Wishing for Hope

Chapter 11

It's finally Friday and I could just sleep this weekend. But I had two stupid parties to go to.

 I usually picked up Conner for school now but not after what he said to me. I might be over reacting, but he crossed the line. What if I asked him if he was trying to replace his brother? He wouldn't talk to me. 

As I was walking into school the door was opened for me and I looked up to see Grayson holding it open. My eyes grew wide then I quickly sped walked inside of the school.

 "Not so fast Hope, I know I saw you last night looking in on the martial arts club" Grayson said from behind me. I kept walking and he grabbed my arm and pulled me back a little. I yanked my arm free and said "so? what's your point?" 

Grayson chuckled and asked "well what were you doing there?" I narrowed my eyes at him and said "why do you care?" and tried to walk away, only to be pulled back. I was getting annoyed with him and he knew that.

 He smirked and said "hey hey now a guy just wants to know" I shot him a glare and said "I beat your ass multiple times and I can do it again" then ripped my arm out of his grasp again and walked away from him.

The day was going by fast just like everyday was, and nothing exciting happened. Well besides Grayson.

 We're friends, well were friends I guess. We don't talk anymore, but I also don't talk to anyone anymore. Anyways he knew were to push my buttons, and my bad buttons at that. It wasn't like Caleb annoying me, Grayson brought out the worst in me. 

But that was good before a match, any other time I wanted to kill him. We had our nice moments like the one time we were at a party last year and he punched a guy for me and then took me home because Caleb was out of town.

 I rarely saw him in the halls but now he was gonna start bothering me again. I was lost in my thoughts and I ran into someone. I was knocked on the ground and I looked up to see grease pit.

 "Oh look the little bitch fell" Everyone kind of just looked at us. I got up and walked past him only for him to yell after me saying "why don't you go get in a car crash?"

 I stopped in my tracks and I could feel my body shake from anger. It was dead silent in the halls besides his laughing, and I dropped my book bag and walked fast to grease pit. I was about to punch him when someone held me back. I kicked them in the foot but they didn't move and I was about to hit them in the nose when they leaned down and whispered in my ear and said "He's not worth it Hope. Think of Caleb. He wouldn't want you to." 

I was still mad but I stopped trying to escape. "You're a piece of shit" I snarled at grease pit then got out of the persons grip who ended up being Grayson, and stormed off down the hall. 

I could feel my face getting hot again from anger and I walked fast to the gym. When I entered the gym no one was there so I screamed out and cursed a few times. I was clenching my fist and was ready to punch something. Not a wall, I did that to many times to count and I always ended up with something being broken in my hand.

 I heard laughter from across the room and looked over and saw my old coach. He walked across the gym and said "still have that temper Evans?" I looked away and shook my head yeah. 

"Who did you punch this time?" I looked down at my feet and said "no one" coach sat on the bleachers and said "well good, I don't think I could talk the principle out of expelling you again"

 I smiled a little and was about to leave the gym. "You know Evans, you don't have to leave your whole life behind just because some if it left you." 

I looked at my old coach and walked out of the gym without saying anything back.

Lane was still avoiding me I guess, and Grayson kept making sure I wasn't going to punch anyone.Those were the nice times I was talking about. He had my back and I had his when it came down to it, even if he annoyed the hell out of me.