Left To Be Free //5SOS

Chapter 9

Chapter 9

Callie's POV

I sit back down at the table after grabbing a bottle of water. The study session is quite boring, perhaps I will stop coming here. The only nice thing is the spacious kitchen, more so than my own. I don't like small, crowded spaces. Its open layout includes a dining area, which is where we are sitting. The stainless steel appliances, island with a sink, and dark wooden cabinets contrast nicely to the soft green walls.

"The equation is (x^2+64x+8). What is the answer?" Mrs. Hemmings asked us.

She sits at the head of the table, Ron to her left and Fin to his left. Charlotte sits at Mrs. Hemmings right and my self next to her.

"(X+8)(X+8)" Ron answered.

"Very good, and how do we check this?" Mrs. Hemmings smiled softly at Ron's progress.

"Distribute the X to (X+8) and 8 to (X+8)." Fin spoke up.

I lean back in my chair and stare out the window. I watch the leaves fall; there are hardly any green ones left. Soon enough the trees will be bare and animals hibernating.

Of course, staring out a window is hardly ever any fun. I think about this week, and the things I will have to do. Musical auditions begin in a few weeks, and after that I truly won't have time for these study sessions. I won't have time for almost anything, really.

Thank goodness.

"Excellent. Now-" Mrs. Hemmings began, but stopped as she heard the sound of the garage door opening. Her face pales ever so slightly, but it's enough for me to notice. I also notice her body becoming more tense, as if she was about to be caught with something.

"Now," she continued, "I, uh, I unfortunately have to cut this lesson short. Uh, I'm going to ask that you kids wait outside. Luke!" She called, frantic-ness was picked up in her voice and we all noticed it.

A moment later he came jogging in from the downstairs, looking very annoyed.

"I need you to take the kids outside and wait with them out there." She said with an edge in her voice, but Luke seemed to understand as he nodded and motioned for us to walk out.

He closed the door behind us, all of us on our phones trying to contact our parents and have them pick us up early. We stood on the porch, where there was a single step leading down to the walkway and a bench next to it. I took a seat on the bench next to Charlotte as the boys sat on the ground.

"What's with you people?" Luke exclaimed. We all looked at each other, wondering what it was he was talking about.

"What's with the need of a tutor? Just pay more attention to your teach-" he began.

"Perhaps the teacher doesn't teach." I answered, folding my arms over my chest. The others nodded their heads in agreement.

No one said a word, not for a little while at least.

"Well don't you people have better things to do after school? Why must you people invade my house!" He groaned. We looked at each other and shrugged.

"You two are too scrawny for sports," he stated, talking about Fin and Ron. I gaped at his bluntness, concluding him to be a rather unhappy person. Someone who is cold to others when outside their comfort zone. "But you," he said to Charlotte, "you look athletic."

"It's not a sports season." She said flatly. He ran his hand through his hair, messing it up. He stalked off to the garage and returned moments later with a drink in a metal water bottle container.

"Someone's grumpy..." Charlotte mumbled to me. Luke sat down on his walkway from the front door to the driveway.

"No kidding" I replied to her.

A tall, thin blonde girl walked by on the sidewalk with a pit bull, and as soon as Luke saw her he got up and went over to her.

He messed with the dogs ears until the girl slapped his hands away. She stepped onto his lawn so that she could lean against the wooden fence with Luke.

I look around, noticing that the Hemmings live at the end of the cult-de-sac, with a house across the circle from them and a house to the left. Between their house and the house across the circle, where the end of the road is, is an empty lot. At some point, it looks like, there was a house there. Now, it's a dirt lot with a reservoir behind it. It seems to be a very wooded area back here, almost as if you were living in the middle of the woods.

If you look close enough you can see a beaten down path leading into the woods. My attention comes to the cars in front of the house. There are two, and Charlotte and Ron are getting into them. I wait another three minutes, each feeling like an hour. The next car comes along. It's not my mothers car, so it must be Fin's.

The blonde and Luke are still talking, and the look on her face seems either serious or bored.

Or both, she could be seriously bored.

I'm playing games on my phone until at last, my mothers car arrives. I get up to walk, and out of the corner if my eye the blonde points at me, followed by Luke turning to look at me.

Once I'm in the car, where they can't see me, I observe them. They've been there for so long that the pit bull decided to lay down and go to sleep. That's the last thing I saw before we drove around the bend.

I'm brought back to reality as the car slams to a halt, tires screech, and my mother obnoxiously blares the horn. I look out the windshield to see a large moving truck right in front of us, a mere meters away.

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I had to go back and add things into this chapter, otherwise it would have been VERY short.

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