Finding You

Chapter 8

It was Reed's hand. I kept thinking of yesterday and the fireworks. The way he just holds my hand to comfort me. "I hate them both!" I yelled, he nodded stepping forward. I gripped my forehead. I was mad and my head started hurting of how mad I was. I felt a tear fall down my cheek and Reed hugged me. "Why do they hate me?" I asked him. He walked up to me and hugged me rubbing my back. I started crying on his shoulder.

"Ellie, it's okay. Your better then them" Reed whispered in my ear. I rested my head on his chest.

"Want to come to my place?" Reed asked me.

I nodded. I pulled out my phone from my back pocket after Reed let me go. He wiped away my tears with his thumb. I smiled at him. I called my mom to tell her I was staying over at Reeds place for a while and she, surprisingly took it well. I hung up as soon as she was done talking about safety. I smiled up at Reed giving him a thumbs up.

"Good let's go" I followed him down the street of the small town. I heard a distinctive. "Bye losers" come out of Lianas mouth. I rolled my eyes and kept walking. We walked the way we came from until we reached our destination; Reeds house. Well, I thought it would be a house. It was an apartment almost as big as mine. "I thought it was going to be an actual house" I laughed. He shrugged. "You get what you pay for" He laughed and fixed his hair by flipping It to the side.

I loved when he flipped his hair to the side. It would stay perfect for the longest time. I mimicked him and flipped my hair as well. I laughed at myself. "You were really trying the hair flip?" He asked, pulling out his keys from his front pocket. "Yes" I pouted. "It was worth a shot" He shrugged while putting the key into the key hole. "Thanks" I rolled my eyes at his sarcasm. "I'm just kidding" he whispered. I laughed.

When we walked in I saw his mom look up from the TV. "Oh, hey, who's your friend" his mom raised an eyebrow. "Mom, this is Ellie" Reed introduced us. I waved at her and gave her a warm smile. "Nice to meet you Mrs. Deming" I said to her. "Hi sweetheart, you're really pretty" she said. I blushed. No one ever called my pretty. Except for Reed.

"We'll be in my room" Reed said. His mom agreed and looked back at the TV. I followed him to his room which was slightly smaller then mine. He sat on the bed, waiting for me to sit next to him. "I share a room with my brother" He informed me. I nodded looking around. "Want something to eat?" He asked. I nodded. "Yes please?"

He got up and walked down the hall. I started looking at his trophies and metals. I saw a fish tanks and a guitar on the side of the fish tank. I picked it up and started playing with the strings. It made a beautiful tune and I started playing "Take You" by Justin Bieber the acoustic version.

I could take you out

I could take you home

I could take you ho-oh-ome

Where you want to go

I could pick it up

We could take it slow

I could take you ho-oh-ome

Where you want to go

"I see you found my guitar" Reed came in with chips and some orange soda on a trey. "Oh I didn't think..." I paused and put the guitar down. "No keep playing your really good. I blushed. "Thanks but I don't..." He put the trey down on his desk and put his finger over my mouth to stop me from talking. "Trust me you are really good" He said. "You think so?" I asked nervously. He nodded.

As if a light bulb went off in his head he started ruffling through some paper on his desk. "What are you looking for?" I asked. He finally found what he was looking for and handed it to me. It was song lyrics. "I want you to sing this, I wrote it" he had a wide, flirtish smile on his face. Which was very attractive. "Okay" I said confused.

I started singing the words to the song.

Just imagine if you were my girl

Two crazy kids that can take on the world

You owe me nothing, just living on love till the end

I sang the song until the end. A light bulb then went off on me. I now knew where I heard his name before. "Reed Deming" I pointed at him. He shrugged. "Yeah."

"I know where I seen you before" I said. He seemed confused. "The XFactor" I said. He nodded. "Yeah you were on it. I remember because my sister was watching it and I your heard name. I wasn't really paying attention I just heard it" he smiled.

The rested of the afternoon went by with Reed and I eating and chatting about the XFactor and music and singing. We also cleared up all the 'girlfriend' stuff with his Reedlings who apologized to me for the hurtful comment. He also added that if they were hurtful to me again he will delete his account.

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We were watching, Monsters University when I started getting tired. I rested my head on Reeds shoulder and he wrapped his arm around me. I soon fell asleep.