The Devil Is My Guardian

Chapter Twenty-Two ~ A Stab To The Heart

Chapter Twenty-Two ~ A Stab To The Heart

Forgive me for the spelling and grammar mistakes. 

Ava Chance

"Ready for our date, Avalon Chance?" Milo smiled cheekily at me with a bundle of yellow daises held in his hands.

"Right now?" I laughed, hiding my discomfort for it being at the worst possible time.

"If that's okay." He whispered quietly while shyly looking down.

"Yes, of course it is." I smiled maybe a bit too cheerily before I slammed my locker shut and turned to him with a smile.

"Great!" He smiled, pushing the flowers towards me. "I think we stepped out on the wrong foot last week. I think if you'd prefer we could do this as just friends."

"I'd like that."

"I realize now, how much I pushed you into this and I just want to say I'm sorry." He admitted shyly and rubbed the back of his neck in discomfort.

"It's okay, I'm just glad we can be friends." I smiled into the flowers while we walked into the parking lot.

"Me too." He nodded in agreement, pulling out the keys to his jeep.  "But just out of curiosity, how's Cooper?" He wiggled his eyebrows.

"Good." I smiled remembering the night we had spent at the picnic, Ferris wheel and diner.

"Your face is telling me it's better than good." He mused.

"Maybe." I blushed when he laughed at me. "So I heard your valedictorian."

"I am." He smiled.

"Do you have your speech?"

"Its months away Ava." He laughed.

I laughed with him. "Okay, okay. Do you at least know what you're doing after high school?"

"I do actually." I raised my eyebrows at him, signalling him to keep going. "I'm going to study neuroscience to become a neurosurgeon."

"Holy."

"If you're ever looking to marry big, you know where to find me." He winked.

"I'll hold you to that."

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"So what are we doing?" I wondered out loud when we stepped out of his jeep, parked at our local strip mall.

"I was thinking dinner and a movie?"

"Sounds good to me." I smiled. "What movie?"

"I've always wanted to see the Sponge Bob movie." He admitted shyly.

"You took the thoughts right out of my head." I laughed while we walked side by side into the strip mall.

The strip mall was filled with people of all ages, young, old, but mostly kids that went to our high school.

The strip mall was the only one we had in town and was basically every teenager in this town, after school hangout.

Mine was my bedroom with the door shut. No innuendo intended.

There was a little dinner café called Pablo's located in the middle of the strip mall and that's where I had assumed we would be eating.

Soon later we were both enjoying a cup of coffee with a plate of fries and gravy to share. Just a peaceful silence surrounding us with only the few sounds of sips of coffee being intake and fries being munched on.