Payne of the Past
Prologue
Our parents were best friends all through high school. Our mums were pregnant at the same time. After my mum had me her best friend Karen had a son named Wyatt Tobias Payne a month later. After she had him my mom and her stopped talking just like that. I guess having babies took up too much of their time, so they grew apart.
Mum and dad graduated early and left to travel Europe with me in tote. It wasn't until we moved back to London that my parents got back in touch with Karen. I guess mum was at a coffee shoppe that Karen was the manager of. They got to talking again and have been inseparable ever since. That brings me to how I met Wyatt… again. We were 4 years old and on a play date, he seemed like a nice boy until he started pulling on my braids. I told my mum I didn’t want to play with him anymore, but every time Karen and she got together I was always dragged along as was Wyatt. Before too long we became best friends, when our mums signed us up for school we ended up having every single class together since nursery school. So that only fueled the fire that was about to enrage.
The day of Wyatt’s birthday party we were all jumping around in the bounce house his parents rented. There were way too many kids in it and I fell which started a chain reaction where I wound up on the bottom of a pile of kids. All I can remember is excruciating pain and my arm twisted in a way that was not natural. Wyatt pulled every single kid off me until he was able to pull me up and get me out of there. He rode to the hospital with us where I had to have pins put in my arm then a cast on for 9 weeks. After that Wyatt and I grew very fond of each other. We would spend every minute of the day together that we could. I can truly say he is my best friend.
Wyatt had a terribly tough time when his parents divorced a month before his 15th birthday. I was the one who was there for him all the time. I used to sneak out of my window at night and go to his house just to make sure he was ok. Sometimes Wyatt would show up at my house too. He would crawl through my bedroom window, and we would sit for hours on my floor just talking.
Things got horribly bad when his mum started drinking, it was the heaviest she had ever drunk, she would go into fits and he didn't want to be around her when she did that. One-night Wyatt came to my house around one in the morning. He crawled through my window and laid next to me in my bed.
"Wyatt what's wrong?" I asked him
"Nothing I... I just needed to see you" he whispered
That's how I knew our relationship started. It was on that night when Wyatt Tobias Payne kissed me for the first time.
