Saving me

A Chapter by watch_the_world

"Come here often?" He asks with a grin across his face.
"Unfortunately..." I reply with my head down, afraid that he would see the pain in my eyes.
"Why do you say that?" He asks lifting my head up and locking eyes with me.
I shrug, "I don't know how to put this... I'm not exactly.... socially accepted, if that makes sense."
"Why aren't you?" He says with interest in his tone of voice.
"I honestly have no idea." Which is a complete lie, I know very well why. I don't want to explain my whole life to someone whom I just met.
He pauses looking deep into my eyes almost as if he is looking for something, "You're lying."
My eyes get wide, "How did you know?" I draw back in surprise and his hand sets at his side.
He smiles, "Well that's an easy question, I'm amazing, duh."
I think, "great, another guy who is obsessed with themselves."
I laugh faker than the cafeteria food.

The teacher bursts through the door at a slightly fast speed then normal, she is fumbling with her bag that is slung across her shoulder. She sets her bag down on her chair that is behind her desk. "Sorry class, my car wasn't working properly this morning and I had to get a jump from my husband." she said trying to catch her breath. She begins to lecture on sentence structure. Go figure. In the middle of the lecture, the boy who I'm sitting next to (the one that touched my face), passed me a note. In super legible handwriting the note had four simple words written on it, it read: What is your name? I wrote back: "Riley, what about you?"
"You have a very pretty name, mine is Chase."
"Thank you Chase, Nice to meet you."

* * *

I skip my way home thinking about Chase and asking myself why would he talk to me out of all the people in class. This puzzles me very much. I get to my front door as Alex is walking out with Jeydon in his arms. "Where are you going?" I ask eagerly.
"Out." He immediately replies he shoves past me to his car.
I walk in the house to find the dishes cupboard on the floor of the kitchen. The contents of the cupboard lay askew on the floor. All of the glasses and plates are in pieces all across the floor. My whole jaw hits the floor, "Mother is going to shoot someone" I said to the air. No wonder Alex left, I sweep up the pieces of the broken glass trying to come up with some sort of explanation as to what happened. I decide to text Alex. "What happened to the cupboard?"
"I was fixing Jeydon a bottle while you were at school, and it just fell."
"Mom is going to be so pissed when she comes home in 20 minutes, what do I tell her?"
"Tell her that it fell."
"Okay, Where are you anyway?"
"At the bar."
"WITH JEYDON!?!?"
"Duh. I couldn't just leave him."
"Come home! You cant have him in a bar!"
"Fine mother."

A few minutes later Mother walks in the door when I am still sweeping up glass.
"WHAT HAPPENED!" Mother screams.
"I have no idea, I think it just fell." I answered scared.
Mother walks away and about 5 minutes later she walks in the kitchen again.
"Where are Jeydon and Alex?" she asks trying to be calm.
"I have no idea." I reply fibbing,
Mother walks away muttering cuss words under her breath. I know where I get my dirty mouth from now.

* * *

I clean up the glass and mount the cupboard back on the wall. It took about 3 hours,
All that time I was thinking about who would

save me.

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