To Give In

Chapter 7

Please put down the pitchforks, I have returned haha. I'm so sorry for the long wait but school has been crazy plus I've been busy with college apps. Personal issues have also made it quick difficult to focus on TGI, it also took a while because this chapter is super long and I wanted to make it perfect. I hope y'all enjoy and hopefully some questions get answered. Picture to the right is Autumn, and the video is the song Time Bomb by Tove Lo. Because this is such a long chapter I have assigned it two songs for the  TGI playlist

*The kiss* : Timebomb, Tove Lo

*Getting ready/Football Game*: Tonight You're Perfect, New Politics

Enjoy

Kisses, Gabby xoxo

Chapter 7

Reina

            What is wrong with you, I thought. You are so stupid! You've known the guy not even a week and already you've dropped the bomb on both Hunter and Cristian. Why did I even do that, is it because I feel safe…with Asher? I couldn't possibly after only two days, please be rational Reina! Should I still go to the game, could I bear to eat lunch with him today? God, she was so horrid, how could Asher ever date someone like her? What does that say about him? Oh God! What does that say about him? I may have just dodged a bullet!

 As the day wore on I could feel a part of me emptying and a part of me filling up. Any prior hope I had instilled in Asher began to dwindle and any barrier I had dropped was rapidly rebuilt. I fell into myself and it felt warm and comforting like slipping on my favorite sweater. By the time I had reached English I thought I had forgotten any feeling I may have felt for Asher, but then I walked in, only to be met by, a now very familiar, pair of blue eyes. And suddenly my sweater was ripped away, and reality slapped me in the face. I could feel his jersey burning a hole in my bag; I couldn't hide here, not from him.

“Reina?”

I kept my head down, hiding half of my face in my hair. My lips pursed slightly as if words were itching to explode from my mouth. I walked past him saying nothing, I was defeated...I was victorious. I picked my head up to see Madisen smirking, she blew me a kiss and I rushed to the safety of the back row. Salem looked over, and it seemed like she was going to say something, but the words evaporated when nothing came out of her mouth. She sent me a comforting closed mouth smile and busied herself by marking up her weekly planner. Mr. Lewis came in and started the class, and I tried to be there but I was still lost within myself. Suddenly everyone stood up.

“What’s going on?” I ask Salem.

“Computer Lab, in class assignment,” she said.

She shuffled out of her desk and headed out the door with the rest of the class. I let out a breath and I slid out of my chair. I fastened my hair into a ponytail and slung the strap of my bag in my shoulder. As I picked up my binder and began to walk down the rows of desks, someone walked in and closed the door. And my heart flew into my chest.

“We need to talk, Reina,” Asher began.

“I have nothing to say to you,”

“Fine, than you can just listen.”

“I need to get to the computer lab; Mr. Lewis is going to wonder where I am.”

“You and I both know he isn’t going to notice, stop trying to get off topic. Sit?”

“No,” I said as I put my bag and binder down, but still held my ground. “What the hell do you want Asher?”

He walked towards me and sat on the desk across from where I stood.