Stepbrothers (Paused!!) (Editting!!!!)

Chapter 24

Colleen

I still remember the last Angel gave me silent treatment I was so sad, but not the way I am right now. No. Today I'm miserable. "Your gonna be late." My mom complains walking in without a warning. I'm sitting on my bed without a shirt on, its on my hand, but I stopped mid way to think. "Can I fake feeling sick today?" My eyes don't meet with my mom's. After all she caused me a lot of pain. Because of her I can't see Angel. "Don't be so ridiculous Colleen you'll be just fine." Her loud tone startles me and for a split second I thought she was answering my thoughts.

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"Hey Colleen." I hear Eli behind me, but I don't turn to face him. "Did you get the math after I helped you out?" I nod weakly. "Are you okay? The environment was heavy once Angel arrived." He's now walking right next to me. The way he said that sentence made him sound like a character straight out of romeo and Juliet. I even imagined him taking the place of one. Some of Travis's friends pass us giving Eli a hard shove almost knocking his slender body down. "Are you okay?" I ask worried and glare at the laughing idiots. "Yeah." He makes out the answer in groans of pain as he squeezes his shoulder, "there will be a bruise though." I frown. We both find yourselves lost into each others eyes. Maybe just maybe it's time for me to move on..

"Your dad looked nice." I interrupt and begin to walk. "He is when he's sober." He sighs. "Well he accepts your looks very well."I say, He chuckles, "Yeah he does." He shifts uncomfortably, "My mom hated me wearing all that black and makeup. Now I just don't wear it anymore, I gave up trying to convince her" I look down at my clothes. Today it's just jeans white shirt and my blue sweater. All i ever wanted was to be myself. "You? Dark? I don't see it." He interrupts my thoughts and continues to walk. I give him a weak smile, he must think I was a poser or something.

"Well my parents will both be out for job interviews so.. Maybe you can come to my house and work on some more math if you'd like." My stomach flutters. "Sure. I'll think about it." I'd rather be with him than in that house with my mother. He smiles at me and pops in his ear buds in. We walk together to math class. It's a silent walk. Angel glances at us both and hurries into class. Every time I see him I feel butterflies and my heart raises, but then pain rushes all over my body like adrenaline when I remember that we need to keep distance.

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"How have you been." Katie asks walking next to me. I sigh and think about my current mood. "Hurt." She nods her head at my response. "Your not the only one. I'm having love issues too." Shes been quite distant to, I haven't had time to catch up with her. "Wanna go out to get coffee after school?" She asks hopeful. That does sounds very lovely, "I'd love to, but Eli kind of asked me to go to his house so he can teach me some more of the math. "I understand." Katie looks down. Guilt rushes all over my body, "I'm so sorry Katie, maybe tomorrow. After all we do have a lot to catch up on. " She gives me a weak grin. "Gotta go to my next class." I clear my throat, "Yeah me too."

In the large crowd of people I can always spot Angel, it's like a habit or an instinct of mine. I always try so hard not to, but we're always making eye contact. When ever that happens it hurts. And, it's like we are the only people standing, everyone else is moving, and we are just there. Frozen in time, and all of my the dreams that we had are now gone. Him and I have no future. The only thing that's left of us is the invasion of our live. 

"Ready to go?" Eli asks. I nod and turn back to look at Angel one more time. He shifts his body uncomfortably even though my intentions aren't to hurt or make him jealous. We walk far from school and that's when I realize we will be walking at least a mile, "You live near right?" I ask. He nods and changes the subject uninterested in talking about distances,
"Was there something going on between you and Angel?"