Galloping Hills Academy Book 1: Secrets

Chapter 12- After Math

         It had been two days since Katelynne’s best friend died and Carson went missing and I was still a mess and so was Katelynne. Sadie was the only sane one of us now. Sadie and I had gone looking for the flower twice and couldn’t find it so we decided to look it up on the internet. It was bright green and what a coincidence that green was Carson’s favorite color.

          We decided, since it was Wednesday to go to the forest after our lesson. We had to find this plant so I could get my man back. I missed him so much, every time I think about him I get tears in my eyes. We walked down the hallway and snuck behind Cedarsprings. We walked across the field covered with lush purple and blue flowers. The grass was only about four inches high and I wanted to run through it to find this special flower to get my boyfriend back. We reached the forest and started walking through the under brush. It was so thick that I couldn’t see the ground in some places. But, even though it was hard, I had to see the ground to find this flower.

          We looked around for an hour and it was getting dark. We sat down on a stump and I started crying again, I couldn’t take it, I had to get my boyfriend back and soon. I looked up at the sky and gasped, there, on the tree was a green flower. I reached up and pulled it.

          “Look! I found it.” I said excitedly.

          “Wow, okay, let’s take it to were we’re supposed to. Then we can get Carson back.” Sadie said.

          We walked hurriedly to the place we were supposed to take it, we placed it there and waited. We waited for ten minutes and the sky was pink and purple hinting that we only had a few more minutes of light. Crack!

          I whirled around, falling, but strong arms caught me.  

          “CARSON! I missed you so much!” I hugged him and then he pulled away and looked into my eyes. He leaned in and gave me a light kiss on the lips. His lips were soft and warm, the kiss lasted about six seconds and when he pulled away I looked into his eyes again before he came in for more. Sadie was standing there, watching us make out and I kind of felt bad for her, but the more we kissed, the more I forgot she was standing there.

          “Okay, that’s enough for now, we have to get back before we can’t see anymore.” Sadie interrupted after another two minutes.

          “Fine, sorry, we kind of got caught up in the moment.” I said, not taking my eyes off Carson.

Carson and I walked back, hand in hand. Sadie walked in front of us, not wanting to see what we were doing behind her.

          Katelynne had stayed behind, Sadie and I had told her we were going to the Sugar Shoppe to pick up something and we might stop at the Diner.

          Suddenly, everything from the past three days caught up with my and I broke down crying. I felt Carson’s arm around me, leading me to the sidewalk.

          “What’s wrong?” Carson said worriedly.

          “Well, you went missing and Katelynne’s best friend died. I’m mostly upset over you.” I sobbed.

          “It’s okay, I’m here now, I’m never leaving you again.”

          “I have wanted to tell you this since the beginning of last year. I love you. I have for a while and when you had the cancer scare, I cried every night until I found out that you didn’t. I can’t loose you, every time I thought about you while you were missing, I got tears in my eyes.”

          “Natalie, I love you too. I didn’t realized how much I liked you until after you were gone. I will never leave you, know matter what. We will go through our eighth year and then go onto high school. I will be with you through it all, I promise.” he smiled at me and then his warm eyes got closer to my face and our lips met again.  

          Twenty minutes later, Sadie, Katelynne, Carson, and I were sitting at the diner eating hamburgers, French fries, and sodas.

          “So, when is our first show?” Carson asked, taking a bite of his burger.

          “It’s in two weeks, it’s a schooling show.” Katelynne answered.

          “Cool, I’m kind of nervous about it. I haven’t showed since June.” Carson admitted.

          Katelynne seemed to space out a couple of times and I was worried about her. She had been like sisters with Arianna and now she was gone, Katelynne tried to hide how sad she was, but I could tell she was having a hard time with this.