When It's Meant To Be

Chapter 2

I woke up to the sound of my piercing alarm and like every other morning wished that I never even asked mom to get it for me in the first place. I sat up straight , put on my slippers and made my way to the bathroom half asleep, I actually woke up when I turned on the blinding bathroom lights-they always did give the bathroom a sense of horror and anticipation- and decided to take a shower since  my hair was a bit oily today, after I showered I put on the Constance Middle School polo shirt and slim denim jeans. Remembering that I was gonna see Aron at school I left my hair down so it could take the shape of its natural curls and rubbed just the right amount of strawberry lip balm on my pale morning lips, I thought I looked good enough so I grabbed my bag and headed downstairs for breakfast.

“Good morning Sophie, I made you some coco pops chocolate cornflakes that you like” she said as she kissed my cheek and flashed a wink my way. “Good morning mom, yum thank you!” I said cheerfully as I devoured the little rice delights, “Where’s dad? Already went to work?”

“Yes he had an important meeting and just couldn’t afford to be late so he left a little early this time. You’ll have to take the bus today Soph”

“Okay mother dearest, whatever you say” I teased dramatically and the almost-awkward silence was broken by our sudden outburst of laughter.

My day went pretty normally at school; I’m not quite the mischievous 13 year old so you can imagine the lack of excitement, when lunch time came along I quickly made my way to the girls bathroom and fixed my hair being sure that I looked presentable, I walked to the cafeteria and decided to have a tuna sandwich with some apple juice because it was the least repulsive thing I could get, as I was making my way towards the table where Aron was sitting, the biggest jerk on the face of the earth came up to me.

“Hey angel, wanna come join us at our table? I’m sure you’ll fit right in given the age difference, here I’ll help with your tray” he said arrogantly as he forcefully took the tray from me.

“Give it back Jake, it’s not funny. I don’t want to sit with assholes like yourself.” I said feeling confident of myself as I heard some people in the cafeteria cheer me on, but all the confidence quickly started to shrivel away as he raised his voice.

“You learnt how to speak to me with respect you little brat” he yelled almost feeling defeated and I could see where it was going from here, his palm would be printed across my cheek in a warm pink shade followed by red dots, this was going to be hard. But something unusable happened, I never felt his palm-or any part of his body for that matter-on mine, when I opened my eyes which I didn’t even realize were closed I saw Aron standing in front of me with one arm up in mid air, blocking  Jake’s arm and the other protectively keeping me close behind his body. Right then, I knew that I sparked a fight.

“Don’t you ever lay a finger on her or even look at her again for that matter or I will make you regret it Jake.”

“Chill Bro, no harm done I was only talking to the girl” he sneered.

“I mean it Jake.”

After Aron said that, it was like they were speaking silently just by staring into each other’s eyes deeply and angrily, terrified by the situation I began pulling on Arons shirt desperately hoping he’d look at me but he didn’t.

“Aron please let go, nothing happened”

It took a while until he responded and walked away, when we reached the hallway he stopped and searched me for any signs of  hurt, if not physically then emotionally.

“Are you okay Sophie?” He asked quietly.

“I’m fine thanks to you, I really don’t know what to say..” I mumbled on “If it wasn’t for you I would probably be fainted in the nurses office” I looked up at him shyly and batted my eyelashes, then I slowly kissed him on his cheek, “It really was nothing Sophie, I told you that I’d always have your back” he smirked at me, slightly making me regret that little kiss id given him a few seconds before, after a while of staring into each others eyes he walked me to my class room after that the day went on regularly but when I went home the least expected thing had happened, I came back home to find mom and dad sitting opposite to each other as if waiting for my arrival.

“Mrs. Young called and she told us what happened during break time, do you want to expect that young lady?”

 It turns out that Mrs. Young was in the sidelines watching the whole thing but before she could step in Aron saved the day.  

I was too worried about Aron to tell them about how Jake was always the ass that he is today and that its him they should be blaming.

“Aron…he stood up for me, if it wasn’t for him Jake would of hurt me, I already told you, he is not a bad guy!” I pleaded

“Sweetie” mom said

“You must understand that we do appreciate all that he has done for you but it is what it is and it can’t be changed, if we catch you speaking to him ever again, we’ll move away to a completely different town.” Before she could complete dad cut her off and said “So why don’t you save us the trouble , be a good girl and listen to what we tell you.”

Hearing this was like taking away all I remembered to be good in my past, it was always him that made my day better and now I couldn’t even talk to him? But then I go to thinking,  if that means I’ll still get to see him, at least I’ll be near him right? All I could do then was nod and become numb to all feelings related to him, it had to be done.

Days went by in school and he’d try to talk to  me but I’d ignore him, he would pass by my class and I’d pretend to not see him, he would sit at the table I sat in during lunch and I would get up and go as far away from him as possible, I had to follow the rules even if it meant my happiness, even If it meant crying myself to sleep every day, even if it meant not talking to the person I needed to talk to the most in my life.