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Chapter 20 Stop and Stare

I managed to get another chapter done. It's getting hard to write this story since I had never been in a relationship.... but I will try :)  (god knows why I even started a romance story)

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'I heard you, this morning, at your locker.' I said, my tone accusing. He expression changed from concern to alarm to what looked like remorse immediately. He took a step closer to me, but I put an arm up to stop him. 'Don't come near me right now. Explain.' I said flatly.

Just as Will was about to say something, the rest of the jocks flood out of the school and saw me and Will at our little stand down. I frowned as Will turned around seeing them, and for a fleeting second I could have swore he looked frightened. But the look was gone when he turned back at me, by then the group of jocks had moved closer to us out of interest.

I was about to ask Will if we could go somewhere else before resuming the conversation alone when he seemed to found his voice.

'Well, which part of it did you not understand?' He said in a voice so mean and cocky that I almost thought that I was talking to a completely different person. I blinked a few times, dumb folded, the pain in my chest triple, I felt like I couldn't breath. It's completely different when he is saying it in front of my face than eavesdropping on him saying it.

I heard the jocks cheered Will on, who turned back to flash them a grin. I stared at Will, horrified. I willed the tears to go away, but it was useless.

'So it was all a lie?' I asked, almost sobbing again. Will looked pained, from what I couldn't tell, all I cared was his answer.

'Yes.' He finally whispered out the answer, I wiped my eyes with the back of my sleeves, my last stread of hope shuttered by that one little word. Will looked sorry, while his friends continued to hollered behind us causing a racket that attract the attention of the students that was still in the parking lot.

I was too hurt to upset to even be able to form a word, so I decided to just bolt for it. I heard laughters behind me, but I couldn't care less at that moment. I ran all the way out of school and around the corner. Then I slumped onto a bench, I could barely support myself up and cried for the second time in a day.

I didn't know how long I was there for, I just knew that it was cold (I left my coat in Will's car). But a car horn blasted me out from my sorry state. I looked up to see that it was almost completely dark now. A car horn blasted again, my eyes focused and saw that it was from the car in front of me. I squinted to see better (crying had not helped my eyesight), the person in the driver's seat chuckled. Uh-oh, I knew that laugh.

'Hey, what are you doing crying on a bench in the dark? You might get kidnapped.' Aidan Owen said with a smirk. Despite still feeling very sad and torn up, I can't help but rolled my eyes at him, only he would greet someone by suggesting that they would get kidnapped.

'Come on, I will give you a ride home.' He said, waving his hand at me. I eyed him and his car hesitatingly, didn't really want to get on Aidan Owen's car, on the other hand, it is getting pretty dark, and how else could I get back home?

Aidan seemed to be able to read my thoughts, since he gave me a knowing smile, and at that precise moment a crow nearby decided to screech loudly making me jump. 'Haha your face just then was priceless.' Aidan laughed at me, I shot him a glare, but walked grudgingly to his car and get in the backseat (I am not going to seat in the front where he would be in close proximity).

Inside, I couldn't help but think how ironic this is. When Aidan's words broke my heart, Will found me (not literally, but you know what I mean). Now it's the other way around.

'You can seat up here, you know.' Aidan said, looking at me through the rear view mirror.

'I don't think we know each other well enough for that.' I said, Aidan chuckled at my words and drove off.

'I thought after our little conversation you would have warm up to me, at least a little bit.' He said, smiling.

I smiled as well at the memory at tasering him at the party. 'Still, you are not exactly my favorite person in the world.' I replied. We then made small conversation and soon we arrived at my house.

'Hey, can I ask you something?' Aidan poked his head out of the car window as I walked up the sidewalk towards my house. I was about to say no when he decided to just ask anyway.

'What were you doing, crying on a bench?' He asked, his face looked a lot like Will right at that moment in the dark.

'It's none of your business.' I replied, not too kindly either. Aidan shook his head at me.

'Alright, just don't do anything stupid.' He said and drove off.

