And When He Is Here // hayes grier

Chapter 14

↠Bradie

I woke up to the sound of my alarm playing Play it Again by Luke Bryan. Today was Monday. So yay. School again. I threw my legs over onto the floor. I shivered; my hard wood floor was cold on my bare feet. I got up and walked over to my closet. I stepped in and looked around deciding what to wear.

T-shirt? no.
Cardigan? No.
Dress? hah, no.
Sweatshirt? no.
Striped shirt? Yes.

I took that off the hanger and walked out of the closet. I threw it on my bed and walked over it my dresser to pick out shorts. I picked out some light denim wash shirts. I got a cream bra out and changed out of my pajamas.

I changed into my clothes and then went into my bathroom to finish getting ready.
I brushed my teeth and hair and left my hair natural. I didn't my usual make up then I was done. I got my phone off the charger to see I had a text from Hayes.

H-'good morning babe. Be ready by 6:50 I'm picking you up 😉'

B-'okay 😘'

I was kinda confused why I had to be ready 30 minutes earlier than usual. But I just went with it. I walked into Ryan's room and he was getting changed. I walked right out.

"Haha it's fine I have my pants on."

I sighed in relief and walked back in "I just wanted to tell you Hayes is picking me up early so we aren't walking with you," I told him

"Alright," with that I walked out.

It was 6:47 and I heard a knock on the door. I quickly stepped down the stairs and grabbed my back pack. I opened the door to let him in "hey one sec I gotta put my shoes on" I sat down on the ground to put on my black on black high top converse.

"K I'm ready," I stood up and kissed Hayes on the cheek. "So why did I have it be ready early?"

He took my hand in his and we walked out the door, "well Starbucks is only a half mile from the school and the school is only a mile so I thought we would walk."

"Oh that sounds great. Thanks."

"You're welcome B."

Once we got to Starbucks I ordered two Green tea frappes for us both, he had never had one, I forced him into it. Our drinks were handed to us, with my name spelled wrong, and started our walk to school. We got to school and finished our drinks along the way. We were
aloud in the school before it starts so we wondered the halls talking.

We got to my locker and I entered the combination and placed my backpack on the hook inside. I closed my locker door and leaned up against it. I store at Dylan's locker like I always do. Just thinking about him.

"You stare at his locker a lot don't you?"

I looked to Hayes, "what?"

"I always see you looking at it," he says smirking.

I sighed "yeah. Just thinking" I walked over to his locker and remember the combination. I punched in 9-31-00. I always remembered it because it was my birthday. I have no clue why but I just now thought to open it. I mean I've punched it, just never opened it.

"Have you always known that?" Hayes asked referring to the combination.

"Yeah it's my birthday. I have no clue why I just now thought to look in it." I told him while looking at each self. His back pack wasn't in here because he always brings it home at night even of we don't have homework. Which we didn't that night.

At the bottom of the locker I found a notebook. One that he always says is his English one. But he always has it with him. I looked at the note book but it was filled with words and dates. Like it was a journal.

"What's that" Hayes was leaning over my shoulder. I quickly closed it because I wasn't even sure what was in it. But it made me nervous.

"Dyl always said it was his English notebook. But he always had it with him. Like always. I remember the night before it happened it said he forgot it in his locker."

"So... Then why are you all curious about it if it's just a English notebook?"

I turned to face him but wouldn't look at him. My eyes were glued on the blue spiral notebook. "Because I'm not sure that's what it is."

"What do you mean" I could feel his eyes glued to me.

"I mean he always had it with him. I've seen him write in it before when we weren't even in that class."

"Huh" Hayes said like he was kinda understanding. He I turned back around to face the locker. I moved over a little so Hayes could look into it with me. Hayes looked on the top self because he could see up there better than I could. "Hey what are these?" he pulled out a bunch of notes that were hidden under a couple binders

"Hey I've seen him reading those before. One time I saw I'm reading one and he didn't realize I was standing by him. He quickly folded it back up and put it under there and told me it was nothing." I had a little sadness in my voice.

Luckily the bell rand and I took them out of his hand. There was maybe 20 prices of folded up paper there. I wanted to look through this stuff on my own to find out what was going on.

I stuffed the notebook and papers into my back pack once I got back to my locker. I got my books for first hour. "by babe I'll see you in second hour" I kissed him on the cheek and we both went in our separate detections.

After 2nd hour it way my free period. Hayes' wasn't till 4th hour so we didn't get to spend it together. I sat down in front of my locker on the hallway. I had my Nike backpack sitting next to me. I had my legs out in front of me and I opened up my backpack and pulled out the notebook and papers.

I wasn't sure which one to look at first.

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Who thinks she should open the notebook first?

What about the notes?

Comment which one!!

-Alex