To Love A Sickler

Chapter 4

It's been two days since I discovered Wesley could care less about me and the whole hospital thing was just an act. That night I drove my self over to Lennox's house where Bennet happened to be. Apparently they both knew about how Wesley is a total jerk, he sleeps around with a lot of girls and just a plain out player. I cried into Lennox's shoulder all night and told her about how stupid I felt, Bennett offered to kick his ass but that just made us laugh. All the crying made me really tired so my mom let me stay home from school. So far I've gotten over 100 calls from him and lots of texts, he even begged my brother to try to talk to me. Later on that day Trevor stopped by Lennox's house not knowing I was their. When I got to talk to him he said "you seemed like you found a new best friend" hurt filled his eyes
It wasn't like that Trevor" I said and stepped closer to him as tears gathered
"Was he like I expected?" He asked and stroked my cheek
"A player?" I chuckled "so are you Trev"
"But I'm not a prick about it" he agreed pulling me close to him allowing my head to rest on his chest.
I got up early in the morning and stretched my legs before brushing my teeth and washing my face. I threw on a black nike fitted sweatshirt and light blue Hollister skinny jeans with black keds. I flew down the stairs not bothering to grab breakfast and left for school.
"-How have you been coping love" the text from Trevor read
"-I'm fine he doesn't mean much" I replied. I was sitting in English class zoning out from the movie we were supposed to be watching while holding ice to my dull aching back
"-I'm sorry"
"-I have class with him next"
"-tell me how it goes okay" his text came in just as the bell rang.
I pushed myself back from the desk and waved to my friends before lazily walking through the hallway to my dreaded speech class.
I quickly grabbed a seat in the back of the class where I hoped I could hide, luckily two guys sat next to me and began talking to me, usually I would have ignored them but today they were my saviours.
"You know we have that performance today" one of the guys said to me and the other guy, who sat beside me
"Crap" I mumbled "are you ready?" I whined with pretend interest
"No the only reason most of us in this class is because-" Michael was cut off by a familiar muscular hand resting on his shoulder, I looked up and saw Wesley signaling at him to get out of the chair.
I groaned and turned my head away from him, pretending to be engaged in a conversation.
"Chrisonna please listen to me dammit"Wesley spat out, taking the whole class by surprise including me.
"What I did, was awful Chris. But I can't help it, it's in my blood to sleep around with girls I don't care about, I was confused" he continued "but you,I do care about you. Me seeing you hurt, hurt more than ever. When you cried that day, I sent the girl home right after, I just couldn't take it"
I turned around and looked at him for about a good 45 seconds before standing from my seat and telling the teacher I needed to go to the nurse because my back was hurting more, then walking out of the classroom. "This is what happens when you catch feelings" I thought to myself.
"Chris!" I heard Wesley's voice call after me "Chris please!" He called again as he caught up to me, softly grabbing my arm, then lifting my chin making me look up at him
"Wes, I don't want to talk about it" I said sternly as I glared deeply in his eyes, blinking rapidly to keep the tears from falling "you and I were just friends anyway"
"Chris please" he said again as his voice cracked, he ran his fingers through the mop of hair, his face was full of hurt and worry. "Just hear me out Chris" he pleaded with begging eyes
I tried hard to stop the tears that slipped down my face, I quickly wiped them away and said "I'll see you after practice" I said briefly before turning around into the nurses office leaving him standing sadly in the hallway.

The rest of the day was cloudy. I most likely bombed my physics test and also forgot to turn in homework. Once practice was over I slowly peeled off my spandex and pulled on my shorts before walking out and scanning the rows of cars for Wesley's black jeep. I sighed when I realized he was late "that's not a good way to say sorry" I chuckled and mumbled to myself. I almost turned around to leave before I heard a truck honk, I tuned around and saw Wesley stepping out of his truck and heading towards me.
"You thought I wasn't coming huh?" He said as he took my bags from me and threw them in his truck.
I just kept silent and rested my head against my window, looking aimlessly outside.
"Can we talk about it?" He asked
"I'm hungry" I replied with out looking up
I heard him sigh as he turned into IHOP. He helped me out of the truck and followed closely behind me as we walked in an sat down. "Can you talk to me now?" He sort of begged
"Wesley I have to eat first" I said as I looked through the menu, I snuck a look at him, he was staring blankly at me almost as if he was irritated. "Okay fine. I'll listen"
"Chris I don't want you to just listen okay" he said " please try to understand me".
Wesley began to pour out his heart to me, he told me in detail about how sorry he was and how me not talking to him is giving him physical and emotional pain and more. Throughout his speech I didn't say anything but stuffed my face with the delicious strawberry covered pancakes but I was listening. Once he as done I simply said "I forgive you " while whipping my mouth and standing up to go, letting out a huge burp causing him to look surprised
He stood up and looked shocked "all you have to say is that?" He said "after all I've said for you, I know I've messed up Chris but please say something more I can't bare to-"
I cut him off by a wrapping my arms around his neck in a hug and said "Wes we will work this out, and you're the cutest when your upset"