undeniable feelings | a stephchelle story

Chapter 16 - the last day

— STEPHANIES POV —

My loud obnoxious alarm beeps in my ear. I groan as I hear it, I step onto my wooden cold slabs and turn it off. Looking outside at the blazing sun.

I beam as I remember it's the last day of school. Things have just been crazy recently so I haven't been able to process it. This means I'll hopefully get 3 months away from Toby, and 3 months with Michelle.

I pull on a summery blue lace skirt and a floral tank top, combing through my knotty hair and try it into a high pony tail. I lightly fill my eyebrows.

Once I'm ready. I run down the stairs with my bag tightly around my back. I don't even bother to say goodbye to my parents, as they sit in the living room in their pyjamas drinking beer and smoking.

I open the front door and the horrific sight of Toby greets me. I back up in fear, his aggression looking deep into me. His long nails dig into my shoulder as he pulls me to walk with him to school.

We walk in silence and I fear to check my phone incase Michelle has text me and Toby sees. I uncomfortably try and walk at a faster pace that him but he keeps up.

"I'm going away to Amsterdam with the boys over summer, and if I find out you've got together with Michelle, you'll play the price. In fact, I don't want to hear you've even spoken to her. You know your parents love me Stephanie, they'd believe anything I tell them, so I can quite easily get you kicked out of your own house." He patronisingly states, getting up in my face. I nod shakily, continuing to walk forward.

We arrive at school, greeted by Theo, Toby's other friend. He's not such a bad person, but he knows what's going on between me and Michelle, quite frankly, all of his friends do, and 99% of them are against me. He gives me a miniature smile and continues talking to Toby.

His hands are tightly and controlling squeezing my hand, not affectionally, it's because he doesn't want me going off with Michelle. But every inch of my body is urging me to snap away from his hand, the fact that he's homophobic is bad enough, but not letting me be gay is even worse.

As Toby talks with Theo, I buzz as I remember that he's going to Amsterdam for the whole of summer, which means I can hang around with Michelle the entire time without worrying about him being on my back.

I scan the yard, in search of Michelle's light blonde and curly hair, but I don't see her at all. I look down at my phone, my hand still unfortunately is still in tact with Toby's. I received a message from Michelle 7 minutes ago.

"I woke up with a terrible cough this morning, not coming in today, if you really don't mind catching my grebby germs, feel free to come round later xoxo"

I beam down at my phone, tonight is going to be the best start to the summer I could ever imagine.