Miserable, pure and utter misery, was all I could describe my afternoon. My first two periods were long and slow, and come lunch time I was really debating on just leaving all together, but then Grace showed up.
"Where were you?!" I screamed practically knocking her over as i threw myself onto her, just like she would have done to me.
"Ah! Wait shhhh, lower your voice." she covered my mouth and looked around us, I had jumped her in the middle of the hallway and a few girls were looking at us like we were crazy. Not far from the truth. She moved us so we were up against the door of one of the classrooms. "I was on my way to pick you up when something happened." She looked around a little scared.
I pulled her hand from my mouth confused, "What?" Looking her up and down I noticed she was shaking. "Oh god Grace, are you ok?" I rubbed my hands up and down her arms to comfort her.
She looked me in the eyes, hesitating on what to tell me. She bit her lip, and shook her head, "I got into an accident, I'm sorry."
"Oh god are you ok?" I checked her over lifting her arms, and flipping over her hands. She waved me off, shaking her hands.
"I'm fine, I'm fine. Just I'm sorry I couldn't pick you up." She pulled me into a hug and squeezed me tight. "I just came to get my stuff and then I'm leaving I just want to be home today."
Well I could understand how she felt, I gave her a warm smile, and hugged her one more time. "Ok well your lucky today is Friday."
"Yea I know." she shrugged stepping away, and hugging her bag to her chest. "I'll call you later or text you." I stood there waving after her as she walked away.
I knew she wasn't telling me the truth, it was written all over her face, but I wasn't about to push her for more answers if she didn't want to give them to me.
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I had just finished putting my last-period books away, when my phone vibrated in my pocket. It was the end of school so taking it out in the hallway wouldn't get me in trouble, when I popped my phoned out and looked down I groaned in frustration. George was texting me.
Don't come home, I have a guest. Parents will be home by 9pm, Find something to do. - George.
Great, just fucking great. What the hell am I suppose to do? It was only 4pm and I still had 4 maybe 4 and half hours before I needed to be home before my parents. I put my phone back in my pocket and nibbled my lips while leaning my forehead on the locker. What was I suppose to do, 4 hours of what?
I grabbed what I needed for homework, and locked up. Turning and realized I had another dilemma, I mentally face palmed myself. Aries. Aries would be outside waiting to take me home, but I couldn't go home. Maybe I can go to the library, or I'll have him drop me off and I can sneak through my window and drop my stuff off, and just walk around till it was almost 9. I groaned again, frustrated with the whole situation. Damn George!
I walked out the front of the school and looked around, there was only a handful of students left on campus and neither of them were looking my way. My phone vibrated again in my pocket and I pulled it out to check.
I'm around the corned to your left. - Aries
I turned and looked to the left of myself but didn't see anyone. So I headed in that direction, just as I rounded the corner I saw Aries blue truck parked at the back of the school. I couldn't see him clearly but I saw his car, and it was definitely parked at the back. Shifting my backpack I started walking towards his car just to see him half out of his truck. His door was open as he leaned on the door frame, he was bigger then his damn car it looked like. He gave me a kilowatt smile as I walked up to the passenger side of his car.
Why was he so happy all the time, he was completely different now then when I first met him.
"Hey Alie." He said once I hand my hand on the passenger door opening it.
"Don't call me Alie, we talked about this." I groaned as I used the side walks height to push myself into his lifted car. This is ridiculous how did people get in these things?
He lifted his hands to me and winked, I just shook my head as I watched him get back in the car and start it. Closing the door behind him he turned to me and whiles before turning back and pulling away from the curb. I ducked my head a bit when I could see a few of the students looking at Aries pick up trying to get a better look at the driver.
This was great, someone would eventually see me, and they wouldn't stop the gossip.
"Why are you scrunched down?" Aries looked at me from his peripheral vision, his eyebrow was raised and confused.
My cheeks reddened with embarrassment, I was plastered to the seat and crouched down holding my skirt so nothing would show. I put a finger to my lips, while he past the front of the school, it would look weird if he drove past and was talking to himself. He rolled his eyes and shook his head.
Five minutes of being in the car with him I righted myself in the passenger seat. I noticed he was taking me home and I felt the slight panic start to sit in. If I went home right now George would kill me, especially if he had a girl over. My heart was racing as I looked at our surroundings, we must have been 15 minutes from my house, and 20 from the library, and with the rate he was driving I would end up home faster.
"Um.." I stammered for something to come up with. "Hey, uh...I actually need to go to the Library...for uh...an essay." My heart was racing and I was sure he could hear it. I wasn't a bad liar, but I wasn't go at it either. I don't even know why I needed to lie to him in the first place, something about him made me feel...different.
Aries turned his head to look at me, his face was stern as he watched me for a moment before looking back to the road, focusing on driving. "You sure?"
"Of course I'm sure why wouldn't I be?" My words came out fast, and rushed before shifting in my seat. He looked back at me again before nodding, at the next light he turned and headed in the direction of the library.
