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Main characters Milo and Thalia have been friends since Middle school. What will happen when feelings turn into more than just friendship? All of their friends are now on the path to trying to get the two of them togeth...
I shake my hands, still in anger. How would someone have the feeling to hurt her like that? The audacity! I have four younger sisters and the thought that a man would ever put a hand on them makes me cringe. How would anyone want to hurt them? Why would anyone want to hurt her?
Shaking my hands again, I realize that there's blood on them. Blood that is obviously not mine. I shouldn't even have this blood on my hand, why would that idiot even show up?
I realize that I've been running for a while when I reach a dead end in road and just stand there staring at a tree. How could I let out the stupid secret I have been hiding?
The one thing I asked Dash's grandparents and Thalia's parents were for Dash and Thalia to never know I paid for the house. I knew that they would be angry that I kept the secret but that's why I wanted to keep it a secret. It's selfish of me to even say I did it for Thalia, I should have just done it to be a good person. I never wanted them to know and here I was being the idiot that spilled it himself. My mind has been so strange lately, it's like my body has just been giving up on me lately.
The anger in me takes over and I instinctively jab at the tree in front of me. I can't have her see my anger so I might as well let it out right now before I head back. I get in four good punches before my hands start to ache and I start to head back.
Trying to ease my breathes I can't help but hold my chest, begging I didn't bust a stitch open. I look down my shirt and see that I'm definitely bleeding. Shit!
When I finally reach the house I spot Leo sitting on the porch and he just stares at me. I start to cough, and my body catches up with my mind, letting me know that I physically shouldn't be doing anything right now. I lay down on the grass to catch my breath and look up at the sky, which always seems to calm me down.
A blue bun fills my view, followed by a proud smile obstructing the sky. "I'd normally tell you not to get into fights my dude, but that was sick. You alright?" in between breathes I manage to say "yeah I'm just trying to catch my breath."
"Well if I wasn't holding Dash back from actually killing the guy I would have been there for you. Funny to think I was the logical one in the situation."
"Shut up Leo. I was being logical."
"Hey hey hey!" He says putting his hands up in surrender. "I was trying to make sure we don't all go to jail tonight." He laughs and points at my shirt.
"You should get cleaned up. You got a bunch of that guys blood on your shirt." Leo looks back at something and looks back down at me "I'll leave you two" he says before he walks away and I realize the something was actually a someone.
Thalia sits on the grass next to me and pulls my head to lay on her lap. "Seems like this stargazing thing is becoming a theme for us." She says with a warm smile and pulls out a napkin from her pocket and lifts up my shirt and shakes her head before she starts dabbing the napkin on the blood.
"Dad and Fernando sat Dash and I down and told us you've been paying for the house for the past two years. And we're both upset that nobody felt the need to tell us because we definitely could have helped in a sort of way. But after some extreme convincing... we're really grateful" she says, and looks to my eyes. And I lock with her gaze and I realize I really messed up. I should have never got so angry in front of her.
She probably thinks I'm crazy or something. But it's just the thought of that guy even hurting her. Or any person at all. I know she's strong and she could handle herself in any situation, but it was like a switch was turned off in my head and I just had to step in.
"Listen Tally, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry I didn't tell you the truth. But I'm really sorry that you had to see me so angry like that."
"Are you crazy?" she yells at me, I expect her to yell at me for being that angry, but what comes is the opposite. "You goof, that was the bravest thing I have ever seen. You fricken' punched that bastard for me. You. Did. That." A grin escapes from her mouth and she stares up at the sky. "Ya'know I don't know what I would do without you. If you didn't stop him then I think that I would have a bruise on my face right now." I immediately shoot upright, ignoring the fact that every piece of my upper body hurts.
I grab her face in between my hands so that she looks at me. "I would never let anyone ever hurt you. That was nothing. I would do it a million times if that meant that you would be safe."
She stares down at my lips and my heart beats louder. Can she hear it? Does she know what she does to me? She leans in and right when I think it would happen, the moment I have probably been waiting for since middle school... her father rushes out and I do a roll away from her body.
"Owwww" I mumble from the excessive movement on the ground.
"Milo! Are you okay?" right after him, Janell comes running out from behind him "Damn it David! They were having a serious conversation!" She stares at me with wide eyes.
As Thalia explains to her father why she's holding a bloody napkin, Janell whispers to me "I'm so sorry, I tried to slow him down." Damn it indeed. As I'm trying to listen to Janell, David pulls me off the ground and hugs me. This little man wraps his arms around my waist. "Dad, you're squeezing him really tight."
"Oh my gosh, I'm so sorry Miles" he lets go and I see tears in his eyes. " You...you are a good man."
"David, it really wasn't even a big deal. As long as Thalia's okay..."
"I knew you were a good guy since the first time we met and I swear if I ever had a son I wish he would be half as decent as you." He then puts his arms around me again, this time lighter. "You know I wouldn't let anything happen to her David."
"Come on Janell, lets let these two finish their love fest." As the two of them head in, Thalia takes a glance back at me and bites her lip, suppressing a smile then turns back and leaves my sight.
That girl drives me fricken' insane.
And here I am still hugging her dad.
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