STORM 2 | Josh Christopher

Chapter 4

Storm's POV

"Storm baby, pass me the spoon please" my mom said to me. I was helping her make dinner. I grabbed the spoon and gave it to her.

"Can you cut the vegetables please" she says and I nod. I walk over to the counter where the knife and cutting board is. She hands me the bowl with carrots and broccoli and I get to work.

It's been a few days since I hung out with Peyton and I couldn't stop thinking about what she said. "Sometimes home isn't a place. Home can be people as well" I knew what she meant, but then I didn't. It got more confusing as I thought about it. And she even noticed how I'm not my happiest here. Is it that obvious? I thought I put up a good act. But besides that I guess Peyton is pretty cool, I wonder why we weren't friends before.

I think the others would like her. Speaking of them I wonder how they are. We have this group chat that we talk in but I haven't opened it for the past few days. Only because my mind has been so focused on what Peyton said. I also haven't been on social media because all I keep seeing is pictures, videos, and edits about me and Josh. I was mad at him a bit. Only because of the terms we left on. I felt like he made it my fault that I was leaving. Me leaving was the plan from the very beginning, it was nothing new that I was leaving.

But the more I stayed with everyone I didn't want to leave. And I especially didn't want to leave Josh. I loved him, I was in love with him. But I sadly did, and I can't do anything about it now. You know what pissed me off, the fact that he didn't come to the airport to say goodbye. Like how could he! But it showed me how done we were, especially that he hasn't called or even texted me showed me he wants nothing to do with me.

"STORM, WHAT THE HELL!" My mom screamed and grabbed the knife from me as I felt it make slight contact with my finger, it started to bleed.

"Pay attention, you almost cut off your whole finger! We don't need to bring you to the ER for making careless mistakes like that. What's wrong with you?" She yelled. She knew I never made careless mistakes like that before.

"Nothing" I say looking down at my bleeding finger. She sighed and shook her head.

"I'll finish up everything, just go clean up your finger" she says and I nod.

I walk out the kitchen and go upstairs to the bathroom. I rinse my finger with water then use the alcohol to disinfect it. Once I'm done, I wrap it up. I look in the mirror and observe myself. I smiled but instantly frowned. I can't even fake a smile right now. As I looked, my phone buzzed in my pocket.

Jaygup is Live! Tap to join

I go on Instagram and debated if I should watch. Storm don't be nervous, just watch for 3 seconds. I was about to tap it but stopped myself. I should use my secret account. If I use my main account to watch the Live, people would find out I'm in there and cause commotion. I switch to my other account and tap on his live. He's in the gym with Caleb and his other teammates.

"Wassup y'all. How y'all day going?" He said with a smile on his face. Looking at him brought a smile to my face. I walk to my room and lay on bed as I watched him. I looked at the top and seen 900 people watching. Wow that's a lot. I looked down and started to read the comments. A few of them were about me.

"You already know how it is. Games start on November 25th so we just here getting our shots in" he said bouncing the ball behind his back then around again. He then ran away from the camera and started to shoot the ball around. Then someone picks up his phone.

"Was good y'all. It's ya boy Caleb. Ask some questions and me and Gup will answer them" he says and puts the phone down. Josh then Jogs over and looks at the screen. I can tell by his eyes he was reading the comments.

I looked at the comments and seen many, many about me....

"What's your favourite colour? I like all colours" he says and I let out a little laugh.

"How's school been for y'all so far? It's been good actually. Everyone out here is nice" Caleb says. He then jogs off and starts shooting the ball. Josh reads the screen and sighs.

"Do you miss Storm? Yea I do, a lot" he says. Awww I miss you too Joshy.

"No I haven't talked to her since she left" he said with a frown on his face. I frowned as well and rested my head on my hand.

"Why? Let's just say I was to late" he says. To late? What does that mean?

"If you could go back in time and change something in the past, what would you change?" He reads out. He looks up and starts to think. He grabs his phone and sits on the bleachers. He licks his lips and looks down.

"I would change a lot of things but one thing I would change is Storm leaving. I really love that girl and I really wished I tried harder to stop her" he says. I frowned and looked at him. I traced my finger on his face against the screen. I missed him so much.

"I need to put my pride aside more and do the things that I really want to do. I got to make things right and do what makes me happy" he says. What is he talking about?

"Alright guys, I'll go on Live another time. Peace" he says and ends the Live.

What did he mean when he said he was to late. To late? Did he.......did he come to the airport and I already left? Nah I don't think so. I wanted to text him so badly but I was scared. Storm what are you scared of? I honestly don't know but something is holding me back. I turn my phone off and sigh but it buzzes again. I pick my phone up and gasp.

A text from Josh