Forever Alone

Chapter 6

Before the story continues, I would like to thank you all for reading my book. This is actually my first one, so I hope you enjoy. And thank you for waiting for this to keep going on. I had a really busy schedule and I didn't have time to continue. Again, I appreciate all the reads, votes, and many acknowledges. Hope you enjoy!
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The sunlight shimmers through the glass pane on the window. People laughing and talking. Phones flashing. This is too much. Drips of anxiety falling from my forehead. I didn't think this kind of thing would happen.

What have I done. Justin and I had the argument away from the public. Which is actually the storage room.

"I was gonna meet her the same place we were gonna hang out!" I ran to the door chasing Justin. We stopped by the parking lot. There were too many students to have this argument. We went back to the room. I needed to clear things out. I could tell Justin had so many thoughts coming to him. "But...I thought... it was just supposed to be me and you?!"

"Look, just calm down. We are still gonna go to the movies."

"And after that? You're just gonna leave me like that!? WE WERE SUPPOSED TO DO THIS AS BROS!"

Julia enters the classroom carrying her books and her bag. Lucky for her she always brings her instrument. Her stunning voice. She wanted to say hi to Me and Justin. But she sees Justin shouting at me. She clearly sees my sweat falling on my forehead. Julia immediately dropped her books to her desk and left her bag.

"Connor, what is happening!? Justin why are you staring at Connor like that? Are you guys fighting?"

Seeing Julia's anxiety and my other classmates staring, I decided to persuade her into getting the wrong idea.

"No, we're fine. We were just talking about-

I grabbed Justin's thick book at the last second.

-about the Laws of Constitutional Democracy and Development."

Why does Justin even have that kind of book? I mean like, I know he studies a lot but why this? It sounds quite stupid.

Julia seems to have fallen for that, 'cause after what I said, everything seems to be normal. I couldn't say everything. Justin took the book from my hand and left the room without even saying anything. She gave me tissues for me to wipe off the sweat that was covering up my head. She took my water bottle and handed it to me. She then kneeled and stared into my eyes and stood up.

"It's alright Julia. I can do this on my own. I'm not a three year old."

"Fine." She replied and arranged her stuff. "You know, I'm not dumb enough to fall for that persuasion Connor. So tell me. What happened back there. Please Connor. The truth. And also, Anthony is really gonna be mad at you when he finds out you left your guitar."

"How do you know everything!? Anyway it was just a big misunderstanding."

RING!

We're performing live. Right now. "Julia. We gotta get there and I must talk to Vice principal Jericho."

All the classes were forming their regular assembly lines. Anthony was already there. We found Mr. Jericho backstage just in time for his daily speech to the students. "Good morning Mr. Jericho, I apologize for the inconvenience sir but there has been a problem with the band. I'm really sorry."

"But I was looking forward to see your band play today. If that is the case, then I should respect your decision."

"Thank you very much sir. There might be a way for us to still play. We could play the songs later? You know, like after class."

"Excellent! Very well then, you may now proceed to your respective lines."

"Thank you sir." We walked back to our lines making everyone confused why they didn't hear music. That wasn't much of an embarrassment though. I've suffered worse.

On the way back, Julia asked me,"Tell me everything from the start of the whole day."

"You don't have to remind me."

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Lunch, 11:47 AM, Cafeteria

Julia and Summer were the only ones who went with me on lunch. Amazingly, we decided to finally chose the canteen for us to have our lunch but, Anthony must have accompanied Justin back at the classroom.

"...So that's what happened. And now, he's mad at me."

"You wouldn't leave him behind, he's your best friend." Summer said.

"Would you?" Julia added.

"...Maybe." I replied.

"WHAT!?" They both exclaimed.

Julia opened her mouth to speak up but Summer cut her off saying:

"How could you say that Connor!?"

"I'm sorry, Ok?! I didn't know what I was thinking."

Seriously, I didn't even know where that idea even came from. I tried to understand what may have caused this kind of emotion. I calmed down. Inhaling and exhaling. I finished my lunch with the others and went back to the classroom earlier by several minutes.

Summer left and started running to the guys who were playing catch. As well as Julia who went studying with Heather and Lucinda. As I was placing my Lunch bag back on my desk, Justin came up to me and said:

"Look, I'm sorry from earlier. Thanks to Anthony, he helped me choose the way to the better side. If it wasn't for him, our friendship could have been a disaster."

"Yeah, I guess so." Anthony left us alone catching up with Julia and Summer.

We walked to the tree by the parking lot. The place where I park my bike. It was quite nice having Justin around, he is more like a brother to me, but younger and taller. So technically all my friends are practically family to me.

"I noticed you forgot your bass."

"Nah, I left it at Anthony's last night. So yeah, he has my bass. I could definitely tell you left yours." I sighed.

"So I guess I'll just wish you luck later on your date. I know how important that must be for you. So I'll just cancel our hangout-

-NO you can't! You could just wait for me until the date is over."

"But the movie will end at 11:00 PM. The movie will never show EVER AGAIN."

"I... I don't... I don't know."

I sighed. We're just gonna go with the flow. Flow like the river with no idea what might happen. That's what Amelia would say every time we we're gonna have an unprepared report. We got a few times grouped together. Since we focus much on the main thing, we get carried away and forget to prepare our speech during the reporting. We usually make wrong grammars. I sighed again.

"Memories."

"And you're gonna make more of them tonight. Either good ones or bad ones. So good luck." Justin added.

GOOD LUCK INDEED.

"I haven't seen you greet your date a happy valentines."

"Oh wait..."

"There she is now! Go get her pal!"

"Amelia, here I come!"