Change me

Chapter 3

Hailey's POV

I fall a sleep right when i come home and only wake up 3 hours later when my dad comes in. "Hi honey, how was school today?" I shrug and answer "fine I guess" "meet any cute guys?" he asks. "DAD!! stop it! I've told you time and time again I need space and time to recover from Dylan's death, why can't you just accept that and stop asking me about guys all the time?!" I reply annoyed. Ever since the car accident my dad has been obsessed with me finding a new boyfriend, 'you can't hang on to the memory of one guy forever Hailey, it's not good for you'. He doesn't understand me. No one understands. I mean they try but really how could they? Unless you have lost someone you'll never be able to understand how this feels. How I feel. "I'm sorry honey I don't mean to upset you. But it's been 7 months since Dylan died and eventually you are going to have to get over him" You could at least pretend you know what this is like you know?" I wish mom were here, mom always understood me. But she left us when I was 10 to move to Mexico with her new boyfriend and since then it has only been my dad and I. I grab some food from the fridge and go up to my room. I'm not in the mood for "father daughter bonding" today. I watch youtube until I eventually fall a sleep.

When I wake up the next day I decide to go to Dylan's grave before school. It's only a 10 minutes walk from my house so it's not that far. It's been almost two weeks since I've visited him and guilt rushes through me as I realize that. When I get there I sit by his grave and tell him how my week has been, how much I miss him and love him. I walk back to school and when I get there someone comes up to me, he looks vaguely familiar. "H-hi!, it's Hailey right?" he asks "Yeah." I say without stopping to talk to him. "My name is Sam, Sam Lewis. Remember me? I'm that guy from your physics class, you know the one that was sitting in your seat?" So that's where I remember him from. "Cool" I say as I open my locker. He stares at the the picture I have there, a lame selfie of me and Dylan where I am tilting my head back with my eyes closed and he is just innocently smiling at the camera pretending he didn't just make the dirtiest joke ever. "Is that your boyfriend?" Sam asks "Was. He's dead now." I say slamming my locker and start walking to class. He follows after me. Of course he does "I'm sorry, really I had no idea. I'm really sorry for your loss" he says and I glance over at him. Well he is attractive I'll give him that. "Yeah of course you are." I reply, starting to get annoyed with all of his talking. "I mean I did hear about the death of some football kid but I never knew who it was really, I mean mostly I keep it to myself, I'm not exactly a 'cool kid' if you get what I mean" I stop in my tracks and look at him "Listen to me you little shit, Dylan wasn't just some 'football kid' he was more than that SO MUCH MORE THAN THAT so if you don't know what you're talking about don't say anything at all, got it?" "I-I'm sorry I didn't mean to.. I just.. I'm sorry" he looks like he actually means it "Sure. Now get lost will you?" He looks at me with his puppy dog eyes before walking away. In the same moment Jaden walks up to me "Hey girl, who was that?" "Just some kid from my physics class" I answer and keep walking "Well he's super cute" Jaden smirks at me "Ugh just shut up Jaden, please." "Hey I was just kidding , take it easy" she says rolling her eyes. " Whatever" "Anyways did you know tha....." I interrupt her by saying that I'm not in the mood today and walk away from her.