Not-so-Freshmen
Chapter Sixteen
“What are you going to do about it,
Paisley?” Wesley asks, loosening up a bit, but still
keeping his eyes locked on me."I..
I don’t know,” I stammer. I wipe away the few tears
left on my face with my hand that isn’t holding his, and
let my breathing slow to a normal pace. “I don’t
know, Wesley.”
“He always did seem like kind of a
jerk, anyways,” he says, looking away
from me.
I chuckle, and let go of his hand to
playfully hit him in the chest. “Be nice. It’s
not Parker’s fault that he doesn’t have a
brain.” I grin up at him. An
all-out grin.
He laughs, and looks back at me. In an
instant, his smile fades away, and we’re both just looking
at each other. Slowly, he holds my face and leans in closer to
me. He places a gentle kiss on my forehead, surprisingly. As he
leans away from me, I feel my entire face heat up. Great. Hello,
rosy cheeks.
“Sorry,” he whispers, glancing
down at his empty lap.
I burst up from my seat on the bench, with
a new positive attitude. “Come on, get up. Let’s walk
around.” I hold out my hand to
him, and he interlocks our fingers, stands up, and grins.
“It can’t be too much longer till we get picked up,
anyway.”
We walk the length of downtown and back,
joking and flirting. The whole time, clutching each other’s
hands.
Before we know it, Mr. Hawthorne’s
in front of the bakery to pick us up again. We both pile into the
car, and begin another conversation on show choir and school with
Mr. Hawthorne. We arrive at my house soon, and I climb out of the
SUV, rush up to my front porch, and wave as the car pulls out of
my driveway.
After the
car is gone, I amble into my house, and up to my room. An eternal
smile sticks onto my face. After a quick shower, I slink
into my bed, tired from a long, eventful day.
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Not-so-Freshmen
Chapter Fifteen
Wesley
slams the SUV’s door, and turns to me as Mr. Hawthorne
drives away. Wesley smiles at me, and gestures to the sidewalk
ahead of us.
We start to walk throughout downtown,
peering through the small shops’ windows, and secretly
laughing at the interesting-looking strangers we
pass.
“So, what do you and Parker do in
your little tutoring sessions?” Wesley asks after a few
minutes of small talk. I stop walking immediately, shocked by the
question.
Suddenly, the trauma of what had happened
with Parker earlier all settles in, forcing my knees to crumble
and my legs to collapse onto the ground under me. Tears form in
the corners of my eyes, and I’m staring up at Wesley from
the sidewalk.
“Wesley,” I whisper. “He
touched me today.”
In an instant, Wesley is kneeling in front
of me, with one of his hands at my face. “He did
what?” His voice is soft.
“He touched my breast. Like, held
it. Purposefully. And I may be just making it something
it’s not but.. I don’t know..” I glance away from him, and let out a
shaky breath. “It freaked me out, cause I don’t do
that. I’m sorry,” I mutter, my eyes drifting back to
him.
It’s now that I notice that in the
process of me babbling, Wesley has been walking me over to one of
the metal benches at one of the shops.
“Paisley, Paisley,” he says
quickly. “It’s okay.”
“I shouldn’t be talking about
this with you, though. You came here to hang out and here I am,
crying. I’m sorry..” I wipe away
a few tears from my cheek. My icy fingers shock my
skin.
“Stop apologizing,” he says
gently, but forcefully. “It’s perfectly fine that
your letting this out. It wouldn’t be good for you to keep
it all locked up inside. It’s really okay.”
I smile up at him. “Thanks
Wesley.”
He smiles small-ly at
me, and nods his head.
I glance down at my hand, which is in
Wesley’s lap.
My fingers and his fingers are
interlocked.
I’m holding hands with
him.
What is
this?
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I was in my Latin class, and
we were
chilling.
And a couple of the Popular guys were making fun of my friend.
One of the guys, a Popular in my grade, said," Oh come on, Delima, you know you study all day at home."
And I
couldn't take it anymore.
I looked him dead in the
face, and said,"You know, you may want to take up that
habit."
Because I
knew he was failing the
class.
The entire class went
"OOOHHHH." and my friend grinned from ear to
ear.
Highlight of
my day.
my quote, true
story
Not-so-Freshmen
Chapter Fourteen
In one
swift motion, I’ve pushed the chair away from the desk,
shoved Parker off from on top of me, and I’m out of the
seat. Somehow, my fury has given me strange bravery and
strength.
I refuse to say a word to Parker, grab my
bag full of books from the floor, and swing it around my
shoulder.
“P-Paisley? What.. Where are you
going?” Parker croaks from the desk we were sitting in
front of. I still don’t plan on looking at
him.
“Parker, I don’t know what
you’re used to getting from girls… But I
don’t do that.” I glance at the
clock out in the hallway, then finally look at Parker. His face
is flushed, and his hand is running through his blonde hair.
“It’s time for me to go anyway. And I’d be
happy if you would never do that.” I gulp. “Or anything
like that… Ever again.”
His eyebrows fall low over his eyes, and
in a rush, he’s pinned me up against the wall, his
breathing heavy and consuming me.
“Oh, c’mon Paisley,” he
whispers smoothly, his fingers grazing my
cheek.
I let out a shaky breath; his heat sends a
shiver down my spine. Gah, why does he
have this effect on me?
I gather myself for a second, and push
away the temptations in my mind.
“No Parker,” I mutter, and I
push my away out of his grasp, and rush out of the classroom,
down the hall, and to the freshmen entrance of the
school.
