Forgotten Fates

Chapter Four

Finn

I walk Callie to class even though going up to that particular door makes me sick to my stomach. I should be walking my girlfriend Alice here. Not this girl. I shouldn't have even shown up at school today, but I still had hope that Alice could show up and I waited by her locker just in case in did. Which is where Callie found me and after a lecture about not answering her calls, she had sunk her claws into me once again. "See you at lunch?" she asks like we don't eat at the same spot every single day.

"Sure thing," I say and I lean down to kiss her even though I don't even want to, but for some reason can't help but do anyway. I watch her walk in to the room and my heart stops as a see a desk that had been empty all last week was now occupied. Then I lock eyes with the most beautiful blue iris on the most beautiful girl. "Alice," I breathe.

I am about to go in and ask her where she has been, not giving a damn that it's not even my class, but her teacher comes by and tells me to go, closing the door. I try to get her attention through the window but her gaze is locked on somebody else, and I notice Callie glaring at her from a few seats up. I know she is trying to intimidate Alice and I hate her even more for it. But my girl doesn't back down and throws shade right back at her. Except Alice manages to actually look scarier.

I pull out my phone to text her but some commotion inside gives me pause as one of the windows flings open and causes chaos to irrupt in the room. But things quickly settle and while the teacher is distracted, I send the message. I see her pull her phone out and check it, then chooses to not reply and my heart feels like it could break all over again.

I send another and this time she looks right at me. Then send another asking her to meet me out in the hall, but she shakes her head no and I feel like I was punched in the chest. I make one last attempt, this time telling her I love her, but she doesn't even bother to check the message and she doesn't look back up.

"Shouldn't you be in class Mr. Sawyer?" I see the principal marching toward me and I sigh as I head across the hall. I really don't want to bother with class but the teachers and principal have been very understanding with all my absences due to my sister. So, I don't want to push it.

I don't hear a thing the teacher says and the second the bell rings, I gather my things and head to the door wanting to catch Alice. I watch Paige come out of their classroom and shoot daggers at me, but my girl isn't with her.

I peek in and see Callie heading to the door and decide to make a run for it before she can try to stop me from looking and go to lunch with her. And then it hits me. I know exactly where my princess would go to hide.

I head to the girl's restroom.

Unfortunately, I don't get much of a chance to see if she will talk to me before I am found and dragged away against my will. Every part of my mind was screaming at me to stay and talk to Alice, but my body seems to go with Callie without much of fight. Then when I see her show up in the courtyard, I take a step in her direction and feel nails dig into my arm stopping me. "Stay here," Callie commands and it makes me seethe. Who is she to tell me where I can and can't go, or who I can or can't speak to. I open my mouth to tell her to shove it, but I can't seem to find the words and my jaw snaps shut.

I watch as Paige leaves and Alice makes her way to her spot on the wall and the need to go to her becomes overwhelming. I start to walk to her and I hear Callie call for me to stop, but this time I don't listen.

Not that it does me much good because Princess still won't talk to me.

I let her walk away and try to think of some way I can get her to explain to me what happened. I feel like she was about to talk in the bathroom before we were interrupted. I know she hates having eyes on her, so perhaps it's about her not wanting to make a scene. Maybe I just need to get her alone.

I jump off the wall and follow through the same doors she did and try to find her somewhere in the mostly empty halls. I check all the restroom and anywhere else I can think of but she doesn't seem to be anywhere. I look at the doors leading to the practice fields and remember the day the water fountain freaked out an soaked my crotch. Alice and Paige came in through those doors. I head that direction, but the bell rings and the halls begin to fill telling me time was up. At least I will see her at English.

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I end up being late. The principal calling me into to his office to talk about unnecessary tardies and not taking advantage of their leniency. I bite my tongue and don't mention the irony of his lecture currently causing me to be tardy. I don't want to end up in detention and miss out on getting to talk to Alice.

But when I finally make it to class I find that at least one good thing came from being late. Getting to see her face as I enter the classroom. She looks relieved to see me and it gives me hope to think that my absence affects her too.

She tries to spend the rest of the class pretending to ignore me, but I can see her struggling to keep her eyes adverted. I scribble out a note and sneak it onto her desk which she stares at like it's bomb before putting it in her pocket. I just have to hope she ends up reading it.

The clock moves incredibly slow the entire time I sit there willing class to be over so I can finally talk to her. And when the bell finally rings, as expected, she jumps up in lightning speed and rushes to the door. I was prepared for this, although I was not expecting my own books to get knocked onto the floor. I look around to see who managed to bump my desk and cause the avalanche, while I rush to pick them back up and sprint out the door. I head straight to her locker hoping to catch her but she isn't there, Paige however is at hers. I watch her pack up her bag while I stay at Alice's locker down the hall, but realize she isn't coming when I see my girl's purple backpack in Paige's arms.

I follow her out to the parking lot and ask her where Alice is. She claims not to know and I roll my eyes as I point to the backpack she was holding. I wait for her to answer then flinch when I hear my name being called. Reluctantly, I turn around to see Callie coming towards me and when I look back to Paige, she is already gone.

"What are you doing? I thought you were going to give me a ride to your house?" Callie pouts making her look seriously unattractive.

"I'm not going home, yet," I tell her flatly.

"Then maybe you could give me a ride home," she says running her fingers down my arm.

"Don't you have your own car?" I say and walk back inside the building to get my stuff and go home.

Of course I make a detour down Alice's street first, but I don't see her dad's truck or Paige's car in the driveway. I decide to head to my house and after checking in on a sleeping Zoey, I go straight to the roof to wait. She will come home eventually and I will know when she does. Then maybe I can get her to finally talk to me and tell me where she went. And the real reason why she left.