The Bolter | Walker Scobell

Chapter 33

I did as Cassie told me the next day, I skipped school and slept in

I woke up the next morning around 11 am to nothing but peace and quiet, no alarm, no noise, just silence

Until the silence was interrupted by a vacuum

I groaned and grabbed my phone deciding to just stay in my bed for a little longer. I opened TikTok and mindlessly scrolled through it for over an hour before putting on music and grabbing my book, I haven't read anything in ages and I hated it

I got through two chapters before my phone started buzzing besides me

"Don't you have school?"

"Good morning to you too love, how did you sleep ?"

"Good morning Walker, I slept great actually what about you ?"

"I slept pretty good myself"

"Had any nice dreams ?" I closed my book and set it aside cuddling up into my blanket a little more

"I had a really nice dream about this girl" my stomach twisted a little but I tried everything to not make my smile fall

"Oh"

"Yeah, she was really pretty and nice and cute and she had beautiful hair and of course her eyes were gorgeous too" I nodded into the screen biting my teeth

"That's great Walker"

"It was really great, I wish she could be here with me right now" he had a smug grin on his face as he kept talking "want to hear more about her ?"

"I'm actually very busy Walker-"

"She's got this beautiful red hair and the most pretty greenish grey eyes" I looked at my phone starting to figure out what he was doing

"Oh yeah ? Tell me more about her"

"Took you long enough" he laughed at the time it took for me to click who he was talking about

"Shut up. Again, don't you have school ?"

"No my schools closed today"

"How is your school always closed ?!"

"Why not ?" I told him what I had talked about with cassie last night before I fell asleep very much still on face time with him "how are you feeling ?"

"Good. Peaceful" I smiled turning around in my bed, the blanket still up to my chin

"That's great"

"Yeah, I don't feel like crying-" my door slammed open before I had the chance to finish my sentence and my phone was taken out of my hand "Mom give me my phone"

"All you do everyday is lay in your bed on your phone while I clean the house do you have no remorse for your mother !?" I wasn't entirely sure how to respond to her, I knew for a fact that Cassie had cleaned the mess yesterday after she made sure I had gotten into my bed so I didn't know what exactly she was cleaning

"Oh please, it's not like you're here enough to judge what I'm doing and not doing every day" I said back in a pretty loud tone

"Don't talk back to me young lady"

"What do you want mom ? Give me my phone"

"No, I pay for it I decide what's happening with it" I looked at her in disbelief now

"You paid for it ?! You know damn well that you didn't pay for anything at all, it's not like you were her enough to do that anyways" I yelled back at her growing more angry with every word "Cole got me the phone for my birthday and you haven't payed a single dollar for it so you have no word on it at all" I reached out in an attempt to grab the phone but that's when she must've realised that there was someone else watching the whole thing happen

"Who's this cute guy ?" I froze remembering too that Walker had been on the line for all of it "Is he your boyfriend ?" I reached out to take the phone away but she turned away "don't you want to introduce us ?"

"I want to have nothing to do with you again. That's all that I want"

"Now now you're talking to your mother like that ? Who are you sweetheart ? What's your name ?" My heart was about to beat out of my chest as the seconds felt like hours waiting for his response, we never talked about what to do if this happened, he had no idea what to do. I was internally praying that he wouldnt answer "hello ?"

"Mom please give me my phone back"

"I want to hear him talk first, what's his name ?" I stood quiet, so did he "Talk to me !" I closed my eyes and gulped waiting for something, anything really to happen

I watched as she grew more frustrated and angry at none of us responding, that well known fire sparkling in her eyes as she looked at me

"Take your damn phone" I didn't have enough time to realise what was happening to duck so the phone came up right on my lip before falling to the floor

I didn't have time to really do anything before she slammed my door shut, I lifted my hand to my lip feeling a metallic taste in my mouth and when I took a look on my hand I realised that there was a lot of blood

"Shit"

"Mel ?! Mel talk to me, what happened are you okay ?! Mel" I looked around searching for my phone through my blurry vision filled with tears

"Walker"

"Mel what happened ? What's going on ? Are you okay ?" I blinked a few time leaving a few tears running down my cheeks before I spotted the phone, I crawled towards it leaving a few drops of blood on the floor

"Walker"

"Fuck Mel, I'm sorry. I didn't know- I should've- are you okay ?"

"Yeah, I think I'm fine, just a busted lip" I muttered taking a second to just take a breath

"Shit, I didn't know she was THAT insane Mel I would've spoken if I had known"

"No, you did perfect Walker. The less she knows about you the better trust me, I'll be fine" I looked at myself on my phone first realising that I was in fact bleeding A LOT

I turned to my mirror and grabbed some tissues to hold over the bleeding wound

"I'm sorry you had to witness all that" I muttered quietly to my phone, Walker was watching me intently as I started wiping the blood from my face

"I'm so sorry that happened Mel"

"It's fine" I blinked another set of tears down my face, wiping them immediately "I'm fine" I reassured my boyfriend who was still watching me again

Authors note:
Well... I guess you could say she's kinda insane or whatever 🤪
My poor baby deserves better :( #justiceformel