Just Friends

22

I quickly sat up in my bed with sweat dripping from my face and my breathing heavy.

It's been about a week since I found out Hayes and Kendall were both leaving and I keep having the same nightmare. Once Kendall leaves, she forgets about me and Hayes starts dating someone else.

I felt the grip around my waist tighten and Hayes sat up next to me. "Are you okay babe?" He asked in a raspy whisper and I nodded while standing up.

"Where are you going?" He asked me and I wiped the sweat off my head from the nightmare. "I just need some air. I'm going for a walk." I said with absolutely no emotion.

"Not at 2 in the morning you're not. Let's just sit on the roof." He said and stood next to me. He held my hand and lead me out my window and we stepped onto the roof.

We laid our backs against it and I looked at the sky as a hundred scenarios of the day they leave me went through my head, and each one ends in me and Hayes breaking up.

I know it will probably happen because we are only 15 and I'm not prepared for a long distance relationship. Like Hayes said, the high school might not be that far away, but it's far enough.

And as for Kendall, I don't even know how I'll get through anything without her.

I shook the worrying thoughts out of my head and Hayes spoke after a while of just laying there.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" He asked quietly and cautiously, almost as if he was afraid I would break at any second.

"Im scared." I blurted out. "Why would you be scared?" He asked me and I waited a little before answering.

"Because the two most important people in my life are leaving me and I don't know what to do." I sighed and he scooted closer to me and wrapped his arms around my waist, nuzzling his face in the crook of my neck.

"I'll never leave you." He mumbled against my neck and placed a soft kiss.

"But you are." I whispered; he was still able to hear me. "I might be going to a high school a few hours away but I'm definitely not leaving you. I will always be with you every step of the way. I'm always a text or call away, Sam. Just please don't shut me out when I leave." He said, quietly saying the last sentence.

"I won't shut you out, just don't forget me." I said and he chuckled deeply. "I couldn't even if I tried." He said and I smiled.

"I'm ready to go back to sleep." I yawned and he stood up with me as we walked back in.

"Goodnight my love." He mumbled and kissed the top of my head once we got into bed. I smiled at the fact that he called me that because he has a lot of cute nicknames for me, but my love was never one of them.

I drifted to a peaceful sleep for the first time in a long time.

I awoke the next morning and dreaded going to school. I was thinking about asking Nila to let me stay home, but it was the last day so I sucked it up.

I sat up and stretched as Hayes' arms were still wrapped around my waist. He sat up next to me and set his head on my shoulder.

I smiled at the cute gesture and eventually rolled out of bed.

I wanted to wear something cute for the last day of school, but most of my clothes were at home with the women who let me get hit.

I decided I would just walk over there and hopefully she left for work already. I told Hayes and after five minutes of us arguing about whether or not he was coming with me, he stayed home to get ready.