Why'd you leave me?

Chapter 2

Ever since Pete's 'moment' yesterday he wouldn't pick up my calls or answer my texts, he would just leave me on read, I decided that after my 7th "Hey you okay?!?!" texts I would give him some space, he's obviously going through something right now and he will come to me eventually...

Today, we are having a BBQ at the house, my mums boyfriend Ricky has had it planned for weeks, nobody knows what its about but he has invited the whole family and many of his and my mums friends, he told me that I can invite as many friends as I like, so I invited Pete seeing as he is my only friend. Ricky thinks I have potential to be the 'most popular girl in school' but according to him I don't push myself to the fullest. He isn't the biggest fan of Pete because he smokes but who's he to decide who I can and can't hang about with? He's not my dad.

I opened my phone and see that I've still had no reply from Pete, I sigh from frustration, this boy is so hard sometimes!

"Hey hunny, what are you sighing for?" My mum said in a concerning tone as she peeped her head round the door, damn was I really that loud?

"Nothing really mum it's chill, just Pete being Pete you know?" She nodded her head understanding what I was going through, she knows he can be difficult sometimes, he's gone through a-lot.

"Aw hunny, he'll come around soon enough don't worry, just make sure he's looking nice today okay? Your whole family are in town for this BBQ. Speaking of looking nice, you need to sort yourself out, looks like you've been dragged through a hedge backwards with that hair" She said giggling to herself.

"I just woke up woman! Just get out my room I'm about to go for a shower anyway." She held her hands up in defeat and slowly closed the door behind her. With that, I went into the bathroom and went for a quick shower to get rid of my greasy hair. I walked back to my room with a towel wrapped round me,

"Ugh finally, you took so long in there! You better not of left any of that dolls hair in the plug" Moaned Damien, my not-so-little brother, he's 13 year old moody teenager, I simply stuck out my tongue at him and walked passed him, man he's such a little menace but mum thinks that he's her 'perfect child', ugh, perfect child my ass.

When I got back to my room, I took my hair out the towel and let it air dry, I then got dressed into my red floaty dress that I've had hanging up on my door for days waiting to be worn today. It was probably the cutest dress I've ever bought, it was a strapless dress with a ruffled hem, the dress also had a few white polkadots on it to make it look less basic. I added a layered necklace and my pandora charm bracelet to dress up my look a little bit. I then sat down on my fluffy stool and stared into the mirror, I have a bad habit of picking out all the things I hate myself, when I'm older I'm defiantly getting a nose job, its far too big for my face! Before I put some makeup on I unlocked my phone and put on some music on Spotify, I hit shuffle and the first song to come on was "Playing games" by Summer Walker, I'm in love with this song and Summer, its my dream to go see her live. As I was singing along, I was looking through my draws trying to find some makeup that would make me look somewhat acceptable, all I had was some concealer, powder, bronzer and mascara. I wasn't one of them girls that caked their face in foundation that didn't even match their face, I was more natural.

Later that day

I sat impatiently, tapping on my phone. The BBQ started 2 hours ago and Pete still hasn't shown up and i'm starting to get really worried, he knew how much him coming today meant to me. I was looking around hoping I would see his face somewhere in the crowd but I had no hope. Suddenly Damien came running up to me,

"Ughhh Charlie, you need to come see this" He said quite nervously, he took my hand and dragged me to the guest bedroom, there sat Pete holding his severally bruised knuckles, shit. He looked up at my with a very guilty face, his head dropped again.

"Imma leave you two here to speak, don't worry mum and Ricky don't know he is here" Damien said as be backed out the room, I gave him a quick smile to say thank you, as soon as the door closed shut I turn back to Pete.

"So do you want to explain to me what's going on?" I asked kinda pissed off but worried at the same time, he didn't answer me, he just kept his head down.

"Pete, would you fucking answer me? You've been acting strange since McDonalds yesterday, I mean you didn't even answer any of my texts or calls what's up with that? I was scared that something happened to you! You're also what, 2 hours late for the BBQ that I told you about weeks ago, and not to mention your knuckles are bruised and I can smell the weed off from a mile away!!" I shouted getting really annoyed at Pete who just sat there. He still answer me, I gave up, I was so he made me so angry, I turned around and opened the door. I can't deal with Pete right now.

"Wait Charlie, Im sorry. Please sit down, I will tell you everything." Pete said whilst grabbing my wrist before I left the room. I gave in and sat down next to him waiting him to start explaining what's been going on.

"I didn't mean to ghost you last night its just when I seen Chris yesterday it just reminded me of how he hurt you and seeing you broken like you where nearly broke my heart, I care about you so much, I always have since the first day we met in nursery. Then when I got home my mums jackass boyfriend was home and lurking about my room, one thing lead to another I hit him, he didn't manage to hit me back, I just quickly left the house n left in my car. I didn't want to talk to anyone but I felt to guilty leaving you on read. Im sorry." Pete said, his eyes beginning to tear up as he puts him hand on my leg, it gave me a weird tingling sensation but I shrugged it off.

"Pete, you should've came over here last night, we didn't have to talk, but at least I would have known you are okay!" I said sympathetically as I gave him a big hug, I turned my head to look into his eyes to let him know it was okay but my gaze was drawn to his lips, his face edged closer to mine, I felt him breathing heavily, he snaked his arm round my waist to bring me to him. I had no idea what was going on but I couldn't stop it, our lips were barely touching when my phone started to vibrate which made me jump, Pete let go of me and cleared his throat, I checked my phone, it was only a coupon from dominos, usual. wait, what just happened? was I about to kiss Pete? he's my best friend, nothing more right?