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Chapter Titled- How To Rock Two Troubled Hearts and A Kiss
Zander wanted to call Aly, but this seemed more face to face than over the phone. He also just wanted an excuse to see her again. He really hadn't actually seen her without tears in her eyes or her avoiding him.
He walked up to the Reed's household and he could already hear noise. He smiled as he knocked on the door to the house. He heard some shuffling and someone scream "I'm getting it, Liam!" the door opened to a tall boy. He had brown eyes and black spiked hair. The same caramel colored skin as Aly, too.
"Hey, Kevin. Your friend from Gravity 5 is here. I think this one is Zander." The boy yelled towards the living room.
"I'm coming, I'm coming, TJ. God, couldn't you just ask his name?" Kevin said as the older boy smacked him upside the head and walked away.
"What's up, Z? I thought you were coming over to tutor me tomorrow?" Kevin questioned.
"Yeah, I still am, but I just came over to talk to Aly about…some English homework I have to do." Zander lied. He couldn't tell the overprotective brother he was coming over randomly to talk about his sister's "issue".
"Oh, come on in then. Her room's two doors down from the bathroom." He said as he walked back to the couch, where Nelson was watching some mindless show on Animal Planet.
Zander walked up the stairs and counted two doors down before walking up to the door with writing all over the door. He knocked as he heard music being played through the door. It was On A Lonely Night by A Rocket To The Moon. They were one of his favorite bands.
He opened the door slightly to see Aly playing the song on her aqua and purple guitar. She was humming the lyrics along with the chords she was playing. Zander crept in and listened to her as she almost finished the song.
She hit the last note perfectly and heard clapping. She thought it was one of her stupid brothers, but as she turned, she fell off the bed because of it being Zander. He stopped clapping to help Aly up.
"Aly, are you okay? I didn't mean to scare you like that." He said as he lightly pulled her up, remembering her injuries.
"Yeah, you didn't know how to knock on a stinking door first?" she asked as she sat on her bed and played with the strings on her guitar.
"I did, but I didn't think you heard me and then I heard you playing On A Lonely Night and I love that song, so I just kinda crept in to hear you sing again."
"Well, next time, do it in a clearer manner of your presence being known because you scared the living Schmidt out of me."
"Living Schmidt?" Zander asked the laughing girl.
"It's A Rusher thing, and that means I love Big Time Rush." She told as she pulled him down to lie on the bed next to her.
"Okay then, that's making sense now, Aly. So…" Zander asked because he wanted to talk about her problem before he asked her out.
"Yeah, we do have to talk about it, don't we?" she asked.
"Yes, and aren't you worried about Kevin and them listening in?"
"Oh yeah, I almost forgot." She said as she reached over for a remote and clicked the blue button as a soft ping whooshed through the room.
"There, it's a soundproof plate put in the roof, which I created after Kevin found out about my other "boyfriends", so I had to make sure him and Nelson kept out of my business." She said as she lay back down.
Zander wanted to get to the point; he wanted to help her without worrying Kevin or anybody else worrying about her. Even though, she might need constant monitoring to keep her away from cutting, he would that, because he lo-likes her too much for her to be hurt any further.
"Aly, why did you start cutting?" he whispered, not really wanting to start there, but they had to eventually.
"Umm…well, it started with me getting bullied. I used to wear braces and I still wear my glasses, but back then, I had a terrible lisp and I used to spit when I talked. It was horrifying and they laughed and called me Metal Mouth. My friends started to only hang out with me during lunch, and then only in private. I finally realized they were embarrassed of me. I confronted them and they told me exactly that, and they told me I was a metal mouth freak and disgusting. I sat in the library and cried all day until the end of the day. I was hated by the entire student body because of one imperfection. I started eating my feelings and gained a lot of weight. Then, they called every name in the book for fat and ugly. I couldn't take it one day, so I read online about ways to kill yourself. To me, I didn't want to overdose or anything because it seemed a bit risky. I found cutting and it peaked my interests. I got a razor from my brothers' bathroom and started carving into my arms. At first, it burned like a living hell and then the pleasure arose through me." She explained.
