. He wasn't a trouble teen, as in he was always in trouble with the law. He was troubled for many reasons most of them to do with his family, almost all of them were to do with his twin brother. Lana could do a lot of things but she couldn't replace that bond no matter how much she tried. They had once been triplets and it still hurt him to think about it a lot.

"You shouldn't listen to everything you hear about me. I can be nice, when I want to be... I admit thats not often but from time to time when no ones looking." Blake said to her.

[Elena Hykes]

"Touchie" Elena grinned. "Your right, not everyone is what they seem" she said and took a sip of her drink. "We all project a certain way about us to others for some some reason. For example I use to be the wall flower, the shy loner, and I am breaking out of that shell" she said to him. It seemed there was many sides to this guy Blake. She knew who he was she had heard his name when some people talked about him. "It is good you don't care what people think, you can't live your life worrying about others."

She ate some more of her food and washed it down with a drink. "I mean really no matter what people will laugh at me or think I am weird for what I am into. And I don't give a damn I have my passion and that won't go away" she said with a shrug and poped a curly fry in her mouth. "So who made your day all shiney and wanting to be chatty?" She knew for someone to be completely different then they are every other day it is has to be something big that gets them in a mood like this.

[Blake Patterson]

Blake nodded, "Yeah I get that, I tend to keep myself to myself. I was... I used to be a triplet, by used to be I mean that my brother who was identical to me in every way was mown down in the middle of the street. Its kind of been down hill since then in the opinion of my parents, my father would like to believe that I am just seeking the attention of the family. When actually for the most part his to blame for my brothers death, so we tend to argue quite a bit. I stay away from people usually because I really don't like company." Blake said.

He had no idea why he had said it, maybe it was just good to tell someone what he actually felt for once. It helped that it was a complete stranger, he certainly wouldn't have told his shrink about it. That would have lead to a session with the shrink going over every detail of why he felt this way. Telling it to someone who he didn't know, well it had absolutely no strings attached to it. Just the way he liked it.

"Peanut butter and jelly, do people still have that. We used to eat that a lot when we were younger, maybe you'd like to swap some of mine for some of yours." Blake said to her. "The person who has made me happy that would be Ashley Bolton, guy seems to have ideas above his station to do with my sister. Big brothers get to be over protective about their little sisters, especially after what we have both been through." he said to her.

[Elena Hykes]

"I am sorry about your brother" Elena said honestly and sincerly. She can not even imagine what it would be like to lose a twin or triplet. That would be something a person can not imagine at all. "How come it was your fathers fault?" she asked softly. "You don't need to tell me though. I just thought it might help you to talk about it." She said and took a sip of her soda. "I know what it is like to lose someone you love" she told him. "I lost both my parents in a car accident" she told him and looked up at him. "I know what it is like to be angry and upset and angry at the world all at the sametime. I hated the other driver that did it for so long" she admited. "I had to let go to move on though and it was hard but I forgave them." She figured it could help if he knew someone else has felt pain over losing a family member or in her case members.

She tore off of half her burger and passed it to him. "Here you go" she said to him. She put the plate of fries in the middle of the table so they could share them. "I don't mind PB and J at all, sometimes I take that to work for when we can eat, it is easy and does not take long to eat." She listened to him as he spoke about this other guy. "Big brothers are suppose to be overprotective. I think even younger brothers are that way over their older sisters, it is all about manhood. You like to protect the women in your family since they are part of your family" she said matter of factly. "Sorry I read alot and I am very interested in how the human mind works and the difference between men and women." She purposely let out she also was intersted in life after death and the whole ghost hunting bit, but if he was like everyone else in school he already knew that.

[Blake Patterson]

Blake smiled but it didn't reach his eyes, "The day he died our father was meant to take us to a ball game, it was only an inter department game. It wasn't professional or anything like that, it was just a stupid ball game. He got a call from one of his friends in the army, asking him whether or not he would like to join them for a round of golf. So rather than being taken to a ball game by our father, our nanny I use that term loosely because at the time she was more of a parent to us than our own parents. She took us shopping, I dropped my wallet on the ground so I had let go of her hand to pick it up." Blake said to her.

