Girl Unnoticed

Girl Unnoticed [9]

Nine

As soon as I woke up, I went to take a warm shower to rid my body of all the dirt and sweat I had endured the night before. The whole while I prayed that my parents had been oblivious to the noises and thought that I had been inside my room the entire night. I rapidly ran to my room and changed into a comfortable pair of jeans that were ripped in several parts of the thighs and knees, and a white shirt as well as my black Chucks. I had to be ready for when Rhys came to pick me up since the morning was already coming to an end.

My parents were downstairs, each both reading a book or the newspaper and drinking coffee to get out of their hung-over state. I approached them cautiously and served myself some cereal even though it was lunchtime. My father glanced up at me for a second before dropping his eyes back to his newspaper. My mother on the other hand, never gave me a second of her time and decided to ignore me. I knew she was still livid with my ditching of classes but I had done what she asked and had gone back to school.

Finishing my cereal, I went to the sink to wash the bowl and took the chance to ask them if I could leave. “I have a school project due next week and I need to go to the library to get information on my topic. Is it all right if I go? I’ll probably be in there the whole afternoon and won’t be back until late hours of the night, but I can walk home.”

“If you think it is completely necessary for you to go then go ahead. I expect you to call or at least send me a message every hour informing me of where you are and when you’ll be home. Don’t come back later than midnight, remember we have a charity event tomorrow morning and we all have to be there,” my mother spoke.

Nodding, I grabbed the house keys and my phone and stepped out to the driveway. Rhys was waiting in his Ducati at the end of the street and he rode over to me when he saw me. I quickly jumped on the bike and he sped away, making me hold on to him tighter.

He pulled his visor up when we stopped at a red light. “What did you tell them?”

“I said that I had a school project and needed to go to the library and wouldn’t be back until later. I have to inform my mother of where I am every hour though and have to be back no later than midnight because I have an event tomorrow morning,” I said as he began to drive again.

We stopped at a small diner and went inside, heading to a booth in the back. The waitress came soon after and took our orders and left us alone again. I looked out the window, uncomfortable with the silence stretching over us.

“What are we doing today?” I asked while staring as he bit his lip, dragging his piercing to the inside of his mouth.

He grinned and moved his head closer to me. “You’ll see,” he answered vaguely.

We stopped talking when the food arrived and I ate as slowly as possible so I wouldn’t have to deal with his surprise too soon. The last surprise we had gone to an illegal motorbike race and even though I enjoyed it, I was a bit skeptical. Rhys had paid for our food when I had stepped into the bathroom and I scowled, wanting to pay for my own food. We got on his bike again and he drove all the way to his apartment. He turned off the engine of the car, leaning the bike against the outside wall of his apartment instead of dragging it inside like I saw him do the first time.

“Aren’t you going to take the bike inside?” I asked.

Rhys took off his helmet and walked closer towards me, a grin pulling at his lips that made me nervous. “Do you know how to ride a bicycle?”

I narrowed my eyes and nodded. It took me a while to figure it out but when I did my eyes widened and I stepped back, shaking my hands horizontally in front of me. “No, no, no, I am not going to drive the bike.”