The Player

Chapter 9

I woke up at 6:30 this morning. I skipped my shower, brushed my teeth and walked out the door. On my door step was a rose I picked it up and there was a note underneath saying "I'm not trying to start a fire with this flame, but I'm worried your heart my feel the same, and I have to be honest with you baby, tell me if I'm wrong or if this is crazy, but I got you this rose, will you let die or let it grow?"

I started to looked for an address or who sent them. But there was nothing, it was a little weird but I shrugged it off not thinking anything of it anymore. I get in my car and drive to school. When I get there there wasn't really any parking seeming there was only 10 minutes until the first bell rang. I found a spot next to the last person I wanted to be parked next to so I circle the parking lot losing all hope  and going back to the only spot.

As I get inside of the school I see Jordyn by our lockers. I walk up and start opening my locker. "Hey you look better then what you did" she says. "Thanks, but I ended up seeing Shawn last night nothing happened I just told him. Did you see anyone in my yard today?" I asked "uh no why" she asked confused. "Well I found a rose just a single rose with this note. I handed her the note and after she read she looked at me "oooo bailey you got someone who wants your attention it seems like, so are you gunna let it die or grow?" she asked mocking the note. We chuckle and walk to class together.

After I told her everything I realized that he was in my next hour. "Ugh I have to see Shawn next hour" I said dreading it. Jordyn makes a cry face "I'm sure you'll survive" she chuckles. The bell rang and we walked out laughing. We finally get to my class. Before I went in we both agree to walk me out to my car so I don't have to walk with Shawn. I walk in and take my seat. On the board it looks like we are taking notes. 

I grabbed my notebook and pencil and started writing down the main points. Shawn walked quickly to his seat, he sat down and didn't say anything. I thought it was weird but didn't think anything of it once the bell rang.

We were writing stuff down about when the first project was due when I notice Shawn tapping a beat with his pen, which lead me to look at his handwriting. It look familiar but I couldn't tell with the lights dimmed. After the teacher got done talking he headed into the back room and grabbed boxes and explain that they were our stuff for or experiments.

As I went to get up to go our box, Shawn beat me to it. As I was sitting back down I noticed something, Shawn wasn't taking notes. He was writing down that looked like a poem, two of the actually one of them was titled and one wasn't. The one that was was very well put together so far:
Mercy:
"You've got a hold of me, don't even know your  power, I stand a 100 feet but I fall when I'm around ya, show me an open door and you go a slammed it on me, I can't take it anymore, I'm saying baby, please have mercy on me, take it easy on my heart, even though you don't mean to hurt me, you keep tearing me apart."

I took a picture of the poem because I couldn't read that last two lines he had as I looked up as he was coming over and setting the box down. We came to the agreement of I did all of the documenting and he did the actual project which worked for me. The bell rang letting us know that we were released from school.

I walked over to the locker and waited for Jordyn. As I was waiting for her I took out the note and reread it again, then it clicked. This was Shawns handwriting. My heart starts to pound.