I've Got Your Back

Chapter 15

Chapter 15:

The rest of the day went by quickly. I met up with dani and Callie and went to PE. Since I was bitten I was much stronger than I used to be and gym class was easy now. I was so fast that when I ran track my teacher accused me of only going around once. Conor was going to need to teach me how to control it.

I went home with Aden and Ryan on the train. The whole ride Ryan was making kissing faces behind Aden at me. I ignored them, but I kept thinking that there was no way in hell he would ever believe me. No one would, I've been spending so much time with Hunter and I'll be spending even more now that I'm training for Halloween night. I would need to find a reasonable explanation for why I'm always with him. It's gonna be hard but I'll start brainstorming now.

I was so deep in thought about this that I almost missed the stop.

"Are you ok Ava? You've been really quite this whole ride." Aden asked me on the walk home

"Yeah,who-I mean what are you thinking about?" Ryan said wiggling his eyebrows

Aden looked from Ryan to me and then said,

"Am I missing something?"

I said no at the exact same time Ryan said yes.

"So what is it I'm missing?" Aden asked

There's was a thick silence until Ryan broke it by saying,

"I saw Ava and Hunter walk out of the janitors closet blushing like sparkly unicorns."

Aden face twisted in a whole lot of different emotions. He first looked confused, disturbed and then angry.

"Hah-and do sparkly unicorns even blush? Let's continue walking, shall we." I said not sure what was about to happen

We continued walking in silence and when we walked through the apartment Aden stalked to his and Josh's room and slammed the door.

"Well..." Ryan said shifting uncomfortably on the balls of his feet

"You had to say something," I said glaring at him

"Wha-I'm sorry." He said

"Sometimes sorry isn't enough." I said and left to my own room

I sat on the floor and just put my head in my hands wondering how my entire life- my entire world was suddenly turned over. I always believed in magic, more for the reason I had no other explanation for certain things but still. I always believed there was a world out there I never knew about and that there were other dimensions, and now that I find out there are all the things I dreamed about I wish they stayed just that-dreams. I knew I would be able to handle all this but I didn't know how much more I could lie to my friends. That was the worst part of this shitty situation. The fact that I could now do all this cool stuff and I can't even tell my friends. I had to lie, and lie to them. I just felt so alone at that moment. I had no one to vent to, no one to cry to-I had no one. And yet I had everyone. I had my friends, I had my family I just couldn't say anything to them. It reminded of the time I went rock climbing once. I've gone before and gradually I became very strong and It took a pretty short amount of time to get to the top. So my dad took me to this place in Brooklyn with a really high rock wall. I went up slowly evening out my breathing, my dad being the one yelling and cheering me on. I smiled down at him and continued climbing up the wall. I got closer, and closer, I could see the bell at the top. I was so high up I felt like it was just me and this wall in the whole New York. I was almost at the top-just two more rows till I got to ring the victory bell. As I got to the top I reached up to ring the bell-and I suddenly felt myself falling. I missed a step and fell down. It felt like I was falling in slow motion, I could see the top of the rock and the bell getting smaller as I fell down. That was the worst, I was so close I could practically hear the ringing of the bell and then I fell. That's how I felt now. I was so close, I could see my friends and family comforting me and cheering me on and yet, so far that Im falling and just can't confide in anymore. It was like that annoying health care commercial with the old lady who falls and says "Help, I've fallen and I can't get up."