CODE RED (Book 1)

Telling The Lie

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Telling The Lie- 11

I looked out the window sitting in the passenger seat of Alex's car before we came to a stop in front of my house. My mood had decreased from being happy to cautious, there was no telling what was going to happen as soon as I stepped through the door. Sure my dad possible wouldn't be home at this time but he could be. In which I hoped that I was wrong.

I sat back in my seat staring down the empty street of the familiar neighborhood I had been living in nearly my whole life.

Alex sat beside me quiet and patient. I could tell that he didn't want me to leave and I didn't either. I was struck between the feelings of resistance and forwardness. I knew I had to go but I didn't want to, especially not after that kiss he had given me.

That had been the first time I had ever kissed a guy, and I liked it. . .more then anything.

I watched him from the corner of my eye as he turned to look at me, I didn't take my eyes away, we both had already admitted that we watched each other in school so this wasn't any different. But one thing struck me though. We were now together... as a couple. An unexpected couple that had secrets and limits that neither of us could tell anyone and it was all just to protect me and my mom.

I felt new and refreshed, as weird as it sounded, I felt like I had started a new chapter in my life with new experiences and now after two whole years I'm finally letting someone break down my walls and letting the person know me- the real me. Not the distant, aloof, bastard that always had shit to say but as a guy who's just like everyone else but with bad experiences that made me who I was. My reputation was a big misunderstanding but now I could fix it.

"You don't want to leave...do you?" Alex asked me after the long silence.

I turned to him. "You want me to-"

"No." He interjected quickly before turning his body towards me to look at me fully.

"Good then, I'll stay because I completely don't want to leave your car."

"Fine by me." He shrugged.

I raised an eyebrow and crossed my arms before sighing."So, this whole after school tutoring lie will still work... right?"

"Course it will, you have to at least try. I mean..." he paused to roll his eyes. "Haven't you ever lied to your parents before?"

" I have. A lot of times actually." I admitted. That wasn't anything to be proud of but sometimes they didn't give me a choice.

"Well this shouldn't be hard for you." He a smiled."After all, you are doing this to hang out with me tomorrow and for the rest of the high school year, at least that's what I'm assuming how long we're going to be together."

I knew our sudden relationship probably wouldn't last but thinking about breaking up just by the end of this year made me skeptical. We weren't going to end it that quickly were we? I hoped not and I knew Alex didn't want us to break up that quickly either even though his guess was completely inaccurate.

Just thinking about breaking up made my heart quicken slightly. I removed the thought of it from my head as I focused on another subject.

"Why did you have a gun," I asked him referring to this morning when I had been attacked by wolves.

"Oh that." Alex said just now remembering it."Well...my dad works for security at a work building, I guess you could say he overreacted when he found out I would be going to school on my own for the very first time, which was when I was a freshman. All my life I had to be driven to school by one of my parents or family members all of them being to paranoid to let me go alone until I turned 16 which was last year when I got my drivers license and then my dad gave me a gun in order to protect myself. They're all sorts of people out there, you can't be too careful is what he told me."