**Small town girl Ivy Knight has planned out her fate. She'll leave the small town known as Silver Falls and make something of herself. That is till Maddox Silver comes back to town after being away for years. Dealing with her fathers death, her mot...
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You know that feeling you get when something bad is about to happen?
Your stomach drops, the hairs on the back of your neck stand up, and your heart can't seem to stop rapidly beating?
Thats the uneasy feeling I got right before Maddox told me his dad was abusive.
"Maddox." his name softly, barely even there, leaves my lips but he heard and turns his head towards me. Tears welling up in his eyes each second more as I stare into them. The mesmerizing green thats usually there once so vibrant now dulled from his pain.
"I-i don't know what to say. How long has this been going on? Why are you still there? Maddox I have so many questions."
Getting up from the bed leaving him sitting there alone I leave my bedroom and go downstairs to the living room. Pacing thinking about the last 48 hours.
Seeing my mother, seeing how my mother has been living, having sex with Maddox, and now this.
It's all to much!
Pulling my own hair from frustration on how to handle this I jump when Maddox's hand stops me from further pulling my hair.
"Ivy?"
"You need to go."
"What." The surprise on his face clear as day is quickly replaced by anger.
"I said you need to go."
"Ivy I just told-.. are you fucking serious? I just told you something super personal!" He yells stepping back away from me hands up to show he's not a threat to me. He has every right to be mad.
"This," I motion between the two of us, "it's too much! I can't do this Maddox! I have enough of my own shit to deal with I can't worry about your shit too!" I yell back at him my emotions mixed.
"I just told you I'd be by your side no matter what happens! Are you fucking serious!" His arms slump to his side in defeat. "You're right I should go." He turns away from me and heads to the front door.
For a second, just one second I find myself stepping towards him to stop him from leaving, but stop myself and watch him slam the door behind him.
Remember that uneasy feeling I talked about well it's back. For what reason I'm not entirely sure.
Hugging myself I walk to the front door and look out the peep hole.
He's gone...
By the time Monday came around and I walked into first period late, so unlike myself I found myself looking for one person but he wasn't there.
The entire school day I hadn't seen or heard about Maddox not even once. When lunch came around and i asked Adrianna or Jacob they hadn't even heard from him either. That's when I realized it. I guess I do care more than I thought I did about him.
And that uneasy feeling? It had gotten worse.
Weeks turned into months of not seeing him and slowly Maddox had left my thoughts as graduation came closer. He left is what his father said. He packed everything up and left.
Yes, you heard me right I, Ivy Knight, talked to Maddox Silver's dad Felix Silver when he had been gone a whole week. Smiling when I saw the shiner Maddox had given him. I even got the clothes I had left there from Vanessa. She had showed me to his room and when I walked in the sure enough just like his father said. He packed everything up all but one thing. A small, white envelope that was left on his desk.
And the envelope? It had my name on it.
Written so nice and neat in patient cursive.
Have I opened it?
No I haven't.
Believe me I've tried to open it. I did, but there was something that kept me from doing it, so now it sits as a book mark in my favorite book. That now sits in the bottom drawer of my dresser along with the shirt Maddox lent me.
Only knowing him a few months and he's made enough of an impact on me that he still invades my mind.
A body sitting next to me draws me from my thoughts of Maddox the boy who disappeared just as fast as he came. "Hey no lunch today?" Adrianna asks opening up her sac lunch biting into her apple.
"No not today. Im not really too hungry lately."
"Hmm," she says casually.
"Whats that supposed to mean? What kind of hmm was that?" Looking at me her right eyebrow rises.
"Nothing its just I dont believe you."
Huffing I look away from her eyeing anything I can to keep me distracted. "Well believe it." With that Adrianna stands up causing me to look at her.
"No! You want to know what I believe? I believe your hiding your real feelings from me and keeping shit secret. I know you miss Maddox he's the only guy you've willingly opened up to since for like ever! Shit I have a hard time getting you to get out of your gloomy ass corner. You know what? Whatever ...when you're ready to tell me what's really going on. You know where to find me."
Shoving all her lunch back into her lunch bag she storms off.
Eyes are quick to look at me. Adrianna isn't one to get mad and I don't blame her I've been pushing her away. Neglecting our friendship. Shit neglecting myself in general since Maddox left.
"Fuck now I have to apologize." I whisper to myself grabbing my backpack off the floor and slinging it over my shoulder.
Life fucking sucks.
As of late the only thing keeping me going is hearing back from the schools i applied to. Hopefully I've gotten accepted and a scholarship of some sorts to get me going at least.
Yet those fucking uneasy feeling sure know how to creep up on you.
