The Outside Doesn't Count (Ongoing)

Chapter 9

The door flew open. We both looked. Cole was standing there staring at us with a confused expression.

"I'm sorry, Umm were you doing something with your boy friend?

Chess immediately moved his hand from my cheek and we both fixed ourselves you sit properly far away from each other.

"PSH, no we weren't doing anything, what gave you that idea, a-and he's not my boy friend.", I said in rushed nervous tone.

Chess just kept quiet. The blood in our faces was boiling. It was cool that day, but we felt so hot. What just happened?

"Yeah...right.", he responded as he came in and locked the room door.

"I guess I have some explaining to do.", he said with a closed eye nervous smile while rubbing the back of his head.

I folded my arms and lifted an eyebrow, waiting for his explanation. He looked on the floor,avoiding eye contact and started

"So lately, dad has been dressing up and coming home late in the night. So one night I decided to follow him. He went to this fancy restaurant. I wondered if this was business related, so I was about to go. But then this Lady with a blue dress and blonde hair walked in. They hugged and kissed each other. After seeing that I rode my bike all the way home and went to bed. I didn't like the though of him having a girl friend. I don't want him to be lonely but, he only belongs to mom. The next day he came home from work at 8 with the same woman. They walked in holding hands. He introduced me to her with a big smile and said she was his fiancé. I was speechless. He was going to get married. I yelled at him and said how he was supposed to get back together with mom. I stormed up stairs to my room and packed some clothes with my precious belongings and 2,000 us I had saved in my back pack. I came out through the window and started walking away from the house. I didn't know where I was going but I was sure I didn't want to be In that house. I booked a plane ticket on my phone using dads credit card to Galenia. I arrived here yesterday. I've been looking for you. Today, I saw you walking home from school. I didn't know how to approach you so I just followed you. Then I saw you started to run, so I started to chase after you. When I was about to tell you who I was, everything went black and the next thing I knew I was on a sofa. I heard light sobs coming from up stairs. So I went to check it out and walked in on your boyfriend, ", he said with a slight blush of embarrassment while looking up holding the back of is neck.

Chess finally said something

"Yeah, I'm sorry about doing that to you, I thought you were trying to hurt or rape Avrora.",he said blushing while avoiding eye contact.

"I knew it, he is your boyfriend." , he said in a mischievous tone.

"We are not dating!", both of us yelled at the he same time.

" Yeah, whatever you say. "

I got up and approached Cole. I hugged him with all my strength. Then flicked him on the fore head.

"Next time tell me when your coming and never do something so reckless again, if I wasn't sick, I could've seriously hurt you.", I said with my eyes closed and arms folded.

Cole has grown up so much. The last time I saw him he was 9. It was Christmas a year after our parents divorced. Even though he was 13, he looked my age. He dyed his hair from strawberry blonde to brown. He sure has gotten a lot taller. He was about 5'8. I knew it was him because of his beauty mark under his eye and his unique light blue light brown eyes.

After giving Cole a long lecture. I remembered Chess was still here. It was already 9 pm.

"Umm, Chess its kinda late, don't you wanna go home."

"Hold up, Chess?", my brother said In confusion.

"You mean,the chess that used to come to our home every evening, the chess that went to school with you?"

"Woah, sorry man I didn't recognize you?"

"Yeah, I get that a lot.", he said in a low tone.

"Yeah, I guess I should go.",

He got up and left like nothing happened. I gave Cole his own room back and soon he was fast asleep. I couldn't sleep that night. I had Chess on my mind. Was he really about to kiss me? Did he mean it when he said I was beautiful or did he only say that to cheer me up. I can't believe I spilled my heart out to him. Anyways, I feel like a big weight has been lifted off my chest. It feels good talking about it.

I couldn't sleep so I decided to write a song about my feelings. I sat at my desk next to my window with my lamp on. I picked up my song book and started to write. I had my head phones on listening to some soothing Japanese music. Soon I fell asleep.

Chess' POV

The other reason why Avrora is like this is because of.. me. She gave up on hope because of me. It killed me to see her crying ugly gulps of tears like that so I tried my best to comfort her, but I'm not good at those things. I don't know what came over me. The next thing I knew, I had my hand on her cheek leaning in. She looked really beautiful at that time. I didn't notice I thinked out loud. I hope she didn't think I was teasing her. The last thing I want to do is hurt her again.

I was kind of frustrated when Cole came through the door. But I was also thankful because who knows what I would've done to her. Maybe I couldn't control my feelings and do something that could never be fixed. At that moment I realized, I was in love with her. I was in love with her since kinder garden. I kept quiet the whole time, just in my thoughts sitting on the bed. Then reality came back when she called my name. I didn't want to make things more complicated so I just went home.

I took a cold shower to get rid of the heat in my body. I went into my room drying my head with the towel. Then I noticed light next door. I thought she was asleep already? I looked through the window and saw her sleeping on the desk with her lamp on.

"She's such a cute idiot," I said under my breath as I smiled to myself.

I closed my windows and went to write my poem afterwards.
I started with a poem but ended up with a song. Why does this always happen to me? I decided to just go with the flow and finish the song. Damn it, I wrote a love song! Why did I write a love song? I just realized I was thinking about Avrora the whole time. What did I get myself into?

Author:

Hi! I just realized I'm at nine chapters and this is only the second day of school. Oh my. Well I guess this is going to be a long story. Hope you enjoyed. Comment and follow me please! Thank you. Ilysm😘