I wiped my tears and tried to sound normal, but then I decided not to speak. I'm good at that. Justin is still on the phone, but he heard someone walk and he's muted.
I open the stall door slowly and step out and I wave bye to Justin and hang up.
"B-Brendon..hi." I say wiping a tear off my cheek.
He offers me a tissue that he obviously got from a roll of toilet paper. "Thanks..why are you in the girls bathroom.." I giggle slightly
He smiles and runs his hand through his hair.
"Well I know what it's like to be the new kid and have no friends." He chuckles "woah hold on now I have friends." I laugh acting offended. Brendon smiles and helps me off the floor. "Come on let's get you to class." He says leading me out the door. It was 5 minutes after the bell rang so we're both really late. "Um Brendon we're really late don't you think we will get a detention or something." I ask looking around to see if any teachers were still out standing by their doors. Brendon shrugs and keeps walking. Every now and then I notice him looking at me and I instantly get butterflies. I don't know why he is making me feel this way.. I barely know this kid. Next thing I know we were walking outside and I didn't even notice us walk out the back doors of the school. "Brendon!? What are you doing !!" I say letting go of his hand that was all sweaty from holding mine for so long. "Oh I probably should've asked you, but um do you just wanna skip?" He says running his hand through his hair. That's a terrible stupid idea?! "Why not." I say smiling a little bit. Next thing I know I'm getting a call from my brother. I tell Brendon i have to take it and I walk off a little bit.
Me: "Hello?"
Justin: "Hey are you okay? "
Me: "Yeah Im fine now.."
Justin: "Do you still need me to come get you?"
Me: "No it's fine I'm with a friend."
I look at Brendon when I say that and instantly feel guilty for calling him my friend even though we never really said we were.
Me: "Um well I think he's my friend."
Justin: "HE??"
I laugh and that catches Brendon's attention
Justin: "You better not bring any boys to the house!! "
Me: " Yeah yeah shut up bye love you." I say hanging up and walking back over to Brendon.
"Hey! Have you ever smoked before?" He asks me. "Um no." I sound very innocent but it's true. He offers me a blunt. "How do you..?" I get cut off by him lighting it and grabbing it from me. He takes a drag and makes it look so easy. He then explains to me how to do it. "It's simple just try it.. of course! Only if you want to don't feel pressured." He smiles and I take a go at it and instantly start coughing . That made him laugh. Sooner then later we're sitting behind the school smoking. Well he's smoking I tried it and didn't like it. "So how long have you lived here?" I ask him
"Well I was raised in Vegas until 4 years ago." When he speaks he fidgets with his hands but the weed relaxed him, and I could tell. "What about you? Why did you move?" He asks me looking into my eyes. "Um well like I said earlier my parents died and my brother lived here, so he didn't want to move back to Vegas.." I started to tear up but I was interrupted. "You lived in Vegas too? " Brendon asks smiling softly at me. "Y-yeah I did." I say starting to fidget with my hands. Brendon smiles and squeezes my knee before getting up and offering his hand to help me up. "Come on we can't just be druggies behind the school." He laughs still holding my hand as we walk towards some trees behind the school. "You better not kill me.." I joke not even noticing that I'm actually having fun. Brendon pulls me by my hand into the woods and doesn't even look behind him. I blush because it's not like he's not attractive. My thoughts get interrupted when Brendon stops and speaks to me. "Did you hear me?" He asks again smiling. "Oh yeah sorry." I smile awkwardly "it's fine so if you want to we can watch the sunset if that would calm you down?" He suggests "oh yeah s-one sec it's my brother." I say answering my phone.
Justin: Where are you??
Me: I'm in a forest with a friend.
Justin: A forest?! With a stranger Jesus Mary.
Me: He's not a stranger
Justin: HE??!
Me: well yeah am I not aloud to make friends?
Justin: Whatever just get home now!!
Me: ok love you bye
-ends call-
Brendon heard the while conversation and is laughing and blushing. "Hey sorry I got to go my brothers freaking out." I smile rubbing the back of my neck.
"No problem do you need a ride?" He offers "oh it's fine! You don't have to." I argue "no no I insist." He smiles that damn soft smile. I give in and he leads me back to the school and into the parking lot. I guess I didn't even notice how late it was. "Time flies by when your in that forest ." He says starting the car. I laugh and watch him start the car up. We drive around until I remember what block I lived on. He pulls into my driveway and puts the car in park. " Hey that was really fun...u-um would you wanna go get coffee or um anything sometime?" I spit out Brendon's eyes get big. "O-oh I'm sorry that was stupid thanks for the ride I'll see at school." I say shutting the door and crossing my arms and quickly walking up to the door. My wrist gets grabbed and I turn around to see Brendon. I don't say anything and just move the hair out of my face. "I would love that." He smiles and he's still grabbing my wrist. I blush and he notices because he smiles and he looks at his converse. "I'll see you tomorrow Mary." He says as he walks back to his car. I just stand there and blush I'm so red. I try and soit words out but i cant speak. Brendon waves as he drives off and all I can do is wave back but I quickly run inside. And go straight to my plain boring room. I fall asleep on my bed and keep thinking about my new friend.
