Love is wonderful

Chapter 2

I walk into my house to see that it is 10:30 i had speech team tonight and my friends wanted to get some food before we all go home. But I forgot to tell Linda that I would be home late.

"Linda! Are you here?" I roam around my house and suddenly I hear pounding feet hitting the stairs.

"Kayla, where were you I was looking all over for you. You didn't answer your phone and I was driving all around just to find you."

She started to shake and I could see the tears about to flow down her red cheeks. I walk to her about wrap my arms around her.

"Linda I'm so sorry I didn't mean to scare you. I'm ok and I'm sorry that i didn't answer my phone. It died on the way to the restaurant." I said looking into her blue eyes.

Linda has always kept a watchful eye on me. She's always been there to tell me the mistakes in her past that she doesn’t want me making in my future. When she was my age she was a troubled teen. She never listened to her Parents and she had this boyfriend named Jack.

Jack was a very bad influence on Linda. But it didn't matter how many times her parents would yell at her she didn't care about a single word that they would say. Eventually, her parents kicked her out of their house and Linda lived with Jack, after a few months she started to she the evil lashing out onto her. Turned out that Jack was super abusive, he would hit her and kick her. But the event that made Linda pack up and leave is when he tried to drown her in a bathtub. So when she moved out she started to live with us and she became a part of our family.

"I'm sorry again Linda." She shakes her head and starts heading upstairs

"I shouldn't be the one you should be saying sorry too. Your mother has been worried about you ever since you left practice, you've should of known better."

My heart drops for a second. I forgot about her. I ran all the way upstairs into my mom's room.

There she was in her bed with her doctor by her side. Doctor Mike comes every month to check up on my mom and my siblings. My mom's blue eyes look up at me.

"Kayla! Where were you? I was so worried about you.” She said in a quiet and sweet voice, while she was looking at me it looked like she just got done crying. And then I felt even worst then I did before.

"Mom I'm so sorry I was trying to call you guys to tell you and Linda where I was but my phone died please mom I'm sorry."

She touches my face and I try not to look at her eyes because they just scream the words FEAR.

"I don't want to think about what could've happened i just want to forget about what happened tonight just go to bed ok baby. We'll talk about in the morning."

I walk into my room feeling guilty, put my hair up in a bun and flopped on my bed. Then about 20 minutes later I see that my best friend Rachael texted me.

"Hey Kayla, guess what????" she texted.

"What is it Rachael, I'm trying to sleep!!

"I need you to me up with me at the mall tomorrow there is someone I would like you to meet!"

"Rachael, I can't I have too much to do tomorrow"

"OMG please it's my old time friend, his name is Gale he just moved here and I want him to get to know at least some people before we go back to school."

I thought about it for a second. It was kind of making me mad that she wanted me to do this when she knows I have a crap ton of things to do in my life. I didn't have time to hang out and to meet some boy who was just going to hate me anyway.

"I guess, but he better be worth it!" I reply back.

"OMG it will, trust me he's hot ;)"

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GALE

I wake up the next day to silence. It's usually like this since my dad is never home and I can never hear my mom walking in the house. I walk down stairs to see my sister Amy sitting on the couch.

"Hey Gale, mom isn't home yet so you can just chill until she does." I nod and sit on the kitchen table. I feel like everything is so quite. So I asked Amy to talk to me for a little bit. and after about ten minutes of that I get a text from my friend Rachael.

“Hey Galey Gale ha-ha, do you want to hang out at the mall today with me and a friend?"

I really don't like meeting new people, mainly because I'm usually afraid of what people may think of me, because I'm different.

“Maybe, Rachael u know how I feel about meeting new people. I’m not as social as u.”

“Ok well trust me on this Gale, my friend Kayla is super nice and she won’t judge you I promise :)”

I felt my stomach dropped when she said Trust me on this, when she usally tells me this, the ending result is never good. But I do it anyway.

“Ok, what time?”

“2:00 can’t wait :)”

It’s funny. Because I can

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Kayla

I drive up to the Mall to see Rachael waving her arms around in pure happiness

“Hello best friend what’s up!” she said gripping my shoulder

“it’s ok I guess, where is this Gale boy, I have to leave soon, I have to help Linda with my mom and also help…”

“KAYLA!’’ said Rachael interrupting me “This is what you do all the time you never sound like you want to hang out with me, am I just apart of your check list that you can’t wait to check off!”

“ Rachael, you know I love hanging with you but I have so much to do that I just forget that I’m a teenager, I’m sorry”

“It’s ok!” she said smiling. Sometimes I feel like she just gets sad so I can say sweet things to her to make her feel better. But whatever I need to start telling people how much I care, because I feel like nobody thinks I do.

We walk into the mall and started looking into stores and trying on outfits while waiting for Gale.

“Why does a headless, soulless, manikin look better in this outfit then I do?”

I laugh and realized how true her statement was. Then I see this smile on her face began to form.

“There he is there’s Gale!” she said doing that same happy waving thing with her arms again. He walks into the store and she hugs him as tight as she could. I’m surprised he could still breath. Mainly because when Rachael is super happy and she wants to give you a hug, it could be deathly.

“Gale this is my best friend Kayla, Kayla this is my best friend Gale”

He reaches out to grab my hand for a handshake.

“Hi Gale!” I said smiling

He took a deep breath and said “Hi K….K…Kayla” But as soon as he said that, his speech didn’t sound clear. Either he had a stuttering problem or….

“Sorry I’m deaf,so I think I g…..got…..your name right.”

I nod. and i look  at racheal. I instantly gave her a uncomforable stare.