Taylor for the Night

Chapter 3 From Bad to Good

"Watch your step Taylor. Don't want you to ruin that pretty face of your's." Josh flirted with me as I struggled to get free from his tight grip.

I could hear Kimmy's voice approaching quickly behind me and Josh must have too, 
for he quickly set me down. He then surprised me for the second time this morning as he suddenly took me by the hand and pulled me behind the hedges by the front steps.

I started struggling trying to get free my hand from his tight grip. In one swift movement he flung my body against his chest and held me there tight as he began to kiss my cheek and my neck!

Suddenly there was a stinging feeling on my neck and I realized he had bit me!

He then sucked on hard my neck and I let out an involuntary moan.

By now I was past irritated or angry, I was furious! There is no way my first kiss, or hickie or whatever this was turning out to be, was going to happen with this guy who I hate!

So I stomped on his foot as hard as I could with mine and he let go with a gasp as he reached for his foot in pain. It wasn't my fault I was wearing boots like a smart person and he decided to be stupid and wear flip flops on a cold rainy day.

Quickly, I used my bought few seconds to turn around and run away as fast as I could. What I wasn't expecting was to the run literally into Alex just a few seconds later.

"Alex!" I gasp in shock of colliding with him.

"Its Alexander." He joked with a smirk on his face.

His face immediately became serious though and his eyes searched mine intently for answers as he questioned me
about the moment at hand or in the other words the angry Josh couple a couple feet away who was staring at me.

"Was Josh bothering you Taylor?"

I shake my head no, not wanting to cause trouble between Grace and him over her horrible big brother. I think Alex knew I was lying though when he said,

"Let me know if he does bother you ok? Do you promise?"

"Ok I will Alex," I promised nodding my head up and down.

He looked at me with a lost-in-thought-kind-of-look and said

"Good. I keep telling Grace that her brother is up to no good, but she doesn't believe me. Even after all that I know he has done to you and other people she still defends him. I guess that is proof that I chose the best girl, one who knows how to practice unconditional love. Oh, I love my Grace so much, but I do hope she'll be more cautious with that dangerous older brother of her's.....Well bye Taylor have a nice day! Oh and by the way its Alexander."

I just stared at him as he walked away still mumbling to himself. That is the first time he has talked to me without Grace being there right next to me. I realized I just missed a huge opportunity to talk to him, but then mentally reminded myself that no he was Grace's boyfriend and I was determined to get over him. He had never liked me like that anyways. Besides I must admit Grace and him were the absolute perfect couple!

I looked at my watch and saw I had two minutes to get to class. I quickly ran to the classroom, hating how entirely slow the day was going.

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When the bell finally rang for lunch, I was so ready for a break. So far today, I have failed a pop quiz, got assigned an assignment with Josh, and found out there has been a rumor spread about me by the devil himself, Josh.

He told everybody that supposedly before school I had forced him to kiss me and in a moment of temptation he uncontrollably responded. Now every girl in school is mad at "slutty" me, especially Kimmy. She won't even look at me or talk to me and she hasn't responded to my text messages. And it's not like I can completely deny anything either, with that huge hickie on my neck and nothing to cover it with. I bet that Jerk knew to do that on purpose, so his word would somehow be more believe-able.

I am just feeling so relieved that today it is just going to be me and Grace for lunch. I defiantly needed some good strong Christian advice.

See that's probably the biggest difference between my friendship with Grace versus my friendship with Kimmy. Grace is a Christian like me and Kimmy isn't.

Let me tell you about how I became friends with both of them.

Grace and I became friends during the fifth grade. Our fifth grade teacher, Mrs. Sanders, asked me to help Grace with school work and Grace to help me with social skills.

At the end of the year we were absolutely best friends. The next year though I skipped a grade and went straight to seventh grade while Grace had to re-do fifth grade. The worst part is that the junior high was at a different campus then the elementary, so we didn't get to see each other during school any more.

The first day of seventh grade I was crying in the closet when Kimmy found me. She took care of me and we became friends really fast.
She invited me over that very first weekend of being friends. It was a Sunday morning and I remember asking her if her church was on Saturday or at night. She laughed at that and told me that church was just for holidays like Easter or Christmas. Since church has always been a touchy subject with her I eventually stopped bringing it up.

"Taylor!" Grace called over to me breaking my thoughts.

I quickly ran over to her and plopped down on the ground under the big huge oak tree.

"Hey, Gracie-girl!" I smiled at her, calling her by the nickname I had made for her in fifth grade.

Grace smiled and then hurriedly told me in a excited tone, "Hey Tay-Tay how would you like to spend the night tonight?!!!! My dad is out of town on a work trip and Josh is staying the night at a friend's. It'll be just you, me and my mom......a girl's night! Could you text your mom and find out if you could?"

I smiled a huge smile and giggled as I texted my mother to find out if it was ok. I quickly received a

"Sure sweetie:) "

I read it and let out a squeal!

"Yay! She said yes Grace!"

So we spent the rest of lunch sitting there making plans for that night and laughing over random funny things.

Lunch was soon over though and she had to go back to her sophomores and me to my seniors. I gave her a huge hug and told her I would see her later that night as we both walked our separate ways.

"Today is finally starting to look good!" I thought as I walked to class with a grin on my face.