Three Knocks

Chapter 9

Third POV:

"Hailey, I got two tickets to his concert on Saturday" he told in calm voice. Hailey stared her with widen eyes. "Are you kidding me? Stop it right away! Oh my fucking lord, just stop it. You're a fucking liar" she started yell again to Justin.

There was no hope to get anything nice back to her today so he just let her be. "Okay, well tell me if you're interested. I just.. okay, just forget it what I said" he sighed and walked inside his house.

He was tired of listening Hailey and her rude comments over him which made no sense. He had done nothing bad to her, at least he didn't know what it would have been.

"You don't have to ask me twice to do that because I already did. From one ear in and to other out" she mumbled the last part herself. "Thank you for making my day even worse with your lies, Mr. Bieber. We got such amazing neighbor" sarcasm from her words burned Justin's inside but he decided let it just be.

It wasn't his problem in the end if she's wasting her time on being angry over him without good reason. And second, it wouldn't be his problem if Hailey is missing the concert of her favorite singer because of she doesn't believe him.

Hailey's POV:

My light dislike over Justin started get closer and closer the hate that it scared me already but there was no running back because he had started it with mom. Now he was also lying to me, and can you believe about maybe the most important thing in the world, Shawn's concert.

He told that he has tickets there but it couldn't be possible because it has been sold out in 3 hours yesterday. I was feeling disappointed because I had dropped on that trap of his. Even I acted confident and hard in front of him, inside I still saw that kind man who helped me with math.

But then all those times when he had shared things of me with her came in my mind. If I only could know what shit they have told to each others. I opened the front door and stormed inside. "Hi, honey. How was your day at sch-" I slammed my door close before my mom was able to finish her ask. "Hailey, sweetheart! I know that you're sad but life doesn't go always as we want" she tried tell me but I saw or heard no good point there.

"Leave me alone!" I yelled to her when she moved to my room and caresed my hair. "I'm sorry.." she mumbled and looked over her shoulder to kitchen. "Would you like to invite Charlotte over today?" she tried cheer me up and smiled. I turned my head over her and a little smile spread on my lips.

"Why not" I told abd wrabbed my arms around mom. I couldn't be angry over her since there was no reason to that. She has always did her best to fill my needs but nobody could actually fill them all in the end and I had to accept it.

"I'm sorry that I have been a bit disrespective during these few days. I didn't mean it. I understand it that we have hard and I'm ready to bring my help to run this house too" I told. Mom chuckled and shook her head.

"No, you don't have to do anything. We're fine actually but there's not so much extra right now to use" she told and I nodded understanding. "Okay, but I'm sorry still" I said and walked over my table and grabbed my phone there. I dialed Charlotte's number there and called her.

"Heyyy!" I heard my best friend's cheering voice from the other side of the line. "Hi, girl. How you doing?" I giggled and looked over my mom. She understood my hint and left my room. "Nothing special, you? Have you finished your biology project already?"  she asked and my heart took few extra beats when I remember still that empty notebook under my books. "Shit.." I mumbled and heard laughing coming out of her mouth.

"I totally forgot" I mumbled and started search that notebook from my table with my other hand. "You know, I was about to ask you come over but I think that I need to finish that thing first if I don't want get a F" I chuckled and celebrate inside my head when I finally found my project notebook.

"Yeah, I should also clean my room but I'm too lazy" she giggled and I heard how her mom called her. "I gotta go before that Gozilla will eat me" she joked. "Okay, see you tomorrow on school" I said and we hung up.

I opened my notebook and started write about volcanos which were my topic to our projects. Thankfully it was one of my favorite topics so it wasn't hard to write about it.

My pen flew over the paper and pages filled one by one without thinkimg about it and soon there was already 5 pages full of content. I smiled and closed my notebook. I had made a good job.

I packed my books to my backpack before I walked to kitchen where mom was drinking a tea. "Did you fall asleep or where have you been?" she asked when she noticed me. "No, I was finishing my biology project" I mumbled and poured some hot water on my mug too.

I sat down on the table with my mom and took sip of my water. "So how did your school day went?" she asked and I raised my shoulders. "I don't know, good I guess. How did your free day at home went?" I asked back. "Well nothing special. I called Justin to have a morning coffee and we talked a while" she told and it made me want roll my eyes. Not that topic again, I thought.

Mom noticed my annoyed gaze and stopped. "Is there something going between you and him? Like has he done something wrong? You always make that face nowadays when we talk about him" she asked.

"No, it's just that I don't really like that how you talk about me and my life to each others. And second how I have to hear about it" I decided be honest with my mom. "We're not even talking about you whole the time" she told and my gaze rise on her face.

"But well, why I wouldn't praise my smart daughter to him" she smiled and I slapped her. "Stop!" I told but she just laughed. "Okay, but you know, you shouldn't be angry over him. He wants just be a friend to us" she said and I nodded. Maybe I had been a bit too hard to him these last days, I thought myself.

Maybe he really wanted just be nice and help but it really didn't removed that fact he had lied to me earlier today. He doesn't have any tickets to give me, he wouldn't have.

After a couple minutes my feelings fighting inside my head stopped and I calmed down but thought of that, what if he was talking true, stayed in my mind. What if he would have been those tickets to give me but I decided screw it up? Fuck Hailey, good job again!
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And in the end of the day she finally realized that she had done wrong, like in real life too. People make mistakes but we have to learn live with them.

What do you think will happen next?