Author's note; I couldn't upload yesterday, I was at a friend's for her birthday. The good news is I purchased a new John Green book in waterstones, yay. Enjoy this chapter^.^
I continue watching my exhales in the cold air, too shocked to do much else. Crystal watches my reaction, her face falling at my still figure. All I can seem to do is hold her close, hold her tight and hope Miki holds her forever.
"Phil!" My mum exclaims. ",Where have you been?" I force my eyes to open fully. I'm still gripping the wheel and Crystal's asleep in the back, curled up, looking lost. I carry on staring ahead, my knuckles white, my brain mono-track. "Phil? Phil, did you drive?" I nod slowly. "Phil, you only have a half-license!" She massages my hands off the wheel and grips my shoulder, pulling my out the car. It's later than anticipated, the handful of stars in the night sky illumining a contrast, pitch black in the sky. I smile at the stars, rare and beautiful. Like Dan.
It's another school day but when I roll over to face my alarm clock, it's 11;42, the middle of the day. I groan and bury my head back into the soft down of my pillow. I then realize I should probably be at school. I sit up, banging my head on the steep of my room's ceiling. "Muum?" I call. She pops her head round the door as if she'd been waiting. "Phil, quiet!" She whispers. She tiptoes in looking more comical than serious. I raise the cover to the top of my chest. "Phil...there are some teachers downstairs. I was called this morning. They want a chat or something, with you and Dan. He's on his way. So hurry up, get dressed, go, go, go!" She grabs the corner of the cover and yanks it down, revealing my zillion year old pajama pants and my adolescent 16-year old chest. I'm led, confused at the prospect of Dan on his way. And wait, a chat? What?
I reach the bottom step, weary and tired. I hear voices and Dan's stands out to me. I knock on the living room door lightly. My mum ushers me in, a scarily angry look plastered on her stressed face. I sit on the couch that I've been sitting on for a good fifteen years and yet I've never sat as scared as this. I give Dan a side-ways glance and am shocked to see his mannerisms and expression angsty and flustered. My eyes widen as I take in the other guests around the coffee table. Mr. Mathews, the head and an assistant of his, whom he's most probably sleeping with behind his wife's back. He's that kinda guy. "Phil, good morn to you." I nod at my head-master, acknowledging his authority."We've come to accept your personal apology for your truancy yesterday." I narrow my eyebrows, turning to look at Dan. He's angry, that's obvious. How can we apologize? Especially when if we were to come to school, taunts would be headed our way. I don't want to apologize. I will not apologize.
No more school. It's not our fault! Our stubborn minds would just not permit us to cave into acting a fake apology. My mum's pretty pissed though. Angry at the abrupt end in my education, angry at Crystal and Miki, angry at herself. I blame her on not one of these things. Everything is going wrong at the moment. Stuck in a downward spiral of confused relationships, surprising kisses and a GCSE family-break up. I don't know what's going on. I don't quiet know what's going to happen and I'm not really sure I want to.
P.s I want to write more with this but I'll put it in the next chapter. It's still a shock to me that Crystal's pregnant. Now they've been expelled, haha. Sorry for the unhappy Phil, next upload will be much more happy:D -NeonLuna
