Define "Love"

Summary: Travis Smith is a multimillionaire kid. After a car crash accident, Travis' parents died. Nothing was ever the same for him. He became so numb he hardly cared what happened. Lily Park, a street child, befriends Travis. Soon Travis remembers what everything feels like except one... What is Love?

Chapter one

I remember everything as if it was yesterday. The sirens of the ambulance, us being brought to the hospital, and being told my parents are dead but... there's something I can't remember. Something's missing... what is it?

Which road... the longer one or shorter one? I walked left and from that move it was decided I'd take the longer route home or rather to my house. I don't have a home... it's just a house... a mansion that many people wished they lived in. I rubbed my palms and placed them in the pockets of my brown trench coat. "Crap... I should've taken the shorter route." I whispered to myself but it was too late. I've already walk quite some distance to change the way I have chosen. My dark blue horn-rimmed glasses now filled with fog was slipping down my nose, making it harder to see where I walk. I sighed and stopped on the other side of the local Bakery. I walked inside. It was more humid here than outside. I took my glasses off and wiped them.

"Travis! Are you here to buy bread?" the baker, Tom, asked happily. His cheery mood never seem to fail him. He stood by the counter. I looked at their shelves of bread, judging from the looks of it not many came out of their houses today for if it was a normal day Tom would be busy baking.

"No sir..." I replied, embarrassed.

"Father, don't scare him like that" Alice told her father jokingly. She was seventeen as she once told me while I was eating some croissants. I smiled at her acknowledging her presence. "Hmm... It seems the snow is falling heavily. What were you thinking walking down here when you can walk to the shorter path to your home?"

I shook my head and said,"Uh... I thought it would be a good idea to walk tonight." I placed my glasses back on and bade farewell.

"Wait!" I turned and looked at Tom with a brown paper bag of bread in hand. "Here, I know you love these."

"Thank you!" I told them with a hint of gratefulness. I opened the door and ran. I took a left at the next alley wherein a couple of rats quickly scattered as I ran past them. I took a right and voila the vast lawn and iron-wrought gates greeted me with a huge pile of snow atop them.

"Sir Travis!" Maurice, my ever so loyal guardian, greeted me. She quickly ran to me and grabbed my Trench coat which she hanged by our coat hanger just beside our huge, brown double-door. I closed the door with a loud thud. "You should've just called so we could pick you up." I shook my head.

"Even if I called you wouldn't be able to get there. The road's going to be full of snow soon." I walked up the stairs but stopped at the foot of it. "By the way, I won't have dinner" I held the croissants high and said, "Just bring me some tea." I went straight to my room. I landed the paperbag onto my desk, slumped in my bed, tossed and turned. My face was buried on my pillow. I had a couple of homework but I have no intention of doing due to my lack of academic interest. I looked at the clock and it's already 7:00. The snow took quite some toll on my time. I sat on my bed and grabbed the remote which was on my white, wooden bedside table. I turned the TV on switched it to watch some Anime and luckily, Vampire Knight was on. It took me an hour before sleepiness crawled in my head.