never again | calum hood

eight

Three days later, I was still upset about pretty much everything and Adelaide didn't seem to care much so I didn't talk about it to her again.

I asked Mr. Langdon if I could write the assignment by myself and he said no. But after Luke practically yelled at him explaining the whole situation, he finally agreed, and he wished me luck "getting the girl". As annoyed as I was at Luke for telling my personal shit to our teacher, I just thanked him and left.

We were walking around school when we saw Adelaide and her boyfriend in the hallway, both of them looking pretty uncomfortable.

"I'm fucking telling you, Adelaide", Josh spat. "If you ever even try to -"

"Don't speak to me like that", Adelaide said quietly.

"Um, what is happening?" Luke muttered to me.

"I don't know, shut up", I shushed him.

"I haven't done anything and I'm not planning on doing anything either", Adelaide said. She looked so afraid of him and I wanted to go and help her somehow, but of course it wasn't any of my business. Was it?

"You better not be lying to me", Josh said harshly. "I might even need to check your phone if you keep bailing on me".

"I'm not lying to you", Adelaide shook her head.

"Okay. Fuck this. We'll talk about it later. Just go", he said.

Adelaide rolles his eyes and started walking in our direction, her eyes fixed on the floor.

"Adelaide, is everything-" I said as she walked by us.

"Please don't, Calum", she didn't even look up at me and kept walking away.

"What the hell?" Luke spoke when she was far enough.

"Do you think she'd hate me if I talked to Josh", I questioned.

"Yeah, probably", Luke scrunched his nose. "Just ask her later, maybe she'll tell you".

"But wouldn't I be entering the friendzone by my own then?" I mumbled, mostly for me.

"Who cares!" Luke rolled his eyes. "The girl is sad, Calum, she needs someone, don't be a selfish asshole right now".

"I'm sorry I'm just seeing all the possibilities", I shrugged. But he was right, I was just being selfish about it, I was making everything about me.

We had Physics after that, which was one of the classes I shared with Adelaide, but she never showed up. I would've thought it was nothing, maybe she had just ditched class or maybe she wasn't feeling good and went to the nursery, but she had just fought with Josh and I couldn't help being worried.

"Wasn't Adelaide on this class too?" Luke whispered after twenty minutes of class.

"She is", I answered. Her desk was empty, but her backpack was still hanging from the chair. "Mr. Callahan", I said. "Can I go to the bathroom?"

The teacher glared at me. "You just interrupted my class because you needed a wee?" He scoffed.

"Yes", I simply said. A few people laughed and Callahan rolled his eyes.

"Sure, go", he shrugged.

I sent him a grin and left quickly. I made my way through the empty hallways, no sign of Adelaide to be seen, I kept walking until I got to the entrance, maybe she was there. I opened the door and found nobody, but then felt someone sobbing next to me.

I looked down at the stairs and there she was, her face buried between her knees.

I sat down next to her, putting my hand on her back, drawing small circles with my thumb.

She looked up at me for a brief second, her eyes were all puffy and her cheeks a little red. "What are you doing here?" She mumbled.

"You weren't in class, I got worried", I simply said.

"So you just decided to leave class too?" She sniffed.

"I wanted to check if you were okay." I said quietly. Suddenly I thought that maybe it had been stupid to come out, maybe she needed to be alone.

"Oh, God, this is so embarrassing", she finally looked up, a sad smile on her face. She rested her head on my shoulder and I moved my hand to her knee.

We stayed like that for a while, none of us talked and it didn't feel weird. I smiled to myself, it was nice, her company was nice, the silence was nice.

"I'm sorry for making you ditch class", she spoke after a few minutes.

"I didn't want to be there anyway", I shrugged and she laughed quietly.

"I'm so fucked up", she sighed.

"No, you're not", I said, because what else was I supposed to say.

"I am", she countered. "At least right now, I am pretty fucked up", she added.

"Do you wanna talk about it?" I asked.

"Not really", she said. "Maybe later".

"Okay," I nodded.

I rested my head on hers and she moved a little closer to me, gripping my arm with both of her hands.

That's when my heart and mind started going crazy, and I finally realized that I really really liked her, not just because I thought she was pretty or nice, but because I was extremely comfortable around her, and apparently she was comfortable with me too.

Although, the fact that she could make me feel like that still scared me, I was scared of what would happen if I actually started to fall for her, because we had met just a few months ago, we had started talking probably two weeks ago and I was already feeling all these things. I was already thinking about love, and love was a pretty big deal to me, it's something strong, not just something you feel for anybody.

I decided to push those thoughts away, at least for a while. I wanted to enjoy the moment, I just wanted to be there with her.

Probably half an hour went by, I was starting to fall asleep when the bell rang, and apparently Adelaide was almost asleep too because she jumped just like I did. She stood up and helped me get on my feet.

"Thank you", she smiled looking down.

"For ditching class? You're welcome", I laughed.

"For being with me", she said. I would've said something cheesy but I didn't want to look stupid so I just nodded and smiled.

Which was probably more stupid than what I should've said.

"We should go back in", she said.

"Yup", I nodded again.

We went back inside and I lost track of her when we reached the hallway.

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so, I'm not really sure about how this went, but it was important, you'll find out later ha

I HATE SCHOOL SO MUCH

i needed to let that out thanks for understanding you're great

i'm posting another one in a few hours, I swear, thank you for reading  :) i love you