The Space Between Us

Put that paper bag on (14)

"Ahh Mr. King will you please take of that paper bag; it's distracting the students." Ms. Mills says.

He takes off his paper bag and the whole class erupts in laughter. After the whole prank fiasco we went to sleep. We woke super early trying to out beat the boys. We knew they would try something so we woke up at two in the morning and slept in the car. We knew they would get us back, but we didn't know when. Ms. Mills looks horrified.

"Maybe you should keep that paper bag on your head." She says.

After class I over heard Ms. Mills and Luke talking.

"Maybe you should join the art program." She mumbles

He says something that I can't understand. I'm still standing there when he walks out. Uh oh... I start running; everyone's looking at us like we're crazy. I feel his hands grab my waist.

"LET ME GO!" I yell.

"Tsk tsk tsk." He waves his hand in my face.

"Muffin...you shouldn't have done that, and being a peeping tom??" He whispers.

I shiver slightly. Goose bumps arise on my arm. I try to kick him, but he catches my leg. He kisses my cheek.

"Let it happen, your not getting away."

I see the boys and start jumping; hoping they would help me. They didn't. They walked right by me. I then do the best plan I can think of. I grab my leg and fall to the floor holding it in "pain."

"Awe sh-." He lays beside of me.

"Where does it hurt?" He ask.

"Right he-" I say socking him in the jaw. He grabs his jaw and that's when I get up and make a run for it. I hear his footsteps soon after. I make many twist and turns when I realize I'm not losing him.

Imagine seeing two people; a boy and a girl running through a crowd of students. Now somethings going to go wrong, and it did. I ran right into those witchy blonde girls.

"Hey watch it you- hey Luke what are you doing?" They say  bating there blonde fake eyelashes.

"Trying to catch my girlfriend." He says giving them a wink.

They throw me at him. It's like they were a bunch of lions and they realized I wasn't the gazelle they wanted. He grabs my wrist and then throws me over his shoulder.

"So help me when I get down from your shoulder, your going to be dead." I growl.

"Who said you would get down?"

I start banging on his back. He carries me to my class.

"Sorry, we had a little problem." He says giving the teacher his million dollar smile.

"Muffin, I'm going to see you, I'll be waiting right outside of this class. Don't try to escape or hide."

"Your not my dang parole officer. DO YOU NOT GET IT?" I say, my voice rising.

"No, I don't get it, explain." He says rolling his eyes.

Everyone is staring, but the tears blur my sight. I don't even care anymore. I need to let it off my chest.

"I loved you Luke, with everything I had. You made me so happy. Then you left me. Maybe you don't remember it but I do. You left me, destroyed and heartbroken. I want nothing to do with you. You chose whatever you were doing over me. I loved you before I started dating you. Luke you need to leave me alone. You need to let me be me. Luke you left me before you can do it again." I say in between sobs.

I fall and I just sit there crying. He looks pained. Like I just stabbed his heart in two.  He looks just like I did. I hear the teacher usher him out.

"Do you need to call someone?" The teacher ask.

"Get P-Peyton Walker and Venus Dickens."

They soon come in and help me up. They take me home where I still cry my eyes out. We all lay in my bed. The boys come back with twelve Nutella's. I've eventually stopped crying.We hear the door. Alex lets the person in. Of course it's Luke. I break down again.

"Let me get a few words out, please."

I nod my head, I can't say anything.

"I never meant to hurt you. I hate seeing you like this-" his phone interrupts him. He looks down at it and then he looks up at me. His adam apple bobbing.

"Like I said, I never meant to hurt you, but what I said was the truth. It was a dare. You seem like a really good girl, but I-don't-love-you. I never did. I'm sorry if I hurt you, but you really need to get over me."

I break down even more. Alex gets right in his face. I see the girls start squaring up with Luke. Even Joe and Noah seem agitated.

"Bro what's your problem, you used to talk about her ALL THE TIME. You said you were going to marry her. You made us take pictures." Noah says.

"It was a dare." He sneers.

That's when I see Joe punch him in the jaw; right where I punched him.

"You don't do that to girls, if you think that she was a game. Then our friendship was a game." Joe says.

Noah shakes his head. Peyton slaps him and I sit there crying. I can't even laugh. He walks away without a word. Just like he did before. If he can walk away.

So can I...