AIDEN“What the…” I was beginning to get worried about Ellie. At that point, I couldn't care less about anything that had gone wrong between us before then. I just wanted to make sure that she was doing okay as she seemed not to have been herself ever since she had met that Dylan guy. I picked up the phone again and was soon trying to get to her again. I had never had to exercise so much patience at a time as I was doing right there. As I waited to hear her voice, I was sincerely hoping that Ellie would have a suitable explanation for all she had done. I hated just how many negative thoughts I was thinking all at once as I was just too worried about her. “Pick up the phone for heaven's sake…” I was pacing up and down the room with hopes of hearing her voice at any point from then. I had skipped my usual evening shooting sessions all because of her and I was hoping that it would all be worth it. “Come on, Ellie…” I put down the phone in disappointment as the response I was waiting
KAIThings had gone sour between my brother and me, and that made the house full of dead air as we hadn't said a single word to each other ever since we got back from school. While shooting and rebounding all by myself, I was reflecting on the short episode that had happened between me and Ellie after school that day. I felt bad that I hadn't approached her properly and I felt terrible for that. I was still all about finding out what was happening between Ellie and her brother. But then, I didn't want her getting hurt because of me. That made me stop to pick up the phone and try reaching her. ***AIDENThere weren't any words to describe the kind of silence that haunted the drive home. It was almost feeling like someone had died but then, it was just Ellie in the backseat of the car. I drove carefully and slowly so I wouldn't cause her body to roll away from the seat, and at the same time, I was trying to steer clear of the authorities as that would bring a lot more attention tha
AIDEN“What the heck…?” I was ashamed at the fact that Ian had been the one who had gone in first and not me. That made it all absurd that a stranger had been the one to witness their shame before me. There were just too many things that had me feeling like I was about to be put under fire for what had just happened. But then, it hadn't been my fault that they were having it in my room. What in the world had happened to their room? I wondered. They had probably been thinking that they had the whole house to themselves. That had been quite a costly assumption for them to have made. “Come on… let's go upstairs…” I said, pulling Ian out with one hand while keeping Ellie on my shoulder with the other. I felt bad that he was still there watching them. Good thing for them that they were under the covers.At once, I was well on my way up the stairs, still with Ellie on my shoulder. It was quite hard to have her stay on my shoulder for all that time. There were a lot of thoughts going thro
AIDEN“Alright…” I said with a sigh as I had my hands up. “Before you judge me, just realize that I wasn't expecting that unexpected encounter just like you both weren't. I was thinking that I would be at the party for a while…”“What happened, then?” She asked with a sigh as she looked embarrassed. My mother was usually the shy type, and that had me wondering just how much she could have been begging the bed to swallow her while she was on it. The shame was simply unbearable and I was sure that could have been why Ellie's dad stayed inside and wouldn't come out for even a second. It was such a demeaning moment for all of us. I wanted to make a smooth entry but ended up getting busted in the process. “The thing is…” I went over the lie I had been rehearsing in my head as I was trying to make peace without getting Ellie in trouble at the same time. “When I got into the party, I saw that Ellie was drunk already and I had to get her home as soon as I could.”I knew that story wasn't go
ELLIEThere were no words to explain what I felt as my eyelids cracked open for me to see the ceiling of my room. I had been lying the same way I had been when I had passed out after the familiar stranger had saved me from the dealer. I had been expecting to have been left for dead out there in the woods under the tree with no one to help me out. But there I was, under the roof where I lived. Just when I was about to try sitting up in bed, the door went open with Aiden coming through it. He had a tray in his hand which he was nearly dropping from the shock of seeing me awake. It almost felt like he hadn't been expecting to see me awake by that time. I glanced at the alarm clock on the bedside table not too far away from me. There were a lot of things that had me feeling like he had everything to do with how I had ended up there. “Ellie…” he quickly got in and shut the door behind him like he didn't want anyone to know that I was in there. He hurried to the table where he kept the
ELLIEI woke up after a while after I had taken the medications and freshened up. I had missed that day at school and I was quite sure that I was left all alone in the house. Aiden surely wouldn't miss school or practice for anything at all. Jasmine was bound to be worried sick about me, as she had called me a lot of times and I hadn't picked up at all. I just wasn't in the mood to take any calls at that time. I didn't know what it was about that moment that had me desiring to be alone with either the right person or all alone completely. But then, there was no way to tell who that right person was exactly. I was confused and I didn't know just when that unbearable uncertainty would come to an end. A part of me believed that it was all part of the repercussions of the poisoned booze that the dealer had given me. I still couldn't believe that I had been so close to being victimized. It was the most uncomfortable thought, having to imagine myself getting plowed by that bastard. It
ELLIEIt almost felt like I was about to have a brand new start as I was waking up the next day. I had to admit it was weird waking up next to Aiden— weird but great. Who wouldn't want to wake up to that charming pair of eyes that could lighten up any heart with just a glance? He was still asleep when I woke up. Had he forgotten that we still had school that day? He was usually up, shooting at the hoop by that time of the day, but he had sacrificed it all to be there with me. That made me feel loved in a way— a feeling I had been estranged from for a long while. “Rise and shine, sleepyhead…” I mused as I put my head in his chest. There were just too many things that made me feel like that moment could go on forever. But then, I recalled that my forever could be cut short by the presence of our parents who could come in at any time and bust us right in the act. That would surely be an absurd end for our love ballad, and that had me sitting up in bed and trying to shake Aiden from h
KAI“She's not in school again…” Jasmine said to me with a voice full of regret and that had me weakened. There were a lot of things that made me feel like something wasn't right. “What about Aiden?” I recalled that I hadn't seen him in practice yesterday and that he hadn't been in class for most of yesterday. “Is he in school today?” My suspicions had been heightening ever since as I just couldn't understand why both of them had been absent the day before. “He's not in school either…” Jasmine said as she was about to get going. “I'll be swinging by her house to check on her. It's got to be something really serious. She hasn't been answering any of my calls at all. That's very unlike her.”“Indeed….” I couldn't agree any further as I had also been a victim of her unanswered calls which were hard to tolerate. It felt like I was some sort of wrong number trying to reach her. “Maybe I would pay her a visit as well as that's the only way that we could find out what's happening.”“Yeah…