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Chapter 2

I Never Thought

As we walked to the car Brooke watched me closely. We slid into the car her brow furrowed as she processed my expression. "Wow, Faith… you look like you just saw a ghost. What's wrong?"

"I saw him this morning."

She sensed a hesitation in my voice and knew exactly who I was talking about. "Oh, where were you?" She said with a sharp edge in her voice.

"I was just sitting by my window and he was on a jog." I turned to face her. "He stopped in front of the house and caught me staring at him."

"What did you do?" She said adding some disgust.

"I closed the curtains on him." She smiled.

"That's my girl. Bastard." She muttered. I just laughed. Finding her strong hatred toward Luke…comforting.

"What?!" she questioned with offence in her voice.

"Nothing" I claimed as we came up to the drop off and got out quickly with hastened goodbyes to Brooke's mom. As we walked to the bed of the truck I felt stares on my back so I turned to face them. Luke. He smiled as I stared like an Idiot. When I came to my senses I smiled back. He was wearing a blue VOLCOM jacket that was unzipped with his soccer t-shirt under it and a pair of blue jeans. I got him that jacket for Christmas our freshman year.

*Flashback*

It was so cold I started to shiver in his arms.

"Faith are you okay?" he asked me. He looked down at me, concern beginning to knit into his brow.

I didn't want him worrying about me so I tried my best not to be burdensome. "Yeah, but it's just a little cold. Not a big deal."

He started to shift and took his arms from around me.

"What are you doing?" I asked, my teeth chattering a little.

"Here," he said, holding his jacket out for me to take. "Take it."

"No, then you'll get cold."

"No, I won't. I have you to keep me warm." He slid the sleeves onto my arms and held me even closer to him. I rested my head on his shoulder.

"Luke?"

"Yes Faith?

"What are we going to do when we graduate?"

"Have big parties and play soccer on the beach."

"No…I mean about college. Are we going to be together in college? Are we going to have a long distance relationship?"

"Faith please don't talk that. We could go to the same college."

"Luke, please be serious. With you being the soccer player prodigy and with your grades you could get into almost any college you want to. As for me my grades aren't as good and I don't start on either the soccer team or the basketball team. Get real."

"I don't want to go to a big college."

"Luke they'll be good for you."

"Faith could we talk about this later?"

"Fine, just promise me you'll think about it?"

"I promise."

"Thank you" He kissed my shoulder.

*End Flashback*

I laughed without humor at the stupid memory. We never did talk about it.

"Faith," Brooke said. She was staring at me with concern clear on her face. I nodded walking around the bed to stand next to her. I through my backpack over my shoulder and waited for her to do the same.

"Are you okay?" she whispered in my ear.

"Yeah, I'll be fine."

My first two classes went by in a daze. My third class is math and it's with Luke. He sat in the back and I sat in front. I felt his stare in the middle of my back making me nervous. Trying to ignore his stare I took notes on the next subject we would cover. As soon as we were given the rest of class time to work on the assignment, I stared intently at the clock waiting for break to come. The bell finally rang after one long grueling hour. I slid my notes in alongside my homework into my binder. Sliding my binder into my backpack I heard a tap on my desk. I looked up to find Luke standing in front of the table.

"Hey Faith." He sounded guilty.

"Hello Luke." I might have said it with more hurt and distaste then I wanted but, then again what do you expect? His face turned to hurt and maybe…anger? I slung my backpack over my shoulder brushing past him and walking out of the classroom.

As I walked out to the lunch area I found Brooke waiting for me in her normal spot. I walked over to her.

"Hey," she said cheerfully, a drastic difference from her behavior earlier today. I envied her that she could be so cheerful all the time.

"Hey," I said my mind wandering to the picture of his face.

"So how was…" she took one look at my face and knew something was on my mind. "What's on your mind?"

"Luke…again." She rolled her eyes.

"What did he do this time?" The hatred heavy in her voice.

"He said hi. That's all. Well that's all he could say. I walked off before he could say anything else." She smiled.

"Oh ok."

Well here is the second chapter for all my fans. A very small number but oh well. :D Thanks,

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