The new boy.

Chapter 14

That night.

Matt was pulling a cot into his bedroom.
His room was the only one that could fit another bed into it.
It was nine o'clock on a Saturday, which was pretty early for me, but apparently we were going to church tomorrow.
Matt reached into his closet and pulled out a blanket before laying down on the cot.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
He looked over at me.
"Oh, you can have the bed, I don't mid sleeping on this."
I shook my head.
"This is your house. I'm not gonna invade and then kick you onto the cot." I said.
He shook his head.
"No, you've been through enough today, there's no way you're gonna talk me out of it." He said.
I smiled a little bit.
"Thank you..." I said.
He smiled.
"You're welcome."
I turned out the light before I got in bed and covered up.
I laid there, desperately trying to fall asleep.
But I couldn't.
So many thoughts were rushing through my head.
Yet I kept seeing the whole scene from earlier that day playing back in my mind.
'I'm ashamed... You're a disgrace... Get out...'
I tried for about forty five minutes before giving up.

"Matt, are you awake?" I whispered shakily.
"Yeah." He whispered back, sitting up and turning toward me. "What's up?"
I sat up straight and looked at him.
"I can't sleep." I said.
He shook his head.
"Me either."
I sat there for a second taking deep breaths and trying not to cry.
"Are you ok?" He asked softly.
Part of me just wanted to say the general, 'I'm fine.' But the other part of me couldn't keep it hidden any longer.
I shook my head.
"No, not really." I said, letting a tear slip.
He stood up and walked over, sitting down beside me.
He wrapped an arm around me.
"Go ahead and cry, holding all that pain inside isn't good for you." He said.
And with that, I let it all out.
He wrapped both his arms around as I shook and cried.
"I know it hurts right now, it's gonna be ok soon, I promise."
I could barely cry anymore, I had no more tears, I just took huge, shaky, breaths.
He kissed my forehead.
"Y- your all I have now." I said softly. "If you leave, I won't h-have anything."
He shook his head.
"I won't leave. Me and you, we're gonna get married one day. We're gonna be together forever." He said.
I smiled.
"You mean that?"
He nodded.
"Absolutely."
I smiled.
"But I'm 15, and you're 16, if we're like the rest of the world we won't even care about this in 5 years."
He looked away for a minute and nodded, thinking. A minute he looked back with a sparkle in his eyes.
"Then let's not be like the rest of the world Julie; let's be risky, let's be crazy, let's be complete and total idiots. You know what, I'll do whatever it takes, I love you."
I smiled at him.
"Yeah that's right, I love you." He said.
I slowly wrapped my arms around him and hugged him.
Right then, I felt at home. I felt happy, and peaceful, and safe, and loved, I couldn't think of anyone else who made me feel that at at home.
Maybe I did love him;
Maybe it wasn't just teenage hormones.
All I knew was, I'd never cared about anyone that much.
He pulled away.
"Hold on." He said.
He reached in his drawer before pulling something out.

He came back over to me and sat down, grabbing my hand.
He slid a homemade looking bracelet made out of thread around my wrist.
I looked down at it and them back up at him.
"I've got one too, they're like friendship bracelets, no matter what happens, we'll always have these." He said.
I smiled a little.
"I have a condition." I said.
He laughed.
"What is it?"
"You only wear that bracelet around me."
He smiled a little as he nodded and shook my hand.
"Deal."
I smiled.
We sat in silence for a minute.
"I wanna kiss you so bad right now." He said, turning bright red.
I turned equally as red and my heart sped up a little.
"Well, I'm not stopping you..." I said softly.
He smiled before leaning forward and and kissing me.
After a few seconds he pulled away.
He smiled.
We sat quietly for a second;
And then Matt started laughing.
"You're such a dork sometimes." I said laughing.
He nodded.
"Yeah, but you just kissed me."
I laughed and shoved him.
"Yeah, good point."
He hugged me.
"Can I got to bed now?" He asked.
I nodded.
"Yeah, goodnight, I love you."
He stood up and smiled.
"Yay!" He said.
And then we both went to sleep.
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GUYS IM TRYING TO UPDATE AS MYCH AS I CAN, IVE HAD SOME PERSONAL PROBLEMS SO I HAVENT BEEN ABLE TO WRITE.
I LOVE YALL SO MUCH.
I HOPE I HAVENT LET YOU DOWN.
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