Pure Innocence.

Chapter six.

Xander

I woke up thinking about her and if I might see her at school today. Small part of me wants to not think about her anymore and leave it alone but my mind just takes over with thoughts of her.

I go and wake up Stasia and then head downstairs with her to make breakfast, this has been our morning routine for about a year now, she wouldn't sleep through the night so when I get up at 4 to go to get ready for practice i grab her so mom can have a couple hours of sleep, she would sit on my bed or crawl around the room following me as I got ready but now she try's to help. Now she is sleeping better so when she wakes up at 5:30 I already have my stuff packed and just grab her and make breakfast. When we get done with breakfast i take her up to one of my brothers, they have a schedule for who wakes up early throughout the week. I leave by 6 and normally get breakfast and coffee but today I'm feeling a before practice stretch and running coming.

I get to the school and go to the locker room to put up my stuff and then head  to the weight room. I put in my music and start stretching and realize I have 45 minutes til the guys start to show up so I hop on the treadmill.

I'm running to my music and start to think about her again. Her blonde hear that is speckled with brunette lowlights, her eyes that have a mix of blue and gray, the way she stood with all her weight on one leg while the other was crossed over it, the way she started to bite her bottom lip but then realized I could see her so her started chewing the inside of her cheek.

Oh my god I need to snap out of this shit. But the thing is I don't want to, I want to think about her and know everything about her. But it would never work out, my parents got very lucky. Being able to fall in love and be in a mafia isn't easy and rarely ever happens.

I hit mile three without even noticing and hit my runners high. I'm still thinking about her and vibing to my music.

I'm close to hitting five and a half miles when Lucas comes up to me and taps me on the shoulder letting me know I need to go and get ready for practice now or coach will have us skating lines til we puke. We know from experience. Last week coach has us do it  and I think we would quit or kill ourselves before doing that again.

I go into the locker room and start to get dressed when coach peeks out of his office and calls me in, this can't be good, i look at Lucas and he looks just as worried as he would if I told him he had to watch Stasia all alone for a week. He is good with her for a day but even that is pushing it. He loves her and she loves him but he doesn't know how to handle crying and that's what Stasia does when she wants something and he can't quite understand her gibberish as well as me and my brothers can.

As soon as I walk in he gives me and hand signal to close the door and i do, this is worse than I thought. When the door closes he starts talking "so how is your head? Will you have to take a break or take it easy or are you good to play?" Oh wow this is what this is about? I thought he was about to tell me one of our starters died or something.

"Yeah I'm fine coach, doctors said with the concussion I need to take it easy but I won't listen. They make all that stuff up to get you off the ice." It's true, at least kinda.

"Okay but if anything else serious comes up you better tell me. Can't be having my captain out for longer than he needed to be." And with that I'm dismissed.

I walk out of his office and everyone looks terrified and I just burst out laughing and finish getting ready for practice.

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That was one of the funnest practices I have had in a long time. We strimaged the whole time and coach finally let me and Lucas be on the same team. Normally we are the captains but Me and Miles were captains today. I have never liked him, he always throws parties and gets way to drunk, and when he is drunk he is annoying, when he is sober he is less annoying but still not chill enough for me to be around for a long period of time. Me and Lucas won of course and then that was practice.

I head to the locker room and wait for all the guys to shower before I hop in and then quickly get dressed for school. Grey Nike sweats with a matching hoodie, and cream white yeezy slides. I hate dressing in anything but a sweat-suit for school because I sleep through all my classes anyway. I have always kept good grades with help from Youtube every so often but that's all.

I walk into Science and sit down at my assigned seat. The teacher is always about fifteen minutes late so that's great, I have have to stay awake until she takes attendance. While I wait I get out my computer and decide I want to do a little hacking and see what classes Aayda is in. 

I hack into the schools database and search her name and then see that she is supposed to be in this class and immediately my head shoots up and I start looking around for her and when I realize she isn't in here I count how many seats are empty and there is only one and it is right in front of me. How blind and stupid can I possibly be? She has literally been right in front of me this whole time.

I check and see we have two more classes together and the only one we don't is gym. That makes sense because I have to be awake during that one and im a teenage boy so I do look at the girls but I find none of them attractive even though they have all tried to get in my pants at one point or another. Yes, I have slept with two women before, one was when I was in a relationship and I lost my V-card and the other I just got broken up with and got super drunk and slept with a girl at a bar and she actually ghosted me afterwards. But people think I sleep around but honestly it's close to the opposite.

I snap out of my thoughts when I hear the door open and the teacher walks in, she says good morning and then starts attendance, when she calls my name I say 'here' and then put my laptop away and lay my head down to sleep.

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After another class of her not being here I get curious and try and find someone that might know where she is so I look up her socials and the only thing she has is instagram and so I look on there.  Holy shit she is so beautiful. I already knew that but when I saw her she was nervous and had bags under her eyes from waiting for me to get out of surgery. In these photos she looks unbothered and calm. She is amazing. Shit, i need to snap out of this so I keep scrolling til I see a girl and a boy, the same ones from the gym. There tagged accounts say there games are Max and Lilla. Okay let's start out hunt.

I walk in the lunch room and start looking but I can't stop them. When I turn around I see them sitting at a table talking and walk over their. "I was wandering where Aayda is." I say before I even think.

They both look at me and Lilla talks first "not to sound rude but why do you care?"

"She wasn't in class today and I wanted to know if she was safe."

"Well she took a personal day she will be back tomorrow." Max tells me.

"Okay thank you." and i walk away left to wander what the fuck her is doing on a 'personal day'.

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Hello babes!! This is another chapter and it was going to have more than his in it but it would take the size of a whole nother chapter so Im going to save it for tomorrow!

I will have between 2-4 chapters out tomorrow for you guys so get prepared!!

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Love you babes and I will see you in the next chapter!!