R U N N I N G
F O R M I L E S
You could say I live a double life.
By that statement I'm meaning, I'm one who somewhat "lives for the weekends." I, like most teenagers my age dread going to school each week as Monday feels like a door being shut, denying access to the mere forty-eight hours of freedom to do whatever we want.
One life I'm living is the one where I have to get up out of my bed and try to be an adult and get and education so I can make a steady living for myself in the future or when I leave school. The other life I live is the fun yet relaxing one where I don't have to majorly worry about school related stuff and focus more on having fun and going out.
I couldn't help but think about the weekend and how fast Lakyn and I had gotten out of that damn lake when we saw a police car, my fathers to be precise. I remember Lakyn yelling at me to hurry up and that we need to jump into the bushes so that my father wouldn't be able to spot us as we were in plain sight.
I recall Lakyn being Lakyn who just couldn't help himself by making a stupid sex joke as we were huddled in the bushes watching and waiting as my father got out of his car and made his way inside my house. After a few minutes of waiting Lakyn said that we should be fine to come out and part ways back to our separate houses.
I couldn't forget asking him for a good excuse to use if my father asked why I was all wet, Lakyn said I should just say it was sweat and I was out on a run but there is no way that would work as I was absolutely drenched from head to toe so he then said just say you were at a friend's place and you went swimming.
Thinking it was an okay excuse we parted ways, I remembered trying to sneak in through the front door and try my hardest to run up the stairs and into my room which thankfully worked. I managed to also go for a hot shower and get the icky lake water off of me.
One of my thoughts in the shower consisted of me thinking of how happy those few hours made me. I know Lakyn's annoying and really mean or whatever but I hadn't done something like that in ages, that something being an adrenaline rush. What i'm trying to say is that i'm happy Lakyn made me swim in that Lake, well throw me in.
Boston would have fainted if he founded out, I did something like that on my weekend, normally him and I would be cooped up all weekend watching some boring show on Netflix or if I was lucky attending some equally boring business meeting his father wanted him present for.
Now that I'm thinking about it, Boston was a very plain and boring person if you think about it. He never really wanted to do anything, which I mean is fine because I hate leaving the house well my room but I also love a spontaneous adventure once in a while.
I could just imagine me asking Boston if he wanted to go swimming in a lake that you're not supposed to swim in, I could pretty much see him fainting down on to the ground in a big heap of muscle. If I'm being honest he would probably drop dead if he found out how happy and freeing, I had felt in that moment with Lakyn.
I was willing to go out and do more things that were more than likely to give me some type of rush, some type of excitement that would course through my veins.
The only problem I had was I had no one to go on one with. I mean Lakyn would probably rather gauge out his gorgeous ice like eyes than come on a thrilling adventure with me that probably goes for Lila as well.
That pretty much only leaves Hale. Even though he tries to be my friend I'm sure he wouldn't want to hang out with me outside of school let alone do something to make adrenaline rush through us. He'd probably only talk about my brother the whole time and how much he idolizes him. Which would definitely make me want to jump out of his moving car.
So that brings me back to Mondays. Mondays to say the least are rough and that's all I really need to say.
It's the sad start of another draining week of Lila sending some snarky comment my way or sending me some type of sour look my way which really doesn't look good on her pretty face, Miles trying to accomplish me being in his friend group all while being an absolute idiot and then lastly Lakyn being well Lakyn.
Which brings me to now.
"Ugh she's so fucking disgusting." Lakyn said slumping down in one of the chairs at the table I was sitting at in the library.
Its second period and I'm on my study class which is in the library conveniently for me as I was trying to read a book for my English book review.
The books called 'Go Ask Alice', it's about a young teenage girl who developed a drug addiction at age fifteen and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism. The book is also written in diary entry form, you see all the disturbing hardships that Alice and the people in Alice's life go through in the 1970's all based on real life, Alice also refers to the dairy as her best friend and its truly heart breaking as she feels she cannot trust anyone but her diary.
"Well hello to you too." I said under my breath as I put my book down to look at Lakyn who had a gigantic smirk plastered to his face.
"You should have seen her fucking face when I said she was easy." He said slapping his leg and falling into a fit of laughter.
"You definitely have a few screws lose." I said rolling my eyes at how disgusting he sounded.
