I'll Follow You Anywhere

My lucky stars

With that I fell asleep and once again woke to my alarm going off. Wednesday, middle of the week, I can make it through this. I got up and got dressed, walking down to the kitchen, my mum and Dick were standing there smiling and laughing.

'Morning.' I said as I picked up an apple and watched them look at me a little puzzled.

'Good morning baby, did you sleep well?'

'Yeah.'

'Any plans for after school today?' Dick asked and I shrugged.

'I'm not sure, I might hang out with Eric but it depends on what he has on.'

'Well, I'm getting off work early this afternoon I thought maybe you and I could do something.' I looked down at my apple and thought about it for a moment.

'I guess, what did you want to do?' He looked startled.

'Ah, I don't know, I kind of thought you would say no so I hadn't thought that far ahead. Is there anything in particular you want to do?' He seemed to be scrambling, had I really startled him that much?

'I don't really know, I do need some new sneakers so I guess we could go hang out at the mall, maybe catch a movie if you want?' I shrugged and he nodded.

'Y-yeah, sure, we can do that.' I nodded and looked at my mum who looked a little shocked.

'Okay, well can we go to school? I kind of wanna get the morning over with.'

'Yeah I'll take you.' He said and grabbed his keys as I headed straight for the door after saying goodbye to my mum.

'I don't know what's going on hun but don't knock it, take his good mood and run with it.' Mum said to Dick before he walked out with me.

'Ah, look I don't want to ruin your good mood but it's making me very nervous. Are you okay? Has something happened? You're not going to go psycho and kill people or anything right?' I looked at him worriedly. Did my good mood really throw him that much?

'No, I'm not planning on killing anyone. I haven't really given you a fair chance and that's not right, I'm still hurt over dad and I've always thought that mum got remarried too soon but it might have just been too soon for me. You make her happy and I suppose that it's time that I stop taking my anger and pain out on everyone around me.' Why was I saying this? Why am I in such a good mood?

'Is this the influence of your friend? Eric?' Eric! Oh, this is so his doing.

'Eric is really nice and I feel happier when he's around. So yeah, I guess.'

'Well, maybe we should invite him over for dinner one time, I'd really like to meet him. This is the most you've spoken to me... ever, I think.' He laughed and I smiled sadly, I did feel bad about the way we've been this past year but it's been hard for me.

'I'll try more, it's just, I miss my dad, a lot and all the time.' I said as we pulled to a stop in the drop off zone. 'I'm trying though.' I said before getting out of the car quickly. I headed for the front office when Eric yelled at me making me jump. He was with a group of people and I walked over.

'Hey, everyone this is John, I'm trying to get him to join the team but he says he's a track and field guy, he can still hang out with us though right?' They all looked at me before laughing.

'Dude we're not some one sport group.'

'Yeah course he can come.'

'But you gotta cheer for us at games if you're not going to play.' I smiled.

'Sure I can do that.' The group of guys were actually pretty cool. The bell rang and I groaned.

'What's wrong?' Eric asked as we headed into the school building.