My Boy (Roman Godfrey)

Tension

As I walk out of English class I see Roman and Peter staring at each other. As I start walking towards them, Roman looks at me and walks off. 'What the hell was that about?' I ignore it and walk outside. I put my bag around my shoulder and head home.
~a few hours later~

I couldn't stop thinking about Roman, he didn't even say hi to me today or make fun of me. Which was weird for him.
I sigh and fall into my bed. He's probably off with some girl right now, I mean that wouldn't surprise me.
Maybe I should text him, see if he's okay. I grab my phone from my pocket and text him.
(Hey, didn't hear from you at all today. Is everything okay?)
I sent the message, I grabbed the TV remote and put a movie on. I laid there as my eyes grew heavy, and before I knew it I had fallen asleep.

Beep beep beep
I groan as my alarm went off. "Please shut up!" I turned it off and stood up from my bed. I turned my TV off and grabbed my phone, checking for any messages. Seeing that I hadn't received any, I tossed it on my bed and got into the shower.
As I let my hair air dry I put on my favorite cropped maroon sweater and paired it with my black high waisted skinny jeans. "Scarlett, I gotta leave for work in 10 minutes, you better hurry up if you want a ride to school." I hear my mom yell as I put my black Doc Martens on. "Five more minutes!" I shout as I put on mascara, grabbing my dark red matte lipstick, I put it on my lips and rush downstairs. I head into my moms car and get ready for another long day.

"Bye sweetie, love you!" My mom shouts as I get out of the car. "Love you too!" I smile and walk towards the school. As I turn around the corner I see a bunch of kids standing around a girl. As I get closer I can hear them talking. "Come on. What'd you eat first? I mean, I know what I'd eat first."
I walk up to them and hear the girl crying. "What the hell is your problem?" I say to the two boys standing in front of her.
"Stay out of this" the boy with dirty blond hair says to me. "Excuse me?how about you two act your age and not your shoe size? And yes we can all see that you guys are so insecure that you feel the need to pick on people" as I'm speaking they both stand up straight and look behind me. "I mean seriously are you-" I look at them confused and turn around.
I see Roman standing behind me with his jaw clenched, he gives me a look and I know exactly what he wanted from me. Turning my attention towards the boys, I glare at them and kneel down next to the girl and wrap my arm around her. As I'm comforting her i hear Roman speak. "Kiss him" his tone becoming displeased and bitter.
"Kiss his pretty little mouth." Before I could say anything, the boy with dirty blond hair kissed his friend on the lips. I sat there appalled. 'How did he do that?'
Being pulled out of my thoughts I heard Roman yell "Get the fuck out of here!" As he kneeled down I looked at him, his nose began to bleed. As I parted my lips to speak he wiped his nose. Not wanting to upset him any further I let go of the fact that his nose was bleeding. "Are you okay?" I asked the girl, she nods as I give her a soft smile. "Thank you for helping Shelley." I turned my attention towards Roman. "It was no problem, I'm not just gonna let a bunch of assholes make fun of someone like that."
As we stood up, I couldn't help but noticed Shelley's height. Or the fact that I haven't seen her around before. "If those boys ever mess with you again, you let me know." I smile, out the corner of my eye I can see Roman staring at me. She smiles back and picks up her bag, and walks off to her next class. "I mean it, thank you" he says as he looks me in the eye.
I feel my stomach turn a little. I smile and try to push away the feeling. "May I ask how you know her? You guys seem really close." He runs his fingers through his hair. "She's my sister." I was shocked, he never told me he had a sister. "Oh, I'm so sorry, I uh- I didn't know you had a sister."
he pulls out a cigarette and pulls it towards his pink lips. "I never told you, it's not your fault." He looks over at Peter and starts walking over to him. "I'll catch up with you later" without even looking at me he leaves.
He's acting weird, I wonder what's up with him?... maybe I should follow him... no, that would be annoying. I let out a sigh, "fuck" I walked in the direction he headed. "I've turned into a stalker." I whisper to myself.
After a few minutes of trying to find him, I found a door that lead to an area I haven't been into before. I decided to go in and see if I would find Roman there. As the door swong open I see both Peter and Roman move away from each other and look at me. "You guys look really guilty, was I interrupting your kissing session?" I say sarcastically.
Peter rolled his eyes and Roman spoke. "Fuck off" I chuckled and leaned against the wall.
"Hey, so about last night." I made eye contact with Roman. But before I could finish talking Peter gave Roman a look. "Did you tell her?" He looked irritated . "No" Roman stood up from the staircase. "Tell me what?" I said confused.
"Nothing, it's non of your concern." Roman said, I could tell he was upset. "Oh" I said sadly. "I was just gonna ask if you got my messages, but that doesn't matter. I can tell I'm not wanted here." I walked out of the door without another word.

~A couple hours later~

The bell rings. I stand up from my chair and grab my bag. I've made sure I didn't run into Roman at all throughout the day. It was childish of me, but I was upset with him. What was it that he couldn't tell me? I thought we were friends... maybe I'm being dramatic but for some reason it hurt me that he felt like he couldn't trust me. As I arrived at my house I noticed my moms car wasn't in the driveway. I pulled out my phone and saw I had a message from her
(hey honey, I'll be out late tonight. There's money on the counter if you get hungry. Love ya!)
I sigh as I put my phone back into my pocket, and head upstairs to change.
I don't know when, but I had fallen asleep. I woke up in a sweat, my heart was racing. I haven't had a nightmare for a while now. But this one was different, it didn't feel like a dream.
I got up from my bed and walked to my moms room.
She wasn't in her bed, I guess she was still at work. Walking back into my room I close the door and grab my phone. I don't know why but I dialed Romans number and called him. I didn't want to be alone, and he was the first person I thought of. "Scarlett?" I hear romans husky voice through the phone. Suddenly I felt more safe. "H-hey.. I'm sorry, I know it's late but- I um I had a nightmare and I just really needed to talk to someone." I pause. "Can you come over?" I hadn't even realized what I said until Roman responded to me. "I'm on my way" he replied as he hung up.
Did I just invite him over to my house? Why the hell did I say that?. I smack my forehead. A few minutes pass and I hear a knock on my door. I rush downstairs and open the door to see Roman looking me up and down. I blush as I nervously look down at the floor. "I'm sorry I called you, I was being dramatic." I say as he walks inside and closes the door behind him. "It's just, I had this horrible nightmare, I kept seeing this symbol." His body suddenly shifts in my direction. "What did it look like?." His facial expression becoming serious as he looked me in the eyes.
"Um, it was a snake but it was eating itself. Then I kept seeing these eyes, they made me feel unsafe." I gazed off as I spoke. I shook my head "sorry, this is stupid. It sounds crazy now that I'm saying it out loud." I looked at Roman, he seemed different, almost like he was scared. He placed his hand on my shoulder "I have to tell you something..."

🌻Author's Note🌻
Wow, I haven't been on here in so long. (Sorry if the writing isn't that good, I'm a little rusty but I promise I'll get better.) I apologize for not updating this story when I said I would. Starting today I will be updating more often, since I have a lot more free time now. I also lost the motivation to continue writing but I started watching the show again and now I wanna finish writing this story. Thank you for those of you whole enjoy reading what I write, I appreciate you so much!❤️ also sorry for any grammar mistakes😓
~TaliseC