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“What is it with the band-aid?” Sapphire asked once we settled down with our trays on the table.Sapphire had invited me to sit with her folks, Nina, Brett and Sean. Nina was the girl who was rumoured to have dated Brett. I was pretty jealous when I heard of it but was relieved when I got to know that they were merely rumours. Which held no truth.“Ah, long story,” Brett said.“Ah, long day.” She played along, to which she earned a roll of eyes from him.“I went to a party, last night,” Brett said.“Like every other night,” Sean said, sipping his drink.Brett ignored him and continued. “So I met this girl-”“-Who kicked me in the groin,” Sean said and Nina and I burst out laughing.Sapphire and Brett glared and Sean while he was completely oblivious to it. “Stop interrupting.”Sean just shrugged his shoulder.“Ignore him,” Sapphire said. “He has a mental problem that he’s dealing with.”I wonder how a person like Sean could have so much patience to deal with Sapphire. He is the kind o
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I never spoke anything while he carried me to his car. He opened the door of his car and put me on the passengers seat. After securing me with the seat belt, he closed the door and walked around the car and got inside.All the while he drove, I dared not speak. I hadn’t uttered a word and he never asked anything more. He increased his speed and slammed on the brakes occasionally when he saw a bump or speed breaker. I was apprehensive of his next move and let my hands move to his and clasp it tightly. He noticed my gesture and slowed the speed.I never took my hand off of him and he never tried to get rid of it. He let me hold onto him.Brett brought me to his house and put me on his bed. I clung onto him and clutched his shirt tightly. He tried to remove my hands from the grasp but I only tightened it furthermore.He sighed and wiped the tears off of my face. He pulled away and removed his shoes. He slipped his feet under the covers and joined me inside the bed. I finally let go of hi
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I set the living room up with everything we needed. We just did our history and Brett is starting to be a great helper. He helped me read the text and also was patient enough in correcting me. He tried to deal with me in the most unoffending way as possible and tolerated my blunders as I went on.After that night, Brett and I never found ourselves in that kind of conversation again. We simply let the past be in the past.As promised, we were going to have a movie night so Brett and Anna were invited. But Linda politely declined the offer as Anna was going to have a sleepover at one of her friends houses. Anna was beginning to acquire new friends and Linda is super excited about it since Anna always took a lot of time to open up. The only people she’s free to talk to is her mom, Brett and me.I didn’t push it any further and said we could always have another movie night together with Anna. Brett had to run errands for his mother so he left a while ago and promised to be back in an hour
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The music played as the credit scrolled down the page. By the end of the movie, I slept on Brett’s shoulder with my drool all over his shirt. I woke though he didn’t mean to wake me up. And when I realised how I drooled on his shirt, I couldn’t have been more embarrassed about it.“I didn’t know I was capable of drooling so much,” I said, grimacing at myself.He chuckled. “It’s fine. Anna does that too.”“Anna is like a decade younger than me and it’s fine,” I said. “This couldn’t be more embarrassing.”He smirked. “I have your little secret, don’t I?”I narrowed my eyes at him. “You’re not going to tell this to anyone.”“Like I’m going to obey you.”“You’re not making me feel better!”“Okay, how about this..” he chuckled. “I have a picture of you drooling. Does that make you feel better?”“You took a picture!” I yelled.“Yes.” He smiled hanging his phone low. “Which will eventually end up on my Instagram.”“Which will also ruin my life for the better.”“Hey,” he grinned. “It won’t ru
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“I seriously think it is just a clear high school fling.” A voice broke into my ears.“Or it can be a healthy relationship blossoming.” Another voice reached my ears.“But I have a strong feeling it’s a one night stand.” The first voice said.“But they’re still wearing clothes, though their hair I messed up and are hugging each other close.” The second voice replied.“Right. And I couldn’t hear any moans from this room disturbing my sleep.”“It might have been a cuddly night for them. Keeping themselves warm maybe?”“But I’d be more glad if it was more.” The first voice said. “They’ve been single all the time?”“What the heck are you even talking about?” A third voice boomed from beside me and I snapped my eyes open.I gazed at my mother and Linda hovering over us as if they were performing complex heart surgery. I looked at Brett and his hand wrapped around my waist and suddenly jumped away.“Aww..” Linda squealed. “She’s feeling shy. They definitely did something last night.”“What?
