England to America

9-Remembering

I woke up and turned my alarm off, its finally Friday! I walked into my bathroom and quickly showered. I then went back out into my bedroom, I padded over to my wardrobe. I took out my black rolling stones hoodie, I pulled on my black ripped jeans and tied my hair up in a ponytail. I walked downstairs and saw Alex sitting at the island in the middle. I grabbed an apple and sat down in across from him.

"You need to eat more than that" He said sternly

I chose to ignore him, I can eat what I want, he doesn't rule me.

"Stop ignoring me, you know what happened last time" He said

I winced, remembering what happened last time. I got down from the table, I didn't have to take this. I got on my converse and swung my back pack over my shoulder. I felt his hand on my shoulder, I turned around and he said with a softened tone "Please, I don't want it to happen again"

"I know but-" I began but was interrupted by a knock at the door.

I opened the door and saw Jacob, he gave me a smile and looked at Alex.

"Come in" I said politely giving him a small smile

"Well, I was wondering if you would both like to come with me to school?"

"Yeah, that would be great, let me just get my stuff" Alex quickly said so that I couldn't intervene. I was still a bit angry with him for bringing my eating disorder up. But believe me when I say, I can't, cannot and won't hold grudges against people. Me and Jacob stood there awkwardly, I think he could tell that something was off, but fortunately he didn't ask. Alex came back downstairs and we walked to school. Alex and Jacob talked but I didn't contribute, I was thinking.

Why can't I just eat properly?

Is it really that hard?

But I already knew the answer to that. Its hard for me. I'm going to try eating a bit more. Its just I don't want to.

But I will I have to.

We got to school and I went to my locker, I looked at my timetable. German. Great, I'm good at that. Not even being sarcastic. I felt someone wrap their arms around my neck and pull into their chest. It was Alex. I turned around and hugged him back. I still love him. He kissed me on my head and gave me a little squeeze. Then he whispered "Please try, for me, for Mum, for Dad, for Sam"

"I will" I whispered back

He let me go and I smiled at him, then he said goodbye and I shut my locker and went to German. When I arrived the teacher smiled at me and said "Hallo und herzlich willkommen auf Deutsch. Wie heißt du?"

I then answered giving her my name "Mein Name ist Evie"

She then said that I spoke well and that I am very fluent and that she looked forward to having me in her class "Sie sind ein sehr fließend Lautsprecher, Ich freue mich darauf, Sie in meiner Klasse."

Then I heard someone mutter "Showoff"

I said thank you to the teacher and went to sit down. I sat right at the back, furthest away from Queen Bee. Joe came in and greeted Miss Schmidt then caught my eye and came to sit next to me. I smiled at him and he smiled back. Miss started the lesson, I can already speak it fluently so its quite easy. I still get dyslexia though, which sucks. Joe helps me with the reading and I help him with translations and speaking, and well, just German in general.

As we had a double we had lunch afterwards. I got a chicken wrap and a bottle of water, hoping that Alex wouldn't say something stupid. Me and Joe made our way towards our table and sat down, we were the only ones there. 

"So what hobbies do you have?" Joe asked curiously

"Umm, I like drawing, I like sports... Oh and I like video gaming. What about you?"

"I like video gaming, I also love cooking!" He replied

"Cool! I like cooking but I don't really do it as a hobby"

Everyone else gradually came and filled up our table, Alex sat on the other side of me but he didn't make any comments which was good. After lunch I had maths then art, I had a lot of fun in art and I worked hard in maths. Me, Alex and Jacob walked home, after we said goodbye to Jacob, Alex said to me "Thank you for eating a little more at lunch"

"Thanks for not telling anyone" I replied

"About that..." He started

"Oh my gosh Alex!" I turned around and began to walk but he carried on

"Jacob overheard us arguing and when he asked me about it, I confirmed. I'm really sorry"

"Promise not to tell anyone else" I said

"I promise"

"Then we're okay, just please don't confirm it for anyone else"

"I know, I know, I promised"

I walked inside and went upstairs. I did all my homework getting it out of the way and started drawing some manga comics, Mum got home so I went downstairs to help her with the cooking. We ate dinner and Alex did the washing up. I played a bit of Minecraft with Alex then we went to bed.