His whole body seemed to stop instantly at what I had just said. "What did you just say?"
"You definitely have a few screws lose." I repeated, "Meaning you're sick. If you think it's okay or funny to make someone out to be a slut or to even have the nerve to say 'she was easy' then your twisted in the head and need help."
He looked absolutely shocked. He was a mere second away from his mouth dropping to the floor, "If you are insinuating that I am fucked in the head, your right."
Did the Lakyn Westbrook just admit that he was fucked in the head?
I never in a million years have thought that the blonde-haired boy sitting in front of me would ever admit to being something that was worded in that type of way. It's not every day that you hear with your very own ears that someone agrees that they are fucked in the head.
That alone caught me completely and utterly off guard but I couldn't let him know that. So I searched every inch of my brain for the perfect subject changer.
Well I mean I could ask him what he was going to have for lunch.
That's so pathetic and way to obvious.
This is awkward so awkward come on Eden think.
Lightbulb.
"Look I wanted to apologize." I word vomited.
Lakyn raised an eyebrow, "For what?"
"For what I said at the study period last week." I kept blurting out, "I should never have bought up your parents and I would just like to say I'm really sorry I didn't know it was a touchy subject."
Something flashed beneath the surface of his hardened expression and I hurried to investigate the sudden shift. It was too late, the emotion disappeared before I could identify it. It was like reaching desperately for an escaped balloon; the string dangling so tantalisingly close but the wind pushed it away and it's now lost forever.
"It's okay." He huffed as his gaze seemed to be analyzing something or someone.
I followed his gaze and it was for once not focusing on a certain blond-haired girl with a somewhat stormy attitude. It was in fact a boy; he had chocolatey brown hair with blue ocean like eyes, he was sitting at a table in the corner that seemed to be away from everyone. I watched as he was looking down at his phone but he would ever so slightly look up and look over his shoulder.
Again, I followed where the boy was looking and it was nonother than, Lila Hayes. Lila was sitting at a table with Blaire right beside her chatting away as Lila Picked at her pink freshly manicured nails. Was it me or did he look bored?
I looked back at Lakyn who wore a disgusted yet menacing look, he was looking at the boy as if he was stabbing him multiple times in his head. Why would he look at that boy like that?
Well I mean I'm pretty sure I saw the brown-haired boy walk into the library and made his way straight over to Lila. Lakyn couldn't be Jealous... Could he?
"Stop murdering that poor boy in head." I laughed, instantly ripping his eyes away from the brown-haired boy and into my hazel eyes instead.
"He deserves it."
Welcome to part two of Lakyn's twisted mind.
"Who is he anyway?" I asked out of curiosity.
"That would be Arden fucking Roson." Lakyn said his eyes finding their way back onto Arden.
"It sounds to me you hate this Arden guy."
Lakyn chuckled but it was dry and sarcastic, "You could say I do, New girl."
"Why? He doesn't look like a person worth hating." I said as I continued to try and observe Arden discreetly.
"Roson is worth hating. He's the biggest fucking try hard in this school; he thinks he's better than everyone in this whole fucking school all because his father is extremely wealthy as he pretty much almost owns half of this fucking shitty ass town." Lakyn ranted, "But the real reason as to why I hate that dickhead so much is because he's shit at lacrosse."
"He's shit at lacrosse?" I raised my eyebrow, a confused yet amused expression plastered to my face.
"Yes, this fucking dickhead has no idea what he's doing on the field in my opinion as co-captain he should be off the team but Hales stubborn ass won't agree with me, Hale says he has potential but I really don't think he does when all he does is let the team down. If I'm being honest my little sister could do better than this idiot for fucks sake." Lakyn concluded his rant.
"You, have a little sister?" I asked quite shocked.
"Um yeah, whys that so surprising to you?" Lakyn asked.
"Your just very... what's the word?" I thought aloud.
"Twisted in the head? Sick? Got a few screws lose?" He said spitting my own words out at me.
"No, I was thinking more Aggressive?" I laughed, trying to ignore the fact that It sounded more like a question.
"You don't know me new girl, so stop acting like you do." Lakyn snapped as he got up from the table and yet again stormed out of the library.
I've really got to stop pissing that boy off.
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