The New Kid

Chapter 13: I Honestly Tried

Chapter 13:

A month. It had been a month since I had talked to Josh. I tried to, tried to get past Shaun but that didn't work. He wasn't at school much and when he was and he saw me in the hallway he would walk the other way. I tried to get to his house but was afraid what would happen when the door opened. But today was the day I was going to talk to him. I had to because it was killing me inside. I grabbed my phone from the bedside table and dialled Emma's number.

"Emma, I need your help, be at my place at in twenty minutes" Then hung up.

As I waited I was pacing around in my room trying to come up with an idea so that I could talk to Josh. I heard a door knock on the door so I quickly ran down the stairs and flung the door open. Emma was there crouching breathing heavily.

"I got here as soon... as I could" She spoke catching her breath. We both returned to my room. Emma sat on the bed with her hands on the side on the bed still trying to catch her breath. "So what's up? What's the plan?" She asked.

"Okay we need a distraction for Shaun. He keeps watching me, it's weird." I responded, biting my nails still pacing back to forth. "And that's where you come in." I nodded to myself, "You'll be the distraction while I sneak out and go to Josh's house." I stopped pacing and turned to Emma. She was laying down on the bed nodding her head in agreement.

"Do you know what you're going to say to him about the whole thing?" She asked.

Emma was the only one I told about the pregnancy between Avery and Josh. She had come over the night I had told her as I cried myself to sleep. She had a little thing against Josh now for apparently 'breaking' my heart. I however... was heartbroken. I just wanted to talk to Josh get some answers, anything really.

"No I guess I'll just improvise."

"So when are we putting this plan to action?"

I smiled, "Tonight."

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After we had planned out everything we were going to do, we were good to go. Emma and I were in the kitchen waiting for Shaun to get home from work. It seemed fun planning this all out but now I was a little nervous, nervous about seeing Josh. My heart broke into a million pieces when Avery told me about the pregnancy. My thoughts were interrupted when the door opened then shut again. Shaun dropped his bag and walked into the kitchen.

"Hey guys, what's been happening?" He asked opening up the fridge.

"Umm, I was wondering if you could help me with something actually. It's about football... Yeah it's a long story." Emma said nodding her head.

"Yeah sure, what do you want to know?"

"Umm, I think I'm just going to my room, I'll wait for you." I said turning around and started walking back up the stairs.

I ran into my room and locked the room making my way to the window and opened it letting the cool air flow into the room. I sat on the edge on the window and pulled both my legs out of the window. I was currently wearing all black because Emma thought I would be more camouflage. I reached out for the ladder that was against the wall which Emma and I had put earlier before Shaun had gotten home. I slowly steadied myself on the ladder and made my way down one step and a time. I had gotten half way when the ladder had started to shake a little. I shrieked a little and grabbed hold of the ladder really tightly leaning against the wall hoping not to fall backwards. After the shaking had stopped I made my way down again and this time no shaking. I got to the ground and sigh in relief grinning. I turned to my side and started running to the front of the house. I should've brought a flashlight. I was seriously dark because the only lights that were on were the street lights. While I was running my leg got caught so I tripped and fell on the wet ground.