Penelope waited with my outside in the parking lot. It was Wednesday after school that I asked out about this girl Amy. Penelope just kept saying I had no need to know. Which was strange, because I got a little paper in my locker saying:
...You're gonna get what you asked for... A
xxx
I'm not worried, just confused to why she hates me... I didn't tell Penny about the note, but maybe I should? I mean, then she will tell me what's going on. We just stood chilling on the grass outside the school entrance. I decided to ask her now.
"I know you told me to drop the whole Amy-thing, but-"
"So drop it," she interrupted me. Oh come on! I'm not gonna give up!
"Please just listen! Monday, I found a note in my locker. I can show it to you if you want me to?" She looked down, and at the mention of the note, she immediately looked up. I took the note out of my bag and handed it to her. She read it and gave it back.
"Like I said, just drop it. She's not worth it anyway... My sisters here. Bye," she gave me a short hug and left. Why wouldn't she just tell me! I mean, Amy doesn't look like someone to be scared of?
My thoughts were suddenly interrupted by a poke on either of my sides. I shrieked and turned around to see Jay. "You gave me a heart attack!" I struggled for my breath.
He laughed and said, "Well, you're still standing..." He gave me a hug, and I laughed too.
"So what have you been up to?" I asked as we went to sit on the grass. He sat really close to me, and I started feeling uncomfortable, but didn't show it.
He looked in the distance and then at me. "Football season is here, but I decided to leave that for a while. I mean, I've got to focus on my biking for a while, if you know what I'm talking about." I didn't answer and just looked down. Then he said, "When are you gonna get back on the old bike?"
I stayed quiet for a long time, and finally said, "I...I don't think I'm gonna bike anymore." He became quiet too. "I haven't told my parents, but I don't think-"
"Just because he died that way means you need to stop." He interrupted. I sat there frozen. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. He just told me that I don't need to stop because Erik died that way. Precious.
I took in a deep breath and said, "I was going to say, I don't think the sport is for me-"
"The sport isn't for you just because he isn't there?" Again he interrupted me. He stared me dead face in the eye. He was really starting to get on my nerves.
I couldn't take this anymore. I decided I just had to change the subject. There was a moment of silence. Awkward silence. He looked down on the ground, and played with the grass. I didn't look away until I started talking. "Do you know a Amy in our grade?"
He was quiet and then answered, "Yeah, I know two." He looked at me. Jay has always had the most deep brown eyes. They were almost the colour of black, and I always seemed to get lost in his mind. It always felt like he was drawing me in. And the only way to escape, I found, was by looking into Erik's gorgeous blue eyes. And I didn't mind getting lost in there.
But in this moment of looking into his eyes, never leaving my gaze, he said, "Why?" I was still lost somewhere inside his mind, when I suddenly forgot what we were talking about. That we even argued about the sport both of us loved. Well, what I used to love.
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The Shattered Ride
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