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I headed to school early today. Brett always drove me to school but I didn’t feel like being in his proximity for today. When I went inside, the hallway was empty, so were the classrooms. I sighed and headed to my first class.When I walked on, I felt a strong hand grab me. I gasped and twirled around and came face to face with Parker.“Hello, baby.” He said, pulling me closer to his face.“Let go of me..” I said, my voice cracking.His eyes darkened. “Not so soon.”“You’re hurting me,” I said and tried to struggle from his grasp.He tightened his grasp on me and pressed me closer to him. “I’m tired to do this, Chloe. I asked you to stay away from him. What is it that you don’t understand?”“I can’t stay away from him, Parker! I love him!” I said, unable to lie to him anymore. I had to accept what I feel. I don’t have to pretend to be scared of him.“You just didn’t say that!” He growled on my face.“I just did,” I said to him.His eyes glared with anger. He pinned me to the wall and
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I’ve always known that I’m really bad at ingoring people. For instance, my mom would always know if I’m dodging her calls. My teachers would know if I don’t look at them in the eye, that something is wrong with me.And today, Brett is pretty much convinced that I’m possessed and that I’m ignoring him. He was in one of my classes before lunch but I hadn’t smiled at him or greeted him when our eyes met.He frowned and kept staring me the whole period. As soon as the class ended, I hurried to my next class, without sparing him a glance. I didn’t want to let him know about what happened in the morning. He is already hell bent on punching Parker in the face. If I disclose to him about how he acted with me in the morning, then I’m sure Brett would find himself in the office of the principal’s.Today, He had tried numerous times to hurry to me and talk to me in the hallways but I literally ran away from him.By the time the last peruos until lunch rolled in, I was scared to get out of my cla
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“Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve reached cruising altitude and will be turning off the cabin lights. This is for your comfort and to enhance the appearance of our car driver.” Brett sang as he turned the headlights off for the nth time today.I could sense the heat radiating from Sean’s ears as Sapphire snickered back a laugh. I tried not to break into a grin at Brett’s pretentious-girl-flight-attendant’s voice. He’s made it his mission today to not let Sean be at peace. He is hell-bent on annoying the hell out of him.“He’s probably still mad that you gave up our flight tickets,” Sapphire said, still chuckling.“Correction. Free flight tickets.” Sean scowled. “To some idiot that is just coming along as a standby.”“The same standby that probably our team will require if either of us end up dead in this adventurous car ride,” Brett said, changing the radio station.“Seriously, just turn the headlights,” Sapphire said to Brett, with a boring look. “It’s been like what, 8 years? I still hav
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His lips came crashing on me and knocked the air out of my lungs. Does that really happen to anyone, I wonder. For a few second, I could think about anything. My brain was in a mess, what was I supposed to make out of this?When he said he wanted to end my misery, I convinced myself that he was finally breaking up with me - for real. Although I was pretty sure we ended our thing the night I came out clean in front, I was still hoping that things would work in my favour and I'd never have to break our thing.But this - this insane act, the most unexpected one - this never occurred to me as a possibility. After what seemed like a few seconds, he finally let go of me."We're going to be late." He mumbled, looking at his watch. After a displeased frown formed on his face, he looked over at me and cupped my cheeks. "I want to make things right with you right now, Chloe, but I'm afraid we don't have the time. And I couldn't have waited until after the test - you were miserable and there was
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"I'm sorry honey, but he already left." Brett's mom said with a saddened expression her face. Little Anna was stilling hugging me by my legs and kept jumping about how she missed me."He left?" I asked her, unable to believe what she had told."Yes." She said, her lips forming into a thin line. "I'm sorry honey. He wasn't actually in a great mood. The test was stressing him a lot and with everything going on..""It's okay, I understand." I tried to smile, but I don't know if it appeared like one. "I just wanted to see him one last time before I go for it. He was the one that wanted me to write it in the first place.""I know." She said. "Can I ask you for something?"I looked up at her with at frown. "Of course you can.""If you still care about him after everything, which I know you do, please give your best today. He might not be here to wish you good luck but it's so obvious that he is anxious about how you're going to perform. Please, just remember that he would love to see you go
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After a month"Are you listening to me?" My mother narrowed her eyes at me, slightly knitting her eyebrows together to let a frown form on her forehead.Her eyes had bags underneath, and a few dark circles brushing her skin. She hadn't slept well lat night. Well, to he very honest, she hadn't slept at all. It was evident by how many times she almost fell asleep on the table while we were having break fast."I am." I said, almost rolling my eyes at her but resisted my urge before I could throw myself in a situation that would earn me a good amount of scolding.My eyes burned too, partly because they released more tears and completely drained themselves of any liquid and also because of the many sleepless nights I have been having with everything going on."Where's your bag?" She asked, trying to test if I was really attentive in the conversation.The conversation was getting routine. She constantly reminded me that I should stress myself and that I should get nervous before the actual
