Silence

Speak to me

5 DAYS LATER

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Its fifth period now, only one more hour of school, I enter the classroom 5 minutes late because I was doing my usual people watching.

"Hey weirdo" yells kelly from the back of the classroom. Kelly Is another one of Maia's minions and she's not as bad as Maia and Carrie but she is still a bitch.

I ignore her and find my seat next to Evan who is looking at me strangely,"I don't know how you do it"

I raise one eyebrow at him questionably, "with everyone, they treat you like shit and somehow you just ignore them" I give him a little reassuring smile.

"Class get out your books" Mr Amour says to everyone.

I reach for my bag and get out my maths book.

******

"Jesus, maths is so boring" announces Evan from behind me.

I roll my eyes at him.

" hey umm I was wondering if you wanted to come to mine like after school, well now but umm do you wanna"

I start to think, I want to go but what If he's like a psychopathic murderer or something like that, no wait I know Evan is a psycho, summer stop being so stupid, it's Evan, he's nice to you.

I nod at him and as I do the widest grin spread on his face.

"Ok come on"

He leads me to the back entrance, wait the back entrance? He was going to walk with me out the front entrance when I got beat up?

He leads me to a motorbike that is chained to a pole and he unlocks the padlock and slides it in his pocket.

Evan gets on and then points his finger to the bit behind him.

"Hop on" he instructs.

I cautiously lift one leg over the bike and sit down, he hands me a helmet and I slide it on my head, he starts up the bike and we start to ride. Evan hasn't got a helmet on? was that his only helmet?

After a 15 minute ride we arrive outside a big, beautiful brick house.

Evan slowly gets off the bike and then pulls me off by my waist, when he touches me I always seem to get butterflies at the pit of my stomach.

"Come on" says Evan, grabbing my hand and pulling me towards the wooden door with gorgeous stain glass panels.

******

"Evan hunny, who's your friend?" Asks a cheerful looking woman who I'm guessing is him mum.

"Oh mum this is summer, is it ok if she stays a while?" replies Evan.

"Wow so this is summer, sure she can stay." the wan turns to look at me. "well hello summer, nice to finally meet you, I'm kirsty, oh and what would you guys like for tea?"

Evan looks at me and raises an eyebrow, I do the same to him, Evan sighs and turns to look at his mum "I don't know mum, pizza maybe?"

"Is that ok with you summer, love?" Says Kirsty with a happy tone.

"mum, she doesn't talk, remember?"

"Oh yes sorry Evan love and sorry summer"

I smile back at her.

*****

"That was delicious" beams Evan.

I nod in agreement.

"Summer, you have a bit of pizza right there" he points to the corner of my lip.

I reach out and rub my mouth and then look at Evan questionably.

"Nope, still there"

I rub again.

"No, here let me get it"

Evan slowly moved his hand up to my face, he placed his fingers on my cheek and then used his thumb to wipe the corner of my lip, his touch was so soft.

"Oh summer I just want you to talk to me, I wish you would, I want to hear your voice I want to know why, why all this happened and why you don't talk."

I trust him, but do I trust him enough to say something after ten whole years of not taking at all would I really talk to Evan, someone I Have only known for a few weeks? He was there for me though, he came to hospital with me and he stuck up for me in class.

I do trust him.

I open my mouth to talk.

A hopeful smile starts to spread across Evans face when suddenly a man comes in, well I say man, he does only look about two years older than Us, 18 maybe 19.

"Who's this Evan?" The boy asks

"This is summer" Evan replies

"Wow you've pulled there mate, mind if I ave a go after aye?" the boy said

And with that Evan was on his feet, he pushed the boy against the wall and started yelling at him, "don't you dare talk about her like that" he spat.

Before Evan could say anything else the boy swung for him hitting him in the side of his chest, then again.

What could I do? I don't want Evan to get hurt.

I jump up and try to pull the boy off Evan, I can't he's too strong, he pushes me away with one of his arms, causing me to wobble.

"Summer stay back" Evan says.

I can't though, I can't let Evan get hurt.

I take a deep breathe and suddenly out of nowhere words begin to flow out of my mouth. " leave him alone" I croak.

Evan snaps his head round to see me staring at him, hoping he's ok.

He pushes the boy off of him and kicks him where no guy really wants to be kicked and jumps up onto his feet. "Oh summer" he whispers whilst pulling me into a warm embrace.

I cry into his chest trying to match my breathing to his........