Love, war, and football

Chapter 26

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 Back to usual POV:

After we left the gym, we went to get a quick bite to eat. Being the gentlemen that he is, Drake paid for me. Something was off with him. I mean today I was kind of in a bad mood again because school sucked and Gracie rubbed the fact that she was with Kane in my face.

So I put a face on for Annie but soon as I was alone to do some parkour practice, I drifted into my own little world. Then when I had to take off my shirt to give to Julian to clean, I was not happy in the least. I tried to change shirts as quick as possible and thankfully no one noticed. Except Drake might've.

After that there was just something wrong. He kept spacing out and he refused to look in my direction and he just looked plain out pissed. He didn't ask anything so I just assumed that he probably did see them but didn't want to ask me and as long as he didn't ask, I wasn't going to say a single word.

Now it's Thursday. Drake still has been avoiding me and for some reason it just frustrated me. So when I dropped Annie off back home, I stomped up to his room. I've been taking Annie to the gym after school since Tuesday and usual I just come in to get a bottle of water and leave. But now I'm done with him ignoring me.

Hell I even asked Shaun to talk to him and Shaun said how when him or the other guys asked him about why he was ignoring me, Drake just got pissed off. Well now I'm pissed.

Knowing very well that he was home since his truck was here I slammed the door open and I saw him jump from his seat on the coach and he almost dropped his controller. "What the hell?" He gave me a quizzical look.

"What the hell yourself! You've been avoiding me since Tuesday!" He looked away and started playing again. Are you kidding me right now! I grabbed his controller and stood in front of the tv. "Again what the hell is wrong with you!"

He gave me a glare before sighing and standing up. "Nothing just forget about it." He said coldly as he went and opened the door for me. I put the controller down. I walked straight up to him and shut the door.

"Its not nothing. Now tell me now. I'm getting fed up with you completely ignoring me." He looked away again. "Drake look me in the eye or at least in my face." Slowly he turned his head to me and looked down at me. Our eyes met for a split second and then he looked above my head. That's when I took a wild guess. "You saw my scars didn't you." His eyes narrowed for just a moment.

Sighing in exasperation, I ran my hands through my hair and turned my back on him and took a few steps away. "For the love of..." I let a frustrated sigh. Then I turned back around to him. "Ask."

He gave me a confused look and for once he actually looked at my face. "What?" I crossed my arms and shifted my weight.

"Ask if you want to know." He looked me up and down before shaking his head.

"I already know." He mumbled. I narrowed my eyes at him.

"Then what?" He looked away before shrugging. Wait I just now remembered something. Shaun mentioned how when we started having lunch at the stadium that we didn't see Drake. Apparently it was a habit of his to go to the stadium to skip or eat lunch sometimes. What if...

He was still looking away when I went right up to him. 'Then what Drake." He tried shrugging again but I shook my head. "Drake did you hear the conversation I had with Shaun and Matty?" Drake looked down.

A loud thud sounded as I hit him in the chest making him back up. "What the actual hell! Why the hell didn't you tell me!" Now he seemed angry and was about to yell back but I stopped him. "Those scars aren't from Kane! Some of them are from parkour, a few are from when I was bullied when I was younger and a few of them I made myself before freshman year started!" His face was full of complete shock.