Beyond Repair

Chapter 4

My best friend gave me the best advice,

He said each day's a gift and not a given right,

Leave no stone unturned, leave your fears behind,

And try to take the path less traveled by,

That first step you take is the longest stride,

- Nickelback If today was your last day

The picture on the side is of the wolf in the forest

=Chapter 4=

Saturday the first day of the weekend.

I felt like patting myself on the back, I had actually made it through the first week at this school. I guess I wasn’t able to take all the credit for making it through. I owed most of it to my new friends who had all been adamant to help me to fit into this crazy place.

But I still hadn’t told anyone about my father for all they knew he was absent much like my mother and I still wasn’t planning on letting slip about what happened to him. I also can’t say I have become anymore social over the past week either.

Suddenly a shocking buzzing rang out through the air causing my heart to nearly leap from my chest in shock. Reeling back from the kitchen bench and shaking suds from my hands I grasped my cell from the table and looked at the caller ID.

Whoever was calling me wasn’t in my contact list, frowning I answered the call.

‘Alex!’ I nearly felt like hitting myself in the face, of course it was Charlotte – she had forced me to give her my number yesterday encase anything came up on the weekend.

‘Hi Charlotte’

‘Are you free today and tonight?’ I bite my lip and think about how answer. I know that it really shouldn’t be a hard decision to make but I wasn’t sure if I should invade or if I really wanted to even go.

‘Yeah I am’ making up my mind I decided that it might be good for me to actually spend more time with them, they had already been so kind to me I didn’t really think that they would stop that suddenly.

‘Awesome!’ I pulled the phone slightly away from my ear and cringed when Charlotte’s excited voice erupted over the line, ‘Chris said that he will pick you up at 12’ Glancing up I looked at the clock on the wall and saw that it was 11:20.

‘Uh o-‘before I could finish my sentence Charlotte cut over top of me sounding like she was almost ready to burst from joy.

‘Make sure you bring togs and pj’s!’ With that she hung up leaving me standing there slightly shocked, I knew that it was too late to protest but there was no way that I was going to go swimming. For starters I didn’t even have the slightest clue as to where my swim suit was packed and I wasn’t about to go searching for it, I may complain about how hot this dang state was but I refuse to wear any swim wear.

Huffing I stomped up to my bed room and glanced around for a bag I could pack my gear into. Finding one by my window I packed it up with a change of clothes and the few other things I could find lying around.

Putting the bag by the door I tied my long hair up into a messy bun to try and cool down. Collapsing on the bed I pulled out my cell and checked the time seeing it was 11:50 I decided to just wait.

Rolling onto my side I looked outside of my wide window. From where I laid I was just able to make out the tops of the trees which belonged to the forest basically in the backyard of our house, the day was getting fairly warm but was cooled down by the slight breeze which blew through the open window and rustled my curtains.