"Can I ask you something?" He said.
"Sure." I smiled. His arm still around my shoulders.
"Do you wear so many bracelets because of what I think you do?"
"What?" And then everything clicked together. "Oh, no. I don't cut, I never did. It's just that, when I was younger my mum used to wear lots of colorful bracelets and she said that each one had a story to tell. So when she died I started buying my own bracelets not colorful ones, I don't do... Colorful. And I made up story's for each one. This one is my favorite, it's a really short story, but I love it. My mum used to tell me one that was a lot like the one I made up."
"Care to share?"
"Thousands of miles away lived a girl who loved a boy with every breath she took. The boy did not love her that was certain. The girl was told that it wasn't right to have such feelings for a boy who could never return them. Yet, thousands of miles away when the boy smiled the girl smiled too knowing it was worth it." He was smiling as I told the story.
"You know." He said looking at me. "I know someone who actually has that story." He smiled.
I tried looking into his eyes, I tried to read his thoughts again, but he didn't let me. I can't read his thoughts. I tried but I only saw a huge brick wall, and I couldn't go through it.
"Who?" I asked.
"A friend." He lied.
"Why are you lying?" He looked up at me.
"I'm not." He said.
"Michael."
"Autumn." He teased. "Let's go put you home. Alright?"
"No. I don't want to go home." I didn't want to go home. I wanted to stay with him.
We sat down on a bench, and he took his phone out.
"You have the gold 5S?" I asked.
"Yeah. What iPhone do you have?"
"The silver 5S." I took it out. "Here." I gave him my phone and he gave me his.
Messages
Lukey
Autty♥
Ash
Mum
Jane
Calum
Alex
"I have 4 questions." I said and his eyes widened. "First. Lukey?" I laughed. "Second how do you have my brothers number, my sister number and Caleb's number? And why do you talk to them? Third. Why does my name have a heart? Forth. Why do you call me Autty?"
"Wow. To many questions. So... Lukey, he made me put that there. I met them all at a uni party and yeah... Your sister kinda saw me with Luke, and yeah, one thing led to another... Your name has a heart because it's my phone and I do what I want. Fourth, because it's cute, and Autumn is way to complicated. I think that's all." He said.
"Did you fucking hook up with my sister!?" I asked and he looked at me.
"Well... Yeah... But we were both drunk and yeah..." He said.
"Look I have to go." I said.
"Can I at least walk you home?" I was about to say no. "Please..."
"Sure." I said annoyed.
We were walking back home. He hooked up with my sister. Jane and Michael... She's older than him. Ew. We got to my place. I stopped and he stopped in front of me.
"I'll go pick you up at school tomorrow, ok?" He asked.
"What school do you go to?"
"I go to Norwest Christian College." He said and my brain froze.
"That's like 10 minutes away from my school." I said incredulously.
"Yeah, I know. So I'll pick you up, ok?" He asked.
"Yeah, sure." I said. I have been looking into his eyes ever since this conversation started and I got nothing from him.
"I want to kiss her." He thought and then all I could see was the wall again.
What is this?
"Go ahead." The words came out of my mouth before I could stop them.
"What?" He asked confused.
"Do it. Kiss me." I said and he smiled.
He leaned in and then stopped, kissing my cheek.
"See you tomorrow Autty." He winked and left.
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"Autumn! Get your ass down here! You're going to be late and so am I!" My sister screaming woke me up.
I looked at my phone 7:30 shit! I went to my bedroom and grabbed some grey skinny jeans, a white t-shirt with a feather on it, I got my grey flannel and a grey beanie, I left my bracelets on as always and added a grey flannel hair tie to my other wrist. Quickly I put on my black and white converse and went to the bathroom. I put the beanie on top of the toilet and put on some eyeliner I left my lips natural, and brushed my teeth then my hair and put my beanie on. I went to my case drawer and put on my black and white lips case. (OUTFIT ON THE EXTERNAL LINK)
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"May I have a word with you?" Ms. Jones said before I left class.
I went to her desk without looking or speaking with her.
"You grades are going." She started. "I was your brothers teacher, I was you sister's teacher, still am, they had the highest grades in my class, your grades have been swimming, now they're starting drowning." She looked up from her book. "What's happening?"
"First of all I am not my siblings, I am myself! My brother and sister both want to leave Sydney when they leave college, I don't, I don't want to leave, and I don't want to go to college. My brother studies for 18's and 19's, I don't like studying, I hate studying but I do and I study for 15's. My sister wants to be a lawyer, my brother wants to be a doctor, I don't. I don't know what I fucking want in life!" I nearly screamed. "Now if you excuse, I have places to be." I grabbed my backpack tighter on my shoulder and left before she could say anything.
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Mikey♥: Big lecture to the history! You go gurl!
Me: This thing, you stalking me, is becoming scary.
Mikey♥: I'm outside. You were taking long so I went inside, and then I heard your convo with the history teacher and then left running when you were done. Sorry :)
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Leave it to Michael to change his contact name on my phone without me knowing.
I went outside and saw Michael, he was leaning against his car. Inside the car were 2 guys I didn't recognize... Oh no wait actually I did... One of them was the famous Luke Hemmings and the other one was Calum Hood... Hood attended my school, Hemmings was in Norwest Christian College.
"Hey Clifford." What's up with me and surnames today?
"Hey. What's wrong?" He asked, and I was confused. And he noticed it. "You're all grey today."
"Oh, I told you. I don't do cheerful. In my wardrobe, all you find is either black grey or white." I said.
Luke had shotgun, obviously because he came from school with Michael, Calum was sitting at the back so I sat with him.
