Admitting Was Never Part Of Our Vocabulary

Chapter 6 - The Leather Jacket

The bell rang for fourth period, PE my least favorite lesson of the day was next, at least it was Friday, being able to lay in tomorrow morning already made me awe. Making my way into the changing rooms, I find myself a corner to get dressed in, Emily was getting dressed beside me, I hated this, getting undressed in front of a room full of judgmental girls. "Jeremy was talking about you earlier, I mean Jeremy is always talking about you" Emily says winking at me as turn around so no one can see me and pull up my leggings, "no Emily you have to be joking me, he's not my type" I say rolling my eyes and redoing my pony tale, "no I'm not joking al, he really likes you I can tell, but he's not bad enough hey" she says winking at me also giving me a nudge, "I have no idea what you're talking about" I express whilst lacing up my shoe and making my way into the hall. "You know what I mean" she says smiling down at me. As we make our way into the hall all eyes are on us, not meaning to but we have a habit of being late to most lessons, usually because Emily is always talking at me it's hard to concentrate, a whole room of eyes are laid on me and Emily, we awkwardly walk in and place ourselves on the bench. Mrs Clarendon is putting people into teams, luckily me and Emily are put in the same team. We're still currently sitting on the bench when I feel Emily nudge me "act natural. But andy is staring at you from across the hall" Emily's says whilst giggling. I roll my eyes and look over to him and he is doing exactly that, I stand up and walk across the hall towards him, getting looks as if people were wondering about my confidence towards andy. "Take a picture andy" I say smiling at him crossing my arms, "I would but you'd probably hurt me" he says smirking at me. "You're disgusting." I say shaking my head causing my pony tale to sway. "Well dinks dodge ball is about to start, wouldn't want you getting hurt would we" he says in a patronizing manor. "Oh don't worry, I couldn't care less if I get hurt, I wouldn't want to ruin your reputation by beating you now would I" I say turning around on my heal and walking off.
I stood across the hall from Andy, myself and Emily placed ourselves towards the back in the corner, everyone else around us are playing dodge ball, everyone racing around jumping,thudding the balls into each other. Suddenly I feel a tap on my shoulder and Emily's eyes widen, "uh hello" a small voice says from behind me. I turn round "oh hello Jeremy, how're you?" I question "I'm fine, I was just wondering if you'd like to do some revision some time? Maybe at mine. Or even yours if you like?" He says eagerly. "Um I'll have a think about it Jeremy thank you" I say "no problem I was also thi-" he exclaims being cut off by a ball thudding against his face causing him to fall to the floor. I chuckle under my breath as my eyes shoot towards Andy and I can see him smiling from ear to ear, covering his mouth with his hand wrapped around his jaw. I reach down and help Jeremy up. After I do me and Emily look at each other in slight amusement as Jeremy brushes himself off and walks away across the hall.
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The bell goes for the end of the day, still wearing my PE kit I make my way out of the gates, as I am walking I start to wonder where Andy is, after many thoughts race through my mind about the possibilities of where Andy could be I hear a patter of footsteps running up behind me, he must know I can hear him running to catch up with me, it brings a smile to my face. "Got a date have we?" Andy greets me with a smirk. "Jealous are we?" I say smirking back "no why would I be jealous?" He says almost annoyed, "just asking, but what you did to Jeremy was a bit uncalled for don't you think?" I reply to him, "pretty funny don't you mean?" He says laughing "okay maybe it was a little funny but still" I say laughing with him. We make our way up to our drive ways as I see a car drive up to Andys house, "here we go" Andy mutters under his breath, I see a slender and a large man emerge from the vehicle, could they be his dads? The larger one approaches me with a big smile "oh my gosh what do we have here!" He exclaims in an excited tone. "Hey cam" Andy says almost embarrassed. "Hello I'm cam" the large man says shaking my hand still in an excitable manor, "oh hello. I'm Alex nice to meet you" I say greeting him with a smile.
