Mute Love

Chapter 4- Mute?

Hm..

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Chapter 4

(Rose's POV)

We walked into Ms. Torres room as Rikki talked happily and I thought," Why isn't Ryder talking to with us?" I was about to ask Rikki but got cut off as some guy and two of his friends wolf whistled my way and said," Why don't you come sit here with us?" As he gestured to the seat between him and another guy; I hid behind Ryder's tall frame as he wrapped one of his arms protectively around my shoulders bringing me closer. He glared at the guys menacing while I looked up at him questioning but he didn't notice me as he kept glaring at the guys. I looked over to the group of guys and said politely to them,” No thank you guys, maybe next time.” They looked disappointed and I laughed quietly to myself from their sulking frowns. 

I grabbed Ryder’s hand in mine and led him to a seat in the back and sat down with him and Rikki sitting next to me and the first thing Ryder did was connect our desks together. I smiled secretly behind the palm of my hand as he did this and asked,” What are you doing there sweetheart?” He looked at me then looked at Rikki; I scrunched my eyebrows together confusingly and was about to ask what was wrong if I didn’t get interrupted from somebody,” The freak doesn’t talk,” I turned my head to this guy who was wearing a football jersey and who was with the girl from this morning that yelled at me. “Huh?” Then it clicked in my head. I looked over to Ryder who was scowling at the guy angrily and said softly to him,” Is that true..?” He looked at me sadly and looked down, his hair covering his eyes; I just wanted to hug him tightly saying it was okay. I was going to say something to him but he ran out the classroom bumping into the teacher as the guy with the jersey laughed, wrapping his arm around my shoulder,” How about hanging out with me instead? Not with the mute freak and gay faggot.” He said gesturing to Rikki who looked ready to beat the guy up but was restraining himself. I snapped, “No me toques, que la polla! Odio a los tipos como tú que intimida a alguna persona sin ningún motivo!” (A/N: Translation: Don't touch me, you dick! I hate guys like you who bullies someone for no reason! (Sorry if some words are wrong; there are some that I don’t know how to spell)) I’m Hispanic and I hardly ever get mad or for this matter snap at someone in Spanish but this guy had it coming. He looked so confused, I guess he didn’t understand what I just said but I guess Rikki did because he smiled and laughed a bit. I breathed slowly trying to calm myself down and grabbed my bag; walking out of the classroom with Rikki following close behind me. I’m surprised the teacher didn’t say anything but I was grateful and really needed to look for Ryder.

Rikki and I talked as we walked around the school for Ryder; so many things were going through my head. “He can’t talk? Why? What happened for him not being able to speak? Was he born like that?” So many questions where running into my mind, I didn’t know where to began. Rikki asked the first question,” So you don’t care if Ryder can talk or not?” I shook my head softly and asked,” Why can’t he talk?” “Um it’s really not my place to say, sorry...But he’ll probably tell you once he becomes really close to you and gets to know you more, but he seems to be already attracted to you by the way he looks at you.” I smiled bit when he said that. “By the way he looks at me? How does he look at me?” Rikki chuckled. “It’s a secret,” I pouted.

I then asked Rikki if there was a place where Ryder went to, “There’s one place we haven’t checked yet,” I followed him outside behind the back of the school and there was this huge beautiful tree that was right next to the football stadium. At the bottom of the tree was Ryder who had his eyes closed looking like he was sleeping against it.

I bent down slightly and was going to wake him up, well until Rikki found a tiny rock on the ground and threw it right at him; hitting his cheek. Ryder opened his eyes glaring at him; I giggled. He looked up making our faces mere centimeters from each other. My eyes widened slightly, with my breath hitching up and my heart speeding up, I blushed.

 “Hi,” I say shyly. I mentally slapped myself, “Really Rose? That’s what you say to the most sexiest guy you’ve ever seen?”

He bit his lip and looked between us and I blushed more knowing why…My breasts are basically in his face. I squeaked and stood up straight covering my chest with my arms, I could feel my face becoming hot; I saw him smirk. “I think I blushed enough for today to last a lifetime,” I think to myself. “I’m going to go back to classroom and tell the teacher that you’ll come back to class later, okay?” I completely forgot Rikki was standing there looking at us. Ryder nodded not really looking his way but staring at me. When Rikki was out of sight I tried composing myself and my beating heart still with a faint blush sprayed across my cheeks and said softly,” Are you okay sweetheart?” I saw a pained look in his eyes for a second but it disappeared quickly, I saw it though. He turned away from me but I sat down on the ground next to him and laid the palm of my hand against his cheek making him look at me. ” I don’t care if you can’t talk sweetheart, I’m not going to let that ruin our friendship.” I honestly said and smiled at him. He stared at me, I couldn’t tell what he was thinking about but then next thing I knew was hugging him. I felt his heart thumping softly. He had his face buried in the crook of my neck and breathed softly. I’m not going to lie, I actually really liked it. 

I sat next to him and just laid my head on his shoulder, there was a comfortable silence as I closed my eyes, listening to the surroundings around me. I knew we couldn’t stay here all day but I’m surprised we haven’t gotten caught by anyone yet. I looked at the time on my watch and it was about an hour until fifth period which was lunch, but until then, I want to get to know Ryder more. I nudged him gently and he opened his eyes yawning, he looked like I cat waking up from its nap,” Cute,” I thought. He had his arm around me and his hand on my side, running them up and down, I giggled.  You could tell he was still sleepy and rested his head on my shoulder.

I pouted and he looked slightly down at me,” Can we play 21 questions?” I asked giving him an adorable face. He narrowed his eyes to my lips and I bit my bottom one teasing’ him a bit. He smirked, “Anything for the princess,” (S.L.) I cocked my head to the side and asked,” What did you just say?” He grabbed a pen and paper writing it down, he gave it to me and I read it, “How do you sign the word ‘princess’?” He showed me and all you have to do was a sideways two sign and move it to your shoulder on the left, then your right and move it down. I smiled big when I got it. 

We asked so many questions, I learned his favorite color was red and black like mine, his favorite candy is starbursts, he loves animals and children like me, he plays piano and guitar, he loves strawberry flavored ice cream and some other things about him. I smiled when I found out he was a natural blonde and could tell when I noticed his blonde roots showing.

From afar I could hear the bell ring signaling lunch, I told Ryder and he packed his stuff. I guess I was shaking a little from the breeze because he took of his jacket and gave it to me, he was looking away and I could tell he was embarrassed when I saw the slight blush on his cheeks. I smiled and put his jacket on and noticed how big it was on me and how it smelled like him. Don’t expect him to be getting this back. He smiled at me showing both his dimples on his cheeks making me weak in the knees. He smirked when my face flushed like he knew what I was thinking; I looked away as we kept walking to the cafeteria. I thought, “What’s he doing to me?”

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