What's Your Excuse?

Don't Offer Anymore Help.

I wanted to get this up as soon as possible since I'm starting to work through my writers block. I just got a new job and its going to start taking me a little longer to put updates up, so bare with me.

Chapter 6

Holly’s POV

I could tell something was wrong but he wasn’t saying anything to me about it. Adrian was holding my hand as we sat in his car outside in the school parking lot. He’d picked me up with morning to surprise me and I have to say, he really did. Not just me though, but my whole family. My dad didn’t think he could be this nice after what he’d heard around town and at work, but Adrian was starting to grow on him. Not that he’d admit it though, being a man and all, he has to keep up the ‘image’ he thinks he had. I don’t have the heart to break it to him.

“Holly?” Adrian asked with concern. “Are you alright?”

“Sorry, I’m fine. I was just thinking.”

“About?”

“You. I feel like I should be the one asking if you’re okay, don’t you?”

“Why would I?” Uh, oh. I think I might have touched a nerve with that question.

“You seem angry at something, but I don’t know what it could be. I know it’s not directed towards me, but I can’t help but to feel like it might be.”

Adrian squeezed my hand and lightly laughed. “I could never be angry with you Holly. I’ve just got some personal issues I’m working through right now. The second bell is ringing, we should get going,” he explained, getting out and walking around to my side of the car.

“You know that if you need to you can always come and talk to me.”

“I don’t want you to think any worse of me than you probably already do. I think my dark secrets deserve to stay in the shadows for now don’t they?”

I knew that the question was rhetorical, but for some reason it still bothered me a lot. “Adrian, I’m only trying to help—”

“Well I’m not asking for it Holly!” I was stunned by the amount of force that came out of him with those few little words and so were the people that were walking around us. I could hear feel the stares before I could hear the footsteps coming to a halt to listen in on our conversation.

I closed my eyes, not that it did much good, but I could still pretend. I would have imagined I was anywhere else, but I know that those sayings only exist in fairytales. “What are you looking at? Leave!” he yelled at the people around us, making them scamper off.

“You didn’t have to be so damn rude.” I didn’t give whatever was happening anymore time to become something bigger as I turned and walked into the building, pulling out my stick seeing as how my guide was still standing out on the pavement steaming.

I got to first block and sat down in my seat, sitting by bag on the floor next to me and pulling out my computer. “Are you okay Holly?” I heard a girl ask. It was the girl that sits in front of me, Kaydie I think?

“I’m fine.”

“Why was Adrian yelling at you?”

I internally cringed; I didn’t want Abby to hear this. “Adrian yelled at you? About what?” Abby asked.

I turned to face her, frowning. “Because I offered my help and he didn’t want it apparently. I don’t know why Abby, I’m as clueless are you are right now,” I explained.

I heard Abby take a breath to reply, but she stopped short just as I heard footsteps walking towards us and ending out conversation. “Later,” she finished, turning around.