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"What do you means it's me?" Brett spoke, as he got up straight to face me. I was involuntarily fidgeting with my hands, and no matter how hard I tried, I couldn't get any words out of my mouth. It was that moment of silence we were having where both of us are confused to process what's running in our minds. The temperature of the seemed to increase with the slow anger in Brett's face. He's definitely not the guy who jumps to conclusions, but there is nothing that is not known here. He heard what I said perfectly, and he is judging the situation right. "I'm sorry.." I said. That was all I could say after looking at how his face was emotionless and stern. "You helped her get with me?" Brett asked, almost in frustration. "You thought we dated? For fuck's sake, I didn't even know her until I saw her that day!" "I didn't know she was lying.." I said, trying to sound as convincing as possible. What I did was stupid. And I realised it after really long. I know I don't stand a chance
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The damp cloth was still resting on my waist, treating my unhealed wound. It was supposed to reduce the burning sensation there and I think Brett is pretty good at nursing my wounds since I don’t feel the intensity of pain anymore.He went off to meet Linda, who was forced to not come to the police station so that Anna doesn’t know of her brother being arrested. My mom helped Linda with convincing Anna, so both of them had to let just me to go fetch him. Sean tagged along until he was sure I could handle the situation alone, since Sapphire was still in the hospital.She will be discharged tomorrow morning. Sean will probably just be there by her side until she goes home safe. Brett and I can go meet her tomorrow and thank her loads from our side.Brett promised to come back home and sleep with me tonight, because according to him, I don’t know how to take care of myself.Well, I’m not going to argue with him on that. But I’m pretty sure my mother knows how to take care of me better th
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I held my forehead against the cold metal. It stunk of iron, of dust left uncleaned for a long time now. The region where my skin was stuck to it was beginning to lose sensitivity. i felt numb as the coldness almost froze that part of my forehead. Yet, my forehead didn't cease to sweat.It was hot, and since my nerves were not trying to calm down, my throat almost burned due to the raspy breathes I've been receiving. I felt a warm hand clasp mine, that was resting on the cold metal. I felt warm breath fanning my cheek, and y forehead rested side ways."Go home, Chloe." He said, pushing a few strands of my hair behind my ear. "It's late.""I won't go home until you take me." I said, looking at him through the cell.He was currently locked up in the cell, and I was standing outside it. It was almost infuriating to know that the police had accused him without acquiring proper evidences. They just have a witness, but until they catch hold of reliable evidences, they can't lock him up.See
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I was sweating profusely. Suddenly, my limbs grew weaker than usual. I stared wide eyed at the person before and gasped.Sapphire ran a hand through her hair and roughly pulled them back. She came to me and hurriedly brought me to my feet."Are you okay?" She asked, her face drained of the blood. She palmed my face and searched for injuries. Knowing how I was almost harassed by him, she would obviously be worried about how my present state is.My mouth felt dry to reply. I opened my mouth to say something that would escape from me, but before anything could happen, Sapphire fell back on to the ground. I gasped when I realized that Parker had yanked her back by her hair."You bitch." Parker gritted the words out angrily, yanking her back. "It clearly looks like the both of you need some taming to be done."My eyes widened as he grabbed her and yanked her back angrily. She groaned in pain and struggled under his monstrous treatment. I didn't know what to do. I needed t help her from the
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I was worried.Worried about how things were going to be. Worried about how Vicki was going to take it all. Also worried about might be happening to our friendship when she takes things in a different way.Although she's going to hear it from me before from anyone else, I don't think she's going to entirely happy. I should have told that I couldn't help her when she asked. I love Brett, and I knew it would be very difficult for me to let go off him. I shouldn't have taken the chances.But then, if I told her that I love Brett, she might have told it to Brett too. I didn't know if Brett had feelings for me back then. It would ruin everything we had. Even the friendship.Vicki is my childhood friend. And she is a very good person. Maybe I shouldn't be so worried about telling it to her. Maybe I should just let her decide and tell her everything. It's for the best.I nodded my head for myself, taking renewed strength from within me.I can do this.I mumbled to myself, walked through her
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The wind was blowing in my face, numbing my cheek bones and nose in the ice-cold atmosphere. We let the windows down as we drove alone on the deserted road, my head sneaking out into the air.I closed my eyes for a few brief seconds, as relief flooded through my entire system. I could hear the gradual roar of the engine as we sped up, and the demeaning silence it was bringing when we occasionally stopped to surpass the bumps.The rustling of leaves under the tires, and the distant growls of animals were the only noise in the silent weather, and the only thing that subsided against the slow music of the car.We are on our way back to Boston. After packing our things up and meeting up with Sean and Sapphire, we headed back to our home. Brett and I had no awkward moments, much to my relief, and Sean and Sapphire could thankfully not think about anything going on between us.I was glad, that I'm left free of explanation because I know that Sapphire is the first person that will be excited
