~~Hope~~

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Four

Ever since that day, the day of my ultra sound, I've been thinking completely different. I wasn't feeling sorry for myself anymore, all I could think about was the living thing inside of me. Even though it was only two weeks ago, it still felt like it had been longer.

I quickly snapped out of my thoughts as the bell rang. It was the end of the day already, it felt like I was just starting the day.

"Let's go Anna!" Julia said impatiently already heading to the door. "I want to walk home with Brett."

I groaned. "Again? You two have been spending every day together, I never get to be alone with you anymore."

"You should spend every day with Eric, then maybe you won't be so lonely." She said walking out the door.

I began to speed walked to catch up to her. "Well, maybe I don't want to.." I said simply.

She just shrugged her shoulders and kept on walking. Eric and I were of course still going out, but I liked my privacy, especially when he kept bugging me for my secrets.

Once she saw Brett, she practically ran into his arms, I looked away, and made my way over to Eric. When I got to him, it was nothing like Julia and Brett, he just grabbed my hand, and we turned towards the door.

But someone grabbed onto my shoulder, stopping me. I turned around, and it was Zach.

"Uh, can I talk with you." He asked, glancing at my hand in Eric's.

"Of course." I replied, I knew he wanted to talk private, so I pulled my hand away from Eric's. "I'll catch up with you, okay?"

"I guess." He said reluctantly, he looked as if he didn't want me talking to Zach.

I watched Eric walk off slowly, then turned back to Zach. "Okay, what did you want?"

"Uh, okay... I know how your going out with Eric, and... well, I don't trust him." He said nervously.

"You don't trust him?" My voice loud, not holding back the anger. "Do you think you can choose guys for me? I don't trust Ashley, and you know that, but do you care? No!"

He started to back away like I was going to hit him. "I just think he's up to something.."

"And I think Ashley is using you!" 

This was his turn to get mad. "She is NOT using me! Your just jealous!"

"Whatever! See you don't even trust me! Why should I trust you?"

He threw his hands up. "All I wanted was to tell you is that I think he's up to something, but I guess this was useless."

"Why did you even switch schools, Zach? Why?" I was trying to be calm but it wasn't working.

"I did it for you..." He looked away.

"Did it for me? All you are doing is making things worse for me! Can't you see that?"

He looked back at me. "I guess I'll just stay out of your life..."

"Good." I said, turning around and walking away. I couldn't hold the tears back, I never could anymore.

I caught up with Eric faster than I had expected to. When he saw me crying he quickly wrapped his arms around me in a comforting way.

"Did he hurt you?" He asked, anger in every word he spoke.

"No.." I sobbed.

"What happened?" He really wanted to know.

"I don't want to talk about it.."

The truth was, I didn't even know if I trusted Eric myself...