2. Different
Istared in amazed meant as I watched the boy land on the guy that was following me. I'm pretty sure at this point I was frozen still because I heard the click of my jaw snapping open.
The boy pretty much knocked the guy out cold. His head had made hard contact with the ground. You could almost see a bump rising from his head.
The boy's expression changed from concentration to confusion as he looked at me. I stupidly thought about saying "Hi" but luckily I was to stunned to speak.
"He wasn't your friend or something. Cause you were running and he had a knife and that's, like, illegal or something so I thought…" He trailed off.
I shook my head.
"You okay?" I snapped my mouth shut.
"Yeah… You jumped off a roof and landed on him." I said astonished.
He nodded. "Don't worry, I've done it before." He smiled smugly.
"Cool." I said.
"Cool?"
I rolled my eyes. "So why were you on a roof?"
"So I could jump on that dude for you." He joked as we walked out of the alley away from the unconscious man.
"Seriously. Why?"
"Its fun." He said simply. Before I could argue he continued, "Why were you in an alley?"
"Short cut."
"Oh."
"Shouldn't we call the police or make sure he doesn't go after someone else… Or both." I said. "Do you have a phone, I left mine at home.
"Perfect day to do that, and I already have my friend on it."
"Were you having a party on the roof? How many people you got up there?" I asked, looking back to see if I could see anyone.
"Just a few."
I raised my brow. I started to ask him about it again when something jerked my foot to a stop in mid step. My hands caught the ground, my nose barely grazing the concrete. "Oh yeah. Bet this would have happen when I was running from him."
He laughed and helped me up.
"Wow."
"What?" I asked rubbing my nose.
"Nothing, your just really unlucky."
I opened my mouth to object, but I realized he was right. "Well, yeah." I said proudly. If you can be proud while frowning. I bent down to tie my shoe.
"What's your name?" He asked as I stood up. His brown hair was falling in his bright gold eyes.
"Uh, Meagan." I waited. Then asked, "What's yours?"
He blinked then rocked back and forth on his feet and seem to be deciding if he should tell me this information. I waited patiently. "Colton"
"Were do you go to school. I haven't seen you anywhere."
"What with the twenty questions?"
I continued to stare.
"You don't know the name I don't live around here. Where do you-"
"Where do you live?" I asked, ignoring him.
He turned around instead of answering my question. I turned to stare at him when I noticed that two boys were coming over. The shorter red headed one glanced over at me with an almost hateful expression.
"Hey we have to go." The taller blond one said. He looked at me confused.
"Kay." Then he turn to me, "Bye."
"Bye." As he walked off I tried to remember what I was doing before everything happened. I was still confused as I noticed Ali, Caitlin, and Vanessa coming over.
"Hey!" Vanessa yelled, trying to keep up. "Whoa! Who was that?"
"Just… some guy." I said, probably blushing.
"He's cute!"
"Ness!"
"Oh! Your being defensive." Vanessa squealed.
"Ugh." The truth was I hadn't noticed, cause, well, I was kind of recovering from my near death experience. It takes a few minutes to recover well enough to judge hotness. But I wasn't about to tell Vanessa this.
"I'm just joking with you." She giggled tilting her head trying to see him around the corner.
I made a sound like ha, ha, ha. Even Vanessa could tell it was fake.
"You didn't come back." Ali said. She looked a little mad.
"Sorry-"
"Hey! Don't get mad at her. I would have ditched you for him to." Vanessa said. Ali rolled her eyes. "What? I was kidding." She made my ha, ha sound.
"I didn't ditch you. I-"
"Wait. What happened to your nose?"
"Stop interrupting me!" I said, annoyed. "Wait. What about my nose?" I didn't give them time to answer. I reached up and felt a little blood on the tip of my nose. "Oh, yeah I tripped on my shoe lace."
"In front of him?" Caitlin said throwing her thumb over her shoulder.
I nodded my head and they all laughed.
As I crawled into bed that night I though about that day. Okay so maybe I didn't notice it at first, but he was cute. His milky brown hair looked like it had gold dust in it and would get in the way of his golden eyes and he had a lanky build. I sighed. I wondered why he wouldn't tell me what school he went to. He didn't want to tell me anything. Maybe I would search some of the schools close by on the internet. It was just so mysterious. And besides, I and to tell him thank you. Yep, that sounds like a good excuse.
Ugh! He was no where! I had searched every single school in the area. Was he on a trip? Did he exist? Was he lying? Am I a stocker? All these questions (except for the last one) were making me want to find him more.
There was only one school I hadn't checked, but the. Ugh!
I decided, against my better judgment, that I should tell my friends how crazy I was. But only cause they could help.
I picked up my phone and started to dial.
"Ness?"
"Yeah?"
"One second."
"Caitlin?"
"Yep." she said through, what sounded like, a mouth full of chips.
"And Alexia?"
"Ali here!" She screamed-giggled.
"Cool!" I sighed.
"So. What's up?" Caitlin said before swallowing the chips.
Vanessa jumped in before I could, "The real question is what's down!"
"Good one." Ali cheered.
"I know I am."
"Guys, listen!"
"Yeah?" They all said at the exact time.
"Um, I'm trying to find that guy, from the parade, Colton."
Vanessa screamed. Loud. "Oh, my god! I knew it. I knew it!"
"Don't you have a boyfriend?" Caitlin asked.
"No!" I said, shocked.
"Not yet." Vanessa clarified.
"Oh, right. That's Vanessa." Caitlin giggled.
"Nope. No ones cute enough." That was Vanessa famous excuse. "And it's Ali you idiot!"
"Oh." I'm pretty sure we were all rolling our eyes.
"Anyway." I continued, "I can't find him anywhere. It's like he doesn't go to school."
"Maybe he's home schooled." Caitlin suggested.
"Man, I'm never going to find him." I sighed.
"Caitlin!" Vanessa and Ali groaned. "Why did you say that?"
Vanessa continued, "He probably doesn't. I mean that's like… He just doesn't!
Ali sighed. "Nice."
"Never mind. It's just, he kind of helped keep this strange guy from… Bugging me, so I wanted to say thanks."
"Aw!" Vanessa sighed. "What? It's so… Super hero-ish."
"Yeah."
"Don't give up." Vanessa said. "Only once in someone's life does a knight in shining armor come along."
Well all laughed.
"Well, it is true, no matter how dumb it sounds."
I decided not to give up. And maybe I should tell them the whole story.
"Hey guy's. Um, he didn't just save me from a strange guy. I think he saved me from a killer. He jumped off a roof." As I continued my story I realized something that I didn't click before. He was different. I mean a normal person couldn't have done that. Right?
