You Push Me, I Push Back

IX

As I walk to school - yes, I decided to walk with my bike because I'm a lazy person - I notice how there isn't anyone in my sight. It's almost like I'm a disease and everyone is staying away from me. It's quiet, I get a small breeze every minute, but warmth still surrounds my body and heats me up. It like an electrical jump whenever the breeze hits me, because it's all of a sudden and is gone in a flash. I don't understand mother nature sometimes.

I keep walking, 30 minutes to spare before first period, I'm kind of getting the feeling that I am lost. I've been down this road a couple of times, but it as so many corners, passage ways, and other roads attached to it, it makes my mind think it's a maze. The worst part is that I don't know anyone down this road. But it seems like the people that live down this road are rich, Angel doesn't, she lives like a few blocks from here. Her parents don't like to show off.

Big houses were down this road, with wide windows, private pools, huge gardens, a long length between the houses, I don't think you would be able to hear a party going on if you lived here. I found it entertaining, even though they were all big and held the same things. They were different colours and had different ways of planning themselves out. There is one where it is a rectangular shape, but a quatre of it is glass. Weird, right?

I wouldn't mind living here though, it seems nice, defiantly closer to the school. No big hill to ride up and it doesn't seem like the neighbours have anything against each other. I'm soon out of my thoughts when a big bang comes from the house in front of me and the next second the front door is opening. A tall boy around my height, is dragged by the neck on to the porch. A man with slightly grey hair drags the boy and throws him off the porch. I have only then realised that my feet have stopped moving me.

The man chucks a grey Adidas bag at the boy in the hoodie. "Think about your manners next time boy! You will do as I say!" The grumpy old man yells at the boy, who I have come to the conclusion as his son. He doesn't sound like a good father. The man then storms back in and shuts the door behind him, I look at the boy and he looks like he's mumbling something under his breath then puts the bag on his shoulder.

He pulls his hood from over his face and I almost gasp when I see who it is. Jack. What are the possibilities of seeing him every day? High probably. I walk over to him, he looked like he was going to scream something back, but at the same time he looked weak and helpless. I've never seen Jack like this. Only yesterday I was seeing him smile. And he was buying me waffles.

"Jack? Are you okay?" I ask as I go to stand a couple of steps away. He looks at me and sighs. I can tell he's not happy about me seeing what just happened. Probably thinking I'm gonna snitch or something.

"Kelly. I'm fine." He tells me, but I can see the pain in his eyes. Like hell he was fine. He rubs the front of his neck then the back, like he was trying to keep it hidden. Jack looks at me. "What are you doing around here?"

"Going to school." I answer. "But I've got half an hour until first period, so I just walk around and wait really." He nods, understanding me. It went silent, I love silence, but not when it's unpleasant.

"Want me to walk with you?" Jack ask, he didn't have a smirk or a grin, it was like he was actually asking me and not teasing. Like he didn't want to be alone. He truely looked hurt about what his father did.

"No," I say, a frown on his face forms, I begin to walk by him. "But you can join if you want." Jack waste no time to go to my side and start walking next to me. We are like detectives, maybe not the right term to use, but that's what it feels like when we are trying to get Angel and Dran together. We're trying to spot the clues. "Why did your dad act so mean to you?"

Jack shrugs. "He wants me to carry on the family business, I told him I wouldn't and he can't seem to get over it. I don't want to do all that business and politics thing. It's not me." He explains and I nod, it wouldn't be fair if he didn't get to do what he wanted to do and every other kid did.

"What is you then?" I ask glancing over at him. He didn't seem to be the guy that had his life planned out. I only had my life planned out until after college. I've always wanted to do singing or acting or crime or something sporty, which are completely different things.

"I want to do singing." Jack answers with a shrug, I was surprised. At school he seemed like a dude that would sleep for a living. "I've always like the feeling it gave me. The electric shock that went up my spine when I sang. It has always made me feel . . ."

"Free." I finish, and Jack looks at me and nods. "I don't have my life planned out very much. All I know so far is that, I'm going to college, getting an apartment with my best friend and getting a job at a cafè or pub. Not very well set."

"It's better then what I have planned out. All I know is that I want to sing. I've applied to two colleges and both haven't replied." Jack sighs, I've applied to a few and got excepted into all of them, but I wasn't going to tell him that, it would make him feel bad. I'm waiting for Angel to get a reply from one of her colleges (we applied to the same ones) so then I can make the right choice and be with Angel.

No one knows about me getting into a load of colleges, not even my family. But it seems like Jack and I both have problems of our own. Some a bit similar. We have weight on our shoulders and we don't know how to get it off. We are surround by this invisible dark aura. Trapped in it. When the dark aura is really our problems, the things that haunt us in our nightmares. Sometimes I just want to have peace with the world. I don't want it against me 24/7.

"Wanna ditch?" I suddenly blurt out. Jack looks at me and raises an eye brow. "We both probably don't want to go to school and we both have crap going on in our lives. Do you want to ditch?"

Jack stumbles on his words before sighing. "Sure, lets do it." He states. No doubt if I leave Angel out of this she'll be mad. Like, really mad, her name may be Angel but she's a devil.

"Cool, I'll tell Angel and we can meet at Uncle Ben's Diner. My uncle never works in the morning." I inform him and get my phone out. I begin to text Angel and send it. I get a reply a moment later and she says she'll meet us there with Dean. Yes, I'd invited Dean. Our plan was still in motion.

"I never knew the Kelly Smith would ditch school." Jack smugly says as we turn our direction towards the diner.

"There's a lot you don't know about me Jack Kimble." I respond and he just chuckles before he starts ranting out about something. A couple of minutes ago, I felt like a disease to the world, but somehow, he was immune to me.

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A/N ~ hey guys! So I hope you enjoyed this chapter. In the next chapter we're gonna see Kelly and Jack working together to get Angel and Dean closer. Whilst also (accidently) getting to know each other and getting closer to each other as well. I hope you're excited. I am. I'm going to try and make it a funny chapter. Maybe I'll do a warning for too much banter.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Also, what do you think is going to happen between Jack and his dad? Tell me in the comments, I promise I don't bite.

~ Katana Girl