Living With My History Teacher

chapter 5

CHAPTER 5

Taylor's POV

That was the best sleep I had in years, the bed was extremely soft and I loved it. I reached over to the bedside table for my phone but it wasn't there. I left it behind, but that didn't change my mood I felt happy and nothing was going to change that. I got out of bed, took a shower and put on the same clothes I wore last night seeing as I had nothing else to wear. 

Memories of last night came flooding back and that did change my mood. 

I remember telling Mr Knight, my new history teacher everything about my miserable existence. I remember how he had taken me to his house, calmed me down after my nightmare and listened to everything I said. He got angry when he found out my step-father's abuse and that made me smile. 

I was happy that someone other than Ashen cared enough about me to get angry. 

I also could not believe it was the same man I was somewhat rude to that was being so nice to me. 

Recalling all of these, I just wanted to stay in the room and never come out.

How embarrassing!  

I eventually walked out of the room when I smelt something delicious. I had to come out at sometime. I followed the smell and ended up in the kitchen. Damon had his back to me and I had a clear view watching his back muscles flexed when he flipped the pancakes.

"Good morning" I said, he didn't turn to look at me when he replied,"good morning, you hungry?" he asked and at that moment my stomach growled in response. "I'll take that as a yes" he smirked and motioned for me to sit down then set down a plate in front of me.

"Thank you" I muttered quietly. He also sat down with his own plate of food and we ate in silence.

"Do you have any relatives you can stay with? I know you can't go back home" he said breaking the silence, "no I don't" I answered.

I don't know any of my relatives and the only other person I can stay with is Ashen, but I don't want him to find out about this.

"You can stay with me for as long as you want" he said, my fork froze halfway to my lips as I looked up at him in shock. I was not expecting that. "Why....I mean why are you helping me?" I asked as soon as the shock wore off.

Why was he being so nice to me? I have been nothing but mean to him.

"Someone needs to and did you think I would leave you out on the streets with nowhere to go" he said putting a hand on his chest, faking hurt making me laugh. "Thank you Mr Knight, but I promise I'll leave as soon as I can" I let him know. I had to accept his offer since I had no other choice unless I wanted to sleep on the streets. "Its okay and you can call me Damon" he smiled and I smiled back. 

A few minutes later the doorbell rang, Mr Kn... I mean Damon went to see who it was. I heard a girl's voice and soon he came into the kitchen with a girl. She had dark brown hair which was pulled back in a pony tail brown eyes and looked at least 5"7, she looked really pretty. I didn't know what to say, I felt out of place under her judging gaze.

Maybe she was his girlfriend. And maybe she was currently wondering why her boyfriend had a girl dressed in his clothes in his apartment.  

"Taylor meet my sister Kyrn, Kyrn Taylor" he said introducing us. So she was not his girlfriend. I looked up to see her staring at me somewhat confused. "Hey" she said, "hi" I whispered. The tension in the air was thick so I just looked down at my food.

"Taylor we'll be right back" Damon said pulling her down a hallway. I heard them talking but could not make out their words and a few minutes later they both came back but this time Kyrn was smiling brightly at me. 

"Hey wanna go shopping with me?" she asked, "um...I" I looked down at what I was wearing and she noticed this and did to. 

"You can't wear that, I'll lend you something else" she said and dragged me away from my half eaten breakfast pulling me down the hallway like Damon did. She pulled me into a room and the first thing I noticed was the walls, they were pink and purple, way too bright. There was a king sized bed in the middle of the room covered in pink sheets. She pulled me into the walk in closet which had lots of clothes and told me to pick something. 

Too many clothes, I almost could not decide what to pick but I finally settled  on a white tank top, black skinny jeans and black vans. Luckily, her clothes fit, a bit too snug but it was alright.

I stepped out of the closet but she wasn't in the room so I went back to the living room where I found her and Damon talking. As soon as they saw me they saw me they stopped. "Are you ready" she asked with a bright smile and I nodded. She looked at what I was wearing nodded and we were out of the house and on our way to the mall.

"um...Taylor" Kyrn called out sounding slightly nervous. "Yeah" I answered, "I'm sorry about this morning, the thing is normally whenever I come around there's always a girl in the house and he never bothers to introduce them to me, they're just his one night stands" she explained and the thing about him having one night stands kinda hurt a little, not sure why. During the ride we talked and laughed, it was fun since I've never had a girlfriend.

She pulled into an empty parking space and we both got out of her car. She dragged me into the mall and pulled me into Forever21. We went from shop to shop buying lots of stuff, from clothes to bags to shoes. My hands were filled with lots of bags from different stores.

"Why are you buying me all these stuff" I asked, I had to know why. "Damon asked me to" she said with a shrug, picking up a dress. 

This is too much, how am I going to pay him back? 

"Well aren't we exhausting his credit card" I said trying to make her stop, "don't worry he's not only a high school teacher he also owns a few bars in town" she said and chuckled lightly probably seeing the despair on my face. 

After three hours of non-stop shopping we finally stopped at the food court and sat down to eat. I felt exhausted while Kyrn still wanted to shop at a few more stores. 

"Taylor" I heard someone yell in the middle of our lunch. I looked behind me to find Ashen coming towards us. I stood up to meet him before he got to our table. He pulled me into a bone crushing hug, happy to see him I hugged him back.

"What happened? I've been calling you all day but you didn't pick up, are you okay? I told you to call me once you got home" he said all in one breath and by now we had the attention of a few tables around us. I was going to respond when he looked behind me and asked, "and who's this?"

I panicked a little when he asked that, he can't know the truth yet. "I'm her cousin, Kyrn nice to meet you" she said saving me. He moved away from me to her and they shook hands and soon we were all talking. We went around the mall one more time before heading our separate ways with Ashen making me promise to call him as soon as I got home. 

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