My Guardian Demon

Chapter 23: Knocked Down.

My Guardian Demon

Finally, I stumbled through the school gates, my heart still racing from the whirlwind of a goodbye. Convincing Zac to let me leave had been like pulling teeth; he'd refused to stop kissing me, his lips sending my resolve into a tailspin with every soft press. Not that I didn't love it—being wrapped up in him felt intoxicating—but the image of my brothers' furious faces was enough to keep me from skipping the day entirely.

As it was, I was already in hot water for missing math. And I could practically hear my oldest brother's lecture echoing in my head: "Priorities!" The thought made me groan, pulling my bag tighter over my shoulder as I trudged toward my first class.

Now I have to survive my p.e class, and to my surprise, we are outside with the boys.

Great.

As I raced ahead to the changing rooms I bumped into Lewis and Shannon who were currently arguing with each other about where I was.

"Guys I'm here, no need to argue. I am not happy with either of you though for ditching film night," I said flatly, both of them jumping in surprise.

"Where have you been?" They both spoke so I just shrugged, I ain't telling them the truth. 

"I overslept and Aiden left me," I quickly lied but some of it was true in my defence, but they didn't need to know that.

All the students scattered across the halls, rushing to their next classes before the warning bell.

"Well my two favourite ladies, I will see you out there on the field looking lovely as always," He winked at the both of us and earned a slap on the head from Nathan who appeared behind him to go into the changing rooms.

"Dude, not cool," He gasped placing a hand over his chest.

"Grow a pair, now come on before the teacher has a fit," They both waved over to us just before closing the door behind them leaving me and Shannon to go and get changed.

Our uniform consists of a simple black polo top that has our school logo. It was way too tight around my chest area for my liking and black shorts with a pair of black trainers. Whoever designed this uniform wasn't very creative. When we changed into our uniform all of us girls were told to line up outside and wait for the teacher before we could make our way outside.

"So what were you doing this morning?" Shannon asked making me snap my head towards her, a grin was on her face as she wiggled her eyebrows.

How could she possibly know?

"What do you mean? I told you I woke up late," I lied.

"Oh come on, you should know by now that I know when you're lying to me. You do this weird thing with your nose," Shannon pointed out.

"What weird thing?" I rushed out to feel my nose but she just laughed.

"See. So tell me what were you really doing this morning? Was it Zac or Nathanial?" She nudged my shoulder with an annoying smirk on her face.

Ugh, I hate her sometimes.

I huffed out a breath and turned to face her so I could speak a bit lower so no one else could hear what I was about to tell her.

"Zacs my boyfriend," I whispered.

"You have a boy-" I slapped my hand over her mouth before she could finish off that sentence, I should have known she wouldn't be able to be quiet about it. I quickly scanned over everyone to see all of them in their own conversations.