Another City Of Lights.

Chapter 12.

Sam's POV:-

I know I shouldn't have stayed out this late, but I really didn't care about the consequences right now. It's not like anyone was waiting up for me at home anyway. Everyone was probably asleep, thinking I must stayed at the library to study again. Because apparently that's all I ever did now. Study, study and study.

Ever since I joined this school, that's all I ever did. That's all they made me do.
So I had come up with a routine of my own, a way to tolerate this life and the hypocritical people in it.
Wake up, go to school, take every single class, smile politely at anyone who tries to talk to me, wait to go home.
And when it was one of those 'bad' days at home, I would just stay at the library at school, and study some more.

It was depressing overall, but what choice did I have anyway.
So it did come off as a surprise when Dash, Hailey and Aaron showed up.
I hadn't really spoken to them at all, and I admit that I did feel highly awkward.
But the day had been so perfect that I couldn't wipe this silly grin off my face, which seemed to be a source of annoyance for Aaron as he walked beside me.

He looked so different, I couldn't wrap my mind around it. If I had the guts, I would have started talking to him, there were so many things I wanted to ask, but I stayed quiet, I had already pissed him off enough for one day.

Aaron's POV:-

The only thing that was going on in my head was that this was a bad idea. I should've just asked Dash to take her home. Why do I have this stupid tendency to volunteer every time when it comes to her? Why?!

I guess it could've been made better if either of us actually offered to start a conversation, but I had a feeling that wasn't happening anytime soon.

I could feel her looking at me, slightly longer than normal, and smiling to herself as if she was noticing something that I wasn't aware of. The curiosity to find out what was going on around her head was killing me.
I didn't want to come off as rude, not again. But I couldn't let this time pass without talking to her, especially when I didn't know when I would see her again.

"Do you have something against me now?", Shit. That was the worse possible thing I could've said.
It was actually so bad, that it made her stop. She turned around and looked at me with so much frustration in her eyes that I couldn't believe I was the cause of that.
"No", She replies coldly, and continues to walk up further ahead.
"What happened to you? Why don't you talk to anyone? Why don't you talk to me?!", I know I sounded pathetic and desperate but I wasn't able to control my big fat mouth and now there was no going back.
We were going to have this conversation whether she liked it or not.