The Life of Alex Cane: Dark Times

Ch. 24

A whole month.

A whole month has passed since my Thanksgiving with the Waynes family.

A whole new month is here filled with only the unknown.

Today in particular is December thirteenth. A day full of the unknown because it's the exact day that José wanted all of us together so he could tell us whatever it is he needs to discuss. Of course he'd pick this day in the week.

Sunday.

Or as he'd preach about the most is it being "God's holy day". Go figure for the annoying ass preacher he is. Man I've missed him because school hasn't been the same without him and Raven going at it with each other or him not tagging along with us "sinners" to Angela's loud parties only for him to sin just as much as we do.

Such a goddamn hypocrite.

"Alex!" My head shoots up to look at Chad waving his big hand in my face with concerned eyes.

"My bad, I was thinking about today with José." I sigh "Did either of you get a text from him telling us where to meet up?" Raven asks while pushing her kinky 'fro in the spot she wants it to sit.

One good thing I can say about her at least is that she's slowly been coming back around to her usual self. Although, she does have moments where she'll look so down and far away that it's like she's on a whole nother planet. I definitely need to take the time one day to really have a deep conversation with her because I can't even remember the last one we did have.

Was it back in tenth grade?

"Not from me, how about you Alex?" Chad questions to snatch me out of my thoughts again, making me shake my head in response "Nope. Not a word since last month."

"Man, he sure knows how to keep us on our toes when he's not even here." Chad sighs heavily.

I pick up the bottle of orange juice I didn't pay for -no I didn't steal- and drink from it as if my mouth was filled with nothing but sand.

Orange juice sure does hit the right spot when you least expect it to.

"Damn do you need another one?" A voice I'm all too familiar with sounds, making me groan internally.

"Sure if you're paying." I smile.

Her hazel eyes shine at me "No, I think you can pay for it yourself." Her lips curve upward into the smallest smile.

Twisting the cap onto the now empty bottle, I stand up to toss it into the recycling bin and stop right in front of her, looking down into those warm eyes deeply.

"Or I can drink something that I don't need to pay for." I wink at her and see her lightly caramelized skinned cheeks glow that usual tint of red whenever she's either angry or embarrassed.

I watch as she smoothly runs a hand through her loosely curled hair, stare up at me, and move close enough on her toes just to touch our lips together gently "If you want that then just go drink out of the toilet bowl....I heard that's free." She whispers with a laugh following and the bell chimes loudly to cover it up, knocking me straight out of the trance she put me in.

She was smooth with that, but I can repay her later.

"See you later asshole!" She waves before disappearing within the crowd of students who are slowly leaving the lunch room, dreadfully heading to their next class.

Even though it seems as though we're still the same as we were back in October, we aren't. Ever since last month's holiday, I can proudly say that we've began getting closer than we've ever been with one another. She's told me about her parents, how she grew up without them around much or at all. Yellow being her favorite color which threw me off because I thought it'd be blue since everyone likes blue so much. We even compared our favorite food types, places we like to go, favorite animals, movie genres -you guessed it being romance for her and horror for me- and just other simple shit we could agree or disagree on.