Fatal Lies [#wattys2018]

Ch.18||Another Letter

Thud!thud!
What the hell, who would be throwing pebbles at my window on such a dreadful morning. I puffed out a breath and walked to window and looked out.
"Hey",he said, he's face showing a little hint of dismay.
"Oh it's you",I glared,hiding all the emotions I felt when I saw his face behind my stone cold glare."what do you want?".
"I just want to talk"
I gave a snot and rolled my eyes.
"You came all the way here, even went to the extent of throwing pebbles at my window, just to talk?",I asked, not believing that after everything, he wanted to talk.
"I thought that's what you wanted?",he said questionably.
I couldn't believe, the nerve of this guy.
"If you came all the way here to talk then I got nothing to say to you and I don't wanna see you either"
"Thats the point,i dont know what i did,and i told you i would explain why i didn't pick you up",he said, he's face getting red from the anger he was holding in.
"And why on earth are you acting like a jealous girlfriend",he half yelled.
"Really Zion?",I said in a small voice, holding back the tears that were at the brink of my eyes.
"I'm sorry, Angel,that came out wrong",he sight, running his fingers through his dreads .
"You should go",I said, making a move to close the window.
"Angel wait "
"What is it?"
"Be careful"
"Why?"
"Just be careful and stay out of trouble".
And then he was gone, disappearing around the shrubs beside the house.
I wanted so bad to call after him and tell him to come back and explain everything to me,but I couldn't do that, I couldn't let him know that he meant the world to me,that I was just being a bitch,that he won, already falling hard.
But I just couldn't master enough courage to do that.

"Hey, look who it is",Freya said, moving her head in the direction Zion and his friends were walking with, of course Jenelle.
"Let him be",I sight and took out the history textbooks and dragging Freya by her hand made our way to next class.
The teacher droned on and on about the industrial revolution and all those other stuff that happened in that time period. I tuned out the teaches voice and thought of all the possibilities of running into Zion.On a scale of 1-10 probably 8 or 9,I think.

School was out,I made my way hurriedly to my locker to leave all the textbooks before heading home, I prayed that Freya would be waiting for me outside, because she was my only ride home.
I open the locker door and put my textbooks in a nice clean stack. I was about to close the locker door when something caught my eye.
A light blue paper folded in half was lying on the floor, I looked around to see if anyone dropped it but everyone was making their way to the school doors.
I bent down and picked up the paper and opened it.
It was the same person who left me the letter ,I could tell because of the cursive handwriting.

Dear angelica,
Your a fool,you thought he would fall for you just like that?, what a coward!
I pity you, just the look on your face when he walked in with her,man it was priceless.
But hey I hate you both so much!
You'll both get what you deserve.
Cheers to your deaths.

I suddenly dropped the letter,my palms started sweating and I could feel my heart rate increasing.
I tried to take deep breaths and calm myself down.
After some minutes, I calmed down and picked the paper back up.I scanned the hallway again,watching the last lot of students make their way out the doors.
I sighed and tucked the paper between one of the textbooks and zipped my backpack shut.
I was just about to start walking towards the doors when I heard Alexys called from the back.
I turned around and saw her and Nick accompanied by Brandon and Charlotte.
I haven't seen Zion or either Janelle, well who cares.

You do dumbass, you do.

I stopped and waited for them to catch up.
"Hey girl",Alexys said giving me a hug,I hugged her back.
"I know your having a hard time,but please try to listen to Zion's explanation".
"I really don't care who he goes out with",I sight,making it seem like I was fine.
"You don't care?",Bradon raised and eyebrow."Or you do because it hurts that he doesn't see it?".
"I don't know",I shrugged my shoulders.
"Angie,Zion is a good person, just give him time to realize his mistake",Alexys explained."He doesn't know it yet,but when he does,he will come around".
"Hey cheer up",Charlotte smiled giving me a hug.
"I know our boy is gonna come around",Nick winked.
That made me feel so much better already.
"Thanks guys,I'm so lucky to have such good friends",I smiled.
"Hey we're catching up with Edwin and Austin, you wanna come",Brandon asked.
Seeing as they were all going with their girlfriends and I was gonna be the one left out,I didn't want more sympathy so I declined.
"Okay, well,see you around Angie",Alexys said.
They waved goodbye and went out ahead.

Freya dropped off at home around 6pm.
I checked on mum to see how she was doing then heat up the leftover dinner in the microwave.
After putting all the dishes away I went up to my room and jumped on the bed.
I was just about to pull the novel I've been out of my backpack when I heard for the second time that day,the sound of pebbles coming in contact with the glass on my window.
I knew who it would be before I opened the curtain and looked out.
Sure enough he was there standing at the same place he stood this morning.
But I was curious with the writing pad he held in his hand.

He looked up and lifted the paper. Scribbled on it was:
Don't close the curtain, I came to apologize.
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