The Boy Next Door (Editing and Rewriting)

Chapter 22

As I walk out into the courtyard outside the cafeteria, the place the note told me to go, I feel my hands starts to shake with fear. My mind won’t stop asking questions;

 

What if Ryder sent you the note? Ryder is in jail.

What if he managed to escape? He couldn’t have.

What if he did though? But he didn’t.

How do you know that? I just do.

Are you sure about that though? Shut up!

I sigh and lean my head against the wall, fighting with myself won’t help anything and it certainly won’t help me figure out who sent the note, I just have to be patient.

“Alison?” a voice calls from behind me as a hand lands on my shoulder, and, thanks to my earlier thoughts, this seriously freaks me out. I spin around really fast and bring my hands up, clenched into fists, to protect my face the pending threat. Only, thanks to the fact that I am severely uncoordinated, I manage to hit the person in the face. They cry out in pain as they grip their nose and bend over, in the few seconds that follow I manage to see that the alleged attacker isn’t an attacker at all, it’s actually Adam. Well now I feel bad.

“I am so sorry Adam; I didn’t know it was you!” I tell him and I lean closer to see if he is alright.

“Who did you think I was? And why on earth would they deserve this?” He asks as he straightens up and looks me in the eyes.

“Umm, sorry?” I say hoping that he forgets his questions and accepts my apologies, I don’t particularly feel like telling him who I was thinking it was, what would I even say, you know I just thought you were Ryder, and why wouldn’t he deserve that treatment, yeah not gonna happen.

“Its fine Alli, just a little bit of a bruise don’t worry about it,” he says, his voice sounded a little weird due to the fact that he is holding his nose so that he doesn’t leave blood all over the place.

“Wait, you’re actually bruising? Are you sure? Why didn’t you say something? We should get you to the nurse!” I say to him as I grab his free hand and start pulling him in the direction of the nurse’s office, taking the outside route for obvious reasons.

“Alli! It’s fine really,” he says as he pulls his hand out of mine and plants his feet firmly on the floor. “It doesn’t really hurt that much anymore anyway,”

“Really? Because you said that it was bruising, don’t you want to at least go an check that you are fine,” I start saying and then I notice how close we are standing and I can’t help but have my nerves kick in a bit, and queue the rambling, “check that nothing else is wrong, not that I punch hard, you just weren’t expecting it, I’m not calling you weak I swear, it’s just-” and suddenly I am cut off by another pair of lips meeting mine, they are soft and warm and wait a second. Adam is kissing me. Adam is kissing me! What am I supposed to do now?! Kiss him back, duhh. Oh right.

But, before I get a chance to he has already pulled away and is now leaning his forehead against mine.

“Well that was a really good way to get me to shut up,” I say as I close my eyes and simply enjoy his presence. I can still feel his lips against mine and I almost have to literally hold myself back from leaning forward and kissing him again. His eyes are closed and I can feel his body heat radiating off of him as we stand there, foreheads pressed together, in silence.

“Umm, Adam?” I ask him as I open my eyes to look at his face, of course I had to break the silence, if I didn’t then who knows how long it would go on for.

“Hmm?” I hear him hum in response, his eyes are still closed and he hasn’t moved his position at all,

“Why did you, umm, just do that?” I asked him, not really sure how else to phrase a question like that.

“Why? Should I not have?” he asked, this time he opened his eyes and moved his head away from mine. And, in fear, of sounding ridiculously cliché, I missed his warmth. “Because while I may not have wanted to do that ever since I first saw you, I have wanted to do it for a while, and I don’t regret it one bit honestly, I’m really glad that I did that, I ju-” this time I cut him off by leaning forward and placing my lips on his own, he was frozen for about five seconds before he started to kiss me back. One of his hands cups my cheek while his other hand grips the back of my neck gently, not allowing me to pull away at all, not that I would want to anyway. I return his gestures by placing both of my hands on his chest and slowly sliding them up to the back of his neck and fisting them in his hair.

His tongue lightly drags itself along my bottom lip, clearly asking for entrance, but since I am stubborn I don’t let him in, not yet at least. He doesn’t like this and he lets out a kind of groan in the back of his throat, it sounds surprisingly animalistic, in the best way possible.

After a while the two of us have to pull away for air, stupid respiratory system, we are both breathing quite heavy.

“Wow.” Is all I can say, there aren’t any other words that I can use to describe what just happened.

“Yeah,” is all Adam says in response.

The fact that he is so close to me still leaves my self control and before I can stop myself I have stepped forward and pressed my lips back to his, and this time when his tongue traces my bottom lip asking for entrance I let him in.

What an interesting day today has turned out to be.

And the rest, as they say, is history; or in this case, the future.

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I apologize for not uploading for so long but I moved countries, and I was trying to settle in and everything like that, it was kind of hard for me. This is the last official chapter, but there is still the epilogue (maybe?) and then this story is over :( I feel weird not having this story to update anymore, but this is it. :(

-Joss