Apologizing to the Bad Boy

Chapter Nine

Picture to the right is of Tom

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Alice POV

It was one of the best vacations I have ever been on. Throughout the whole trip, I was smiling, laughing and just having a blast. I realized that James and I had made great progress as friends.

We didn’t fight anymore and he wasn’t annoying me. I could be around him and feel okay. I would feel great being around him. He made me smile and laugh all the time.

But he never did talk about him grabbing my hand. I know it probably isn’t a big deal to him but I thought he would at least bring it up. I thought he liked me and I actually got really happy but he hasn’t brought it up lately. So I thought it might be best to just move on but I’m not sure if I want to entirely.

“C’mon Alice,” I heard James call as I snapped out of my daydream. I looked up to see him walking towards the front door and I quickly followed. He held the door open as I followed towards the bus stop.

He was supposed to move out last night but he told my mom he hasn’t packed everything so she let me stay over longer. She’s mom was scheduled to arrive back today.

And I wasn’t sure how I felt about him leaving.

There was a part of me of sad that I wouldn’t get to hangout as much with him. But at the same time, I was happy that being away from him could give me time to think about what exactly we are. Plus then my demons couldn’t come ruining any moments.

We climbed onto the bus and sat seats across from each other. Although we were starting to become good friends, I still didn’t sit with him.

The day back from spring break was always a rocky day. It’s usually sad and gloomy, and everyone’s missing all the fun places or times they had in the short week. And everyone’s mind was thinking of the next day of freedom was. And the thought of having to do homework again, was also very saddening.

But the thought of school being almost over, made everyone a bit happy. But then I thought of all the AP exams and finals in between and it made my head hurt.

James and I had an argument about this. I said coming after spring break was the worst times while he argued the best. I said AP tests and finals were right around the corner while he said summer was right around the corner.

The bus driver pulled into the parking lot and we all filed out after one another. As we entered the school, I lost sights of James and started to my locker.

When I got to my locker, I put in the familiar combination and threw it open. I stuffed my jacket inside and put my things inside of my backpack. I looked at the clock, happy to see I had 10 more minutes to go see my friends

Quickly I threw the backpack on and slammed my locker. As I walked away, I didn’t bother looking up. I just assumed no one would run into me and I won’t knock into someone.

I was wrong. I completely ran into a solid chest. I muttered an ‘ohm’ sound and looked up. I was going to say sorry but all I could do was gasped.

Oh boy, it was from the nurse’s office, who I forgot was really cute.

He looked down at me and grasped my shoulders, “Sorry…” he trailed off looking for a name and I realized he wanted my name.

I opened and closed my mouth; his hands, proximity and his hotness were affecting my head. I cleared my throat, “Alice.”

He smiled back at me and removed his hands, “Sorry Alice. That was totally my fault.”

I smiled at him. “It’s okay. I wasn’t watching where I was going either.”