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I slowly turned my head to face him. Because I couldn't believe what he was saying. Matt. The boy that was my best friend. The boy who ignored me because I was a loser.
"Audree, I love y-"
"I heard it." I stopped him, having a nervous breakdown. He thought I didn't hear him and tried to repeat it. I wouldn't know what would happen to me if he said it again. It felt unreal. But was I happy?
The bubbly feeling inside me didn't give me such a great answer. I didn't feel good. Did he really mean it? Or were there cameras around? Was he going to tape it, then show everyone the tape at school to embarrass me?
"Why?"
"Are you going to ask me why I lo-"
"Don't say it again." I interrupted him. For some reason, I didn't want to hear those words come from him.
"I just... started to realize it when you started to disappear from school. You are more than just a childhood friend to me, Audree." he told me, grabbing my hands. His big hands were so warm, but so different from Zach's. "Go out with me."
I looked away. I didn't know what to think anymore. "Are you serious?" I mumbled, then took a quick glance at him. His aura was completely pink. He was telling the truth. He looked at me with mesmerizing eyes, then nodded.
"Get away from her." a loud voice was heard. Probably drawing some attention from the neighbors, because I did see some people standing by the windows, watching us. It was a small town, so of course everything was heard. I looked in front of me, away from the people that were observing us.
"Zach." I stood up, shocked of his sudden appearance. "What are you doing here?" He was panting, with sweat drops filling his forehead and neck. The sky had a darker color, which made him look even better, like a mysterious creature. Sweating was no issue for Zach, even though it would look gross on any other person. He stomped over, not connecting his eyes with mine, something I expected. He was looking right at Matt with a furious look.
"You get away from her!" he shouted louder than ever, pulling onto Matt's collar. Matt flew up along with the great force with a smirk on his face. I didn't understand a thing.
"What are you doing, Zach?!" I screamed, trying to get them off each other. I tugged onto their shirts, I launched myself between them, I did everything. It didn't work. They kept shoving me aside, then continuing their fight. I couldn't stand to see them hit each other, seeing bruises appear one by one. "Stop it!!!" I yelled on the top of my lungs. People were now surrounding us, sprinting out from their houses. They looked at me with big eyes, like I had waken them up from a dream. It looked like Zach hadn't seen me until I had to yell loud enough to reach Krystal's earbuds in California.
"Audree?" he mumbled. He looked at Matt again, then at the people around us. Zach let go of him, then got up, trying to reach me. I didn't want to be near him. I didn't want to see him. I didn't want to see him like that with Matt. It didn't hinder him though. Right in front of me, they were fighting over something I had no clue of.
"Why are you doing this?" I shrieked, then ran away to my house, too upset to stay. He ran after me. I was faster,
"Audree?" mom called out, after asking me something that I couldn't hear since I was too busy running upstairs. "Audree?!" she repeated, but I couldn't answer because I'd choke on my tears. I heard sounds from downstairs while my face was swelling up. Zach was there, talking to my mom.
The worst thing is when people fight. Especially when they hurt each other, getting into their own world. Shutting out everyone else. I was terrified that they would get hurt. I just didn't know who I was afraid would get hurt. My feelings were completely mixed up, something I couldn't get under control.
"Audree? Open the door!" Zach called, knocking on the door. I buried my head into my pillow. Violence was the worst thing ever. I knew that it was only an excuse though. What I really hated was something I completely denied.
He kept knocking, until it changed into smashing sounds on my door. It felt like it would break soon.
I wasn't upset because they were fighting. Of course I was, but if it was the only reason, I'd be tearing them off from each other. Matt had confessed to me and that made me realize something very important. All those times we had been together when we were small. They were not just because we were neighbors. It wasn't a pure coincident. Because Matt was my first love.
I kept remembering when he had patted my head whenever I had been reminded of my dad. He brought up things like gummy bears to cheer me up. Anything to lead my mind off somewhere else. He took care of me. The question was whether I still loved him. If it really was love.
Zach had probably realized it by then that the door was open all the time, as he opened it, revealing the whole him with bruises on his face. "Go away." I sighed.
"What did Matt say to you?" he asked me suspiciously. I lift my head away from the pillow, probably with a scary smudged mascara.
"Some stuff." I mumbled, refusing to show my face to him. My room was the place Zach always came to when we were together.
"I know he told you something important."
"Important?" I chuckled. "Like... your secret? Does Matt know?" I smiled, finally showing my face to see how he would react at the sudden turn of topic.
"No..." he sighed, but I did see something in his eyes. He had that secret, the secret he never ever wanted to let out. It got me interested at least.
"Come sit here." I patted the seat next to me. My eyes weren't as ruined anymore and I could feel how my tears had dried out, suddenly looking amusingly at Zach. "Now tell me your little secret and I'll tell you what Matt told me."
"That's not fair." he shrieked. He sat down, then looked straight into my eyes with that piercing look he always used. I wouldn't back down.
"Oh it is!" I laughed. "It is very fair indeed, since I am trading a secret with you." I did know what he meant though. It was his biggest secret ever and even though I knew that it was a sensitive spot to him, I was trying to force it our. I didn't do it on purpose though, to push out his secret, but I expected that he wouldn't tell at all. So that I wouldn't need to tell. If I told him about it, he'd shower me with questions. Questions I can't answer.
"Stop it, Audree." He started to look irritated.
"I will, if you tell me your secret. Or let go of mine." I was sure that he'd let go of it, but seeing the gaze he had in his eyes, I understood that he really wanted to know as if it was staking his life on it. I suddenly felt ill. I felt bad because I was pressuring him. He looked away then put on a smug face.
"I already know what he said to you."
I chuckled. Especially when he refused to look info my eyes. he couldn't lie right into my eyes. "No you don't." I smiled. He was bluffing.
Zach snapped. "I don't know!!! But that's because you don't want to tell me."
"That's between me and Matt."
"I know what it is about, okay?" He searched through his clothes after something, finally finding it at his left jeans pocket. His phone was in his hands, a huge Samsung phone that I had seen everyone at California have - besides Iphone. He slid his finger through his lock combination, then showed me a bright skin of a conversation. It was empty, except of one bubble that had popped up at the left side of the screen. It was the only message. I looked at the contact name. Matt.
"I'll be taking her." I said out loud, reading it thousands of times in my head before finally daring to say it out.
"As soon as I got this text, about five hours ago-"
"That's when I came here." I interrupted. Zach's eyes got bigger and he gestured to me with his hands as if I didn't understand a thing. Which I didn't.
"See. That's probably when he saw you or something, and decided to take stupid decisions like that." I wrinkled my eyebrows.
"Stupid decision? You don't even know what he's implying by that, Zach. It doesn't have to be me."
"I have no contact with Matt at all, but him suddenly texting me something like this - I know for sure what he's telling me." Zach roared, throwing away the pillow next to him.
"Why are you this mad?!" I yelled. "He hasn't done anything to you!!! Take it easy."
"I can't." Zach kept scratching the sheets of the bed, wrinkling them.
"Why? This has nothing to do with you." He suddenly grabbed my wrists, holding onto them really hard. I thought that my hand was going to fall off. "You're hurting me..." I mumbled.
"What he said to you has a lot to do with me." I could feel Zach's forehead touching mine. His eyes were so close, looking up at me with a half sad gaze.
"Why?"
"Because you are mine."
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