trouble

sleepovers

Matt brings me home and my lip begins to swell up since Austin threw me on the floor, causing me to accidentally bite my lip. It begins to throb, but it doesn't really hurt, because all I can focus on at the moment is how Austin looked when we left; he was bruised all over. I love matt but I didn't think he would ever do something like that. He always says he would do anything to keep me safe so maybe I should've expected it. I start to drift off to sleep, with Matt sitting on my couch watching Family Guy. My eyes slowly start to close, I couldn't keep them open any longer, until I hear Matt say,

"Are you okay? I'm sorry for what happened I will never let it happ-". I immediately cut him off saying,

"Matt its not your fault no one knew he was going to do that. It's fine ok?"

Matt says a simple "ok", probably still blaming himself. We eventually fall asleep on the couch together.

Matt wakes me up about 2 hours later to say that he is leaving and that he'll see me at school tomorrow. "See you later" I mumble falling back to sleep.

*the next morning*

I wake up about an hour before my alarm goes off and can't seem to fall back asleep. I guess I did go to bed a lot earlier than usual last night. I give up on sleeping and decide that I would just take a nice long shower to waste time. When I finish, I do my makeup really nice and get dressed, deciding to just let my hair down.

I walk down to the bus stop expecting to see Matt standing there waiting, but I don't see him. I hope he comes to school today. I really don't want to be without him. The bus stops in front of me and I notice that Matt still isn't here. With a sigh, I get on and sit in my seat with my head down, wishing the day would end already. The doors close and we begin to move, but all of a sudden we came to an abrupt stop and the doors opened. Matt climbs on to the bus and slumped into our seat next to me.
"Hey" he says out of breath.
"Hey, Did you sleep in princess?" I ask with a little chuckle. "Yeah" he sighs, resting his head on my shoulder and closing his eyes.
This boy can sleep through anything and go to sleep anywhere and in the weirdest positions.
"Matt we are here get up" I say and slightly shake him.
"I don't wanna" he groans, not opening his eyes. "Come on" I whine, pushing him off the seat, forcing him to stand up so he didn't fall on the floor. He groans again and glares at me  "hey I could've climbed over you and left you here and you could go home with Bob". Matt grimaces looking back at our bus driver as we step off "ew".
I giggle pulling Matt into the school to our lockers.
The first few classes go by pretty fast, we get our text books in French, play a simple game of volleyball in gym, and thankfully Austin wasn't in math; making it pretty peaceful.

Lunch came and I met up with Matt at the lockers. "Where's mindy?" I question,not seeing her.
"She said she was going to the library to do some book report or something" he informs me. I nod "that sucks, it's only the second day" I say as I wrap my arm around his.
"Do you want to come over to my place tonight? You can spend the night since it's friday, my sister is staying at her boyfriend's all weekend so we don't have to deal with her" I ask Matt once we get our lunch and sit down at the table.
"Yeah I'll just text my mom and tell her so she doesn't worry when I don't come home".
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"Can we walk home?"
"Yeah it's nice out" Matt replies, throwing his arm over my shoulder.
"Emma do you think... nevermind".
"No, what were you gonna say?"I ask stopping to look at him.
"I was just wondering if I were to like date a friend and then we like broke up, do you think it would completely ruin our friendship?" He asks seeming really nervous. I was taken aback by his question, what is he talking about? Does he have a crush on Mindy?
"Umm if you guys are close nothing can ruin your friendship, but uh why are you asking?"
"Uh uh n-no reason idk, why did we stop?" He stutters, looks away from me and starts walking again.
"Wait what? Now I want to know" I exclaim.
"Uh.. I don't know" he says rubbing the back of his neck.
"Im your best friend, you always tell me everything?".
"Yeah your right, I like this girl, we've been best friends since we were little and she's always been there for me no matter what. I really like her but I don't want to ruin what we have as friends".
A girl that is his friend that he's known since he was little? Hmm?