Bittersweet Blueberrys | Sal x Travis (Break)

- Chapter 24 -

PoV. Sal

'Come on you two, we don't have years.' Ash and Larry take an eternity just to get ready, there's only 15 minutes left until school starts.

Both stumble tired out of Larry's apartment 'I told you, the fucking alarm didn't go off' Larry mumble whilst I drag them both to the elevator 'Not my problem.' Ashley swears quietly as the doors close and we go up.

I ain't going to let us all be late just because of Larry's lazy ass. That just happens from time to time and then I gotta drag him to school.

'Bro who cares if we're late' 'Me?' Larry finally has enough energy to walk on his own feet. After 10 Minutes we're finally at the school, so I ignore the others I rush to my locker and grab my physics stuff, I can get the rest later. 

While I run to my classroom I bump into someone, just what I needed. 'Sorry, I'm just rushing' I say before looking up at the person. Travis. 'J- just... It's fine I guess.' what? Travis who is neither ignoring me or throwing insults and slurs at me? He then even helps me with picking up my stuff, what's with him tosay? But before I could bring out a word he already vanished in the crowd. Okayyyy? 
Wait. Physics. Right, gotta run now!

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Instead of sitting with the gang I go outside, I have food with me anyways, so. I also asked Todd to come too. I sit down on the bench, waiting for him, but I didn't wait long, Todd took just a minute. 

'What do you want, Sal? I'm sure there's a reason that you just called me here.' Well, yeah, obviously. 

'Do you know what this could be?' I take out the black cube from yesterday and hand it to him. 

'It looks like a small device used for something important. The front is probably this side, as its different from the other sides. It remindes me a lot of the camera Ash is using for her hobby photographys, so my first guess is that its a tiny camera, for hidden filming that nobody notices it, although I have to look more in it, so, allow me to take it home with me.' I nod, there's no use for me in it anyways. He puts it in his pocket.

He then walks off, probably to the others, but I kind of dont want to eat with them today, so I stay by the birdtree. I look around but there's noone besides me out here. So, I take off my mask, it's more comfortable to eat while it's off. 

I lay my prosthetic on my lap and take out my lunchbag, with a slice of bread in it. That's when I hear the door open, in a record time I grab my mask and hold it on my face, Travis has entered the backyard 'Oh, s- sorry. I just wanted to sit here, can I?' he points beside me 'sure, go ahead.' He sits down next to me. For a while there's an awkward silence between us, so I break it.

'Do you mind if I eat my lunch?' 'Why do you need to ask, it's lunchtime anyways.' I sigh silently 'Well, you might see part of my Face- and trust me, that's not a sight you want to see' I already put the straps on again, just in case he says no. If he agrees I'm just slightly lifting it, so if he sees something it's not going to be much. 

He turns around and grabs a bible from nothing? Where did that appear from? Okay, I'm not going to question it- he might just can do magic or some shit. 

'I'm not going to look.' He opens up his bible and reads through it. A little smile grows on my face, past Travis would have either tried to rip off my mask orrrr definitely looked. He just sticks his nose in the bible, blocking out everything.

I losen the lower straps and slip the bread underneath in, not really paying attention if it shows or not but I give a slight glance to Travis who still doesn't look up. I finish my lunch and put the straps back, before looking over to him 'I've noticed that you're acting different, why so?' Travis glances over to me, then closes the bible and looks at the closed book 'Well- my Father is getting married..' 'That's nice!' I try to be positive, but Blondie didn't sound happy about it at all, more worried. 

Then the bell rings, wow I finished my bread just in time! Travis just gets up and leaves, without his bible in his hands. I sigh and turn to his side, but the bible is gone. Okay, he's definetly a magican, WHERE THE HELL DID THIS BIBLE GO? He didn't have it, but it's nowhere to be seen!
You know what, I'm just... ignoring what I've seen- Nope, he just never had a bible, he just stared on the ground- 

And I can't even convince myself... oh well. 

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I wave to Larry and Ash, I decided to stay in school and study in the library. All the others already left earlier, even Todd, he wanted to go home because he didn't fully inspected the weird object I gave him.

I walk down the halls, to my locker. The hallways are empty besides the janitor and a few, rare students.

Just as I reached the metal locker, I hear a sound not far away. It sounds like someone crying. I walk up and down, just to figure that It comes from the bathrooms.

I check if anyone could see me and checked quickly the females restroom. Gladly, the person isn't in here, so I rush out before someone could see me, then I'd need to explain it and probably get in trouble.

I check the other one, and yes, there is a sobbing sound coming from it. It comes from the last stall, and the closer I get the more quiet it gets as well. The Person obviously doesn't want someone to hear them.

'Hey, are you.. Okay?' I don't expect a answer, I'm aware the person is probably just going to ignore me. 'Just... Go. Please.' Travis?

Why is Travis crying, here in the stalls? 'You know, Noone else is here, and probably is Noone coming in here as well. You can talk to me.' I try to comfort him, whatever happened, it really messed him up.

'I'm just scared...' It surprises me, him, Travis Phelps, admits to be scared, and that to his own victim.. Or past victim, or whatever. I shouldn't push my luck, and try to figure out more, Just comfort him, Sal.

'It's okay, whatever you're scared of is probably not as bad as you expect it to be.' I have no idea of course.
'YOU DON'T GET IT. I'm scared for my life!' he sobs 'and the one of my Cousine...' what has his Cousine to do with this at all? And his life, isn't that a bit dramatic? But at the same time, I don't know what he's talking about, maybe it's actually dangerous or something? 'Then tell me about it, maybe I can help you' I didn't want to push it, but my mouth just spilled the tea.

'My father just called me, he's mad at me.' so it actually is something in his family going on, I knew there was something rotting about it.

'You could stay at mine for a while- to get away from your dad.' I didn't even think that through, what's dad suppose to say? Do I really invite my bully over?
The door unlocks and Travis pulls me into a tight embrace. I hug him back, shocked by his sudden move.

'Thanks, Sally Face.' I blush lightly, but aren't responding.
Just enjoying this short moment.