HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 31 – 40
Chapter 34
By : kebby NG Media Services
ANDREA POV
For the first time in a while, I woke up feeling very sad.
I took my bathe and prepared myself for school
The house was so busy with the memorial service of Nick’s brother.
I walked out of the house only to see Max outside the house.
He was speaking on the phone all dressed up for school but when he saw me he paused and stared at me.
“So let’s keep our distance from now on” remembering his words, I looked away and walked down the street.
I was still walking off when his car passed me,it took me a whole will of power not to look at it.
I got to school still feeling sad,I tried to cheer myself up by muttering to myself
“It’s okay Andrea, you can live with it, you must keep your distance from him, you were okay without him in your life, you will okay,you can do it”I said softly
“What do you keep on muttering to yourself?”Jack asked as he came to stand beside me
“Why do you like to sneak up on me?”I asked as I gave him an angry glare.
“Am sorry then,I didn’t mean to do that!”he said
“Just go away”I said as I walked off with him still following me.
Class today went great and though I tried to be happy,I couldn’t be and am glad that no one noticed my sad mood.
“I heard it was the memorial service of Max brother, why don’t we go and say hello”Beatrice said
“That will be a good idea, though Max is an ingrate, we should go and say hello, at a time we all knew Nick”Brenda added .
I looked at Max who was sitting at the front doing his stuff as usual.
Just then I saw Rose walk up to him and she said something to him, smiling and laughing at him and in return he gave her a white envelope and stood up.
“So what do you say, should we all go for the visit?”Beatrice asked
“Count me out”Jack said and put his head on his desk
“And me too”I replied and unknown to me, Max who was walking off stopped after hearing what I said
“But why? You and Max are more close”Beatrice asked
“I have things to do,very important things”I said and saw Max leaving the class without looking back.
HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 31 – 40
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As I waited for the bus to take me home, I remembered that Beatrice and the rest were going to Max house and wanting to buy time for themselves. I tried to think of somewhere to go and just then an idea popped into my head.
The bus stopped me right at the cemetery and with my flowers in hand,I went to the familiar grave of Nick.
“Hello”I said as I knelt to put the flower on his grave
“Have you been doing well?”I asked gently caressing the grave
“And have been doing well too, your brother too, though he tries to hide it, he still hurt by your death but you should try to comfort him a little, your comfort is what he needs right now!”I said gently
“I can’t give him that because we are no longer friends and I don’t think we will ever be again, this might even be the last time I come here, so try to look at me well enough before I leave”I said
“I don’t know what went wrong or what caused you to die but I know that you are in a better place and it will only be fair if you watch over your brother and give him the peace he needs, I beg you Nick, let Max be happy once again”I said as I stood up
“You might be wondering what I am to him to come ask you for this but you don’t have to know,the only thing I can say is that am someone who cares, goodbye Nick”I said and turned only to see Max behind me watching me
From the way he was standing I felt that he had been listening to all my conversation.
Without saying anything to him, I walked past him and headed out of the cemetery.
Why had he chosen to come now, I thought as I began to head off quickly.
I was still walking off when someone held my hand.
Thinking it was Max,I turned only to see a man looking all dirty and smelly
“Give me some money”he said staring at me
“I don’t have any money”I said softly, the money I had with me was my transport fare and i can’t afford to give it away,I thought
The man pushed me to the wall roughly and moved his dirty face close to me
“Since you don’t have money, why don’t I take something else from you”he said as he put his hand under my sk.irt
“Let me go!”I yelled trying to pull away
“You look delicious, you will be mine for tonight”He said as he began to pull me off
“Let me go, let me go”I kept yelling hoping that someone will come to my aid and someone did come
Max kicked the man and he fell right on the floor and didn’t even move..
“Come on, let’s get out of here”he said as he pulled my hand and together we ran off.
It wasn’t until we were at a distance that I noticed our linked hands.
Quickly I pulled away from him and began to walk off
“Andrea? Andrea?”He called and when I didn’t answer he came to pull me by my hand
I pulled my hand off his for the second time and stared at him
“Are you okay?”
“Why do you ask? Is it in order to tell me how I annoy you ?”I asked
“Andrea I………”
“You said I was a loser,you said I annoy you ,then what are you doing with a loser and someone that annoys you?”I asked as the tears have been holding kept spilling out
“For a while I thought that I have finally met someone who understands me, who knows how I feel, who is a best part of me but it turns out that I was wrong, I was never a thing to him” I said as I kept on crying
He walked towards me trying to hug me but I pushed him away
“No more Max, just as you have said, let’s keep our distance, just as I am nobody to you,you are nobody to me too”I said as I walked off angrily.
I got to the bus station and waited for the bus to arrive and when it did arrive,I was so lost in thought that if a lady hadn’t tap me,I would have missed the bus.
HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 31 – 40
MAX POV
As soon as I saw her walk in ,I hid myself so she wouldn’t see me and it seemed like she didn’t even notice me at all.
Because she was looking so sad that she hardly noticed me.
Did I cause that? Was my words too harsh for her cope with,I thought
“You said I was a loser,you said I annoy you ,then what are you doing with a loser and someone that annoys you?”
Yes my words had definitely hurt her,I thought as I kept on watching her.
I didn’t mean any of it ,I was just so furious at what Jack said and furious with myself too.
She had come at a bad time and I had lashed out at her before I realised what I was doing.
I wanted to apologise to her, that was why I waited for her this morning by the gate but the look she gave me made me lose courage to do so.
I didn’t want to participate in the luxurious memorial service given to Nick by my mother so I went to his grave yard and I didn’t expect to see Andrea there.
Seeing her there only made me worry about how I treated her last night.
The bus stopped and I waited for her to get down.
She kept on going while I followed her from behind.
We got to the estate that will take us to the house when suddenly Jack stood in front of her
I quickly hid behind a tree staring at the two of them.
I felt so angry and jealous that I wanted to go to them but I held back and stayed hidden in the Shadows.
HIGH SCHOOL: Chapter 31 – 40
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