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Chapter 3 | Ride home

"I COME HOME FROM WORK TIRED AS HELL AND ALL I ASK IS FOR YOU TO DO THE FUCKING DISHES! GO LIVE WITH YOUR MOTHER. IM SICK OF YOU!" I'm seriously getting bored of this. It's the same thing every night. My dad yelling about something I forgot to do or about how he works and shouldn't have to do anything. I honestly worry about him. If I wasn't here to cook dinner for the both of us, I doubt that man would ever eat. "Dad! I'm so sick of this. Shut up will you!? I cook for you, I clean up after you, I tuck you in after you've passed out drunk! I'm 17! You're the adult here! Man the fuck up already would you!?" I yell back. I've been biting my tongue for too long and I finally snapped. I don't mean to disrespect him but you can only take so much of this. "Ungrateful brat!" Whatever. I run upstairs with slow tears pouring down my face. It sucks when you have to listen to being told you're a mistake or unwanted every night. Usually it doesn't get to me since I've, in a way, grown accustomed to it. But lately it's been hitting me hard. I crawl into bed and turn the light off with the remote on my bed side table and silently cry myself into a deep slumber.

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"It's still that bad?" asks Andrea on our way to 2nd period. "Yeah it's been getting worse, he expects me to cook but I can't without him buying food for me to cook. I didn't even eat dinner last night, I'm starving!" I ended up sleeping through the night and never got around to making supper. I haven't ate since lunch here at school yesterday. I keep thinking, I only have a year until I can move out and live with Andrea in our apartment. But it worries me to leave my dad alone. Without anyone watching him, he'll drink himself to death. He's already had a close call a few years back. "Sorry, you know you're always welcome at my place." Andrea tries to comfort me. She's a great best friend but she's never been great at handling emotional issues or anything of the sort. "I know, thank you for that." "You know Zak has being staring you down since we left our lockers." Andrea says with a flirty tone. "The nerve on that guy." I turn around and scowl at him. He just smirks and chuckles. He really gets under my skin.

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I was finally out of that hell hole the government calls school. It ends around 2:30 which isn't to bad, I still have the rest of the day. Next week we start dance rehearsals for a recital coming up in 3 weeks. I started dance my freshman year in modern dance 1. I've worked extremely hard and made my way to performing dance and also the school dance team. I'm advanced in hip hop and ballet. The two are polar opposites but they happen to be my strong suits. I'm actually really looking forward to rehearsals. Andrea has been in dance with me every year, so we always have fun during "hell week". I heard a voice in the background that broke me out of my deep thoughts. "Sweet cheeks!" Oh god is he really here. Great. Notice the sarcasm there? I don't plan on answering him if he continues to call me that, so I decided to keep walking. "Jesus fucking christ sweet cheeks, listen for a fucking second." He grabbed on my shoulder pulling me to face him. It took everything I had deep in me to not knee him in where the sun doesn't shine. "What the fuck do you want Zak!" I'm actually really wondering why he wants to talk to me so bad. "I'm taking you home." Did I hear him correctly? Home...He's driving me? Why would he go out of his way to take me home. My stomach erupted into butterflies more because I'm nervous as to why and what's going to happen. "Why." I reply. "Because I want too, don't be so fucking difficult." Wow nice choice of words. "What a great way to persuade me to get into a car with you." I chuckle sarcastically. We are walking side by side when I feel him put his hand on the small of my back. It sends shivers down my spine. I flinched out of shock and he quickly pulled it away. I missed it already. I didn't mean for him to feel like he shouldn't have done that. I was just surprised at how it made me feel. We got to the truck and he opened the door for me. Wow okay that's definitely not what I was expecting. I slide in and he shut the door and went to go into the drivers seat. "Why did you want to me home?" I asked with my head facing the window. He just looked at me and smiled. A real smile not a smirk but a full on, teeth showing smile. I'm confused. "Great. Thanks for clearing that up for me." I said sarcastically as I rolled my eyes. The car filled with silence. Him not giving me answers and me having to many things to say that I couldn't get any of them out of my mouth. When he turned into my neighborhood, he kept driving, past my street and towards the other side of town. "Uh where the fuck are we going?" "This place downtown, I found it when I was little. It's peaceful and beautiful..." He looked at me with a shimmer in his eyes and a blush on his cheeks. "Like you." He said in whisper thinking I wouldn't hear it. But i did. And my stomach erupted into a bunch of flirty butterflies and my checks probably were as red as a tomato. Who is this guy and where is the real Zak? "Okay...." I said dragging it out. About 20-30 minutes of random chit chat we pulled off to the side of the road by the forest. "This isn't creepy at all." I said with sarcasm dripping from the tone of my voice. "Shut up, just wait." He said with an annoyance obvious in his voice. "Well that was rude." I said shyly. He grabbed my hand and pulled me into the endless amount of trees. He was pushing the branches out of the way for me and constantly looking back to make sure I was okay. It's kind of cute actually. "So is this part where you kill me and dump my body fat into a forest in hopes that no ones finds me?" I jokingly say, although with his reputation I can't say I would be surprised if that's the case. "Ha hah ha very funny." We stopped abruptly and looked up from the ground to see the most incredible sight i have ever seen. It's a big lake with a massive waterfall. The water is clear blue. They waterfall is a beautiful black rock with some moss growing on it adding a beautiful sense of nature. This something you'd see on tumblr. And let me tell you there is nothing tumblr about my life. Zak interrupted my thoughts, "I don't know about you sweet checks but I'm going in." He said taking off his shirt and unbuttoning his pants. Oh my lord. That body is god like. His abs are so prominent and..well...gorgeous. "Like the view?" He smirks. Well I'm not going to lie. "Actually I do, but the fact that you just said that proves how big of an egotistical, arrogant ass you are." I say with a dry, fake smile. He just looks down and slowly gets in the water. "Sorry, used to the snarky, cocky comments." He says with a genuine smile. "Are you getting in?" He asks with pleading eyes. Hell, why not? I stripped out of my clothes. Thank god I'm wearing good underwear today. I was standing infront of the school bad boy in just a black lace bra and some navy blue cheeky underwear. Never thought I'd be in this situation, that's for sure.

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