Sunflower

Chapter Sixty-Nine: Shotgun

(Bare with me here)

"Nice. You want to transfer back to the high school?" I asked again sitting on the bottom step of the stairs on a facetime call with Jax.

"I mean I've been thinking and I was talking to your dad-" 

"Wait you and my dad sat in your room together and didn't kill each other?" 

"It's not so unbelievable Kov," My dad sighed coming down the stairs, "Plus it puts you all in one spot, keeps you all safe." 

"Your gonna need your parents for them to sign off on all that." 

"I don't even know where my parents are. And I'm 18 I can do it myself." 

"Alright well y'all get that done, I have to actually go to school today, plus practice." 

I opened the squeaky door to the Mustang and tossed my bag in. I fixed the rearview mirror that had a tendency to fall and then saw the shadowy figure of a man under the streetlights. 

I quickly whipped my head around to see nothing and back at the mirror to see the figure step off the sidewalk and he seemed to move like lightning when I looked out the driver's side window the blood-covered face of Kogin and I screamed.  

My heart skipped a beat as I refused to pull my eyes away from Kogin had just been standing, "It's not real Kova," I heard Reyes voice in the seat next to me, "Too bad it's not."

He held the gun to my forehead and pulled the trigger without hesitation. 

A knock on my window made me jump as I looked to see Mom standing in front of me, "Hey, I need to get my car out for work do you-" 

"Oh yeah I'm going now." 

I took a deep breath before starting the engine and heading towards school, "You alright?" Finn asked when I got out, "I didn't know about the accident till this morning." 

"Yeah, I'm okay  Finn, Just a little... I don't know." 

"I get it." 

My English teacher dropped work on my desk, "You're failing my class," She told me. 

"Sorry?" 

"Almost all your assignments are missing the ones turned in are sloppy. Finish this work by tomorrow and you'll pass this class." 

"And if I don't?" 

"You'll fail... And you won't have enough time before senior year to make it up and you won't graduate." 

"Hey, Kov, you gonna eat?" Maverick asked me.

I looked up from the binder for a second, "Huh? Oh no, I don't have time, I'll eat later." 

"Kova-" Abel grabbed my work from me, "We've got a huge game coming up, you need to eat and sleep good-" 

"That's great but I've got my whole future on the line for this one damn pile of work." 

"Good afternoon tides!" A girl grabbed the microphone. 

"Oh god, this girl again," Asher muttered. 

"Prom is this Saturday-" 

"No one cares." 

"I kinda forgot Prom was even a thing." 

"That's cause it's a stupid thing. It's overpriced and overly stupid," Finn spat. 

Asher looked at him confused, "Why?" 

"Dude it's in glass museums in Tacoma you go for 4 hours in an expensive tux's waddle around like penguins it's stupid." 

Maverick and I looked between each other seeing the defeated look on Asher's face.