In Love With The Girl Of Scars {IN LOVE SERIES #1}

Chapter 7 - One Hundred Percent

"She just shuts her ears."

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Cole's POV

  I stand at the end of the cargo car, staring out into the open. Distant city lights shine in the sky, now turning dusk. I avert my gaze from the illuminating lights and focus on Adeline, who's curled up in the corner, fiddling with her fingers, lost in her thoughts.

Her outbursts from earlier left me confused to her back story. And when she fell, and I helped her stand, she pulled her hand away vigorously, as if my touch burned her. The way that her face is ripped, cuts and scars lining her cheek bones left me in wonder, how'd they get there? Where did she come from?

  Her exposed skin is all pale, looking like a ghost. Her body's weak and shakes with every subtle movement she makes. It's making me want to help her, to make her better, because what ever she just came from...was torture. I can just see it etched on her expression, I can see it embedded in her beautiful hazel eyes that glint every time light reflects in them.

  I stride away from the train edge, and lean casually against the wall, and stare at her now sleeping figure. Her backpack is leaning against the many crates that are at the back of the train car. Her hair crowds around her shoulders as her chest slowly rises and declines as she breathes. I see her body shake as she tucks her legs closer to her body for warmth.

  As the seasons get closer to fall, the climate only gets colder. On instinct I take off my light, leather jacket, and pace over to Adeline, placing it over her sleeping figure. I know it won't help much, but it's the thought that counts.

  I crouch down next to her, crossing my legs and wrapping my arms around my knees. I sit close to her, the scenery outside passing by in a whiz of color, a mixture of juniper, midnight blacks and dark blues flood my eyes.

I avert my gaze once more and focus on Adeline, her body jostling from the train movements. I run a hand through her hair, straightening the tangles and bumps. Her eyelids twitch, and I reluctantly retreat my hand away and it falls to my side.

There's something about her, that just captivated me the very second I saw her, when I jumped on this train while at a stop in the outskirts of Mexico. Something just seemed to draw me in, and make me forget about my problems, but then they all came back when I came back to the sick reality and world we live in.

Now, I have no idea why Adeline's here, but I don't want to ask either. It would kill me to ask, and I can't stand it when I accidentally hurt others, because it seems like that's all I do. That's why I'm running. My family back in Texas doesn't want me, my brothers are abusive, they hate me. I don't belong there, I've done unforgivable things, and it was an accident. I guess I'm one of those people, one that always harms others, without meaning to.

I get it from my father, the man that raised me, the one who's now gone because of what I did, because of one simple accident. I'm seen as the evil one in the family, they never accepted me, they never wanted me, but that's why I'm on this train, to leave that life and find my rightful place.

I stand up and walk to the opposite side of the train car, smoothing down my my plain white T-shirt and crouching down. I lie on my back, and stare up, the ceiling of the moving car suddenly seeming interesting. I turn on my side, facing the lined up boxes and shut my eyes, trying to clear my mind of everything that has happened in the past twenty four hours; leaving my family behind, jumping on this train, finding Adeline.

  I don't think I've ever felt so lost in my life, but...something deep inside me says that I've found my place, where I belong.

And I believe it.

One hundred percent.

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  Hey! There's chapter seven! I don't have anything else to say...😁

HAPPY READING

~AlexisJadeS22