Little Whale

Chapter 7: Egg McMuffins always put a smile on my face

 Ever since the incident in my bedroom Derek hadn't shown up or even texted me. Was I a terrible kisser? Did I freak him out because I pushed too hard? Great, I knew I shouldn't have kissed him. How stupid was I? He probably had Jessa! The only person I had been getting messages from was Josh. Did he not get the hint that I didn't want to talk to him?

 My mom didn't trust me going to school with my 'major' injuries. I tried to tell her it was just some bruises, but to her that meant if I got my heart rate up enough it would explode and I'd be dead. So every day for the rest of the week Ash had been coming by with my homework and teaching me things I'd missed in class. I was so grateful to have a friend like her.

 "Mom it's Friday. Can't I go to school and turn all my work in? Look even the bruises has subsided!" I offered. In reality I had just put a ton of foundation on my face to hide the bruises, I sort of resembled a cake with too much icing.

 "Okay, but only because it's a half day and I don't want you to fail." she broke. I grinned. I never knew I could be this happy to go to school. If you stayed in bed watching the same reruns of Friends on TV you would understand how boring it was. I needed to feel the warmth of the sun on my skin again, to interact with other human beings, to get yelled at by my teacher!

 I quickly snatched my car keys from the dish on the kitchen counter and swung open the front door. My body slammed into a brick wall and I fell down my porch step grabbing onto a cotton material.

 "Crap!" I yelled. I opened my eyes from my impact only to see the brick wall I had run into was only Derek.

 "Watch it speedy, you almost killed yourself," Derek chuckled. He was towering over me, looks like I'm too heavy from him to catch. He gave me a smirk and brushed himself off before offering me a hand. I rolled my eyes and placed my palm into his. With a hard yank I was on my feet and picking up my school bag.

 "Why are you here?" I asked him. He hadn't talked to me for a week but he can show up to my house whenever he wanted to?

 "Your mom said I needed to drive you to school," He told me. I rolled my eyes, my mother sure was something. I stuffed my car keys into my school bag and followed Derek to his car. He wasn't talking to me still, it felt extremely awkward.

 Throughout the car ride it was completely silent beside the low radio and the sound of the cars engine. I peeked over at Derek to see his hands were firmly gripped onto the steering wheel and eyes focusing on the road in front of him. His chest was slightly rising and falling every couple of seconds. Derek look over towards me and I quickly averted my gaze to his door window as if that was what I had been looking at the whole time. Derek gave out a quiet chuckle and his arms visibly relaxed. Suddenly Jessa popped into my mind. I was so tempted to ask about who she was.

 "What's on your mind?" Derek asked.

  "Who's Jessa?" I shot back. I quickly covered my mouth. I didn't mean to say that. Why did I always say things I didn't want to say! I snuck a look at Derek only to see his head was hung down low. I realized then that we were parked in the school lot. Derek took in a deep breath.

 "How do you know who Jessa is," Derek's voice was stiff and robotic like. I couldn't break my gaze away from his face, I noticed his jaw tick and pulse.

 "Who is Jessa," I asked again. This time Derek looked over at me. His face held no emotion.

 "I'm not talking about this with you. That is my business and you have no reason to want to know," Derek droned.

 "Seems like it should be my goddamn business considering you basically made out with me and told me I affected you, then on the phone tell someone you aren't going to cheat of your precious little Jessa. Are you seeing someone and just stringing me along like a stray bitch?" My voice was tough and loud, I was getting completely annoyed and frustrated. My eyes were watering and I didn't even know why. Derek's face formed into a pissed off expression.