Pure Innocence.

Chapter two.

Aayda

After me and Lilla got home last night we got popcorn and watched a movie with her mom. I have always loved Maggs. She was always an emotional mother figure for me when my mom didn't know how too. My mom was always good at the providing all my needs physically but mentally she was never there fully. After I got into my teens it really made an effect on me and that is when Maggs came in. 

After about an hour into the movie we all fell asleep. I was having a good dream about being an author and doing right alongside my best friend when she rudely decided to wake me up in the meanest way. With a pillow to my head and an ache in my nose I yelled "What the hell Lils!". All I could hear was giggles and when I finally opened my eyes there was a camera in my face and the sound of the picture being taken. The the ache in my nose plus the embarrassment I would feel if that photo got out over took me and I grabbed my pillow and started beating  her as much as you could beat someone with a pillow, and after and only after I think she has had my wrath I throw the pillow towards the coach and let myself breathe in the fresh scent of my favorite tea. "Oh my gosh! You made me tea! I love you! I love you! I love you!" I screamed through the house as I helped my best friend off the ground which I pushed her too while beating her with a pillow.

Lilla looked at me as I made us both a cup of tea and went to go sit outside with a book until we felt like living enough to start our day. And that only took about thirty minutes before we went inside and got ready to go to the gym. My legs hurt so bad and I know that todays upper body workout is going to make me want to lay in bed all day tomorrow but oh well. After I put on my gym fit I call Max and tell him I'm going to the school gym with Lilla because we don't want to deal with people today and he needs to come and make sure we finish our workout or decide in the middle to fit legs again, because me and Lilla are very known for doing that and we don't even care.

After we get to the school we settle in and stretch before we start our three mile warm-up, one mile walking, one mile jogging, one mile walking. But in the middle of my second mile I see the whole hockey team walk in. "you've got to be kidding me." I say under my breathe as I stop my treadmill. Lil had her headphones on and didn't hear me but I could see the confused look on her face when I stopped mid warm-up but as soon as she saw the guys she understood and followed my lead.

I walk up to my stuff and start gathering it trying to stay quiet so the boys don't hear or see me and so far I'm doing great, until I hear my best friend Max yell from the hallway " I swear to god Ayd if Lils talked you into legs again on arm day I'm forbidding Corey from ever making you her famous Mac&Cheese- " and right as I hear his yelling stop I look at the door and see him looking at what I am. The whole hockey team was taking there gear off and changing so they could get a workout in after practice now all staring at him. Then at the same time me and Max's eyes land on each others and the travel to the one person we both never wanted to see again.  Miles Blair.

Thirty minutes later

As I'm walking into our local public gym I skip stretching again and go straight for my last mile and a half. Lils is on my left doing the same as me but with a worried expression on her face and when I look at Max he is doing the same. As I continue my workout I am doing so many reps with so many sets that I can barely feel my arms but I keep pushing. All I'm doing is trying to forget all the memories that come flashes in when I have to see his face again.

After spending way to much time at the gym I head home with Lilla. The whole ride is silent and that is only because I can't deal with noise when I'm like this and Lilla knows that. When we get home I tell Lilla I'm getting in the shower and she nods. I walk in the bathroom and just look in the mirror and all I can see is myself from that day and I look away, I can't see her anymore it hurts too bad. I strip and get in the shower turning the water on cold so I can wake up and be in the world again inside of floating in my head with my thoughts. 

After my shower I get dressed and head out to the living room to find Lilla reading on the coach, I can smell she made a fresh pot of tea so I go in and get me and her a mug of it. I set a mug in her cup holder and one in mine and get up to get my book while it cools off. When I get back I sit and start reading.

Reading has always been my escape, sometimes the gym but mostly reading. I liked the fact I could go into some else's world and see and feel everything that they do. It stops me from feeling my emotions and lets me start feeling someone else's. From the time I was thirteen I have always used reading as a form of escape, whether it was from somebody, something, or simply myself. I have never felt like I was drowning when I was reading, I was floating above the water, peaceful and fearless. That's why I never wanted to put a book down, because I wanted to continue some ones else's story not mine.

After reading for hours and makes a couple more cups of tea I'm okay. I start too make dinner for me, Lilla, and all the rest of her family, and after about twenty minutes Lilla comes into the kitchen to help chop veggies for soup. Whenever I have a bad day I always make a soup because it is my favorite type of food. 

After everything is thrown in the pot me and Lilla go sit down on the coach and talk about what our next week will look like at school, the gym, and at home. It's going to be my dads weeks since alternate weeks between Lilla's house and my dads house. We made this schedule a year ago when I Maggs decided she loved me enough to have be in her house fifty percent of the time. When I moved out of my moms I was fully planning on staying with my dad full time but then Maggs swooped in and told me to replace the time at my moms with time at her house and I happily agreed. 

As our conversation is ending Lilla just says the words that comfort me the most " I know seeing him brings back everything but you have to let yourself heal so you don't hurt so much. I love you babes." and she walks off. 

This is why she is my best friend because I would be pissed if anyone else ever said that to me.

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A/N: So that is chapter two for you guys please let me know if you like it and please send me feedback!!

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Okay, I love you babes see yall later!!