Blue Eyed Bambi

Ch.12

I arrive home and slam the door, "Willa come here please," shoot my mom's probably going to yell at me for slamming the door.

"Yes mom?" I say sweetly as I walk into the kitchen.

She's on her laptop in the kitchen, working.

"I need you to watch Zeke for 2 days, when he's not at daycare," she responds coolly looking at her laptop screen.

"Wait why?" I whined.

"Willa just for tomorrow night and the night after that because I am going on a business trip with a colleague. Oh and also Kaden Armstrong will be staying with you to make sure you don't get into trouble," she said sighing, looking at her papers thankfully, because I could feel my face go pale as paper.

When I saw him at school today he looked so, so.. drained. I guess our fight actually took a toll on him, or he just feels guilty for what he did.

"Umm, ok," I say not wanting to argue with her, "Oh and also mom I have a date tonight if that's fine.."

"Yeah, thats ok just make sure you're back by 10:30 because it still is a school night," She says sternly as I walk out of the kitchen.

That's my mom for you, she knows I will do my homework because I have a weird obsession with good grades, but she still makes sure I'm home in time to get some sleep.

I hear the doorbell ring when I start heading up the stairs, can't Finn just walk in?

Opening the door I don't see Finn and actually I don't see anyone. I walk outside and step on something, what the... I look at the floor to see a bundle of plumerias. Aww, it must be Blaze. I know he knows about the flowers from my backyard, he's so sweet.

Picking up the plumerias, I walk into my house leaving them on a table.

Finn texted me and said she would be here in 30 minutes, it's only 3:00 so that gives me plenty of time to take a shower.

When I step in the shower I try not to think about Kaden, dang it's hard. I got to get my mind off him and onto Blaze, I don't know if that's even possible.

If I've been obsessing over him since I was 8, how long will it take till I forget about him?

I remember when I was 14 and I had just entered high school, I was a disaster;

I entered the school building still depressed over my fathers death, usually a kid would be ecstatic to go back to school but I wasn't feeling it.

I walked up to my assigned locker and opened the lock, boring rusty lockers.

"Are you okay Willa?" I hear someone say beside me.

I turn to my left to see Kaden, the boy I was obsessed with before my fathers death. He had a black eye and a bruise on his right cheek.

"The real question is are you ok Kaden?" I ask slightly smiling

He nods his head giving me a tight lipped smile, "Yeah, I gotta go to class try to lighten up Bam- Willa," he says walking away;

He was always such a kind boy, but he would always show up to school with bruises. Everyone said it was because of street fights, that's how he got his 'don't mess with me' image. I didn't really believe it because, come on, the boy's only 14.

After that one time he talked to me in 9th grade, he didn't talk to me again until he offered me that ride almost 2 weeks ago. Although sometimes I would catch him staring at me.

Kaden was always popular, but it's not like he would talk to anyone. I remember he liked to sit alone, and even if someone sat next to him he would ask them to move.