Long Way Down

Chapter 4

I stilled as my body went completely tense. Oh my gosh! What do I do? What do I say?

"What to do? What to do?", I mumbled quietly to myself while drumming my fingers on the table.

I looked up and saw that all three pairs of eye's were staring back at me. I looked at Zak and thought that maybe he can help me out here but saw his face plastered with shock and visibly paled. Guess I'm on my own here. Here comes Princess Alex to the rescue!

"Wha-", I started but stopped from my voice cracking. So much for Princess Alex. I cleared my throat and tried again.

"What are you talking about?", I asked, then clamped my hand over my mouth. This is the time my voice decides to go a pitch higher than normal. I really disappoint myself sometimes.

They all narrowed their eyes at me with raised eyebrows.

"Don't give us that, Alex. You know exactly what we're talking about", my mother tells me.

I look at Zak and see him looking at me with pleading eyes, begging me not to say anything. Screw you, you gorgeous specimen! Great, now I'm turning into Becca from Pitch Perfect 2. I can't even swear him properly, and in my head at that! Nice going smartass my subconscious adds. Oh lovely, I can swear myself but not him.

"Erm ... I can't talk about it", I stammer.

"Can't or won't?", my mom asks.

I look down at the floor, away from their piercing gazes because my eyes start filling up with tears.

"Both", I mutter.

"Why not?", Anne asks gently.

Oh God. I can't deal with all of this anymore. This is too much for me and I'm gonna break if I don't get out of here now. This is all his fault but damn if I still don't love him. Imagine someone you love with all your heart, everything you have shutting you out of their life completely. And shows you from time to time that they don't want you, by being with other girls', by picking on you everyday.

I shake my head from those thoughts and stand to my feet. I really need to leave. I start moving towards the the living room when a voice stops me.

"Alex, where are you going?", Mark asks.

"I'm sorry. I just can't -", I start when my voice cracks for the second time today.

"Alex, are you okay?", Anne asks. I shake my head and a tear escapes my eye. I'm about to leave the kitchen but stop.

"Ask him", I say. Then grab my wallet from the table along with my phone and leave the house.

I text Sky and tell her to meet me at our usual place ASAP and start walking there.

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"Where did we go wrong?", I ask Sky while laying my head on her shoulder.

"Not we. It was his fault", she says.

We're sat at my favourite place ever. Hideaway. It's one of those shops where you can buy your favourite books, buy coffee and just chill out with your friends and listen to people who like to do poetry reading or play live music- which is mostly acoustic. I love this place. It's like my second home. My safe haven. And the name fits perfectly for what I feel like doing almost everyday. Just to hide away from everything, everyone ... just life in general. Life is a scary thing sometimes.

"Yeah, but ... Urg ... Why do I still love him so much?", I ask her with a slight frown and pout.

She chuckled and shrugged while saying, "That's all on you, missy. It was your weirdly stupid, reckless, yet oddly cute decision."

"It really wasn't my decision. It just ... happened, you know?", I asked.

She smiled while looking down at her ice coffee and nodded, "Yeah, I do"

She was obviously thinking about Reece. How is that we both love guys but can't do anything about it? Well my one doesn't like me and Reece does, sort of, maybe, hopefully likes Sky. Well at least there's hope for them.

I raised my coffee milkshake while saying, "Here's to dead-beat boys, crapy crushes, and hopeless love."

She giggled while raising her cup to meet mine in mid-air, "Amen. Sister's before Misters, right?"

If things ever go wrong or bad I know that Sky will always be there for me, no matter what. And I promise to do the same for her. She's my sister, my family.

"Always", I replied.

We continued to just lay on the couch, watching and listening to the live music being played. It was a boy with his guitar singing Thinking out loud by Ed Sheeran. His voice was absolutely incredible. Like an angel. He had brown hair and green eye's. He was wearing skinny denim jeans, a rock band t-shirt, and a hoodie. He was actually cute. Very cute. And he had a sort of mystery vibe coming from him. Hmm ... dark and mysterious ... nice.

The sound of the bell ringing, indicating more people arrived here, brought me out of my thoughts. I turned my head to see who it was and almost dropped my drink. Oh God, not now.

"Hey, what's wrong?",Sky asked.

I couldn't reply and just continued to stare at the entrance. Sky looked at me then followed my gaze to the door and gasped.

"Erm ... do you wanna get out of here?", she asked looking back at me.

I turned to look at her then back at them and shook my head. I can do this. I can handle it.

"No. We're staying. I'm getting tired of running from them now", I say.

She nodded and didn't say anything else. We continued to watch Mystery boy when I felt someone staring at me.
I turned and saw that it was him. It was Zak.

I nudged Sky and whispered, "He is staring at us."

She turned, very subtly, to check then turned back around and whispered with a smirk, "Not us, you."

I rolled my eye's at her. Us, me, same thing. Not really any difference.

"Same thing", I muttered.

She chuckled and shook her head, not saying anything. Mystery boy finally finished his set and had a huge round of applause. Me included, I think I was clapping the loudest. He was amazing.

"He was incredible", I said to Sky.

"Yeah, he was. And he is cute too."

I made sure to give him a little shout 'whoo' while he came down from the small stage. He chuckled and when he walked past us he winked in our direction. I turned to Sky with wide eye's and she gasped. As soon as he walked past us to the barista we did a little squeal.

"Oh my gosh", we said at the same time.

"Did that just happen?", I ask.

"Yep", she replied.

We sat back against the couch just smiling.

"Wow", we both said.

After about five minutes of just silence we heard foot steps getting closer to us.

"Erm,  is this seat taken?", a voice asked.

We looked up to the source the voice and gasped. Holy mother ...

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