Chase, My Step Brother

Chapter Eighteen - The Knee Discovery

School couldn't have come any quicker in fact I was glad to head back to school, being in a house with Chase not talking to me or even acknowledging me was the most painful thing to ever experience. He was so childish sometimes. We had managed to avoid each other with ease causing no awkward moments thankfully. I pulled into the school securing a good park being super early. I was a little too eager to leave home. I gathered my stuff and headed for the library as it would be the only building opened at this time, and it was a tad cold outside. I found myself a table and decided to read over some notes from class but was interrupted by the sound of a groan and a book being thrown across the floor with a loud bang. Curiosity took over me and I got up from my seat and peeked around the corner but was surprised by who I saw.

"Liam" I found myself mumbling loud enough for him to hear with his head bolting up to me, he looked tired as if he had lack of sleep and worry plagued his usually calm face.

"Liv" he attempted to throw me a smile but it was completely fake. I strolled over to him picking the book off the ground and placing it It in front of him.

"You okay?" It was a simple question but Liam looked like he was struggling to respond before he loudly sighed.

"No everything is wrong" his head collapsed into his hands in defeat.

"I'm failing classes" he glanced up to me which shocked me completely. Liam was the only one of us that had the perfect academic record. He was the smart one of the group but this was all new to me.

"Failing? How can you being failing when you have the perfect score thus far" I took a seat opposite him.

"I'm failing because of football, when we aren't training were playing games and when we aren't playing games were partying and when we aren't partying I'm hung over. My dad went ballistics at me threatening to kick me out of home if my grades don't improve and coach is threatening to stand me down also but I feel like I've missed so much. This is too much pressure, I can't afford to be kicked out of home nor the football team, this year was finally different and I was making something of myself and now it's about to crash right in front of me and I don't know what to do because I don't understand any of these stupid
assignments" I had never seen him look so angry before he literally was boiling.

"Liam it's okay I'll help you" I assured him but he still looked unsure.

"Look here is my study notes take them I don't really need them" I smiled lightly.

"You sure?"

"Positive now take them please" I pushed them towards him.

"Thanks Liv you are a good friend"

"No problem. Now pass me your study book and I'll add some notes from the top of my head" before I knew it we had studied together for a full hour,nit had been so long since we both had studied. It was nice, and I felt better knowing that he was prettying much up to speed with everything. The bell rang startling us both signalling first period.

"Thank you so much Liv your a good friend" he smiled his goofy smile at me.

"No problem and if you need anymore help I'm more than happy to help you" I beamed brightly.

"Seriously though thank you so much, I owe you big time" with simple smiles we gathered our things and he walked me to class. We hugged before I went into the classroom and he took off to his.

"There she is" Julie smirked chirping as I took the seat next to her.

"Your wearing a scarf on a beautiful day like today? Why?" Realisation hit me and the reminder of the hickey on my neck.