Flower crowns

Chapter 6

"Thanks Mrs Waters," Hunter says to my mum as she hands us hot chocolates. I smile at her and eat the marshmallows first.

"That's alright Hunter, anything for a friend of Katerina's," my mum winks at me as she walks out of the room and I mentally face palm.

Hunter chuckles and I shy away a little.  My mum is making things way more embarrassing than they need to be.

I grab my whiteboard and rummage around looking for my pen for a little. I eventually find it and I look up right into Hunter's staring gaze. I smile and instantly look away feeling awkward with the thought of making eye contact for longer than a few seconds.

His eyes. Or at least his left eye. It's almost not there, his right eye is a calm blue but his left eye is not like his right. It doesn't have a proper colour to it, it also doesn't seem to be looking anywhere. 

"I'm sorry for dragging you down into that fight with those dickheads," Hunter says to me. I shake my head and smile at him, showing that it's okay.

It wasn't your fault, friends need to be there for each other. I write on my whiteboard and show him. He smiles and we sit there for a little just smiling at each other.

So this is what it's like to have a friend, someone who cares about you, someone you can just sit with and it isn't awkward or anything. You don't even have to be talking for it to be good, just sitting here in silence is better than anything else alone.

My mum walks back in and sits on the couch next to us. She has her own hot chocolate in her hands with a few marshmallows bobbing around on top. She looks at Hunter then at me probably wondering who will tell the story of what happened.

I take a sip of my hot chocolate and look at Hunter waiting for him to start talking, considering I can't tell the story.

Hunter looks at me then at the floor. He clears his throat and starts to tell my mum what happened to him.

My mum of course has heaps of questions once he's done. Hunter tries to answer as many as possible but struggles to answer the more personal ones.

I glare at my mum when she asks him why he didn't fight them back, but Hunter just shakes his head and smiles.

"It's alright Mrs Waters, I don't like throwing punches even if it isn't the first one. If I punched them then it would've shown that I wanted to continue what they started, but I didn't. I'm not a coward, but it would've been different if Katerina was hit though." He smiles at me and I start to get pink cheeks as I smile back.

"Okay so let me just get this straight, the boys were rude to you this morning, then when you walking home they came and threatened you, they hit Hunter and the only reason they left is because Katerina, my lovely yet dumb daughter, made a deal with them."

I look at the ground already regretting the deal that I made with the boys. I have no idea what they are going to make me do but I know it isn't going to be good. The only thing I can do to avoid their plans is to avoid them in general.

Hunter replies for me by nodding his head. He looks so guilty, almost like he is the reason for all this mess we are now in, but it wasn't his fault. It was mine.

I'm so sorry to get you into this mess Hunter. He smiles at me and shakes his head, "it's my fault I have bad history with those guys that I'm not particularly proud of." 

Hunter has history with the jocks? I instantly have heaps of questions for him but decide against asking them all at once.

I look back into his eyes and decide to ask him later because there must be heaps going on in his head as well. I could get lost in his blue eyes any day, they seem to calm me down and make me feel safe.

My eyes widen as I realise the jocks smashed Hunters glasses. I start to panic wondering what he will do without them for school tomorrow.

Your sunglasses, what will we do, they are broken? His eyes widen as he realises as well.

"I need to wear my sunglasses at school, I never go out without them." He looks at my mum and back at me worry and  panic flashing in his eyes.

"Don't worry, Honey, I can go out and get some more for you if you really need them," he sighs in relief and smiles at my mum.

"That would be, great thank you."

My mum gets up and takes our now empty mugs. She heads into the kitchen and I hear keys rattle as she walks past us to the car.

"I will be back in 20 minutes, you can just stay here until you need to go Hunter." She walks out and Hunter smiles at me.

I start to write on my whiteboard then stop. I don't want to be too nosy by asking Hunter really personal questions. I put my pen and whiteboard down and look at Hunter smiling.

"Why did you put them down? Were you gonna ask something?" I nod and he grabs them and hands them to me.

I give him a confused look but he just smiles. 

That smiles, it lights up the whole room and makes my sad feeling flush away for that moment.

"Write away," he motions for me to start writing. I hesitate but write my question anyway considering he wants me to ask.

Why do you need sunglasses for going out? 

I show him the board and he laughs. Its a small laugh but a laugh non-the-less. I give him a confused look but he brushes it off.

"I had a feeling that is what you were gonna ask. To answer your question it was the jocks, they are why. But the full meaning, you might need to get some popcorn for this. We will be here a while so snuggle up." I smile at him and do what he says.

I lean back onto the arm rest on the couch and grab a cushion.

I'm ready to know more about Hunter Beckett.

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Don't you just love cliff hangers after a long break of no updates?!

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