"Wow, people weren't that harsh in my middle school when I went and I still had to deal with the Perfs. I couldn't imagine being pushed to wanting to kill myself."
"Well, there's something else I have to tell you. I kinda maybe might have an eating disorder that came from the bullying too. After they all kept reminding me I was fat, I tried to fix it. It only got so bad until I wouldn't eat for days straight. So I was in gym one day, and I passed out. They drove me to the hospital. The doctor called Kelli, my older sister, down since Mom and the guys didn't answer their phone. She was there when I got diagnosed with bulimia and anorexia. She freaked to the fullest, but she promised it was between us and I had to eat better. I tried, but it didn't work out. So every time, a week before she comes back out to visit, I start eating and she is satisfied. As soon as she is gone, back to me not eating or throwing it up. Sorry for the gory details, Zan." She said as she turned her head to see his mildly disgusted face, but his eyes were filled with hurt, angry and an unknown feeling.
"So you cut, have two eating disorders and you have depression? I feel really bad for you now."
"It's okay, I'm slowly dying inside and can't do what I'm used to doing, but if it's how I have to live, I will."
Zander turned his eyes to look in Aly's. Hers were filled with disappointment and worry. She must've thought he was gonna tell about all of this. He would never. He knew how it felt to be betrayed. Like that time Kevin told the whole sixth grade he had a crush on Molly that year. He reached down and grabbed her hand. She squeezed his with all her might, hoping he wasn't a happy but disturbed dream or a creative nightmare.
He turned to look in Aly's eyes again. This time, they showed regret, maybe from telling him all of her miserable past. Happiness and relief spread through those aqua green orbs. She knew that someone would save her and Zander was that someone. He was helping her with the most troubling things and he hasn't run away yet.
Zander scooted closer to Aly and rubbed his thumb over her soft, lush lips. He couldn't take it any longer. He moved his head closer and closer until he finally reached her lips. She didn't move at first, obviously taking over by surprise, but then she let her lips meld in with his.
The taste of cotton candy and spearmint would've tasted gross to anybody else, but to the two trouble hearted teens, it was the most amazing taste of their worlds. Aly put her injured wrist on Zander's waist as he held her body closer so he would never had to let her go.
To Aly, this was a foreign feeling. She has never really been in love, nor has she been this close to a guy she met just hours ago. He was some unknown species and she was the scientist, trying to solve his problem and come up with a conclusion. Only problem was then and there, she just wanted him to love her, not only to be there for her.
Zander was thinking this was so amazing. He finally got to kiss the girl whose heart he had wanted since he met those beautiful eyes and heard her fantastic voice. In the back of his mind, he was still wondering if she really didn't want him to love her like she said.
When they desperately both needed air, they separated their lips and touched foreheads. They both opened to smiling faces.
"That was unexpected…" Aly said as she looked into Zander's deep brown eyes.
"Yeah, but, I guess we just took a step forward to helping you." He says as he up towards the ceiling.
Aly laid back down and in an instant, she fell to sleep. She didn't know where the sudden tiredness came from. She snuggled closer to Zander as he looked and kissed her head. He rubbed her back in soothing circular motion and she was slightly snoring when Zander removed his arm and kissed her head once again.
He got up towards the door, and as he was about to walk out, he turned and looked at the beautiful sleeping form.
"I wish you knew that I'm not trying to play with your heart. I love you more than any girl I've ever dated. I don't know why, but you make me fall harder with every word you say." He whispered as he walked out the room, down the stairs, past the loud figures still playing video games and on the phone, and out the door.
Little did he know, Aly was still slightly awake and heard everything he had whispered. She could now let the tears flow gently and silently as she heard an engine start up and drive away.
'How could he love such a sad excuse for a person? I'm nothing like those girls Kevin describes Zander's gone out with. I'm not that pretty or smart. I'm just a blur and I belong that way. I have to avoid Zander…he can't fix me…no one can' Aly thought as she cried into her guitar shaped pillow.
Sooo, how was it? I know these chapters are getting depressing, but the next chapter...a new OC and two relationships bloom! Guess who?
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