No Strings Attached

Chapter Five

I woke up, put on a loose fitting shirt and dark blue jeans and my favorite white converse.

I started walking to school, I didn't want to take the bus today.

The reason I'm so upset that Grant and I aren't supposed to be together is because over that short time we knew each other, we got so close, I actually really started liking him.

He gave me this feeling inside of me that I've never felt. It was different. 

He would almost always come to my house after school and we would play dumb  board games and Xbox.

In forensics today, Grant came in so late, with the guiltiest look on his face. I don't know why he didn't sit next to me today, maybe he finally gave up on trying to be my friend.

I guess I ruined the only friendship I had besides Kathy.

On the way home I tried to make conversation with him, but he kept ignoring me.

"I'm sorry,  Grant." I yelled out towards him.

He stopped walking, turned around and sped walk over to where I was, still keeping his distance.

"Sorry isn't going to help my mother and sister in the hospital."

I looked at him blankly, opening my mouth to say something.

"I almost killed them." He muttered to himself, shaking.

I looked up at him and put my hand on his arm.

We sat down at the lake three streets before mine. He told me everything that happened.

"I was feeling so shitty that you didn't want to be my friend, and... And I don't know I started drinking. My dad and grandfather were both alcoholics, so when I started... I.. I couldn't stop. I just kept it going, one beer after another. My mom had asked me to take her and Maybell to the store, since my mother got her license revoked she can't drive. So they got in the car... And.. " Tears started falling out of his eyes, I gave him a tissue I reluctantly had in my backpack,"We were at the query by Old Petes house... And I was so drunk... I turned to the left and before I know it another car is coming right at us, I hadn't noticed but I was driving on the wrong side of the road.

"My sister was screaming, my mom kept trying to take the wheel. And then we flipped." He looked at me. "I fucking flipped our car that took us five years to save up for. I'm such a fucking idiot, Nicole. And now my sister and mom are in the hospital because of me. All because of me."

I felt a wave of guilt was over me.

This is my fault... If I had just stayed his friend none of this would have happened.

"Nicole, my sister is only 7 years old. Fucking 7. She shouldn't be having to go through this." He was crying more by now.

"Stop talking." I said carefully. I pulled Grant into a hug and we stayed like that for what seemed like five hours.