Miscommunications

Chapter 14

I walked side by side with Indigo her smile glowing. She playfully nudged me and I nudged her back, with a cheeky grin spreading across my face. I flung her over my shoulder, "Bailey, put me down." she giggled. Suddenly Hannah at the party shot into my mind, I almost dropped Indigo, as the image haunted me.

I guess I'd never understand why she chose him. She built up these walls, I thought I had broken them down, I hadn't. Maybe, she just wanted to see who cared enough to try and break them down. My mind then wandered to Charl, I hurt her. I shouldn't have treated her like that, and even if I have to spend the rest of my life trying to make it up to her. I will.

Me, Indigo, Georgie and Maddie entered the juice bar and squeezed into a corner booth. Georgie went to get our juices; two raspberry and peach juices, and two tropical. When Georgie returned with our rainbow of juices i noticed someone behind her. "Hey guys," Charl said her head poking out behind Georgie. Time to start making it up to Charl. "Charl can I speak to you for a minute?" The girls all stare at me, "in private." I add on before exiting the booth and walking to the juice counter with Charl walking straight behind me. "What?" Charl asks her hand on her hip.
"I'll get you a juice, pineapple and coconut? Right?" Charl nods a sliver of a smiling appearing onto her mouth, before her grimace returns. We were sat on the stools waiting for Charl's juice to come, in total silence. "I'm sorry Charl, for everything. I didn't mean to hurt you,"
"Then why did you?" He asks me.
"Because I was afraid,"
"Of what?" He continues to push for my answer.
"Of losing you," my answers seems to take us both by surprise.
"Bailey you hurt me, badly. And I don't know whether I could trust you again, how do I know you still don't love Hannah?"
"Do you love me?" I asked her, she nodded slowly but surely, "Then maybe it's risk you should take. I can't promise you anything but I sure as hell will spend everyday trying to make it up to you. Trying to fix what I broke." Charl still looked uncertain as she looked at me so I gave it one last shot.
"I love you Charl."
"I love you Bailey." she replied and I wrapped my arms around her waist, we stayed like that for such a long time, we didn't even realise that Charl's juice had come.