my first love

Chapter 8: Secrets

"So Samuel, what have you been doing when I was sleeping?" I said questioning him.

Samuel looked at me oddly, "Why?" He asked laughing.

"Why are you laughing I just want to know!" I said getting a little bit defensive.

"All I did was stay with you, sleep, and eat a little bit." He said looking back to the road.

"Why was that lady nurse acting so weird?" I said a little inquisitive.

He looked back at me for a short second, "She felt very sorry for the situation that you were in!"

"Oh!" Is all that I said before I decided to take a short nap.

Soon enough we got to the house within 30 minutes. As Samuel woke me up I felt a tear on my face, and then another one, then I lost control. I gasped for air and tried to sit straight up but my ribs still hurt. I opened my eyes wide and looked at Samuel. Why was I crying? The moment that that thought came into my head he was there looking at me frightened but calm. He told me, "Breathe, Alexandra! Just take slow deep breathes!" I did as he told me to and it helped.

I asked him, "How did you know what to do?"

He looked at me, the fear totally gone, and said, "Well, the doctor said that you will have anxiety problems, and when you randomly have an anxiety attack to tell you to take slow deep breathes."

I got out of the car slowly and said, "This sucks!"

As I walked to the door Samuel shut the car doors and sped in front of me to unlock and open the door. I walked into the house almost missing the new house sort of smell that the house was filled with. Why did I feel like this is home? I mean I know that I have Samuel with me but why did I want to call this place home?

"Do you want anything to eat?" Samuel said interrupting my thoughts.

"Umm, no thank you. I am not hungry quite yet." I proclaimed sitting down on his couch.

He looked at me in a way that told me that he was worried.

"What?" I said looking back at him. "I will eat later."

He sat on the couch next to me and stated, "It is not that! It is just... I thought that I had lost you. I don't want to ever lose you. I told you before but you are everything to me."

All I could do was look back at him then suddenly someone walked through the front door. It was two older people maybe in their 40's. I was guessing that these people were his parents so I stood up a little too quickly and hurt my ribs again.

"Hey mom and dad! Why are you guys back so early?" He said looking at me, gently sitting me back on the couch.

His mom and dad look at me and his mom says, "We wanted to come home early because we missed you! Who is this?"

He looks at me and then looks at his mom and proclaims, "This is my girlfriend Alexandra. She likes to be called Alex so call her that. She also has to stay here because her parents are gone."

"Where are your parents?" His mom asked me.

I looked at her and asked, "Do you want the truth?"

"Yes!" Samuel's mother said with curiosity in her eyes.

"Ok. Well they left when I was 13 and never came back. I forged their signatures so I could get into school because school is important to me." I said looking away trying not to cry. I failed and a single tear fell from my eyes.

His mom saw my tear and said, "I am so sorry! You can stay as long as you want."

His father joined in and said not to happy, "We were going to surprise you but you were already here. Why is that?"

Samuel looked at him unafraid and proclaimed, "We are not at school because we were at the hospital! Before you ask why, is because a girl was bullying Alex and long story short she ended up going to the hospital. She now has a couple broken ribs and a major case of anxiety."

His mother suddenly covers his mouth and says, "I am so sorry for what you are going through."

Samuel's mother was a really nice lady. When we were done with our conversation she helped me get up off of the couch. She led me upstairs while Samuel stayed with his father. She was about to bring me into his older sister's room but I told her that I sleep in his room. She told me that that was fine and that she was only bringing me into her room because she wanted to give me the clothes that didn't fit her older daughter. I found out that her name was Mary and her husband's name was Mitchel. I thought that it was kind of funny that their names started with an M and their sons name started with an S. She told me that when they adopted him that his birth mother named him that. Then I thought to myself that I didn't know that he was adopted. It scared me that there were things that we were hiding from each other. And we both just found out our biggest secret. It also occurred to me that his mother and father did not care that I am a master forger.