Three Years Away From Love

Chapter 5: Scars

My cruches were preventing me from going very many places in the cramped school which made finding Christy nearly impossible and hitting people with every step very probable. Jamie had left me when we entered the school, something about having to talk to a teacher about a research paper so I had been left alone. Finally after what seemed like a million years, I saw Christy through the crowd. "Christy!" I shouted. It was nearly a repeat of the first day.

"Oh god Haley, you didn't tell me you were coming back today." she wrapped her arms around my shoulders and hugged me, I hugged back as much I could seeing as the crunches were quite restricting.

"I really missed you Chris."

"I missed you too.. This place, gosh, it was so different without you, you have no idea. Everyday there was an update on how you were and when I heard you had woken up, it was the best feeling in the world you have no idea. People were constantly asking me about you, but they wouldn't let me into to see you so I had no clue. It was just such a mess, how are you feeling by the way."

I smiled at her words and how important they had made me feel, " I'm alright, I mean this hasn't been the easiest thing to deal with but my adoptive family is really nice and I have everyone here. I'm just happy to be back and alive honestly." the bell sounded loudly signaling the start of the day. " I'll see you later Christ, love ya."

"love ya too," and with that I hobbled off to algebra, meeting Jamie at the entrance and all the other kids that had been there before the accident.

Keegan was there too of course, he looked just as he did when I had left as if nothing has changed. "Here we go....again.". I whispered to myself so quietly not even Jamie could hear.

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The week passed ever so slowly, full of piles of make up work, room renovating, and simply trying to figure out how to adjust to my new life. By the time Friday finally rolled around, i was as energetic as a snail.

The crunches wouldn't be off for another five weeks so I hobbled my way into home room taking my seat and being thankful that we never switched seats and Keegan was still placed right behind me. I plugged my headphones in and let my mind melt away into the sounds of Lee Brice, that was until I felt a small tap on my shoulder.

I turned around to have my eyes met by those of Keegan, " Haley right?" he asked, I nodded, " I'm so sorry for what happened to you," it was something I had become accustomed to hearing all week but it sounded a little different coming out of his mouth.

I glanced Down, " thanks for saying that, it means a lot," he smiled," how are you?"

"I'm alright, but I think the real question is how are you?" he said with a smirk.

" well Im alright , I mean the day's going good so far I guess." it was a pathetic answer. I pushed up my sleeves seeing as the room had grown suddenly hotter, revealing several scratches left over from the accident.

" woah what are those?"

" what do you mean? There just scratches from the accident, they don't hurt anymore."

"not those, those" he looked down at something very specific on my arm, quite a few white puffy scars about two inches long each. I thought they had faded to the point where I was the only one who could see them, well me and the therapist my mom had once forced me to see. The point was they were old, and nothing that caused scars like that would ever happen again.

" oh those, those are from the accident to," I replied shyly, I didn't have the need to share my past with someone I barely knew considering it was quite a dark past.

" Haley I'm not dumb, I know what those scars a from." he was staring me dead in the eye.

" we'll its over now, they don't really have much of significance anymore."

"I'm sorry you had to go through something that caused you to go that extent, I know the feeling."

Being my cynical self I said, "of course you do, everyone around me seems to know they do." he look at me with a slight pause, why am I sharing something so dark with a random guy? For some reason I didn't want to stop. Keegan began rolling up his sleeves and I noticed he did know the feeling for he had his own puffy scars covering his arm almost as dense as mine. " oh my god," I said as the sight of them.

Keegan opened his mouth as if to speak but was cut off by the bell. " Wait haley hold on a second." I stood there propped up on my crunches. He pulled a wrinkled piece of paper out of his bag, wrote a strip of number of the front side and handed it to me," Call. me ok? This conversation isn't over." with that, he strode past me with placing his headphones in.

What had just happened, I asked myself. I couldn't even talk about stuff like to my best friend, so why could I do it with some guy I barely knew. I pulled my sleeves down hoping and praying that no one else had noticed. I didn't want to talk about or be asked about it, or anything of the sort. I was done with that time in my life, so why had I been so willing to talk about with Keegan.

Looking down, I was reminded that this was not the end, but only the beginning of my relationship with Keegan.

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So kinda a personal chapter for me haha

I know it's not super dark but I didn't really feel like going to great detail

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