CODE RED (Book 1)

Strange Encounter

Strange Encounter-2

Alex Thorne's steal grey eyes peered at me from the reflection of the mirror in front of me. I paused at what I was doing and quickly shut off the tab of cold water and hid my cut behind a white paper towel.

All that seemed pointless considering he had already seen what an injury I caused myself.

He continued to stare at me with shock in his eyes."Gareki, Right?" He asked me which kind of made me surprised. I had one hundred percent thought he would ask to see my cut but that didn't mean I should let my guard down.

Why would he want to know my name. Possibly so he could tell the coach what was on my wrist and then I'd get a bunch of questions and stares from my class mates forcing me to reveal what had actually happened , even if it turned out as a lie I still didn't want to go through with it. I couldn't let it happen. I stayed quiet as the question he had asked me lingered in the air until it became thin with awkwardness. Not for me but for him, I was completely comfortable with the silence.

Alex sighed. He shut the door to the men's locker room and walked up to me."Let me see it..." He said firmly.

I squinted my eyes at him. Who did he think he was. Ordering me around like this.

"You've seen enough." I stated flatly. But he was persistent, I gave him credit for that. In a quick grab my arm was in his grip exposing the wet paper towel covering it but then it dropped to the tile floor and splattered only to reveal my angry red mark.

"What the hell?!" I snapped and practically pulled my arm away quickly, but it had been to late, he had already seen what he needed and I hated him for it. He had witnessed something from me that no one else had before, I got angry and at that moment I shoved him to the ground harshly. He looked up at me surprised not expecting my rough actions.

I crouched over him and yanked him by the shirt. "Listen, I don't give a fuck if you're new but step into my business like that again and I'll kick your ass next time if you do something stupid like that. Got It!"

He stared at me wide eyed before he closed them and let out a laugh. A short. Quiet. Laugh. I wandered what the hell was so funny after I had threatened him.

He stopped his unnecessary chuckling and smirked up at me. He then got to his feet and dusted himself off. I myself let go of his shirt to cross my arms over my chest. Marring a glower on my face. I wasn't in the mood for dealing with this "new guy" and it only made me angrier that he found something funny about me that he had to ignore my threat like it had been nothing.

This Thorne guy was getting very close to being on my shit list. If he already wasn't.

He looked back up at me having a more composed body language this time."I guess the people in English Lit were right about you, that you are aloof when it comes to people. Especially the new. Kind of makes me wonder what you are hiding, Although I did find that cut wound on you, which by my guess. . . you were hiding." Alex Thorne sounded so completely sure of himself and self confident that it was like he had completely written off me shoving him a minute ago.

I scowled at him."If you value not getting into a fight on the first day of high school then pretend you didn't see a thing."

He leaned against the wall and stared at me long and hard. This result made me angrier." What's your problem?"

"I like you." He stated simply without hesitation. "Not in that way...possibly... but something about you seems worth my interests. He said the last part slowly as if he was thinking about it. I felt a strange heat escalate to my face. He had finally caught me off guard on that statement.