16 weeks of torture

Chapter 3 [guests]

Recap:
James met Alex after the argument and he eventually made his way home safely

[James' POV]

I walked down the stairs after changing into decent clothes and I spotted my mom mopping the floor extra much today. My head tilted in confusion as I stared at her. She caught me looking and smiled, "James dear, could you help me clean the house?
It has to be extra clean!" I nodded slowly at her before asking: "sure.. but why extra clean this time"
my mom stopped mopping and turned to me.
"Did you seriously forget?" I stayed silent before replying with; "forget what?" She sighed at me,
"we have special guests, remember?" My expression softened as I remembered that again,
I was busy think about that Alex guy that i completely forgot about our guests!
I took the mop from my mothers hands band gave her a polite smile as I started mopping the floors for her.

After what seemed like ages of cleaning the  house was finally clean. I flopped on top of my bed with numb hands, I let out a loud groan of annoyance. "These special guests better be worth it", I mumbled to myself before my eyes drifted away.

My alarm rang loudly, the sounds making my ears bleed. I rubbed my eyes and tried to convince my body to get out of my warm and comfortable bed but it was hard. I eventually sat up and rolled off my bed before I could've thought of getting second thoughts.

My decent clothes were dangling on the coat rack, they looked clean and wealthy, unlike how I actually am. I got up from the floor and stretched my arms and back, making me groan silently. "Okay.."
I mumbled to myself as I snatched the clothes off the rack and put them on.
My mom walked in and asked; "are you done dear? They're almost here", "yeah mom, in a second!"
I responded as I was tying my tie.

I heard the doorbell ring although I wasn't done yet with tying my tie, I tried to finish it off quickly.
On my way downstairs I bumped into a familiar figure. It seemed like.. Alex?! He turned around and gave me a surprised look "when I said see ya soon I didn't mean this soon.." he admitted as his surprised expression was slowly turning back to regular.
My mom and his mom came to us they both smiled widely. "You guys remember each other?", My mom asked excited. "Uh.. we met yesterday in the rain?" Her smile and his moms smile faded
"you guys met before, don't you remember?? You guys were childhood friends!" His mom said. I scratched my neck in confusion "who?.." I asked silently.

Alex looked at me and chuckled.
"I'm the kid you were gonna meet up with at the park, now remember?" My eyes widened in shock as his exact words sent a wave of nostalgic and odd memories. "We'll leave you two alone now.." the moms said as they awkwardly left.

I couldn't look him in the eyes. "Why did you leave me that day??", I watched as Alex's smile slowly faded away , "right.." he said "I'll explain once we sit down, is that okay?" I looked at him for a few seconds before nodding and leading him to the stair case wich led to my bedroom. We went inside the room and took a seat, I was on the bean bag and he was on the chair for my desk. There was an awkward silence until he started talking.

"I'm so awfully sorry.. I was so excited to see you for a last time and tell you how i was leaving the weak after!.. until my mom told me we urgently had to leave due to an emergency... I'm so awfully sorry for that day.. please forgive me!", he said with his hands wrapped around his face in frustration.
I slowly pulled down his hands and gave him a warm smile. "I'm just happy I got to see you again..!"
He smiled as he instantly hugged me tightly. I couldn't help but feel something sharp against me and exactly when he stopped hugging me, the sharp feeling instantly faded.. odd but I shouldn't be waisting my time thinking about this..

(Sorry for not updating in a while😭🙏)