Finding Me

Chapter Ten

The picture above is Kennedi!

I couldn't concentrate on anything in any of my classes. I was try to listen to what Kennedi was saying but all I could think about is about is how much I needed to punch something or someone. I need to find a ring where I could fight. I could talk to Aiden about it. What why would I talk to Aiden we aren't even friends.

"Maddison! Maddison! Are you even listening to what I am talking about?" She asks me.

"Sorry, I just have a lot on mind right now." I tell her.

She looks at me then my hands and I know what she is going to ask.

"Maddison," She pauses, "There is a party this Saturday and I was wondering if you wanted to go?"

I look at her surprised that she didn't ask about my hands but then again she isn't the type to press things.

"Sure I would like to go. Where is it?" I ask.

"I am not exactly sure. I over heard my brother talking about it." She says eating a carrot.

I look at her. If her brother was talking about this then that means that Aiden would most likely be there too. Now I'm not sure about going anymore. I was about to tell her that I don't think I was going to go anymore when the bell rang ending lunch.

I walk to my next class. I just have to get through this class and the next then I can go home.

The teacher just talks and talks about thing that we will never need to know in the future. The bell finally rings and I walk to the last period of the day. I have been dreading this period for the whole day. I sit next to Aiden in this class and I am not very happy about having to sit next to him for a class period.

I walk into the class and he is already there and sitting on the desk talking to his friends. I walk over to my seat and put my bag down on the ground and sit down.

I look at Aiden and he is still talking to his friends. He laughs at something something says. His laugh is nice. I notice something while he is laughing. His laugh doesn't reach his eyes and he has dark circles under his eyes. I don't know why I didn't realize this before. The circles are pretty dark and not something you don't notice. I also notice that his eyes look like they don't have any life in them.

Why didn't I notice these thing before. These are the same looks that are on my face. The dark circles, the dead eyes, and the laugh that doesn't reach my eyes.

I know my reason for all these things but I want to know why he looks this way.

The bell startles me out of my thoughts and I look back to my desk. The teacher talks about something that I have already learned so I just tune her out.

"Maddi, baby, can you hear me?" I hear a voice say to me.

I look up and realize that class is over and that Aiden is in front of me looking at me with something is his eyes. Was that worry? No, it couldn't you can't worry about someone unless you cared about them and Aiden definitely didn't care about me.

"Sorry, I was lost in my thoughts." I tell him. I get my things together and walk to the door.

I turn around and he is still standing by the desks.

"Aiden," I yell to him. He looks up and looks at me, "Don't call me Maddi or baby!" I tell him and walk out of the door out of the school and to my bike.

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I drive to the house and notice there is a car in the driveway that I don't recognize. I don't know if I should go in or go somewhere else. As I decide that I will go somewhere else my parents walk out.

I look at my mom and dad in shock. Why are they here? I look at Aunt Tillia and see her look down at her feet in shame. I don't know why she is ashamed until my dad starts talking, well more yelling at me.

"Maddison! Why did Tillia need to call me and tell me that you have scabs on your hands and that they realy bad! I thought we agreed that you can't fight anymore!" My dad yelled at me

"I wasn't fighting! I was stressed and I needed to get that stress out so I went to the gym and started punching the bag!" I told him in a calm voice.

"You agreed that if you need to let things out you would talk to us!" My mom said.

"I didn't want to talk! I needed to let it out!" I yell at them, loosing my cool, "Dad I don't understand. Why when I live in New York you let me go and single handedly take down people who owe you money and are people who could kill me, but when I go to the gym to let off some steam you freak out and think that I will get hurt?!" I question.

"That's not the same." My dad tells me quietly.

"Not the same! Are you kidding me! I am out of here! I will come back when you leave or figure out your priorities!" I yell as I walk away from them.

I got to my bike when my dad started yelling to me, "Don't you dare leave when I am talking to you!"

"No I can leave whenever I want to leave because you don't own me!" I yell back.

"Well you have to listen to me because I am your father and you will listen to me!" He yells back.

"I don't care that you are my father! You have no right to tell me to stay here and listen to you yell at me!" I scream at him, "Just because you scare people for a living doesn't mean you scare me!"

"You are right I do scare people for a living! And right now you should be scared too!

"Dad just because you are one of the most wanted men in America, no wait the world doesn't mean that you should tell me what to do! You are the leader of one of the most feared mafias in the world! Why should I be scared of you!" I yell at him.

"You will listen and be scared right now because... Maddison who is that?" My dad asks me looking behind me.

I look at my dad and turn around. I gasp as I notice who it is.

It is Aiden and Kennedi. I look at them and I see that they both looked shocked and very scared.

"What are you guys doing here?" I ask scared at what they heard.

"Um... we were just worried about you... you were very distant today and you... um... had things on your hands." Kennedi spoke quietly.

"Why did you come over without asking me first?" I asked them. I was happy of sorts that they came over and cared about. I know why Kennedi is here, but I don't know why Aiden is here.

"We thought about it but then thought maybe that you would tell us that we should just leave you alone." Aiden told me.

"Well you should have texted me first or something," I told them.

"Maddison! We are not done talking! And your little friends should not have heard a lot of what they heard!" My dad told me.

"Dad I am going with them and then you will leave me alone until you calm down and can talk to me without yelling." I told him calmly walking away and getting into whoevers car was driven here.

They got into the car and Aiden started driving away. I closed my eyes and I realized that my new friend and my new crush were in danger. It depends how much they heard and how my dad reacts.

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