"It was only a moment and Cameron was on the road in front of her, the driver didn't see him until he hit him Sent him about twenty feet in the air. He was dead before he hit the ground, the nanny walked away with cuts and bruises. The car glanced her knocking her out of the way. If my father had been doing his fatherly duty that day, we would have been thirty miles from where he was killed, instead our father was more interested in the stars on his shoulder and a game of golf than with his children." Blake said barely containing the snarl. "I think people would like for me to cut him some slack, not going to happen any time soon." he added scratching the back of his head.

He listened to her talk while he ate, it wasn't hard for him to listen. What surprised him was that she seemed to keep his interest for longer than a couple of minutes at a time. No one really managed to do that, he wasn't interested long enough to stay talking to any one.

"I have a shrink who likes to anaylise my every thought, I'm used to it. Of course I don't actually tell him that I don't want every body to know. I'm pretty sure he tells my parents everything, and I simply don't trust my parents as far as I can throw them. Their idea of solving a problem, is to throw money at it and eventually the problem will go away or solve itself. I am the problem child in case you needed to be told. I like being the problem child." he said with a big smile. "Being normal can be so boring." he added.

[Elena Hykes]

She did not know what to say to his story but it broke heart heart. She reached over and patted his hand as a sign she got where he was coming from. "Sorry about that automaticc reaction. I am really truely sorry about your sad loss" she told him. "I can see why you are still dealing with it. You saw it happen. I just know it happened to my parents I was not in the accident or I did not see it." She ate some more of her food and took a sip of her drink. "I can see why you are angry at your father" she told him. "I would be to, a senseless accident happened. And I think you blame yourself a bit" she said soflty. "You mentioned about dropping your wallet. It isn't your fault. I blamed myself for my parents accident since they were rushing home cause I was not feeling well on their date night. I don't blame myself anymore, but I did for a few years. I have not told anyone that" she said to him. "I know I can trust you with that" she said.

"I have been to a shrink I actually liked mine. She was young and she understood me, never pushed and I know she did not tell my aunt and uncle anything. She took all the confidentialty stuff seriously" she said. "But that was before I moved here, it was right after the accident. I have not seen anyone out here and I don't think I need to. To bad you can't find someone you can talk to that you trust that would not tell anything to your parents. From the way it sounds the way you describe them you could never do anything like that without them throwing a major fit."

"Money just causes problems I think. Yes it is great to have it, if you don't use to get out trouble or get your way" she said and ate a fry off the plate in the middle of the table. "You don't seem like a problem child to me" she said to him. "You seem cool" she said hontly. "And you can trust me when I say if you seemed like you were a problem child I would tell you. I have a issue where I always say the truth and forget tact at times" she said with a laugh and a smile. "And your right normal is so overated, I would rather be me and not fit in. That just makes someone more interesting. The fact is your not like everyone else which is a good thing, it is not fun to talk to the same kind of people all the time. A bit boring since so many people are like cookie cutters. Like okay for example, I get made fun of cause I am into supernatrual slash paranormal type stuff. I belive in it, I have evidence and I hunt professionaly as a second job.So not the stuff popular kids are made and of and I don't care. What is your passion?" she asked curiously.

[Blake Patterson]

Blake winced slightly, "If I hadn't dropped my wallet I would have been right next to him when the car hit. Or close enough to take some damage thats for sure." Blake told her. "Guilty no not really or at least not in the sense you think, survivors guilt probably and in bucket loads." he said with a smile.

Blake nodded, "Money isn't so much the issue, people tend to do what my father tells them to do when he tells them to do it. It comes from having a parent in the armed services, well he isn't now but he was not to long ago." Blake said to her with a smile. "My father has never been told no in his life, that he can remember that is." Blake added with a grin. "We've gotten used to knowing that some times our lives aren't always private, my father is a retired general in the army. My mom is the one with the money, so I think that has something to do with half my dads issues. Of course its all hushed up that they have a son in therapy, its not spoken about in polite conversation. Its like yes we lost a son yes Blake's twin is dead but his fine and his happy." Blake growled.

"I get tired of living the lie my parents force me to live in polite company. I get why they do it, I just don't like it, and I show my displeasure at my father at every opportunity. I guess some people would say that I should treasure what I have, but their is no such thing as having a normal life for me any more. Because no matter what people do or try to do they can't bring him back, I can't have that day back to make sure I don't drop my wallet either." Blake said to her and he was actually serious.

For him living without his twin was pure torture, the only person that seemed to get that was Lana who tried to protect him or at least keep him calm.