The Damage Was Done

CHAPTER 17

I wake up to the sun shining on my face I try to roll over but something stops me I carefully open my eyes and look to my side, I forgot I went to his room last night I lay there staring at him for a while

"You gonna continue staring like a creep" he says with his eyes still closed "I'm not staring, I'm admiring" I say without even thinking crap why'd I say that "in that case keep doing it" he says as he opens his eyes looking at me now too.

We just sat there staring at each other until there was a knock at the door "Hey Ax, is Louise in there?" I heard Eleanor say "yeah" he replies "ok good I was just checking she didn't runaway" she says I hear a deep chuckle from beside me "anyway you guys should start getting ready for school or you'll be late" she says before walking away

I go to get up before getting pulled back down "just a few more minutes" he says before closing his eyes.

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After more like half an hour he finally got up. I went to have a shower and got dressed in what I wore yesterday except with the jumper from last night I put my shoes on and walked downstairs.

"You ready?" I say as I walk in the kitchen I take a couple seconds to look at what he was wearing he had on jeans and a hoodie "yeah come on, stop admiring me and let's go" he say with a smug voice because he caught me staring.

When we got to school we were only a couple minutes late because he said no to stopping for coffee. I walked into class and my maths teacher rolled his eyes "hey at least I'm here you haven't been for the past week" I say walking past him to the back next to cleo.

"I see you have a new hoodie, is this one also his" she says as soon as I sit down "no" I lie "you know lyings bad right?" She says with humour in her voice I looked at her and gave her a small smile.

I actually feel good today, I don't feel like just crawling into a hole and staying there which is a new thing, I took down a couple of my notes before the bell went.

I walked out of class and Axel was standing waiting for me. I walked up to him, Cleo behind me "is this also your hoodie?" She questioned not letting it go "it is, it looks good on her doesn't it?" He says to Cleo "it does" she says smirking at me "I'm gonna go to class see you at lunch" she says "and probably you" she says looking at Axel before walking away,

"You wanna skip" he asks as he focuses back to me "yeah sure" I say and we walk up to the football fields where the stands are and sat underneath them

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We sat there until lunch talking about whatever came to mind. We walked up to the table and sat down. Everyone was already there waiting for us "finally, what were you to love birds up to?" Cleo says as we sat down

"Just talking" Axel replies before grabbing food instead of zoning out of the conversation I actually participated in it then the bell rang everyone groaned.

Instead of class we all went and sat under the football stands for the rest of the day just hanging out. When the final bell rang we all got up and headed towards the car park at the front of the school "you wanna hang out" I heard Cleo ask all of us.

Everyone was saying yes, I was about to when I saw Ryder waiting for me and remembered I had the therapy they all looked at me waiting for my answer "I um I can't I have the" I paused "a thing" I corrected myself not really wanting admit that I have therapy so far the only people in this group that knew about the thing that happened is Axel.

They nodded "oh ok" Cleo says she sounded a little upset "I'm sorry, we can hang another time yeah" I say trying to make her a little happy "Louise, hurry up we go to go" I heard my brother behind me "ok, I gotta go bye" I say and walk to Ryder.

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I sat in an office for an hour doing absolutely nothing. She kept asking me questions and I kept changing the subject. I was in the car heading home now

I pulled out my phone and called Cleo just to talk to her. As soon as I got home I went to my room and continued to talk to Cleo until it was late and she was tired. I just layed there staring at the ceiling all night.