Trying To Save Hope

Chapter 6

Hope's POV:

 So there we were, me probably looking terrified, Luke looking confused, and Leah completly oblivious to what was happening around her as Zack started walking towards us. I swear to the Lord above id looks could kill I would've been oblitherated by the look I was recieving from Zack as he got closer. He finally reached us and stopped right in front of me. I gulped, composed myself and said, "hey Zack what are you doing here?" He looked at me, then Nick, then me again, as if he was tring to figure out if I was cheating on him with Nick, which would be stupid on my part to do considering the consequences.

"I'm helping my brother work consession," he answered easily, then he turned to Nick, "hey Nick, whats up?" He questioned politley, but you could clearly see and hear the hate he had toward him, if Nick noticed he didn't do anyting about it.

"Oh I'm just hanging out with Hope and Leah," he answered gesturing towards us. Zack turned towards Leah as if just realizing she was there.

"Hi Leah," he said in her direction, he then turned towards me and said, "Hope can I talk to you over near the concession." Now heres where things got slightly more interesting, I don't know what possessed me to do it but I looked him straight in the eye and shook my head. "What?!"

I almost cowerded away but I looked him in the eye and said,"I came here with Leah and Nick, it would be rude, to ditch them." Sometimes I really wish I would just shut up, saying that stuff would just piss him off more than he already was, but I just stood and glared at him.

"It's okay Hope we'll be fine," Leah said trying to be polite, even though I just wanted to smack her upside the head. Zack flashed her a smile, grabbed my arm, and was about to pull me away when Nick- God bless him- interupted.

"Actually, don't listen to Leah, all three of us need to talk about some homework stuff, so excuse us." He then grabbed both of our wrists and lead us away from Zack. I breathed a sigh of relief as we came to a stop. "Hope what is going on, what's wrong?" He asked me urgently.

I took a deep breath trying to come up with a good excuse as to why I acted the way I did when Leah cut in, "did you guys get in a fight, I am so sorry about that Hope." I almost screamed of happiness because of the out she had just given me.

"Yeah, he's just being so insecure, something about me supposedly dating Nick, it's getting so annoying, I've told him so many times we're just friends," I answerd, rollong my eyes, and technically I wasn't lying, Zack and I were consantly fighting over Nick and mine's relationship. Nick began to laugh a little.

"Thats a stupid thing to be worried about, we're just friends." He finally said, my heart broke a little bit but I started to laugh to.

"I know I've told him so many times, but you know how guys can get." I answered. Finally the tension was broken when Rose came running up to us talking a mile a minute about how the first game of the season would be taking place soon. I grabbed her bag for her and we started to walk back to my car.

We were half way home and Rose was still going on and on about how excited she was, and about how badly she wanted to win. Leah smiled and told her that she had no doubt in her mind that Rose's team would win.

Rose's eyes suddently brightened and she said, "you should all come and see it please, please, please." Nick and Leah both shrugged their shoulders not being able to say no to a begging little girl. "YAY!" She cheered. I had been quiet the whole ride hom, just thinking until we reached Nick's house and he turned to me.

"Are you okay Hope?" He sounded concerned and I almost felt bad for lying, but I did what I always do, I slapped on a smile and nodded. He looked at me for a few seconds, studying me before Leah piped in with her usual Leah fasion.

"Nick get out of the car, I'm tired of sitting in the back." She whined, I laughed and Nick grinned. "You heard her get out of my car." I said jokingly, he looked at me in mock horror before getting out and Leah climbed over the seat, kicking me in the process causing Rose to laugh histarcally. Nick turned and waved goodbye to us before he walked into his home.

"Hey, my sister texted me and told me that my parent are at it again can-" 

"Say no more Leah you are always welcomed at the Chance residence," I told her. She grinned at me, "thanks Hope." I shrugged.

"YAY SLEEPOVER!" Rose yelled from the backseat.

A/N:

Happy holidays everyone! So I'm really sorry about the long waits, I've had exams and tests and homework and studying. Plus I had Winterguard but it got cancelled this year:( but that means I'll have more time to write, so hopefully updates will become more frequent, I also got a laptop for Christmas, and I've always written on my iPod but now I can write on my laptop so I'll hopefully be neater, so I'm really excited about that. One more thing, I have had so so so many nice comments on this story and you guys are just so sweet, and I'm so thankful that you like this story, so what I'm trying to say is thankyou so much for the nice feedback, you guys are awesome. :)