You're Always Out Of Reach

Darling

After an hour of walking we made it back to the front step of her porch.

"I don't think we should go in," I say.

Clara laughs slightly, "yeah not the best idea."

I look over at her, she is smiling slightly and staring off into the abyss calmly. It's so strange how Clara can be so childish sometimes, and then be completely normal. It's like two different sides of her. I'm pretty sure her childishness started dying down ever since Anthony came into the picture. Plus, I'm sure there's a lot on her mind.

"We can go to my house, my mom is away for the weekend anyways." I say, heading to my car, not really giving her a choice. She will not go back to that house for now, it'll be nice for her to get away from the bad smell anyways.

Clara's smile widens, "yeah sounds good to me."

I get in my car and Clara does the same. We drive back to my house and I pull into the driveway.

"Just don't tell my mom, she'll kill me," I laugh slightly, "and try to keep the house clean."

"Oh yeah of course." We both walk inside and Clara takes a deep breath. I guess it's been a while since she's been here, she turns to me and smiles, "hey, Kai?" She asks.

"Yeah, what is it?"

She touches me on the shoulder, I stand there confused for a second until she says, "tag, you're it."

"Oh you little-" she starts to run away laughing and I chase her.

We used to play tag all the time together, it brings back memories. She runs up the stairs and into my room, and I follow. Gosh, she is fast.

I get in my room and Clara is jumping on my bed, "you can never catch me."

"Yeah right, watch me." I go after her but she jumps off the bed, I quickly block the door after she jumps, "now there is no escape."

"Omg, unfair." She giggles.

"Yeah, I'm super unfair," I laugh.

"Well," she walks up to me and grabs my hand and uses it to tag herself, "guess what?"

"Oh shit-"

"Now I'm it muahahaha."

I run to the edge of my bed, which was stupid, she goes to tag me but I grab her wrist, "you will not tag me muahahah." I hold both of her arms away from me.

She used her strength to try to escape from my grip, "noooo let go of meeeee," she laughs.

"Never, I will win."

She pushes forward and I fall back on the bed, bringing her with me. But luckily, she still hasn't tagged me. She still struggles to tag me but I happen to be a lot stronger than her.

"Your strength is cheating!" She complains while still trying to tag me.

"You're weakness is failing,"

"Okaayyy, I give upppp!" She pouts.

She stops fighting to tag me and we look at eachother. Both breathing heavily from attempting to win, it takes me to realize she's on top of me and I can feel my face get hot. I look at her red face, I can feel her warm breath against me, her body-

Oh my gosh Kai, you're an idiot.

I look in a different direction and let go of her hands but she doesn't move, which confuses me. I look back at her.

Her face is more redder than a tomato and her grey eyes are wide, her hair falling in front of her face. She looks like she's just in shock, I couldn't help but laugh slightly. She breaks out of her shock when I laugh and she laughs a bit too then rolls off to the side.