Teach Me Breathless

Chapter 24

A/N: Heeeeyyy! I'm so terribly, truly, utterly sorry! I know I've been missing in action for 6 months but my life is in shambles right now. It's been a rough start for 2015 for me and I highly appreciate your patience and understanding. Anyways, here is the chapter that I so owe you guys for my absence. Hope you enjoy and that this will suffice.

P. S. This chapter is dedicated to someone very special to me. I love you and thank you for being honest even if it hurt like hell. You know who you are, soldier.

Chapter Song: Oblivion by Bastille (One of my favourite bands does me justice)

Chapter 24: Confusion

Mara

What did I ever do to deserve this? Let me rephrase that... Why does it seem like my life always has to be an enormous complicated mess?! If I was asked to write my memoirs and it ends up being adapted into a movie, it'd probably win an Oscar for Best Dramatic Picture. The list of complicated happenings in my life seems endless.

1) I fall in love with a guy my mother doesn't approve of.
2) My first love dies in a tragic accident that leaves me totally intact.
3) My ex's look-alike cousin gets assigned to be my tutor.
4) I finally start to accept Randy's death only for me to end up falling in love with Kyle...
5) I don't know what the hell I should do!
6) Stay tuned...

It's been a week since Kyle's groundbreaking confession and life has been... harder. At school everyone had seemed to have forgotten about the heated encounter between Trisha and I but at the expense of Kyle and I acting like total strangers who avoided each other like the plague. Everyday seemed to pass by so slowly. I was always half-expecting for Kyle to call me. But then again what would I say? Hey, I miss you. I think we shouldn't be friends anymore. I think I'm in love with you too... No, it wasnt that easy. Of course it wasn't. This is my life we're talking about.

As I'm walking down the empty halls of the school, the silence was comforting as everyone had gone to class. I was running a bit late because well, these days I just wanted to walk slow. I was absentmindedly making my way to my English class when I collided hard with someone's chest.

"Ow, I'm so---" I started to apologize but I forgot my words when I saw who I had bumped into. Of course of all days, of all the circumstances, of all the people it had to be him!

"Kyle." I gasped. I felt my heart clench at the sight of him. His disheveled hair- courtesy of riding with no helmet-, his haggard face- possibly from lack of sleep- and his sorrowful gray eyes, courtesy of me.

"Mara. Hi." he said breathlessly.

"Hi. Um, I should get to class." I reasoned quickly and as I was about to side-step him, he grabbed my wrist. The contact effectively stopped me in my tracks as electric shocks ran up my arm and all over my body.

"Wait. Can we talk? Please, Mara." he pleaded and my heart broke for him. He looked so desperate like talking to me was his lifeline. I was about to answer him when the bell rang signalling the end of first period. The students rushed out to the halls and we weren't alone anymore. I looked back into his eyes.

"Please. I miss you." he murmured brokenly. My shoulders relaxed and I pulled my hand away from him. He looked disappointed, you and me both, buddy.

"Alright. But not here. My place. Later. 8 p.m. Don't be late." I told him and he smiled gratefully. I turned away but not before I told him something.

"I miss you too, Kyle." and with that he nodded contently.

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Kyle