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CHAPTER 5
Lunch time.
For the first time that today, I think I was actually excited about something. My safe haven, aka Scott Guard, was going to meet me outside. I walk through the big double doors of the cafeteria and instantly spot my brother. I walk over to his table with all his friends and he makes someone scoot over for me. Wow, I have a really great brother don’t I? I sit down and look at my brother, his brilliant smile turned into a worried frown instantaneously.
“What happened to your face?” he asks worriedly
“Well, hello to you too.” I say sarcastically and start to get up from the table. Half of it was because of the comment, the other half was because I needed to get to Scott.
Alex grabs my wrist and brings me back down, “That’s not what I meant. What I meant is why your cheek is all swollen.” he took my face gently between his strong hands and turned my head to the side to get a better look at the blue bruise on my cheek.
I put my hands on top of his and take them off my cheeks. I then put his hands back on his lap, “Don’t worry about it. I’ll tell you at home. Right now I have to go meet a friend outside for lunch and I may get home late. I have to meet, someone, after school” I didn’t realize my mistake until I felt myself stutter.
“Who is it?” Alex asked defensively. I knew what he was thinking, that the person I’m meeting is the same person that hit me. What he didn’t know was, that it is.
“Nobody Alex, don’t worry. You get so protective over me sometimes I feel like you don’t pay enough attention to yourself.” I say, and I instantly regret it. The hurt in his eyes was all I needed to break down. “Alex I’m so sorry! I didn’t mean that. I love how much you take care of me, and I hope you don’t blame yourself for this. This is not your fault and-“ I couldn’t take it anymore.
I felt everybody’s eyes on me, and then I look at Alex. I knew I had about two seconds before I broke down again. Why do I cry so much? I may be a girl but I’m not a crier, usually.
I ran outside of the cafeteria and I run right into the one person that I could not stand, the person that started all of this; I run into him. He was going into the cafeteria while I was running out of it. I literally felt like a freight train running into a cliff. I ran into him and we both fell over. I landed on top of him and a whole bunch of people started doing that sound that’s really annoying. It’s a high pitch squeal that goes off every time a really sweet moment happens in a movie.
As we fell, I tucked my head into his chest. I don’t know why I did it, but I did. And what happens next is nothing of what I expected. This boy that I don’t even know the name of wrapped his arms around me and protected me as we fell. When we landed, I looked up at him while we lay there. He looks down at me and for the first time I saw a glimmer of sweetness in his eyes. Just as soon as it was there, it was gone and I was being pushed to the ground.
He got up and looked at me. He reached out to help me up and then he obviously second guessed his actions, because he pulled back. He made some eye contact to make sure I was okay. As soon as I nodded, he was gone.
Weird. I was so engulfed in running into him; I had forgotten why I was running in the first place. That was, until I saw my brother come through the double doors in a run. He saw me sitting there against the wall and held out his hand. I took it and he pulled me up and into his chest, engulfing me in a hug. I hugged him back and he started to walk us to a more secluded area of the hallway.
“Are you okay?” he asked as we sat back down. I had stopped crying by this point but my tears obviously weren’t done.
I started crying again and then I felt myself being pulled onto my brother’s lap. He tucked my head underneath his chin and rubbed my back. We stayed like that for a little while as I cried myself out of tears.
“Okay, now I’m done.” I say as I laugh a little bit and wipe my face with the sleeve of my sweater. He continued to rub my back and then the bell rang.
“Shoot, I got to go.” I said as I untangled myself from his embrace.
“Hold on little sis’” he said while getting up.
“I can’t I got to go!” I grab my backpack that mysteriously showed up at my side and start to run to my next class.
Alex ran next to me and yanked my hand back. “Wait, Bree!” I kept going and finally he gave up and while I was running to my next class I faintly hear, “We are talking about this when you get home!” from a distressed Alex.
Why is my life so complicated?
And to make matters worse, guess who showed up in my next class? Anybody remember Scott?
I sure didn’t.
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