Sophie went out to the supermarket at 10:00. I was up and ready by then. Mike had been left to look after me. I don't know why, I'm 15, I'm not a kid anymore. But then again, Sophie and Mike were absolutely ridiculous. At 10:30, Mike got a call. I checked his phone. Yep it was Cody pretending to be a cold caller. Mike got really angry and shouted at cold callers.
"Hello?"
"Hello sir, I am calling on behalf on Heinz. We would like to know why you like Heinz ketchup so much?" that made me laugh. Only Cody pretend to be a cold caller and talk about ketchup.
"urm, I don't know, it tastes good?"
"interesting, and do you like the colour of it or would you prefer it to be a different colour?"
"is this a joke?" yes! He was starting to get angry.
"no sir, we need to know this information for a survey"
"then why are you asking me? How do you know I even buy Heinz ketchup?!" he was shouting at this point which meant I could open the front door quietly and sneak out without him hearing me.
I got out of the house and could hear Cody talking on the other end of the call.
"well thank you for your time sir" he said and hung up as he saw me.
I gave him the thumbs up and he did it back as I came towards him.
"thank you so much! You are a life saver!"
"you're welcome beautiful"
Here come the butterflies. I got them whenever he called me something like that. It was so cute.
We walked along for a bit until we reached a park and we went and sat down on a bench. He took my hand in his and looked down. He saw my wrist and stroked it with his thumb.
"these are new"
"oh, it was just my dog"
"you don't have a dog"
Dammit.
"you had an argument with Sophie last night. It was after that wasn't it?"
I couldn't look up at him.
"why didn't you call me?"
"I was scared that you'd think I was needy"
"I wouldn't think you were needy, I would just be happy to help you. Did my call stop you from doing anymore?"
He was gunna find out, may as well just be honest.
"yeah, it did. Please don't think any less of me"
"of course I don't, just please call me next time, you know I'm happy to talk"
"okay, I promise"
"yesterday, you were going to tell me why you and Sophie don't get along"
"I was. Well, basically, when I was 11, after we had the argument, I was mad. Really mad. So I stormed out of the house. Sophie and Mike were too frustrated to come after me. I ran to a bridge. That one actually" I pointed to a bridge over a large river across the way. "I didn't want to live anymore. I jumped. That was the last thing I remember before waking up in a hospital the next day. The police were there, doctors, but not Sophie or Mike. I asked where they were and the police said they were talking to the other police. Although they never actually said it, I knew that they struggled to cope afterwards"
"that's awful. I'm just so glad you survived. I just..I want you to know that although what you did must have really scared them, they shouldn't have arguments with you because of it"
He kissed me on the forehead and put his arm around me. We sat like that for a few minutes until Jake, Toby, Alex and Hannah came up behind and shouted "HEEEYYYYYY!"
It scared me so much, my immediate reaction was to coware my head down, put hands over my head and lean towards Cody. He tucked a bit of my hair behind my hair.
"it's okay Lil, it's just the other guys"
I looked up and I'm pretty certain I went red.
"oh hey" I said to them, not making eye contact.
We all laughed and said our hellos.
"what are we doing today then guys?" Toby asked enthusiastically
"something with our beautiful girls" Jake said looking at Hannah. She blushed. They were such a cute couple.
"CINEMA!" me and Alex yelled.
"sounds good" Toby replied
We started off for the cinema.