It only seemed like a few minutes as we drove in silence before we arrived at the library. I expected him to pull up to the front of the library and drop me off, but instead he drove right past it to the back were the parking lot was. I watched him completely shocked, what was he actually doing?
"What are you doing?" I asked him as he parked and pulled the keys out of the ignition. Aries wasn't fazed at all by my question, he jumped out of his car and opened the back passenger door grabbing his backpack and closed it again.
He smiled as he looked at me and gave me a sly wink. "You said you have work to do, it just so happened I did too." I stared at him dumbfounded, he was really gonna stay with me at the library? "Come on, lets go Kitten."
"Kitten?" I grabbed my bag, and hadn't noticed he had walked around to my side of the car and held the door open for me. I lifted an eye at him but all he did was smile. "Chivalry isn't dead." I whispered under my breath, and I could have sworn her chuckled.
I slipped out the car and would have almost fallen if Aries didn't catch me. His hand slipped around my waist as he caught me, with his close proximity it made me catch my breath. He held me closed, my arms were pressed into his chest as he held me. He smelt amazing, like pine and wood mixed with sweat. His proximity to me made my heart race again, almost like it was trying to escape my chest. My breathing hitched as I looked up at him. Being this close to him, I could see the slight stubble on his chin and cheeks. I knew he was goodlooking, but being this close up to him, I could actually see it. His bright green eyes were a swirl of green and gold's. Almost like sea glass that had the sun right behind it shining through.
His chiseled jaw ticked when my breath hitched, and he inhaled deeply almost if he were breathing me in.
"Watch out kitten, you almost fell." His breath fanned my face and I could smell a hint of spear mint.
I couldn't breath with him being so close, I could feel my face and ears start to redden, internally I was dieing. I tried to pushing away from me but he didn't budge a bit, it was almost like pushing a wall. How the hell was he so damn strong?
"Um. You can let go now." My voice was shaky as I tried to push him off again. This time he loosened his hold and let me go, the hand around my waist slipped so it was now around my arm. There wasn't much space between us but there was a few inches more of breathing room.
"Your face is turning red." Oh God kill me now. I turned my head and tried to twist out of his grip. This time he let me go chuckling to himself.
Clearing my throat, I put my hand to my chest and tried to calm my racing heart. Stupid heart, stupid face, what was wrong with me. I couldn't look at him anymore not if my body was going to betray me again, so I looked down at the floor and kept moving. I could hear his throaty laugh behind me and I cold feel my ears starting to turn red again. No,no,no, damn you.
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I couldn't focus, his proximity and gaze were doing things to me. Once we had gotten inside I went straight to the computer to try an search for books for my history research paper, but it was Aries. He wouldn't let me leave his side, or should I say, he wouldn't leave my side. If I went to the computer, he would follow a few minutes later, if I went to find a book, be would be on the opposite side of the shelf from me. I mean seriously, what was his issue?
We had been at the library for almost 3 hours and I had finally settled down to start writing my history paper, and Aries was sitting across from me. When I sat down he looked up and smiled. I smiled back but it was a brief smile, I started to search through the book and tried to focus. But I couldn't. His presence was all in compassing.
I could feel his stare on me like a hot poker to my face. I had finally had enough, after having enough of his staring at me I lifted my head and looked back at him.
He had that smile on his face, his eyes were bright and happy, I could see the stubble growing back on his chin and cheeks. He was looking at me his chin on his hand and his elbow propping him up he leaned forward and watched me. Aries was watching me and scrutinizing me just as much as I was him. But he seemed excited about it, he seemed happy just to be here, and it confused me so much, what was he so happy about?
"What?" I asked, wanting to know why he was so chipper.
"What, what?" Aries asked with a lifted brow.
He confused me as I pinched my brows together looking at him. "What?" I asked annoyed.
He chuckled again to himself shaking his head. "You asked me what, so I asked you what?"
I shook my head more frustrated then before. "Nothing, nevermind." I went back to my work and tried with all I had to focus, but then I heard him again.
"I have a question for you." When I looked up he was serious now, that playful face from earlier was completely gone now. I could feel the tension suddenly fill his body.
"Shoot." I was curious as to what he had to ask.
"Do you believe in soul mates?"
His question took me back by surprise. Soulmate's? What the heck, why would he ask that. I looked around us before looking back at Aries. He was serious his question was serious.
"Umm. I mean, I guess. I don't really know. I guess there is a perfect person out there for me but I doubt I would ever meet them in my life time." I shrugged and tried to go back to my work.
"What if you already met your soulmate but you don't realize that person was your soulmate?" His voice sound full of hope for some reason.
I looked up at him confused. What in the world was he talking about? "I guess if that was the case, then I'd be pretty stupid not to notice."
He didn't ask another question, Aries continued to look at me, almost with a knowing smile, but I just watched him confused with the whole situation. Why would he ask me these wierd questions? Why would he ask my opinion on the subject. Weirdo.