CPOV
Lunch was both awkward and Interesting. Everyone just made sandwiches for themselves. After ten minutes of watching Tori glare at Simon, and Rachel glare at Derek, while both Derek and Simon stared at me, I was done. I stood up and cleared my throat.
"I'm gonna go to the restroom.", I said quietly with my slightly-deeper voice. Then I quickly walked out of the room. I didn't really have to go to the bathroom, I just had to get away from the many silent staring contests happening at the table.
Actually, I just went out to the backyard. I sat on the back porch steps to think. Why did I think going on this walk was a good idea? Liam and Ramon could be waiting out there for just one little scent of me. This walk would bring me more damage than anything.
I started scanning what I could see of the forest. Everything was eerily silent. The only sound was of the wind blowing. Just stay on guard, Chloe. Never let your guard down. All of a sudden a hand came down on my shoulder.
I jumped up and turned around ready to fight if I have to. When I saw it was just Simon, I came back to my senses.
"Chill out, it's just me.", Simon said, looking surprised. "Oh. Sorry. Uh, I….guess we can start our walk now, right?", I said, eager to lighten the mood. "Um, yeah! I ran into Andrew on the way here, actually. He says we could only walk if I promised to be back by dinner.", he said happily.
"Dinner? Wow, Andrew must be really lenient If he would let us out of the house for more than a few hours. Isn't he supposed to be worried about keeping us from danger or something?", I asked.
"Hmmm. I never thought of it that way. I guess you're right. It is strange of Andrew to go through with this…", he was thoughtful for about 30 seconds, then he remembered I was standing next to him, and he completely forgot about it.
"So let's do this thing shall we?", he said, as he grabbed my hand and we headed towards the woods. We walked the first few minutes in silence.
"So, uh where exactly did you come from? Did you just magically pop into the backyard?", Simon asked curiously. Well, how am I supposed to answer that? Telling the truth would mean hinting at who I really was, and we really don't need that right now. "Uh….well…that's a really long story that we really don't need to get into.", I said hoping he'd drop it. He didn't.
"Don't worry, I like long stories. It's bound to be an interesting one coming from an awesome girl like you.", he said with a smile, while getting closer to me and looking into my eyes expectantly.
Wait a minute. Was he flirting with me? I swear if he's crushing on me again, then that will just be very inconvenient. I stepped away to get farther from him and said, "No, really. I'd rather not bore you with a horrible story like mine", I said hoping he'd get the hint that I didn't want to talk.
"Hey, I'm serious! I'm a good listener I swear!", he said with a smile that he probably used on his past girlfriends to persuade them to do something. I'm wasn't falling for it.
Suddenly, a huge wave of Déjà vu hit me like a brick in the face. I stopped short. This is just like the walk I took with Simon in these same woods last time! He was flirting with me then, too!
"Sarah, you okay?", Simon said while walking back to me. He seemed so concerned, but now I know from experience that these little "walks" translates to "dates" in Simon's mind. First of all I'm not interested in Simon, and these walks have never really ended well before.
I cleared my throat."Um, yeah, yeah I'm ok." I crossed my arms and made a fake yawn." It's just that it's still really cold out and I feel really tired right now, so maybe we should start heading ba-", and that's when everything went dark.