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Chapter 11

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December. It was December now, my least favorite month.

For me, December sucked. It was extremely cold (even though I liked the cold, but not so extreme) since we live in Vermont, we had holiday, and there was Christmas. Yes, I know I'm weird. I despise school breaks, because that means that I'll be home for two weeks –completely alone. I hate being home sometimes. And I loath Christmas. It's not 'the most wonderful time of the year' for me. More like the opposite.

Christmas is meant to be spent with your family, your loved ones. Well, I don't have any of those. My mom is gone and my brother and father totally ignore me. Fun eh?

When my mom was alive, I adored Christmas. I lived for it. She would set up Christmas lights all around the house to make it more cosy and it was beautiful. My brother and I would set up our gigantic Christmas tree full of lights and stars and little accesories that we hung.

It was breathtaking.

Now it's just a beautiful memory.

So this year I had decided I wasn't going to celebrate. Nop. I refused. I knew my father and brother woulnd't celebrate either way, so I really had no one to party with.

It was the day before Christmas Eve, the day when our chirstmas break began. I was, as always, walking down the school's hallways alone. I hated to admit that my friendship with Aubrey was not on its best terms. She was distancing herself more and more from me and I wasn't doing anything to stop it. I couldn't help it, she had a "better" life now. With her boyfriend and her new friends, now she didn't have time for simple ol' me.

I was still thinking about Aubrey and my problems with her, and how I didn't want to solve them when I crashed into something hard and my books feel to the floor.

Oh no. Can you say déjà vu?

I looked up to meet Matt's eyes once again. Fuck.

Matt's chest vibrated with laughter and I stepped back, missing a step and almost falling on my ass in the middle of the whole school. Classy.

"We have to stop meeting like this." he chuckled once more before giving me a hand and steading me. Then he knelt down and picked up my things, handing them to me when he was done.

"Yes we do." I muttered. "Thanks for the hand."

I hurried to leave the spot we were standing in becuase I didn't want to face him –yes, I was still avoiding him. It was my way of dealing with my feelings, sue me.

I walked faster when I noticed he was trying to catch my arm. "Hey! Wait"

Crap.

He managed to grab my arm and turned me around to face him. "Where's the rush?" he asked. I didn't answer him and looked down to the floor, suddenly more interested in my shoes than his face. "I haven't seen you for a couple of days. You're not avoiding me, are you?"

I played floo and scoffed at him. "Me? Of course not. We just haven't crossed paths, that's all." I distractedly tucked a lock of hair behind my ear. I usually did that when I lied, I hoped he hadn't noticed that habit of mine.

He eyed me suspiciously and searched for any giveaway signs in my face. "Right."

Five seconds passed in silence as we stared at each other, he trying to see through my lies and I trying to deceive him with my good-girl act.