Fears To Face

∞ Chapter 8 ∞

~ Kayley ~

Reluctantly, I crawled out of my bed the following morning, knowing I had to go to school and also knowing that was the last thing on my mind right now. My night had existed of lying awake half the night and when I was sleeping, thousand images of Rayne, my mother and wolves were suffocating my brain, causing me to wake up for hours again. I sighed as I walked to the bathroom, but as I half opened the door and saw Sam’s form in front of the mirror, I stopped and shut it again. “Oh, sorry, I’ll leave,” I muttered as I turned around.

“No wait, it doesn’t matter. I’m done.” Sam kicked the door open again to walk out, then stopped short when he saw me. “Wow Kay, you look terrible.”

I shot him a look. “Thanks Sam, that was exactly what I needed to hear,” I muttered.

“Sorry, sis.” He kissed my cheek, then pulled back, a smile forming on his lips. “Ah, looks much better now.”

I rolled my eyes and folded my arms, “Very funny, Sam.”

“Well, it did help, didn’t it?” He wiggled his eyebrows.

That was why he was my sunlight. I smiled softly. “Yes, it did. Thanks.”

“You don’t have to thank me. I don’t like looking at you when you look like that, so honestly, I’m just doing it for my own good.” He smirked and I started laughing. I went into the bathroom and Sam headed for the staircase. “See ya at our kitchen table, Sista.”

I was still laughing when I closed the bathroom door.

Sam and I got to school together in my car because our classes ended at the same time today and that only happened rarely, so we took the chance to drive together as much as we could. We crossed the parking lot to the giant, grey school building with its long wings to the left, back and right when Mallory ran to me, with her long curly brown hair dancing loose in the wind. Her breath was worked up when she reached me and accused, “You said you would call me yesterday evening. Since when do you forget about me, Kayley? I waited for you all evening!” Her high voice echoed in my head. She was wearing a white coat that made her look neat, with her mascara and red lips, which were put in a firm line, her arms crossed.

I had forgot about her completely. That had never happened before. “I’m so sorry, Mallory. I was busy.”

“What’s more important than me?”

Sam snorted softly beside me and Mallory shot him a raised brow. “Yeah, I’m leaving now. See ya later, Sis.” He walked in the direction of the little field to the left of our school, just in front of the left wing after kissing me on my cheek. That was weird, Trevor and Greg were standing at the entrance of the school. Why wasn’t he going to them?

Mallory interrupted my thoughts, waving her hand in front of my eyes. “Kay? Hello? Earth to Kayley! Ah, finally. So, what were you doing that was so important you forgot about me?” Suddenly her eyes gleamed and she clutched her hands together. “Is it a guy? Oh my god, Kay, really?”

I rolled my eyes. “Mallory seriously, there are other things in the world that have the ability to keep you busy excluding guys, unlike your believes, of course…”

She frowned. “Don’t be like that. It would be time for you to start paying attention to guys other than Sam. You’re almost eighteen and you never kissed a guy!” Mallory was a close friend and meant a lot to me, but when it came to guys, we disagreed completely. Mallory held the view that if you hadn’t kissed a guy before you turned eighteen, you were cursed to live a lonely life without a lover and a with shitload of cats. I mostly laughed her ‘boy-curse-view’ off, just to get rid of it, but I wasn’t in for that now, since it was a boy where I had been busy with, just in a different way than Mallory hoped.