You Push Me, I Push Back

XIII

After my 'annoyed overload' Angel made it her mission to cheer me up, we got waffles and ice cream (I love that girl sometimes), and we watched basically all of season 10 of Supernatural. At least it's safe to say, the girl knows me. I spent the whole night round her's, her parents were working late, so we had the whole house to ourselves. We were even able to fit in a bit of kareoke. It was an okay night and defiantly took my mind off things. It was Thursday today, Friday tomorrow, my goodness I couldn't wait for Friday, it was one of my favourite days, after Saturday. Angel gave me spare clothes so that I didn't go into school in my same clothes as yesterday. Angel gave me a lift to school 'cause otherwise she would have been a bad friend and that brings us to now.

I'm in first period (Biology) and I'm already bored out of my mind, but I've got to get my grades back up. We were surpose to be learning something but it was all blank to me, like I couldn't see the words or hear the teacher's voice it was all panicking. Everything in my life is panicking right now. But they are such simple things, that I don't understand why I'm bothered about them. Why do I feel like this? I don't want to be known as the girl who cries over the most stupid things. Just looking at Jack (who is up a row to my right) brought back the memories from last night, all my problems. The only person that was anchoring me right now was Angel.

Thankfully, class ended quickly, the bell went and I began to pick up all my stuff. "Kelly, can you stay back for a minute?" Mr Mike requested, Angel looks at me but I nod and give her a look that says I'm fine to be alone. Once all the students were gone, Mr Mike began to talk. "So Kelly, the teachers and I have noticed how your grades have been failing."

"Yeah, I'm sorry about that, my mund has been everywhere recently." I apologise.

Mr Mike shakes his head. "Its not just been this month, Kelly, its been for the past four months. Teachers are really worried, you use to be one of our top students, and now your slowly going down. At the rate your going, the teachers are starting to think that UCLA don't want you anymore."

UCLA was the university I've wanting to go to my whole, as does Angel, my mum wanted to go when she was my age but with me coming out of niwhere and not having the money, she couldn't, so I've always made it my goal to do it for her. And things have been busy, four months ago wasn't a good time, what happened is still in my mind. Not a lot of people know, my mum and Danny certainly don't. I've just been off track ever since, that's all I know.

"I'll study harder then, and try better and get sorted whatever is wring with me. Promise." I tell him, I really need to up my game.

"Okay, but if you can't focus your mind, teachers are thinking maybe you should see the school's guidence counsellor." Mr Mike informs, even though it would be helpful, no, I don't want people thinking I have a problem.

"I'll keep that in consideration." I nod and then make my way to leave. I really don't want a guidence counsellor, I need to show that I can do things by myself and that I'm not some out of place teen. I make my way to next lesson, feeling more overwhelmed by the seconds.

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At lunch, I was making my way to the canteen to have some lovely food, I need food in my belly before I start seeing that song from Oliver Twist. Only I probably would because before I know it, I'm being yanked into the surplies closet and a hand his wrapped round my mouth. I push the hand away from my lips.

"Alex! What the hell?!" I yell at him, it was Alex, why does it feel like everyone is a stalker now, it was like everyone wqs a stalker now, knowing when someone was going to someone at some time. "You almost gave a heart attack."

"Well you didn't get one." Alex grunts. I glare at him. "I wanted to ask if you are okay." Now that surprised me. Alex - my ex-boyfriend Alex - is asking if I'm okay. Confused.

"Well, I'm fine. No reason to worry about me." I tell him trying to get to the door. I expected that was it, nothing else to say. He didn't care about me, but now that we are family, he seemed to have the fact that I was going to return the feelings. I wasn't, obviously. And it wasn't because he broke up with me.

"I've always worried about you."

"Excuse me?" I say, did he just say what I think he said. He has always wprried about me? What? How? He has never shown any interest in my existance after we broke up, and here he is saying he has. "I'm sorry, but why do I find that so hard to believe?"

Alex looks down. "Look, it's hard thing to explain - especially the reason we broke up - but I did it all for a good reason. I have always worried about you whether you like it or not. You were my first girlfriend, my first official girlfriend, a girlfriend that I actually liked and loved, that type of feeling... doesn't go away easily." Alex explains with so much emotion I thought he was going to explode.

Is he trying to say he still cares about me?

Or that he still loves me?

"Good day Alex." I tell him, my mimd was everywhere, that was the only thing that came out of my mouth. I open the door and leave the closet with Alex still in there and walk away. He can't be telling the truth, he's a player and a player doesn't have a girlfriend or boyfriend. The have fuck buddies. There's a big difference.

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A/N - omg. I am so sorry, I have been a bit busy recently and forgot what I wanted in this chapter so I gave you Alex and Kelly. Which seems like a good duo. I hope you can except my apology.

Anyway, we also made it to over 100 reads to thank you to everyone who has been there since the start. I know it's not a lot but I never though my book would get a hundred reads maybe like five. But thank you and I hope you enjoyed the chapter.