Unexpected

Chapter 23

“What’s wrong?” Noah finally asks. I don’t answer as I try to stop my harsh crying. Noah takes away my crutches and then picks me up bridal style and carries me to his room. He places me on his bed and he walks over to his other side of the bed, he slides into his bed, covers me with the blankets, then pushes me to his chest. I wrap my arms around his waist and stuff my head in the crook of his neck, Noah wraps his arms around me and lifts his sweater I was wearing a little and makes patterns on the small part of my back. The only sound in the room was the TV which Noah is watching. 

I love Noah, I really do. I know everything about Noah and he knows everything about me. We understand each other, we know every flaw, every perfection, and everything there is to know. But I barely even know Emery. Yet I’m attracted to him. 

“Want to explain?” Noah finally asks. I finally look up at Noah and gasp when I take a look at his face. It was horrible, his eye was swollen shut, his jaw was purple, and his lip was busted. Devlin didn’t do all that, Devlin’s strong but not that strong to make Noah’s eye shut. 

“What happened?” I whisper when I move my hands to his eye, it was awful. “who did this to you?” I ask in horror. Noah doesn’t answer as he just looks at me. “Noah, who.” 

Noah sighs and drops his head. “My dad.” 

Its like Cade all over again. The pain hitting my heart, the tears, the shame, the everything. In these positions if you’re the bystander you can’t do anything even though you want to do everything in your right mind to those bastards, but you can’t. It isn’t your battle to fight, its their battle. I can’t tell Noah or Cade to punch their father back, I can’t tell them to go to the police. But there is one thing I can tell Noah. 

“Noah, I think I need you to talk to Cade.” 

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“I’m a God awful person, aren’t I?” I blurt out as I lay on Emery’s bed. 

Emery looks up from his phone. “No?” he lifts an eyebrow and puts his phone down. “why do you say that?” 

I groan. “Because I am,” I declare. 

“I cant say I agree.” 

I let my crutches fall to the ground and I put the covers over my body, then over my head. “I suck.” my voice muffles from the blankets but Emery chuckles and pulls the blanket back. 

“Explain.” 

I shake my head. “I can’t.” 

“Come on you can tell me anything.” 

“Have you ever done something so bad that you can’t tell anyone?” I wonder. 

Emery nods. “A couple times, yes. Why? What did you do? I doubt its that bad.” 

Oh, maybe liking someone else while you have a boyfriend is bad. 

“Can we just watch a movie while Cade and Noah talk with each other?” I ask as I try and avoid the topic. 

Emery stands up and picks out a movie then plops down next to me. “Last year when I finally got my drivers license, I took a midnight cruise around my town. I pulled out of a parking lot so I could turn around and head back but I didn’t see the black mustang parked behind me. I hit the car, after a couple minutes of panicking I get out to see the damage. I totally wrecked the dude’s headlights and bumper. I was freaking out, I didn’t know what to do. So I fled, I drove home like a fag. The car that I hit was a rich dude’s car, he went to the police and filled for a hit and run, it was all over the town news. I never confessed up to it. I never confessed up to a 10,000 dollar fine,” Emery admits. I turn my head to look at him and he’s watching the TV. 

“You were too scared of how your mom was going to react,” I state. 

Emery nods. “She still wasn’t over the loss of my dad and I didn’t want to put more stress on her,” he explains. 

I sigh. “Two years ago I cheated on my math mid term,” Emery bursts into laughter. “its not funny!” I exclaim as my face heats up. “every time my math teacher called on me in class I thought I was in deep shit!” I confess. 

Emery sighs as he rubs his eyes. “That’s grand, Cedes. Did you ever get caught?”

 I shake my head. “No, thank God,” I mutter. 

“You’re still the innocent little 8 year old I remember,” Emery whispers as he shakes his head. 

I smack his arm. “Shut up! But Emery I can’t say the same, I really cant.” 

Emery creases an eyebrow at me. “Why do you say that?” he asks. 

I shrug and turn to watch the TV. “You just don’t seem like the little 9 year old I knew.” 

“Is that a good thing or a bad thing?” 

“I don’t know, I really dont,” I mutter then there’s a knock on Emery’s door. The door opens to reveal Noah. 

“Hey, Cade and I are done talking so I was ready to head out,” Noah says, I nod, grab my crutches and climb out of Emery’s bed. 

“I’ll walk you out,” I tell him as I shut Emery’s door. 

“Thanks for telling me to talk to Cade, it helped.”

I smile at him. “I’m glad.” 

“Thanks, again, but why didn’t you tell anyone about Cade?” Noah questions. 

I shrug. “He wanted me to keep it a secret and so I kept it a secret,” I reply. Noah gives me a smile then pecks my lips. 

“I’ll call you later, okay?” I nod and he’s out the door. 

I felt bad for Noah, he loved his dad, but his dad didn’t love him back. 

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