I grab my phone from my skinny jeans
pocket, and open my new message from Wesley. It reads, “Be
there in five minutes. :)” Conveniently, it
was sent four minutes ago.
Soon, a shiny, white SUV pulls up to the
entrance. Wesley is in the front seat, wearing a grin. He motions
for me to come in, so I gather my stuff, and rush into the
SUV.
“Hey, Wesley,” I say cheerily,
and notice that Mr. Hawthorne is in the driver’s seat.
I’d figured that I would meet Wesley’s
parents… But I guess not... “Hey, Mr. Hawthorne.”
I see Mr. Hawthorne smile through the
rearview mirror, then I look out of the tinted window to my
right. Parker has just rushed out of the glass doors, and is
looking for me. His cheeks are red, and he seems guilty. Or
anxious. He snatches his iPhone out of his khaki shorts pocket,
and hurriedly texts someone. I’m guessing it’s his
ride.
But I don’t have time to think about
that too long, because I’m soon engaged in a conversation
with Wesley and Mr. Hawthorne about our first show choir
competition, that is coming up in a week.
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Not-so-Freshmen
Chapter Thirteen
I guess I
had been looking away from him too long, scared by the question
and it’s possible answers, because Parker says,”
Paisley, is everything okay?” I can hear the sympathy in
his voice.
I’m snapped back to reality, and my
eyes dart back up to his face. “Yeah, I’m
fine,” I mutter, glancing back away from him for only a
second.
His hand moves to my jaw, and his fingers
tuck a loose piece of hair behind my ear. His blue eyes never
leave mine. There’s something deep, and secretive in them.
I can’t figure it out to save my life. And it only makes me
wonder more. About everything.
“Are you sure?” he whispers,
his fingers grazing my jaw-area.
Somehow, I find the courage in me to ask
him. “Parker, why..” I pause, and
try to gather myself, then look back up at him. “Why are
you doing this?”
His hand stops mid-graze, and his face
changes, sets in a different way. He glances away from me for a
second, but then looks right back at me, and peers deep into my
eyes.
“I like you, Paisley.”
Woah.
Woah. WOAH. What? What just
happened? I must have heard him wrong. He.. He likes.. ME? What
is this?
“Wh-what?” I stammer. “Why?
You’re one of the most Popular guys in this school, and
I’m one of the dorkiest
girls. It makes absolutely no sense. You must be really
confused or something because there is no way that you could
ever-“
Before I can finish that last sentence,
he’s kissing me. Like, big boy kissing me. His
hand cradles my head, and my arm holds his shoulder tight. I have
no idea what’s going on, but somehow my eyes close. And
that numbing, high feeling returns to me. My grip on his
shoulder loosens, due to the high, and my eyes flutter,
then close. I feel him lean more into me, and he bites my lip
again, like that first time we kissed.
Again, my toes curl up and down, and his
heat trickles through my body. His high weakens my senses, and
all my thoughts are on the kiss. His arm slowly makes its way
from my head, to my neck, down to my
forearm…
And I barely notice it, until his hand
moves from my forearm to my chest, then… His hand is
cupped around my breast.
The high fades away, and my eyes pop open.
I know that it’s what high schoolers do, but it’s not
what I do. Not at all.
No sir, I
don’t.
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Not-so-Freshmen
Chapter Twelve
It feels
like the next twenty four hours are on fast-forward, and all I
can think about is how after school will go. Tutoring with
Parker, and then hanging out with Wesley. Fhjsjfgaewf. It should be
interesting.
Before I know it, I’m waiting in the
math classroom again. I decide to go ahead and sit down in one of
the chairs, behind a desk. My foot taps to an imaginary beat
while I wait for Parker. Today, he walks into the room at just
3:09.
“Hi Paisley,” he grins, and
drags a desk next to mine. I smile at him in greeting, and wait
for him to sit in the chair next to mine, so we can start
working.
But instead, he plops down on top of me,
and crushes my lap.
“Um, Parker,” I squeak from
under him. “What are you doing?” I plant my hands
against his back and try to push him off of me, but my
chipmunk-arm-strength fails me.
He chuckles, without saying a word or even
looking at me, and takes out his math homework. “So, I was
having trouble with number three,” he says, as if I’m
not under him, but I can hear a slight smile in his
voice.
“Parker!” I croak, trying to
push him off again. “Get off me!”
He laughs loudly this time, and
says,”Nahh.”
I sink down into my chair, and examine the
logo on the back of his t-shirt.
“Parker, I really think you should
get off of me. I would really hate for your parents to waste the
money that they pay for me to tutor you because you are too busy
flirting and crushing my vital organs.” Somehow, I manage to keep a flat, calm
voice through that entire mini-speech.
For a second, I think he’s actually
going to listen to me. But of course, no. Instead, he spins
around so that he’s facing me, with one leg on each end of
the chair that we are both somehow sitting in.
“I guess you’re right,”
Parker says, looking down at me. One of his hands moves to my
face, and the other one interlocks our fingers. His thumb rubs
back and forth on my cheek, and he leans closer to me. He plants
a soft kiss on my cheek, and squeezes my hand.
Out of habit, my eyes dart to our hands,
laced together at my side.
“Is that okay?” he
whispers.
My eyes drift back to him, and I nod my
head once, slowly. He has some weird effect on me that slows
everything down, and seems to shut out the rest of the
world.
He squeezes my hand, and forces me out of
my own thoughts. But then, another thought creeps into my mind. A
terrifying, inevitable thought. Why is he doing all of
this?
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