Rejects

CHAPTER 4

Gavin

We continued walking headquarters after the little... "train incident" five minutes ago. I was still confused as to why she just stood there staring at the train that was about to hit her. I mean seriously, what was she thinking!?!

It doesn't matter now though, at least she's safe and didn't get hit by the train. After the incident, Alex seemed more awake and distant towards me. Every once in a while when I glanced at her, she looks annoyed like something is on her mind or bugging her. She also seemed to be sending glares at Quinn. If looks could kill, Quinn would have died four minutes ago when the glaring started.

Now that I thought about it, Quinn also seems to be acting weird. He keeps smirking at Alex like he knows exactly what's annoying her. Like he's the one who's annoying her.

Suddenly, everything fell into place. Quinn did something that annoyed Alex. They're hiding something from me. But what could it be?

I'll have to ask Quinn later.

I reminded myself the entire time we were walking to headquarters, i would need to speak to Quinn about what's wrong with Alex. When we got to headquarters, the big glass doors slid open and we all walked into the main room.

Headquarters was practically like a giant mansion that the team live in, trains in, and relaxes in. It seems like a giant hangout more than a house. It was a fancy yet cozy kind of place in the middle of a clearing in the woods. I realize that the woods weren't hard to miss but I must have been too busy worrying about Alex I didn't realize where I was going.

I decided to take the opportunity to ask Quinn what happened and now was the perfect timing as Megan can in.
She smiled as she came towards us and saw we had another runaway with us. Megan is my sister. She looks like me but she's a year younger. She had tan skin like me, a mix of dirty blonde and golden blonde hair, and the same blue eyes everyone in the middle class had. She was a few inches shorter then me and was skinny yet fit. She looked like she'd been training her whole life to get into such good shape and she has. We both have. It's how we've survived this long after we were on the streets.

Megan came over and gave me a hug and whispered in my ear, "Who's that? Your girlfriend?" She smirked in a teasing way but I was pretty sure I was blushing as I felt heat rise to my cheeks.

Quinn almost burst out laughing as he saw my reaction and he knew exactly why I was acting that way because of loudly Megan said it. I looked over to Alex who was staring at the ground, blushing as well. Megan walked over to Quinn and gave him a hug and pecked him on the lips. Yup. My sister is dating my best friend. I always knew that this would happen ever since they met about five years ago.

I must have tuned out because the next thing I see is Megan and Alex walking off, deeper into the mansion probably for a tour.

I turned just in time to see Quinn about to walk away so I quickly grabbed his hand a dragged him to the deserted hallway to get answers. He looked at me questioningly.

"Why am I here? And shouldn't you be off with your girlfriend before Megan kills her with her craziness?" he said smirking the whole time.

I must have looked like a tomato at the moment from hearing him refer to Alex as my girlfriend.

It's not like she isn't pretty, with her long, wavy raven hair and perfectly even tan skin with those ocean blue eyes that stare right into my-- Ahh focus! I told myself.

I must have looked like an idiot because Quinn burst out laughing at my expression. "Dude! Yo-you're totally wh-whipped!" he stuttered while laughing.

I shook my head and quickly covered Quinn's mouth. "Shut up!" I hissed. "Don't be so loud!" he nodded his head because he couldn't talk with my hand over his mouth. "Okay," I sighed, "I may sorta kinda maybe like Alex but don't tell anyone! I don't want anyone to know yet!"

He pushed my hand away and said, "Okay, okay.Your secret is safe with me."

"Good" I sighed with relief.

Quinn started to back out of the hallway. "Oh! By the way, Alex may or may not like you." And like that he ran away laughing his head off leaving me standing in the hallway alone and speechless.