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Don’t Let Go

“Hannah Alice James!!!” Tyler Monroe shouted as he clutched onto Hannah’s hand. She was slipping. Slipping from sight, from his grip, from his life and he couldn’t do anything about it. Hannah was slipping. That he established when he saw the bottle of half empty pills by her bedside desk.
Hannah had called him here a few hours before. Her life had gone way off track but of all the people she knew Tyler was glad she called him. Tyler stood there and made sure he hung onto her. Onto her very breathe, onto her very heart beat onto her very sight. He wasn’t about to let her close those beautiful green eyes of hers before he could say goodbye.
Goodbye. They were the hardest words for him to say. The hardest words for him to think and right now. He didn’t want them to be true. He didn’t want to have to say goodbye to Hannah. She was too important to him. Although right now there wasn’t much hope. She restricted him from calling an ambulance at this point there seemed to be no hope for the young girl.
So Tyler sat there. Holding onto her, making sure she kept on breathing and as he pretended not to notice she was dying right before his eyes. He made sure to punch everyone in the face who had ever hurt Hannah. Everyone who had ever gave her a hard time, everyone who had ever spread a rumor about her. Even at the time they didn’t mean to do it on purpose it all happened because they were bored and felt like doing something fun
Though right now it wasn’t fun. Tyler wasn’t laughing. He was crying, crying like the overly emotional teenager he knows he is. He cant be strong and tell Hannah its going to be alright. He cant tell her it’ll all get better because he knows it wont. Things went straight from great to horrible. Tyler doesn’t know how but it happened and it happened to Hannah.
But right now we’re getting to into the story. Tyler would be sad if you knew the ending before the story even happened so let’s rewind a bit back. Rewind like tape on a video cassette.

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A kiss. You all know how one feels, an innocent kiss of lips pressed against lips. Nothing else mattered at that point. Here were two people barely spoken words to the other before and here they were now. Sharing kisses in the middle of the hallways they used to walk without noticing the other for so long. For the moment, she was his and he was hers. They were sophomores in High School. Each of them was new to the school district at the time, the school district of Baldwin Park, California. Though were still too far. Lets back up even more.

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Tyler Monroe had transferred from a different part of California but he was still new to this part of the area. Attending the school here, he was sure it was a really new experience than the one he had had at his old school. This place seemed a lot more… quieter. The town more than the school. The school was loud. There was chatter from ever group of friends imaginable. The Goths, band geeks, cheerleaders, jocks, preps, emo’s, scene kids, poets, writers, anime geeks, nerds, chess teams kids, student counsel and what looked like the students going around supporting school spirit.
School spirit. Tyler wanted to take that word and shove it up everyone’s. Well you get the picture. Tyler wasn’t the type that went to the pep rallies to support the school. No he went because it was a required thing and it made the students look like they actually cared for their school. Nah Tyler hated school as much as he hated School Spirit.
It had to have been a hot spring day. Hot day? In spring? Yeah there’s such a thing in California and it was humid too. Disgustingly humid. They were having a pep rally in this 90 degree weather and it was driving Tyler insane. Then he noticed her, she had to have been a couple inches shorter than him. She walked out there, red hair all silky and soft looking as the sun hit it making it look blood red. Her freckles were plastered all over her face and her arms. She self-consciously tugged down on the sleeves of her black hoodie as if she saw his eyes gazing at her.
She put the mike up to her mouth and spoke
“Whoo, isn’t it hot out here” people laughed, but her voice was like bells
“I know I really don’t want to be here” neither did he
“So how many of you know who I am?” She smiled and even from this distance, it was beautiful.
“Go Hannah!!!” A girl in back of him shouted
“That’s our girl” that was the Tennis Club
Hannah. Hannah who? This was the first time he had ever seen the girl. Tyler looked around. People were clapping and cheering for her. Seriously? Was she like some celebrity at this school? She was up there doing something for school spirit. Tyler rolled his eyes. Just another person he didn’t need to see act like a cheerleader. He closed his eyes and tried to tune the rest of the Pep Rally out.
So two and a half hours later in the dying humid heat of sunny California, Tyler found himself shoving and getting shoved by people trying to get out of the pep rally. Some guy in front of him shoved a girl forward. She fell and the guy moved back. She looked and saw Tyler in back of her. It was Hannah. He bent down and helped her up
“I’m sorry about that… I swear it wasn’t me” Tyler felt stupid, that guy did it on purpose
“Hey, you’re Tyler Monroe! I’m right, aren’t I?” Hannah smiled. Her white teeth made her smile dazzling. Tyler just nodded like the idiot he was. Hannah just laughed and continued talking, “I’m Hannah, Hannah James”
“Nice to meet you” Tyler paused, “How do you know me, Hannah?”
“Oh, you’re in my Foreign Language and Biology Class” Hannah giggled this time
Tyler stood there puzzled, “I’ve never noticed you”
Hannah giggled some more, “Well I don’t talk as much in there as I do out here”
Tyler blushed, “Oh”
Now it was Hannah’s turn to blush, “I was kidding Tyler”
Tyler laughed this time, “I knew that”