Chapter 3

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I wake up by the sunlight shining through my window, Kaci is still sleeping so I head downstairs.

"Well good morning". My mother says sarcastically. "Mhm". I said. I don't feel like arguing so I don't really say much. "You could at least say a full sentence to me, I am your mother." She tries to start an argument, which I didn't want. "No, I'm good. I'd rather not say anything to the person that blames me for my brothers death." I snap at her. "W-what?" She cant speak.

I roll my eyes and walk back upstairs. Kaci is in the bathrom singing to herself so I go in my closet and get dressed. I put on my black tanktop-croptop with my white jeans and dark green jacket. I tie up my brown boots and walk into the bathroom. "Hey, I gottta do my make-up." I say to her as I open the bathroom door. Shes nods her head, scoots over and finishes doing her make-up. "How um, how are you doing?" She looks at me. "Fine?" I look at her confused. "I heard you and your mom arguing downstairs." She says. "Oh. I don't wanna talk about it." I tell her, I don't feel like talking about my mother rn. "Ok." She holds up her hands and then finishes her make-up.

When we were done we headed to school in her car. She took the long path to school because the short path is the one me and Mike took. We got to school and walked into the building. "Hey Mariah! Catch!" One of the football players yell. I couldn't tell who it was because I wasn't paying attention, but I caught the ball instantly and walked away with it. "Is that yours now?" Some guy says. "Where you the one that through it?" I asked. "No Jay did, I'm here to get it back because apparently your scary." He chuckles. "You don't seem that scary." He says. I cant tell if he's being an ass or if he's flirting. "Well its mine unless Jay grows some balls and come gets it himself. Tell him I wont hurt him again, I might scare him a little though." I say slowly and then laugh a little. "Alright." He shakes his head and laughs.

"You could a just asked for his number and gave him the ball." Kaci says. "And when would that ever had been me?" I laugh. We head to first hour but then the group chat blows up. Daniel and Justin blew it up trying to get everyone outside. Jack is fighting someone! We run outside and in the parking lot we see Jack on top of another guy. "Isn't that they guy that tried to get the ball?" She said. I look closely and oh my god it is. "Jack must've seen him talking to me." I start freaking out. Teachers come outside and pull Jack off of him and the guy stands up. "Come on." Kaci grabs my arm and we run to the guy. She lets go of me and grabs his arm and she has us all run to her car. We all jump in and the guy is very confused, but so am I. "Im telling Daniel and Justin we'll meet them at Daniels house." She says outloud.

"Oh and we never got your name." She turns around to the football player that we basically just rescued from my ex boyfriend. "Taylor" He says. "Ok well Taylor, your coming with us." She says as she turns back around and pulls outta the school parking lot.

We pull onto Daniels road and Taylor starts talking. "So does anyone know why that guy jumped me?" He asked. "He saw you talking to Mariah" Kaci laughs. "He's my ex" I add quietly. "Does he normally do that?" Taylor says. "Nope" Kaci says as she pulls into Daniel's driveway. "Follow us." Kaci tells him as he follows us throw the house and into the livingroom.

"Where are we?" Taylor asked all confused. "Daniel's, Mariahs bestfriend." Kaci says sarcastically. The front door swings open and Justin walks in with Daniel behind him. "Did you guys hear about what Jack did? Apparently he beat up some football player." Justin starts yelling. "Um Justin" I say. "This is that football player." I point at Taylor. "OH SHIT MAN" Justin screams then takes a moment to register. "Wait how did you get here?" Justin looks at me and then at Taylor. "We rescued him from Jack." Kaci adds as she jumps off the couch and rushes into the kitchen. "Well that means Jack is gonna be here soon." Daniel scoffs. "Wh-what?" Taylor looks at everyone but his eyes lands on mine. "Come with me." I grab his hand and lead him to Daniels room.

"We'll stay in here until they tell us its safe." I tell him as I shut and lock the door. "Until its safe?" He adds quickly. "Ya, Jack has some anger issues and he probably saw me and Kaci rush you to her car, so he's probably on his way here." I sigh. "Oh." He says quietly while looking around the room. I walk over to Daniels couch and sit on it. Taylor joins me shortly after. "Wait, aren't you Mikes sister?" He looks at me. "Ya?" I look at him confused. "You knew Mike?" I ask. "Knew him? I was his best friend!" He chuckled. "How come you never came to the house?" I looked at him confused, I never remember seeing him around the house. "Everytime I came over Mike said you where at your friends. Which imma guess he ment here?" He said. I laughed and nodded. "I remember you now, you where Mikes one friend that he was trynna get me to dump Jack for." I said.

"Ya" He chuckled. "That's how I reconized you, I remember you from the pictures he showed me." Taylor said nervously. "Mike used to talk about you all the time, he just never told me your name." I looked into Taylors eyes. "You know I laughed at every story Mike told me. It's like I knew you." I started crying. "I miss him so much." I cry more. "I know, I do too." Taylor says as he cradles me in his arms allowing me to cry. We sat like that for at least 5 minutes before I heard the front door slam open and shut. "Where are they?" I heard Jack scream. "They got in your car Kaci so where are they?" He screamed louder. "It's none of your fucking business Jack" She yelled but not as loud. I've always hated when people yelled so I dove my head into Taylors chest and he Covered my ears with his arms as he held me tight.

"I remember Mike telling me you hate loud noises." Taylor said as he held me. The screaming got louder and louder until Jack kicked Daniels door in and rushed into the room. "What the fuck are you doing Mariah!" Jack yelled. "Go Jack." I stayed in Taylors arms. I can feel Taylor tense up. Is he scared? I jump up from Taylors arms still crying and ball my hands up making fists. "Either leave the fucking house or im gonna knock your ass out!" I yell at him as I step closer and closer to him. "Im not scared of you M" He laughs trying to hug me. I punch I'm in the face making him fall down to the ground. "MIKE CALLS ME M NOT YOU!" I scream, I kick him in the side and grab his face with my hands. "Fucking leave Jack" I let go of his face turning around to make sure Taylor is ok. Daniel and Justin grab Jack and take him out of the room.

"Are you ok?" I looked at Taylor who is basically shaking. "Yeah, just had some PTSD rusking through my body." He says as he stands up. "Are you ok?" He asked me. "Ya I'm fine" I lied but he couldn't tell. "Weren't you beaten when you where little?" I ask him. "How do you know about that?" He looks at me confused. "Same way you know about me hating loud noises." I Give him a hug. "Mike really was trynna get us up huh." He laughed as he hugged me back. "Ya I guess so." I laughed too. I pulled out of his arms going to turn around before he stopped me. He grabbed my arm and pulled me back closer to him. He grabbed my face gently and rubbed my cheek, he slowly put his lips to mine and I gave in wrapping my arms around his head kissing him back.

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