The Disguised Bad Girl

Chapter 10 - Regrets and Kept Promises ((EDITED))

C h a p t e r T e n

Regrets and Kept Promises

With Chases eyes on my back, I head out the back door, and in to the unfamiliar garden. To be honest, it was probably wrong for me to label it as a garden, because it didn't resemble anything like that. There were orange rusty leaves sprawled all over, and the grass was a mucky brown shade.

Taking a sip of my drink, I sit down on the wooden bench, it was pretty chilly outside now, and the air smelt of a mixture of alcohol and weed, and the music was beginning to give me a headache. It was definitely wrong for me to come, not that I had drank too much, or had done something crazy - but I wasn't feeling this party.

I should've just stayed home and watched Chuck Bass and Dylan O'Brien. I could have even found a leak to the new Divergent Movie, and then I'd be able to fall asleep dreaming of Theo James.

"You really shouldn't be sat here by yourself." Shocked, I grip on tightly on to my cup, and quickly glance to my right, beside the door.

"You really shouldn't be following me." I reply, my eyes meeting his soft ones, and I'm almost transfixed, but I avert them back to my red plastic cup - attempting to make it seem slightly interesting.

Chase doesn't say anything after that, and we both stand in awkward, yet, strangely comfortable silence.

"You don't have to stay here," I tell him. "I'm old enough to look after myself."

He doesn't even move. "It's my turn to make sure everyone is okay."

I had almost forgot, of course he'd be here because of that. It wasn't his choice, since he had promised Mia, and he always stayed true to his 'word'.

"I'm okay." I mumble, "You don't have to babysit me."

He sighs, making me glance at him. He seemed annoyed, not angry annoyed, more like agitated. "I'm not baby sitting you, and I'm not leaving."

"What if Anna or Mia, or even Mason are doing something stupid right now, they might need you." I point out, and he shrugs his shoulders.

"I'm more worried about you." He says. "And I'm not going to leave you out here, this late, in the garden all alone."

I shrug my shoulders. "Do as you please."

And then we are met with the same silence again, but it only lasts a couple of minutes, because Chase moves from the door, and in two quick strides - he is stood beside me.

"Well, budge up then."

Shifting towards my right slightly, making sure I don't fall of the small bench, and I toss empty red cup on the ground. It wouldn't make much a difference to the garden anyway. It probably made it prettier. Adding a bit of affect to it.

"Why did you come out here?" Chase asks, and I shrug my shoulders instantly. He was being weird. I know he kept a promise, but after the whole hand situation and dinner - he seemed almost forced, like he had felt bad.

"Not feeling the party." I reply a couple minutes later, and he nods his head - his gaze held on my shivering hands. Unconsciously, I quickly move them under my legs. But it was too late, because he had seen it, and was starting to take off his jacket. "No, it's fine." I tell him, but he continues to take it off and wraps it around me.

"You're going to die with pneumonia." He states, over-exaggerating.

"Why do you care?" I blurt randomly, maybe it was the alcohol talking, but my words had already left my mouth, and I move my head to meet his gaze.

But he doesn't say anything for a couple of seconds, the air stiff and silent. "I don't." He mutters. "But if you do die, then Mase would kill me," and when I raise my eyebrows, questionably, he shakes his head. "And Anna and Mia, of course."

"Right."

And then the silence greets us again, and the subject is no longer dwell-able. It was starting to get colder now, and the music seemingly got louder - announcing the arrival of more people, and the party had started to kick in. And I felt bad. Just because I didn't want to be at the party, that didn't mean Chase had to babysit me. He came here for a party, whether he was going to drink or not - he didn't come to sit with me.

"You should go back in," I tell him. "To the party, I mean."

He shrugs his shoulders. "And leave you here alone?" He asks. "No chance, besides, it's too cramped for me."

"I think I'm going to head home now anyway, you may as well head in." I say, shrugging off his jacket, but he pushes the it back on me.

"It's cold, keep it on." He replies. "Didn't you come with Anna and Mia?" and when I nod my head, he instantly stands up. "Let me drive you then."

I don't want to decline his offer, because the drive was long - which meant walking, would take a good hour, besides it was freezing, let alone dark. And so I follow him, in to his truck - but that was a really big mistake.

Because who had known that a simple drive would end in such a disaster. One that meant I didn't end up getting home the next day - forget an hour. But sometimes the worst things happen with the best company - to make sure, that you're safe and brighten up everything.

So Maybe, that was why I was stuck with Chase for another whole day, and even though everything went downhill - somehow, he made it seem fine, that everything would be okay - even though it wouldn't. And maybe that was when everything began to change, and I began to see Chase in a different perspective - one that changed everything I originally thought about Chase, and perhaps that was when feelings began.

But just because one person starts falling, doesn't mean the other will fall too. Because sometimes, life is like that. It can be cruel and deceiving. So even if feelings were caught, we had to learn to shove them away, because we couldn't dwell on something like that.

After all, I was trying to be a Disguised Bad Girl, and he was battling his own fights. And there wasn't time to start catching feelings, let alone a relationship.

So, we let it go. But lets not get carried away, I still had to fill you in on what happened that night, so embrace yourself, because it was one heck of a ride.

The Disguised Bad Girl

hEY peeps, quick update; for those who may say the story is going a little fast, I wanted to keep it realistic. and real feelings are caught unintentionally, times when you don't even know you feel that way.

So, anyway, there is still a lot of chapters to go, until they realise how the feel and a lot of shit happens in between, so we will discuss their feelings when we cross that bridge.

Hope you enjoy this chapter, I kinda wanted to make it less dramatic, and more personal - kinda thing. lol. kinda failed. kinda worked. idk.

please don't forget to vote and comment:)

xoxo J