unexpected - b.w.s

39. Naive

"Okay class, get into the bus" Mr. Greene said excited, as the only one. The rest of the class didn't really mind what he was saying. We were going on a fieldtrip, to some unknown place, but I wasn't mad about it. I was happy that we were going out of the class to do something else.

I walked inside the bus, and sat down on a empty seat. The only thing I wasn't happy about was I knew Bradley was on this bus to. I hadn't seen him yet, but that was obvious. He was ignoring me.

The bus drive to the Lake, was not that long. We were going to write down all the insects we saw and the elements there was in and around the Lake. I wasn't good at the periodic table, some could say without looking. I wasn't one of them.

Almost everybody had a partner to do it with, but I hadn't. I just walked around the Lake trying to find the insects that probably just grossed me out.

Until I saw him. Bradley. He was texting someone on his phone, standing away from everybody so nobody saw him, just like I did. He took a quick glance up from his phone, but when he realised it was me, he completely stared at me, and took it down in his pocket.

I didn't know what to do either, so I just did the same, but then just before I was gonna leave, he said something.

"What are you and Kyle doing?" He asked in a husky voice. I didn't even know he knew him.

"Nothing. We're friends." I said suprised he was even talking to me. He made it pretty clear he wasn't gonna do that.

He scoffed. "Yeah right - friends. He want more than that, I can tell."

"And why do you think that?" I asked raising an eyebrow. He quickly licked his lips, and put his hands down in his pockets.

"Because I know him, you clearly don't. You shouldn't be with him." He said. Like he even knew him. Kyle was sweet, why couldn't I be with him, if I wanted to? And why is Brad ordering me to do so?

"You can't tell me what to do." I said a bit annoyed by his comment.

"I'm just fucking saying the truth. I am trying to protect you." He said demanding, trying to sound convincing.

"If you're protecting me, then why did you say you wanted to forget about me, like you didn't care." I said in a lower voice than before. He looked at me carefully, probably thinking about an answer inside his head.

"Look, I don't... I don't want him to hurt you." He looked at me genuinly looking like he was meaning it.

"Just like you did to me?" I almost whispered, I was scared he was going to be mad at me for saying it.

But he didn't even say anything at that point. He just stared at me with intense eyes, and a bit of sorrow in his eyes. Probably also just fake.

"Just don't, alright? Don't talk to him, he'll hurt you or something."

"Like you even care if I get hurt or not." I spoke a little louder than before.

"I do care, that's the fucking problem Maggie!" Why could that be the problem?

I didn't know who I should believe. Kyle seemed so nice, and Brad too sometimes. But Brad could be lying. He had been lying to me way to many tines, so why should I trust him now. What if this was his plan - to hurt me in the end.

"You are really not who I thought you were." I shaked my head, his expression changed. From a little furrowed eyebrows and harsh eyes, to a comepletely pissed look. His jaw clenched, and he stepped a little closer.

"Oh, then tell me who you thought I was." He waited on the answer I didn't have. Right now I just wanted to leave him. The pissed off Brad wasn't something I could be bothered with. After a couple of seconds of silence, since I didn't have an answer, he spoke again.

"Let me tell you the truth. You thought you could change me. You thought I was changing. You can't expect me to be the Price fucking Charming, when i'm not, Maggie. I'm not that guy, and this little idea in your head of ''fixing me', 'making me a better person' or whatever, isn't gonna work. I'm not good, princess." He backed off with Slow steps, not breaking his harsh gaze on me.

"And you're so fucking naive to think that." He turned around and left.