Welcome to Serenity

What Is Your Problem?

Ty's POV:
Annie walks to the back of the building.

"What the hell was that?" She yells. I'm a bit taken aback by her shouting.

"Jackson was just being a dick, nothing new." I explain causally.

"No! Normally you don't let him get under your skin. Recently, he seems to be really pissing you off." Annie yells. Well, before recently he hasn't been bringing Annie into everything.

"I'm sorry. Jez, what is your problem?" I yell, losing my patience.

"Fine. You want to get suspended for punching Jackson, go ahead." Annie says, hands on her hips. She used to stand like that, when we were little, and she was telling me off for being mean to Kyle or eating one of Katie's cupcakes.

"Annie-" I start to apologise.

"I've got to get to class." She interupts, starting to walk off. I quickly grab her arm and pull her back, so that we could talk it out. I accidentally pull too hard, and she falls into my chest.

As she looks up, I move a hair from her cheek to behind her ear. Her big brown eyes scan my face, not sure what to do. I cup her face in my hands, stroking her cheek with my thumb.

I tilt her head up so she's looking into my eyes. We slowly inch closer and closer, our lips so close, but still not touching. I can feel her breath on my face, I can hear her heart beating in her chest, and I can see her eyes slowly closing.

Suddenly, we hear the door fly open, and as we jump apart, I hear a teachers aid calling our names. We quickly walk back into the hall, avoiding eye contact.

"I'm so sorry Miss. I left some of my stuff out here, so I asked Ty to come with me to get it." Annie lies.

"No problem Annie, Gabe said he saw you two head off in this direction. Now go to your classes." The teacher says, my mind zoning out to her words as I walk back into the classroom.

The whole class, I watched some birds flying outside the window, thinking about the birds Annie and I saw at the hospital. I remember she said they were 'birds without regrets'.

Imagine not regretting anything. Life would be pretty damn close to perfect. Sadly, we all have our regrets.

"Hey." I hear Cece say, breaking my train of thought.

"The bell just rang. Next class." She says reaching for my hand. I pull my hand away, as I grab my stuff. When she gives me a questioning look, I just brush past her.

I spend the rest of the day trying to avoid Cece and Annie. I'm still trying to figure out my feelings.

After school, as I'm walking to Wharton's Cece corners me and demands to know why I've been avoiding her.

"I'm sorry, I've just been feeling sick." I lie.

"Oh babe! You could have told me." She says, as we walk hands-in-hand to Wharton's.

Sitting with my friends, at Wharton's eating pizza, my mind goes back to being behind the school with Annie.

How close our lips were, how beautiful she looked, and how her heart was so close to mine.

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Hi guys! Sorry that this chapter is a shorter than usual, I just thought it would be better to get at least a short chapter out this week, then no chapter at all. I should be back to the normal lengthed chapters soon!

As always theories are welcome and suggestions are very much appreciated!

And I hope you are having a lovely day where ever you are in the world! Bye! (new part out hopefully in a couple days!)