'Kira's P.O.V.

3 months later.

"Caleb hasn't messaged me this morning and last night." I panicked holding up my cell phone up, in front of Maya's face making her move back slightly with widened eyes. 

However Saira next her found my discomfort amusing as she started laughing at my foolishness.

"He might be busy you idiot." She choked out through her laugh.

"He also didn't come to get me." I frowned while pouting, earning myself an eye roll from her. She swung one of her long arm around my shoulders pulling me towards mine and Maya's homeroom.

"Look, that boy has fallen for you... BAD... so... don't you worry okay, just chill and come to mine with Maya tonight we'll watch Dear John and eat ice creams if you're feeling a bit sappy today." She offered making me smile.

"No, I don't like Dear John, the way she says she loves him and then leaves him... like who does that? I'd never do that to Caleb." I doge as I walk past the people who were tried to barge right past me and looked up to see Saira's beaming face. "What?"

"Do you realise what you just said?" She asked with the huge grin slapped across her face.

"What?" I asked as I tried to retrace my sentence.

"You just indirectly admitted you love him." She stopped in her tracks taking her arms off me so that she was facing me straight. It took me a couple of seconds to register exactly what I said and that's when I realised that I subconsciously admitted to being in love with Caleb. Widening my eyes at her, I quickly slapped a hand over my mouth in shock.

"OH MY GOSH... you DO?" She screeched excitedly flailing her arms around making most of the people turn their heads to look at us.

"You what?" Maya asked after finally catching up with us. With a shocked face I turned towards Saira who opened her mouth to speak.

"NOTHING, let's go." Grabbing Maya's wrist I made my way through the crowd, walking away from the laughing blond girl. Quickly sobering up from the shock, I turned my head side ways to give her a death glare over my shoulder making her laugh even harder.

"K, what was Saira saying?" Maya asked when we settled ourselves down in homeroom.

Sighing I turned towards her with a questionable look. "I..." I scrunched my nose up hinting that I didn't know exactly what to say to her.

"K, you've always been there for me, please, I want to be there for you." She said with a solemn look on her face making my heart melt. Maya had actually been my friend since the first time I got here and Caleb had taught me a lot over these 3 months. 

He taught me that it was okay to trust other people like they trust me, it was okay to let people in like they let me in and because of him I decided to tell her my whole life story like I know hers.

"Okay, fine, let's go out for lunch and I'll tell you everything." I suggested with a sigh.

"Finally..." She breathed out in relief.

"I know I'm acting like a clingy girl and I honestly don't want to be clingy ... or over think ... but I don't know Maya, I actually like this guy... like a lot..." I admitted to her as the lump in my throat grew.

"Calm down okay, I understand where you're coming from and Caleb isn't like that... us girls always tend to overthink no matter how much we try not to because we care just a bit too much and that's how we are K, like Lana Del Rey said... This is what makes us girls." She smiled making me laugh at her song preference.

Although Saira and Maya told me to stay calm about the fact Caleb was suddenly ignoring me all day, I just couldn't because it wasn't like him at all. 

He would always wake up before me as he had a longer distance to travel to get to school and he'd always message me. It wasn't like I always expected him to text me because he's a boy but he'd just do it and that's why I was somewhat panicking.

As the day went by I tried to look for him everywhere and texted him aswell from time to time to see if he was okay but unfortunately he was nowhere to be seen or even have the time to reply which made me more unsettle. 

Lunch flew by fast as I was pouring my life out to Maya over a McDonald's meal; which I guess were hard for her to digest due to all the odd sobs here and there including the constant flow of waterworks.

 It was actually nice let someone in for instance and I quickly made a mental note to myself to thank Caleb for that. On the way back to school I couldn't help but keep the giddy smile on my face after admitting that I loved Caleb to Maya. 

She was of course over the moon for me and 100% approved him for me and all I had to do was tell him. 

I wasn't going to be one of those girls who waited for the guy to make the first step, we all talk about girls being stronger and taking control but always expect the guys to take the first step but I wasn't going to wait.

I have to tell him I love him.

****

"Hey my soon to be step-sister..." Nathan greeted me in Maths as I took my seat next to him.

"Hey my soon to be step-brother..." I repeated allowing a grin to stretch over my face.

"How are you?" He asked in a serious tone forcing my smile to dim slightly.

"I'm fine... why?" I frowned in confusion.

"No... I mean... like anything happened?" He inquired further trying to hint something which I didn't understand.

"Anything supposed to happen?" I asked straightening up in alert.

"NO, no... I mean... never mind you minx." He dismissed my doubts flailing his hand back and forth in front of my face. "But if anything happens... come to me okay?" He gave me sympathetic smile before focusing on what mister baldhead was saying. I wanted to ask him what that was about but my mind automatically wondered off to the worst possible scenarios that there could be.

****

"Hey, you." I beamed looking up at a tensed Caleb who was shoving his Physics book into his locker with a scowl on his face.

I couldn't find him anywhere all day, not even at lunch. Although, most of the boys disappeared somewhere that we were unaware of which was comforting to know that he wasn't just avoiding me. So right at the end of the day I decided to wait behind for him by his locker.

"Hey." He replied in an annoyed yet snappy tone while trying to avoid my gaze.

"Are you okay?" I asked lifting my hand to stroke his bicep in a comforting way which he immediately flinched away from like I was a plague. My heart instantly cowered away, aching to its core.

"I have other things to do too." He spoke through gritted teeth while he slammed his locker's door shut and stalked off towards the main door. I quickly placed a hand on my chest trying to shield my hammering heart form the pain he just caused me. 

Startled, I stood there frozen as he stormed out of the corridor revealing two worried figures of Saira and Maya who were waiting for me around the corner of the elongated hall way. After realising what just happened, they quickly jogged towards me flailing their arms around.

"What the f*ck just happened." Saira questioned turning her head back to look at door he just exited from.

"I ..." Shocked by his actions, I remained still as my body soon became numb. "I have no idea." I replied as tried to block out the waves of unfathomable emotions that were coursing through my veins.

"I'll ask Brody about it, don't worry." She assured me while Maya hooked her arm across my waist from sideways allowing me to rest my head on her shoulder as they escorted me towards Maya's car due to the fact she was my only ride home.

"Don't worry about it. It's probably nothing." Maya tried to comfort me but for the first time in the history of my existence, my head and my heart both decided to work in sync letting me know it was probably everything.

I didn't mumble a single word on the ride home as my mind started to play all the worst possible scenarios while my heart ached from his actions. 

I honestly couldn't understand where my sweet and mysterious Caleb went leaving me this cold hearted monster behind. A

t first I thought it was the pressure of what was happening lately with his old gang but I'd always be the first one he'd come to for advice or just comfort which really didn't make sense and specially I couldn't understand what gave him the right to treat me wrong.

I honestly never did anything to hurt him.

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