Bumpy | Dakota Brooks

Chapter 20

Lex's pov

Right now I'm at my kitchen waiting for my mom to drive me to school. I sit there waiting and waiting till she finally walks over to me.

"Lex I can't drive you to school today, I have a meeting and I'll be late if I drive you." She says.

"What about dad?"

"He already drove off to work."

"Oh. I'll start walking, bye mom!"

"Bye sweetie."

I go towards the door and start walking to school. Isn't this just great.

I check the time and I have five minutes to get there. I'm not gonna make it. It takes me about half a hour to get to school walking.

I need to go anyways, what else am I gonna do?

I keep walking and go through my phone at the same time.

"Lex! Wait up!" Someone says from behind me.

I stop and turn around.

"Oh hi Christian!" I say.

"What are you doing here? Isn't your school the other way?" I say confusingly.

"I'm gonna be late either way. So what's up?" He says.

"Nothing just walking to boring ass school. I'm gonna be late too."

"Why won't you just ditch?" He says.

"I don't kno-"

"They're not gonna find out. And come on, one day of not going to school won't hurt right?" He says.

I know this isn't right. I should be at school but I really don't want to go. And Christian is right. It wouldn't hurt to miss one day of school.

"Are you gonna ditch too?"

"I'm already late and I don't wanna go so yes."

"Fine I'll ditch too." I say.

"Where do you wanna go?" I say stopping in my tracks.

"You choose. But first, where do we leave our backpacks? To make it not look suspicious that we are skipping school?" He says.

My mom probably left my house by now. And I do have the keys. We can drop our stuff there by my room and pick them up before she shows up.

"My house. There's no one in there right now." I say turning around, now walking back to my house.

We walk to my house and he's telling me about this dude he doesn't like at his school. It sounds like he really doesn't like him, at all.

We get to my house and I unlock the front door.

"Woah nice place." He says looking around.

"Thanks."

I lead him to my room upstairs and tell him to leave his backpack there.

When we're done, we go downstairs and he stops.

"Wait where are we gonna go again?"

"Umm how about, we go get food and go to the park after till school ends?"

"Alright let's go babe." He says.

Babe? I scrunch my eyebrows and look at him as he's walking to the door.

Well he's hot so it's okay.

I ignore it and lock the door behind us.

"Do you wanna get Chinese food or something?" He says.

"Actually I know this place where you can make your own pizza and it's really great." I say hoping he says yes.

"Oh my god that sounds so good let's go!" He says.

We start walking to the shop. We've been on our phones while walking the whole time till he speaks up.

"So, I heard you and Dakota have a thing?"

"You know him?"

"Of course I do who doesn't?" He says chuckling.

Ehh that's true.

"Anyways, are you guys like boyfriend and girlfriend or something?"

"Not really, we got into fights a lot of times but we made up."

"I get it. And uh Dakota talks about you a lot. When we hang out he keeps mentioning your name."

"Good things or bad things?"

"Good things. He can't keep your name out of his mouth. Now I know why. You're really gorgeous so I see why he does that."

"Aw thank you Christian." I say smiling.

"No problem." He says smiling as well.

"I see the place!" I say while pointing at the shop.

"Thank god, I was getting hungry." He says.

We walk towards it and finally get inside.

I order first and wait for the pizza after I have paid for it.

He does the same and sits at the same table I'm at.

"Order number 27!"

I get up and walk over to the front and get my pizza. Jesus it smells sooooo good.

I put it on my table and soon enough Christian gets his.

We both start eating our pizzas and by the look on his face I can tell that he's loves it.

"Good right?" I say.

"It's so good holy shit." He says.

When we are done, we head to the park that's nearby.

We finally get there and look around.

"I should've brought my football." He says.

"We didn't think this through." I say.

"Ooo wait!" He says reaching into his pockets.

He takes out a bag of peanuts? Where did he get that from?

"Why do you have peanuts in your pocket?"

"Why not?" He laughs.

He walks to the squirrels on the tree and makes a little sound and holds out a peanut.

The squirrel gets it and goes up the tree.

"Here get some." He says handing me some.

"Thanks."

I guess we're gonna be feeding squirrels for the rest of the time we have.