I ran straight back to my bedroom, where unfortunately the teddy bear that Will gave me sat right in the middle of my bed. I dropped my bag and took hold of the teddy bear, curling up in my window seat, punching the bear and crying. How could he said that to me, I thought he would be the one, even if he isn't, I thought we would last long than that.

At some point Gina called me down for dinner, but I told her that I wasn't hungry. I sat at the window seat with my window opened for some fresh air, staring down at the cars passing by letting the tears dry on my face, letting the cold night air numb my pain. I pulled the teddy bear closer, my brain was fuzzing and my eyes hot from crying and the pain in my heart still fresh.

I must have fallen asleep at some point, since I woke up shivering to bright sunshine at the exact same spot. My head was throbbing painfully and my throat hurts, I tried to close the window and realised that my body was too limb to move.

With great effort I managed to close the window and crawled back on my bed with Will Jr. (that's what I decided to call the teddy bear, now it seemed like a bad idea). I huddled in my duvets trying to get warm again when I heard a knock on the door and Gina walked in.

'Anna, are you OK?' she asked cautiously. Ah, so me and Will's confrontation must be all over school my now. Although he didn't say it out loud, but I am pretty sure that we are no longer together. Even if he didn't say it, I wouldn't have continued to be with him after that. I might be in love with him, but I haven't lost my head in love completely yet.

'Yeah.' I replied, although it came out more like a coarse, Gina frowned and sat down beside me putting a hand on my forehead.

'OMG, you are burning up! What did you do last night?' Gina shouted, my head began to throb more painfully at her voice.

'I fell asleep by the window.' I said, Gina rolled her eyes at me, but she looked relieved.

'Alright, I will call the school for you and get you some water before I go.' She said and patted my arm, I muttered a thanks before rolling over and falling asleep.

I was woken up by the sound of my phone buzzing, I groaned and snatched it off my bedside table, cursing myself for not turning it off. I opened my eyes grudgingly to look at the screen, it was just past noon.

I saw that I had about half-a-dozen missed calls and even more texts from various people. I ignored most of them and opened the one from Hannah first.

OMG Jules are you OK? I heard about the break-up. I can't believed he said that! Call me asap xxxx

The texts were a nasty reminder of yesterday, I buried my head in the pillow, wishing a hole will open up in the ground and swallow me. I am glad that I was ill so I didn't have to face school. God know what it would be like. People will laugh at me for being so naïve, some might show sympathy but I know most will just laugh at me – the new juicy gossip target.

There were a few more texts like this from Hannah and same one from Alison and one from Melissa. Luke sent me a text telling me that a rumor of me in the hospital after committing suicide had spread around the senior year and the popular people were having a good laugh at my expense, apart from some of my friends.

I texted them all back saying that I had only caught a cold, then fling my phone away from me. I rolled over and hugged Will Jr. closer to me. I don't even know how to face school anymore. Thank god Christmas break is just around the corner.

I called in sick for the rest of the week, the cold had worsened and I had to stay in bed most of the time. Alison and Hannah came and visit me frequently after school, I told them what happened and they were furious at Will. By now I had came to the conclusion that Will might not had loved me, but he certainly liked me a lot, it was his thirst to remain popular that had cause him to say those words. I can see from his behavior on that day.

Melissa and Luke had stopped by too, they were worried that I was actually in the hospital and was relieved when they saw that I was only suffering from a bad case of cold. Andy had stopped by too, I guessed the rumor had really taken its toll in school especially with me being absent in school as well.

I was alone at home on Friday when the doorbell rang. It was only noon, so no one should be visiting me since it's a school day and my parents and Gina have keys.

I got up from bed grudgingly, feeling dizzy as I made my way downstairs. I ran my fingers through my hair hoping to smooth them out, they were in a right mess from me sleeping for so long. I pulled the door open a crack with the security chain still in to see who in was disturbing me from my rest.

To my surprise, Will was standing in the front porch, holding a bunch of flowers.

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Poor Anna.....what do you think Will is going to say? eeek

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