Silence

|Chapter 12|

When I wake up I look around, confused. Where am I? It's dark and smells musty and somewhat soapy, like Clorox.  I stand up with a crick in my neck, how long was I here?

I feel around for a light switch, my heart starting to beat a little faster. My hand touched something squishy on the wall and I squeal in my head and jump back, wiping my hand on my pants, gross.

Mentally barfing, I finally found a switch and flicked it on. A dim light flickered on and as I looked around, and sighed in relief. The janitor's closet! Right!

I start to panic again, and I fumble around for my phone. Is it night time? Did I sleep through the whole day?

4:00pm

Holy shit! I slept for at least six hours!

I quickly jump up, flick the light off, and open the door, only to crash into something hard. It stumbled back and I reached out to lesson the blow of the floor but my wrists were grabbed my two hands that stood me up again. 

"Woah there, Abbs,"

Shawn?!

I look up at him in amazement.

"I just got out of detention, remember?" he laughed. "And what were you doing in there? With some guy?" at his last sentence his expression dropped a little but he smirked quickly and opened the door the rest of the way, one hand still holding my wrist, which dropped to my hand.

"Hello!" he yelled in the door. "Get out, you hoe!" he joked. I smiled a little when he sniffed the room and nodded in approval before closing it shut.

"So seriously, why were you in there?" he grinned when he saw my smile. 

What should my lie be?

I can't think of anything so I change the subject. 'Why was Ryder saying that stuff about you earlier?'  

A/N: Michelle stops writing. Gracyn starts. Hope you enjoy:)

"People judge people by their past sometimes and never pay attention to their present," he answers.

I nod completely understanding.

"Hey! Don't change the subject! What were you doing in there?" Shawn asks.

I feel my face heating up. I pull my phone out and type my answer.

'I feel asleep...'

"Ok. See it wasn't that bad telling me was it?" He asks.

I give Shawn a look and chuckles.

"Hey, wanna go eat something?" He asks.

'I guess'

"Ok let's go!" He exclaims and tugs my arm.

I smile and he starts running to the exit door and I chase after him. Soon I follow him to a nice looking car and I get inside the passenger side of the car. I become nervous and hurriedly type 'drive careful'. He nods and does as I ask. 

He's a good driver. Thank god. We pull into a parking lot in front of an ice cream place. Mmmm MarbleSlab. I love MarbleSlab's ice cream. 

We both hurriedly jump out of the car and go inside. I look at all the different toppings and ice creams and I run to the guy at the counter. He asks which ice cream. I point to birthday cake and point to a chocolate covered waffle cone. He stuffs a marshmallow in the bottom of the cone so the ice cream doesn't drip out. 

"How many scoops?" counter guy ,Jack I read his name tag, asks. 

Hmmmm I don't really eat that much. I hold up one finger.

We continue down the counter and I point to the toppings I want. Jack puts the scoop of ice cream on a frozen marble slab and mixes all my toppings in. He puts it in the cone and we go to the end of the counter to the cash register.

I pull out my wallet but Shawn stops me and hands Jack some money.

'You don't have to do that'

"Well too late, I want to," he says.

'thanks'

"No problem"

I go to sit down at a table next a freezer and I eat my ice cream and look at the ice cream cakes while I wait for Shawn to finish getting his ice cream.

I see the ice cream shops door swings open and I surprisingly see Rosy storm in. She storms over to Shawn he says

"How did I know you were going to be here? You were supposed to swing by my place remember?"

He finishes paying for his overfilled ice cream cone and leads Rose over to where I was sitting.

"Hi Abigail!" she exclaims. "What are you doing here?"

I point to Shawn and he explains;

"I found this weirdo sleeping in a closet and now we're eating ice cream," he says.

"And you just came with him!?" Rosy asks.

I slap Shawn's arm. 'We knew each other before the closet.'

"Ohhhhh." she says.

'So you two are friends?'

"The bestest!" Shawn exclaims.

Rosy laughs and I smile.

I spend mostly the rest of the day with Rosy and Shawn before Shawn drops me off at my house.

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Yayyyyy this is the next chapter. Hope you enjoyed. I also hope you press that star button;)

Bye for now.

~Gracyn