Make it to me.

Part 24

Aubree POV

When I leave Micah I turn to make sure he's already walking towards campus before I make my way home.

The advantage of Micah not knowing me was that he had no idea that my story about how I hurt myself was total bullshit.

If I would've told the story to Chloe or Eli, who were the only ones who knew about dad, they would've called me out right away. They'd tell me to grow some balls and stand up for myself or tell someone but I couldn't do that to Lukie.

I knew he loved dad regardless of the shit he was already putting him through, I wanted to stay with him as long as I could.

When I make it home I see Lukie dancing in the kitchen with mom, he calls for me to come join and I owe it to him for screaming.

I walk over and when I do they both stare at me with wide eyes and agape mouths

I'm confused until I remember that I have a fucking black eye, damn it. Mom walks over to the stereo and turns the music off

"Aubree! What in the world happened to your face!? Come here now." 

I roll my eyes but walk towards her anyway, she puts her hands on my face and touches my eye.

I flinch

"Sorry. What happened?"

I shake my head as if telling her not to ask or make me tell her in front of Lukie

I turn to look at him and he sits on top of the countertop to touch my face.

He gently traces his finger around my cheeks and makes his way to my eye, barely touching.

"Does it hurt Bree?"

I look at him and a sad look covers his face

"What? This thing? Nah you should've seen the other guy."

I wink at him and he giggles

Mom washes the dishes and I ask Lukie if he wants to go upstairs to watch a movie on my laptop.

He says yes and I turn around while he latches on to me so I can give him a piggy back ride up the stairs.

While we walk towards the staircase the door opens and dad walks in. Lukie jumps off of me and runs towards him.

"Daddy!"

He jumps into his arms and dad picks him up while holding him up in the air.

"Hey! What's going on champ! U have a good day?"

Lukie blabbers on and dad finally puts him down

He finally notices me and walks over

"What's up Bree?"

I wanna punch him and tell him to stop talking to me so I just nod my head at him.

He looks at my eye but says nothing, then he walks into the kitchen and says hi to mom.

She eyes him suspiciously and says hi back.

I grab Lukies hand and run up the stairs with him

We end up watching Kung Fu Panda and he laughs even though he's watched the damn thing over a million times at this point. I smile while I watch him laugh and hope he'll always be as happy as he is in this moment.

Lukie goes downstairs again when the movie is over and I email my teachers who's classes I missed today.

I think about Micah and how he came to just hear me out today. He's sweet and I look forward to our friendship.

I won't even be distracted by his hazel eyes that sometimes look green or his perfect face.

Yeah..id be fine.

I just hope that he doesn't mind that friends is all we'll be.

Did he feel the way I felt when we kissed? That fire feeling at the pit of my stomach, the way it made my head dizzy and the way my heart almost beat out of my chest?

I tell myself he didn't, he would've asked me to reconsider or talk about throwing the idea of us  away so easily.

At this point I knew Micah cared about me but what if he just wanted in my pants?

Most guys wanted that and I knew he wasn't most guys but the thought was stuck in the back of my mind.

Why had he been cornering me and why had he kissed me? He was interested for sure but in what way?

I knew the answer to that and that's why I had shut it down, the whole thing.

This same thing was a problem with Eli and had a lot to do with why it didn't work out between us.