"So this is the girl you're always talking about hey" he says nudging Andy "no I never?" Andy says almost defensively. I laugh it off and see another man coming toward us, "hey dad" Andy greets his father, "hey Andy, hello.." he says gesturing towards me holding out his hand. "Oh hello I'm Alex, nice to meet you" I say taking his hand and shaking it. "So is this a thing then, is this your new girlfriend, I've been waiting for this day for age-" cam started to rant on and was interrupted by Andy saying "uh no we're just friends". "If that's what you call it" cam
Says waving his hand and turning around, "see you later then, lovely meeting you Alex" he says turning away and walking into the house. "Nice meeting you Alex" Andys dad says on his phone with a briefcase in another walking away waving. "Uh I guess I'll see you tomorrow then yeah? Also sorry about them they tend to get excited" Andy says "they seem lovely" I reply, "yeah they're okay I guess, well see you round" Andy says turning away, I stop him by saying "hey Andy, wanna grab your jacket quick? I still have it?" I question a large smile emerges on his face, he starts walking back towards me and we make our way into my house, we make our ways into the kitchen, I offer him a water and he accepts, we then proceed to walk up the stairs and into my bedroom, he makes himself at home on my bed whilst I grab his jacket for him, throwing his jacket at him, a little to hard I may add, it results in cutting his forehead. I suddenly freak out, "oh my god Andy I'm so sorry, wait here I'll get you a plaster or something" I say panicking running out of the room and Into the bathroom nocking my knee against the bed frame as I ran, grabbing the medical kit from the bathroom cabinet and rushing back into the bedroom "short stuff I'm not having a plaster on my head are you kidding me" Andy laughs, "honestly it's fine you don't have to do this" he continues, I proceed to patch his head up with cotton and go to place the plaster over the wound. He grabs my wrist and pushes it a way "no way dinks" he says with a missive grin "no Andy let me do it or I'll never forgive myself" he exhales and gives In and lets me put the plaster on his head. He looks down and exclaims "oh dinks you've grazed your knee he says placing his hand over it and brushing it lightly with his thumb, we both look back up at the same time and suddenly our faces are close. We're so close I can can hear him breathing. He looks down at my lips, and suddenly. I feel a shot of water hitting my face, I squeal and grab my water bottle squirting him back, resulting in a water fight in my bedroom, after about five minuets were both soaked. "I totally one that" I exclaim whilst smiling. "Are you joking? I completely destroyed you" Andy says looking at me from across the room, his white shirt was soaked through, "okay I need to get changed out of these wet clothes so if you wouldn't mind" I say guiding him towards the door "oh no I wouldn't mind" he says turning around winking at me. I push him out of the door and begin to take my clothes off. I throw on an over the shoulder jumper and some black leggings. I open the door "all clear" I say letting Andy back in. "I wouldn't have peeked" he replied cockily smirking down me. I roll my eyes "would you like any of your clothes washed?" I say then realising that it would result in Andy being naked in my room, "my shirt could do with a wash I suppose." He says winking "is this just a plan to get me undressed Brooke's?" He says smiling from ear to ear "don't flatter yourself Andy" I say blushing. He begins to take his shirt off I glance over and see him struggling. "Help me?" Andy asked in desperation. I walk over and start to tug on his wet long sleeved shirt, after helping him I bundle his shirt into a pile to take it down, Andy turns around and again we're strangely close to one another. He looks down at me. He is stood shirtless in front of me, i can't stop staring "checking me out?" He whispers "don't be silly" I say looking up to him. He looks down at me and I see his had reach up to me, stopping at my shoulder he grabs my jumper and pulls it up back over my shoulder. I look down as he does it and then proceed to look back up. I can hear his breathing against my face.
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I grab andys shirt from the dryer and make my way up the stairs. I see him looking on my wall at all the photos of me and my family, and his eyes scan across to me as I enter the room, he walks back over to the bed, he reaches down onto the floor and grabs his leather jacket,putting his hand into the pocket of his jacket he pulls out the strip of photos we took in the photo booth together. He then walks over to my wall, and picks up and pin and pins it up next to all my photos. "Much better" he says smirking over towards me, it felt nice. "Much better" I say copying him. I toss his shirt to him, he begins to put it on and buttons it up. "I better get going soon dinks" he says almost in a sad tone, it was around 5.00 pm now. Time flew past. "I suppose so" I reply. He smiles at me, he walks past me scruffing up my hair as he walks past, it brings a smile to my face, I turn around and wave him a goodbye and he returns a smile.
"See you soon dinks"
" see you soon" I say smiling back.
Looking over to the bed I realise he has forgotten his jacket. I go to tell him but something stops me. He can get it another time.