29 Days Of Grace

Day 5

"Day 5, Reason 5- movie nights and cuddling."

"Movie nights? Cuddling?", I parroted.

"Yeah, that's our agenda for today.", Aiden confirmed as we walked out of school together.

"I don't watch movies.", I confessed as Aiden snapped his head in my direction.

"Oh you've got to be kidding me.", he spoke, his face a mask of shock.

"Um no. Neither do I have the money to go out to cinemas and neither am I allowed to touch the television at the house."

"What absurd people!", Aiden shouted, anger clear on his face, "not allowed to touch the television? Are you their maid? Heck, people treat their maid better than how you're treated!"

Shrugging pathetically, I waited patiently as Aiden boiled in disgust.
Mounting his bike, he gestured me to climb in behind him. And I did.

One again, the feeling of freeness and being carefree invaded me, leaving me smiling happily.

Sighing in content, I climbed off his bike as we came to a stop outside his house.

It was a two-storey bright coloured house.

Memories of the last time I was here come back, rushing to me.

It was when I had cut myself and Aiden had brought me here to clean up my wounds.

I wonder, did his mom see me? I'm embarrassed now.

The last time I was here, I hadn't really paid attention to my surroundings at all, but now I did.

They had a nice yard. Filled with luscious green grass and different kinds of flowers.

The house felt like a home, I thought, as I stepped into the threshold.

As weird as that sounded, it felt like it was a place where love blossomed. People cared for you... unlike somewhere I live.

They say the home is where the heart is. My heart wasn't happy, at the Collins's place. It was hurt, broken, tainted.

"You coming?", Aiden looked back at me, a brow raised in question.

I nodded, hurrying after him.

"A penny for your thoughts?", Aiden shot me half a smile, as we ventured deeper into the house.

"I just..I", I stared at him. What made him this way? For all I know, he had a loving family. What made him so cold and detached to the outside world?

He barely conversed with anyone from our school. Aiden Maddox wasn't know as the bad boy, for just nothing.

He was brutal to anyone who dared cross his path. But what made him so... so nice to me?

"I was wondering about...", he nodded encouragingly, as we seated in the living room.

"What makes you so cold towards people? Why are you so nice to me? What made you save me?", I shot at him all at once.

"Woah slow down there, Tiger.", he smiled a smile at me that had me faltering. Boy, did he have a killer smile.

"I'll promise I'll answer your questions. Soon."