Never Let Me Go

chapter 2

I was looking around to find where the scream came from. I could see all of the other parents, the boys, and the kids start walking over to a specific spot on the soccer feild.

I followed close behind.

When I finally could see who let out the startling scream, I panicked. Casey was on the ground holding her foot. She looked up at me with tears rimming her eyes, and rolling down her face. He cheeks were pink, along with her nose.

"Casey! What happened?" I asked rushing to her side. "I stepped on a bee!" She waled, and starting to cry some more. All of the other parents started to walk away not wanting to have anything to do with me, and the kids, being kids just kept on playing but the boys stayed.

They didn't go away, or make fun of her, or me, they just stayed. The tall one with the lip ring knelt down beside me. "Hey, your name is Casey right?" He asked her. He had a soft voice, with a thick Australian accent. Casey nodded.

"I'm Luke, that is Calum, that is Ashton, and this is Michael. I hear that you hurt your foot." He said kindly. "Yeah, and it really hurts!" She said. I could tell she was starting to like Luke. "Oh that's not good! Can you show me where it hurts?" He asked.

She pointed to a spot on the bottom of her foot. You could see a small stinger where she pointed. "Oh that looks painful, but I think I can fix it." He said, then pulled out a credit card. He quickly turned around, and said to the other boys, "Hey, can you go find Ryan?"

Wait...was there another guy?

"Ok we will be right back" the one named Ashton said, and all three of the boys walked away. Calum turned around, caught eye contact with me and winked. It wasn't a playful wink it was a "hey I think you are hot" kind of wink.

I just ignored it and focused on Casey, but when I turned around Luke was putting away his credit card, and Casey was standing up and running off to go play again.

"Thank you, so much." I said to Luke as we got up from the moist grass. "Anytime" he said with a smile. Soon a little boy with dirty blonde hair came running up to Luke. "Hey Ryan." Luke said. The three boys came up to us a few seconds later.

"Well I should be going." I said stepping away, but then Calum grabbed my arm and gently pulled me back.

"Hey, I was wondering if I could get your number?" He said. I glanced at Luke. He was staring at Calum. Luke saw that I was looking at him and quickly looked away. "Sure." I said. I gave him my number, and grabbed Casey, and we left.