Chapter Fourteen; Not Edited

"Calum, what are these?"

Those words kept going through my head as my mouth tried to form some words to tell Ryder what they were. My eyes widen at the sight of him reading every note that I received from Code Red and let me tell you, it was pretty awkward to watch him read every detail of the notes. "Calum?" I looked up to see the tan boy looking at me with confusion. I need to tell him or I will loose him as a friend like I lost Niall to the notes.

"Let me explain. You weren't supposed to see those. No one was supposed to see them actually." I sighed when my mind started to drift off to different scenarios on how Ryder is going to take this. "It started a little after winter break was over." I bit my lip as I thought of a way to explain this situation without seeming weird.

"What started after winter break?" Ryder asked, scooting his chair closer to mine as he held my hand in comfort. "Please do not be scared of telling me things, love." I would blush at him calling me that nickname but this was a incredible awkward situation to be in with a cute guy like him.

"The notes, that's when they started to show up in my locker or my bag." I said as I motioned to my small bag that had the notes in them. "At first I thought it was nice gesture, you know? I never got notes before and it made me happy that someone was actually interested me, but then it got worse than I expected."

"Do you want to talk about something else?" I heard Ryder ask and I shook my head because he needs to know what's going with me. "We can if you want to. I don't mind because you seem upset." That was true. I was upset about this whole thing but there wasn't anything I could do to stop it.

"No, you deserve to know Ryder." I said as I looked in his puppy brown colored eyes. "These notes were cute from the start. They would always state on how captivating I was to them, or how I made them smile." I kept looking at Ryder to see if he had a reaction from me telling him this. No, I didn't think Red was Ryder, but you never know.

"I don't mean to be rude, but what is wrong with that?" I shrugged when Ryder asked me that. He really didn't know the whole truth to this story and here is the catch, there isn't one. "I would love for someone to send me notes saying how hot I looked." I had to giggle at that but then my face grew serious once again when I saw he wanted this to be a serious conversation.

"I understand were you're coming from Ryder, but I'm afraid." I said honestly which made him raise his eyebrows. "I don't know where these notes are coming from and some of them are intense, or they're threatening someone."

"The notes are threatening?" He asked with shock lacing his warm, yet gentle voice. "Why can't you tell someone, or tell the person to stop this nonsense." He had a good point but if I knew who the person was they would've stopped by now to be honest.

"That's the issue." I frowned, making the tan boy frown as well. "I don't know who it is and I'm scared out of my mind." I could feel the tears coming now and it made the tan boy gasp and all of sudden I felt a pair of arms around my shoulders, pulling me into a tight hug. The tears where coming and I couldn't help it anymore.

"Shh, love. Please calm down." I felt him rubbing my back in a smooth way that made me feel kind of better but not quite. I couldn't calm down and my breath was coming out faster and I knew I was going to have a panic attack if I didn't calm down. When I thought it was going to get worst I heard someone singing and I looked up to see Ryder singing a song that I wasn't familiar with. My breath calmed down and he stopped singing and I didn't realize how close our faces where together, until our lips touched.

"I'm so sorry!" Ryder said when I didn't move my lips with his. "I shouldn't of had done that." I rolled my eyes and slammed my lips to his and he let out a squeal of surprise, which made me roll my eyes in fondness. Our lips moved back and forth in sync and this couldn't have been a better first kiss for myself. We pulled back and a smile appeared on our faces as we noticed our lips were red and swollen. "You do look cute tonight." He murmured as I felt him move some hair out of my tan face.

"Thank you." I blushed like crazy and for the rest of the date we talked and giggled about past events that happened to both of us, not knowing someone was watching with pure anger that would change the out course of the night forever.

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- Kirsten & Claire.