The Bolter | Walker Scobell

Chapter 23

"Mel I'm so sorry, all that sounds horrible" I blinked and felt a tear escape from the corner of my eye

"Yeah" he caught the tear that was running down the side of my face making me close my eyes to hold in even more tears from coming. I sniffled and let out a breath nodding my head a little "I'm sorry Walker" I sat up and wiped my eyes sighing "I know that you didn't want to know all that and look, I understand if you think that I'm too problematic and weird now I seriously understand and you don't need to feel bad at all" I finally turned my head to him and saw him just eyeing me, I tried reading his expression without any luck and then I felt his arm wrap around me

I didn't expect that at all, I thought he might just get up and leave immediately or awkwardly spend the little time we had left before his mother there was picking him up, but I really liked the hug

Walkers hugs felt so... homey somehow... so safe, as if he was going to protect me from all the bad things happening in my life

I wrapped my arms around him too after taking it in for a moment

"I'm not going anywhere Mel" I smiled into the hug at his words and closed my eyes he's not going anywhere

"Thank you, for all of it" we let go after a while and just kept sitting on the floor, I felt a little squeeze on my hand and just then realised that he was still holding my hand, I looked down at our hands and smiled a little, I felt his thumb run over my palm again

"So about that scar...?"

"Remember my sisters sleepover ?" He nodded "the day before the sleepover my mom suddenly came into our house and she dropped a glass and I cut my hand while trying to clean it up. It was so stupid, Cole told me I was about to cut my hand and I was like no that's so stupid who would cut their hands at this and then I literally cut my hand as I was talking"

"The classic" he was smiling, I never thought I would feel this comfortable talking to someone about this but he made it so easy

"Yeah, I didn't think anyone would notice a scar on my palm if we're honest here" I laughed slightly shaking my head, he looked like he wanted to say something but he didn't

"Does your eye still hurt ?" his expression got more worried looking at me and he moved his hand up to my face

"A little, it's fine though"

"I think you're gonna have a black eye"

"That'll make me look like a badass at least" he laughed a little

"You don't really give badass vibes Mel"

"Ouch"

"No, not in a bad way. You're too sweet to be a badass, you're the cute, nice girl that everyone adores" my heart stopped at his words, he thought I was cute and nice ?

I suddenly grew very aware about how close we actually were. Our faces were just inches apart and his hand was still on my face, the other one remaining in my hand

I felt like my heart was about to jump out of my chest because of just the whole situation

He brushed a piece of hair behind my ear while I just tried to keep my cool and control my breathing

I suddenly forgot how to breath normally and my heart was hammering against my chest so loudly, I was almost scared that he would hear it

I was mesmerised by his eyes, the more I looked at them the more I wanted to never look away, my eyes slowly wandered down to his lips, they looked so soft and I couldn't help wondering what they would feel like

Wait... was this actually happening ? I looked up at his eyes again and saw them looking at my lips and then back up at my eyes and back at my lips

And then his lips were on mine. His hand was cupping my cheek and his lips were on mine.

Walker freaking Scobell is my first kiss.

I felt like I was dreaming, like I would wake up and all of this would've never happened

The kiss felt amazing, I never wanted to let go of his lips again, the butterflies in my stomach were going crazy and all I could think about was that I was kissing Walker.

I kept my eyes closed just a second longer after we pulled away and then I just looked at him, he was smiling his hand still on my cheek

I didn't know what to say, no matter how hard I tried to think not a single thought would be found in my brain in this moment

He looked down hearing his phone ringing to look who it was

"That's- uh that's my mom..."

"Oh" Oh ?! That's all I could say ? Oh ?

"I have to go, I'll text you" I nodded watching him get up

"Yeah" Yeah ?! Could I stop being so stupid ?!

I watched him leave out of the garden door, look back once and smile at me before closing the door behind himself, I heard a car pulling away seconds later figuring it must've been them

I didn't get up when he left, I laid back down and tried to process all that had just happened here

But after all of what happened the only thought in my mind was still I just kissed Walker

Authors note:
Woah... so this happened 😁
Someone get me a Walker rn or I'm going to lose my mind 😪💔
Anyways, so here's the thing: I'm going on a school trip Monday- Wednesday and I'm not entirely sure how that gonna go and how much (or if) I'm going to be able to write while I'm there so it might be a possibility that I won't post anything those days which I'm really sorry for
I always try to post at least every other day when i don't get to do it daily but this is a kinda different situation 😬
Well this has happened the second time now and I'm about to lose my mind, I finished the chapter last night and forgot to post it 😭😭