The Mysterious Tunnels of New York

Chapter Five

Chapter Five

❤❤❤Alek's POV❤❤❤

She just got up and ran. Was she embarrassed? Did she not like me? Did I do something wrong to make her run? So many thoughts ran through my mind as she ran through the door of the cafeteria. Jess stood up.

"Avery, you know how sensitive she is to those things, and you also know that she's not ready for a relationship. Especially with what happened last quarter." She walked towards where Aria had ran and went looking for her I presumed. I looked to Avery and she had her head down, probably ashamed. I wondered what happened last quarter. Maybe I'll ask Aria later. Unless she runs from me again. That was weird.

"Uhhhhh... I'm.. Just.. Gunna go.." Eve stood up too and followed Jess out the door. I sighed and stood up too.

"Me too.. See you in the room Logan, bye Avery, bye.." I cut myself off looking at the boy who was sitting next to Jess' spot. He looked at me, noticing I was silently asking for his name.

"Oh, I'm Gavin." I guessed he was the shy one, kinda like Jess.

"Bye Gavin. See you guys later." I walked out the cafeteria, leaving Logan, Avery, and Gavin sitting at the table. They'll help cheer her up, knowing how my brother is. He loves to help people, especially when they need it. Plus I think he liked Avery, that's another assurance that he would help her.

I found myself smiling. I don't know why, I guess I was just caught up in my daydream. I'll confront Logan later when he gets here. I forgot what I was going to do all of a sudden... Oh right! I'm looking for Aria.

I casually walked down all the halls in school, but I couldn't find her. Then it dawned on me; she'd be in the library, she's a nerd. I'm not trying to be mean to her, I like her for that, and it's true. I mentally face palmed for having an argument in my head with myself. That's just weird, I've never done that before, so why now?

Ugh I'm doing it again. Shut up Alek, get your head in the game and go to the library. That's when I finally kicked myself out my head and pushed all my thoughts into my actions.

I started jogging towards the library. And once I got there, I pushed the doors wide open. I even pushed both of them open, making my entrance that more dramatic. Everyone's eyes were on me that moment. Well the ones that were in the library. I put my arms at my sides and walked through the giant room, scanning each aisle like a pedophile looking for kids on a playground. Yes, I'm that weird, and I bet I looked even weirder.

Finally, on the second to last row, I saw her. She was sitting at a table all by herself, head to the table, and arms surrounding her face like walls. I wondered if she had been crying, and why no one else seemed to find her. Her hair was down, splayed around her like curtain. I only recognized her because of her polka dot pants. I thought those were just so cute on her.

I cautiously walked up to her, not wanting to make her frightened and run again. I watched her every move, not like she made many. Just the rising and falling of her breaths.

"Aria...?" I whispered. I don't want her startled now, when she's right where I want her. She looked up, her eyes drooping a little. I was sad, she had pretty hazel eyes, and now she hid them from me. I frowned a little. She kept her face neutral.

"What do you want?" She asked coldly. My stomach flipped; what did I want? I took a deep breath.

"I wanted to see if you were okay. Your friends went to go look for you, so I decided I'd go and look for you too. Now that I found you, can we talk?" I talked softly, remembering we were still in the library.

She hesitated before answering, "Sigh, sure. If you want." I chuckled, she actually said sigh, instead of doing it. That's funny. "About what?" she continued.

"About what happened back there, why'd you run? You know Avery was just joking right? I'm sure she didn't really mean it." She squinted her eyes at me.

"You think I didn't know she was joking? Only a baby would think that." She scoffed. I was hurt, I wasn't getting that meaning to her, I was trying to make her feel better.

"No, I didn't mean it that way. I want you to feel better. Why did you run away from me?" I kept questioning her, trying to get the conversation back on her. I don't know why, but I really wanted to know why she had run.

She looked down, "Cause of what happened last quarter..." I tilted my head to the side. There has to be something that happened in her past that made her freak out, and it happened not too long ago, just like what Jess was saying back at the table.

"What happened last quarter?" I asked her softly so it doesn't sound like I tried to force it out of her. I lifted her head with my finger and pushed a strand of hair behind her ear. A tear ran down her cheek, and I wiped it off her face.

Since she didn't talk, I assumed she didn't wanna talk about it, so I pulled her into a friendly hug. Well, I thought of it as more, but I didn't wanna make things awkward between us. In that case, I pulled away after two seconds, once we pulled away, I missed the contact. I looked at her, "So you don't wanna talk about it? That's okay. Tell me when your ready." A small smile creeped across my face as her eyes sparkled with my words. I guess she thinks I'm a nice person now. Score one for Alek! Woohoo!

I shook my head, breaking my daydream, once again. I'm having a lot more of those now.

"Do you want to know?" She whispered. She was about a foot away from me, but still looked intensely into my eyes. I did the same. I grinned at her, she smiled back.

"Only if you want to tell me." She nodded and took a deep breath.

"It happened last quarter. We were all coming home from dinner at a restaurant. And then it happened so suddenly..."