No Matter What.. Part 14
After that little incident I was left mortified for quite awhile. I had completely shut down. I skipped the week of school after and now it's the following Wednesday. Carter has been going to school and giving me work along with his hockey practices and games but I have to force him to go to those. I just sat at the house cooped up in my room. Carter's aunt is a doctor so he asked her to write a note saying I had the flu for the school. She knows I wouldn't skip that long for no reason so went ahead and thankfully did it without questions.
Carter told me that John came back to school on Monday and has been walking around like a cocky son of a bitch. He claims that we had snuck away and hooked up all last week since the party. Of course those that didn't get plastered remembered him doing body shots off me and didn't question it. Rumors started that I got pregnant that week so I'm out to get an abortion. When I heard about all that of course it immediately set me back even further from coming back to school and I just broke down as if it was the first night all over again. John's lucky Carter hasn't gotten his hands on him yet because I know he's as good as dead at this point.
I hear the doorbell ring and I pray that it's not any of my friends again. They've been blowing up my phone since the first day I didn't show up and have been showing up randomly. Carter is at hockey right now so I know that if it's them I won't be able to fend them off and I'll end up breaking down without him here to comfort me. I walk down the stars and open the door enough to look through and see that it's Abagail. I thank god that I just got out of the shower. I open the door and see her give me one of those gorgeous smiles. I give a weak smile back and open the door wider to let her in.
"Hi" she says a bit shyly
"Hi" I reply timidly
"You don't look very sick or pregnant to me" she says chuckling
"Well of course I don't look pregnant! I got an abortion remember??" I say playing along really smiling for the first time since John "Wait how'd you know I'm supposed to be sick?"
"I asked Carter since I hadn't seen you around.."
"Oh so you asked about me?" I ask while walking towards the living room and motioning for her to follow
"Ya well I was kinda worried about you" she says sitting down
"You were??" I asked surprised and sit down next to her
"Ya.." she says looking down and blushing then looks back up at me "So why aren't you coming to school?"
"Umm it's a long story..." I say softly and looking away
"I have time" she says putting her hand on my knee
"I really don't want to talk about it right now" I say beginning to tear up
"I'm sorry we don't have to talk about it" she says pulling me into a hug
"Just not now...I'll tell you about it someday.." I say hugging her back and calming down
"You know I'm always here if you want to talk"
"Thanks"
"Welcome"
We don't break out of the hug. It just feels so right and comforting. When we break the hug I sit back and bring my knees to my chest, resting my head on them and looking at her. She turns towards me and crosses her legs looking back. She reaches over and tucks a stand of hair behind my ear.
"I like your hair curly. You should wear it like that more often" she says brining her hand back to her lap
"I don't like it curly" I say shaking my head
