Daring The Delinquents

Chapter 5 🗝️Ryans POV🗝️

"You know you can talk to me right?" I asked her and she sighed quietly, nestling herself closer to my side. "I can't go back Ryan... It's horrible. They're all horrible and I can't go back."

It infuriated me that someone would make a beautiful girl like Ivy cry like this but I knew exactly who it was. "Whitney" I snarled and Ivy nodded, not looking at me, instead she looked out at the hills around us. I didn't know where we were except that we were close to the school and there was only fields around us and clearly Ivy didn't know either but that didn't faze me.

"What did she say Ivy?" I asked her and Ivy began to move around, digging through her backpack and eventually passing me a folded up scrap of paper.

I opened it and slowly read it, "Oh fuck no." I growled, making Ivy tense the tiniest amount beside me. She looked so lost in that second, like she was trying to find out who she was but all she managed was to run into dead ends. "It might be genetic." Ivy whispered, shocking me slightly. "What might be?" She looked into my eyes and I looked back into hers. "Cancer. Ryan. My mum died from cancer and it may be genetic."

Well didn't that just brighten my day. "They're right you know. I don't really have a place here. Whitney made that clear."

I shook my head and without thinking, I circled her tiny hand in mine which caused her to gasp slightly and her blue eyes to grow even larger than usual. I could get lost in her eyes. They were a mesmerising blue that reminded me of the ocean.

"No. You listen to me Ivy. You are beautiful and smart and caring and friendly and Whitney feels pressured the you might steal her spot as HBIC and to her that would be the worst thing out there. So you can either leave the school and avoid it completely or you can break down those protective barriers and walk in there knowing exactly who you are and what you're going to do."

She sniffled a little before smiling at me for the first time today. "Thanks Ryan, you're a good friend." I chuckled and smiled back at her, although she had complemented me the words hurt. Shaking the thought away I just looked at Ivy who sat straight up with her eyes filled with hope.

"Hey Ryan? You don't reckon you could do anything to get me a place in your school right?" I tensed slightly but smiled at her nevertheless. I didn't want her to see who I was at school, I knew it wasn't good but I couldn't change. They wouldn't let me.

"I don't know, I can try, my Dad's the principal after all." I couldn't crush her hopeful smile. I just had to hope that she wouldn't see me any different when she saw the real me.

"I'm so glad! Thank you Ryan! That school is so horrible and all the girls hate me." Her excitement made me feel butterflies and suddenly it became my mission to make her smile all the time, she seemed so innocent on the outside but I knew that she could be a total badass if she let it out, and that made me curious as to why she didn't. She had the gun, so why not shoot it?

Suddenly her phone started ringing and she picked it up without checking the caller id. I knew she had made a mistake when she went pale and walked away from my hearing range. I only caught the words mother and expelled but I knew neither of them were good.

When she finally came back I smiled at her and she smiled back. "That was my Aunt... I've been expelled from my school." She said and my heart sank, "your Aunt? Not your step father?" Suddenly her face brightened into a smirk and she bit her lip gently. "He thinks I'm selectively mute around him. He's an ok guy but when he's drunk I don't want anything to do with him."

I chuckled at her way of solving things before I stood up and brushed off my jeans. "Come on, you need to loosen up and I have just the place." I grabbed her hand and started dragging her away gently but she stopped still and carefully pried her hand from mine. "Please don't pull me around. Bad memories." This sparked curiousity inside me but I ignored it.

I kept walking and she caught up to me quickly. "Where are we going?" I just smiled at her and she rolled her eyes, "Ryannnn pleaseeeee," her tone of voice made me laugh but I didn't answer her.

When we finally arrived she raised an eyebrow at me. "We're 15 dummie. How do you propose we get into a club?" Her sassiness was hilarious but I didn't reply, instead just copying her facial expression and pulling something out of my pocket. My fake id. Whatever was left of her smile disappeared. "That's not my face."

I scoffed at her with my nose crinkled. "I would hope that's not your face." She smiled but still looked severely confused. "I know the owner, we can just go in. We don't even need the fake IDs."

Her lips instantly formed an O and I laughed at her expression. "Let me just go buy a dress from over there," she pointed at a dress shop opposite this, "and I'll catch up to you."

I nodded and she ran across the street and into the shop. I decided I wanted a couple of friends there so I called up Lara and Ty, knowing that they would want to come clubbing.

Not even 10 minutes later I saw a figure emerge from the dress shop and my mouth literally dropped open. Ivy was wearing a fitted black dress that showed her curves but didn't show too much of her body, her hair had also been changed and was in soft waves falling down her shoulders i noticed she was also wearing a light layer of makeup. How she had managed that I was confused but she pulled it off.

It was still light outside- still the afternoon- but I had always preferred less people in the club and if you going during the day does that than that's what I'll do. Besides it was a 24/7 club.

She smiled at me and I smiled back, I was definately awestruck and I think she noticed that because she gave a small smile and started into the club. I followed her and soon enough we were on the floor with all the lights dimmed except the disco ball. My heart beat was probably going too fast for my own good but I didn't care. I couldn't let anything stop me from having a good time with the girl who was sassily sashaying her way into my bitter heart.

We spent the next half hour dancing stupidly to fast songs until finally a slow song played and I almost instantly shot my hand out towards Ivy, taking her by surprise. "May I have this dance?" I asked and she placed her palm in mine down at the floor shyly as she did so. I dragged her towards the dancefloor and she put her arms around my neck as I held her hips, pulling her closer to me, our gazes held the entire song until the last note.

We didn't pull away, instead we just stared into each other's eyes and I felt a million emotions all at once. Lust, anger, confusion, lonely and yet... Complete. And just as I was leaning down to capture her lips in mine we heard a voice that caused her to have a mini heart attack.

"Well how sweet is this..."

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A/N: I hate it. I don't like this chapter but I keep rewriting it and it isn't getting any better. Who do you think the voice at the end was? And what do you think Ivy's reaction to these new people will be?

Do you follow star signs and horoscope?

Love y'all,
Katnip 💖