All the way home, I couldn't stop thinking. My head was hurting.
"No problem, after all, it's yours."
What did he mean by that?
"Don't ever think that I'll let you go so easily. Don't think you don't have anything to live for."
What did that mean, what do I have to live for? A brother who doesn't care what I do as long as I'm alive?
I entered my house and walked to the bathroom, slashing my face with water and applying make-up before heading back out. Parent- teacher night started in ten minutes, and I it took five minutes to walk there.
Erik's father took me by short. I had never seen my saviour since that day, but then he just appears, no wonder why I was getting a headache. Ash and drew had already left. It wasn't like we were going to be doing anything, we always just stood outside while we waited for the night to be over. It wasn't great fun either, I usually had nobody to talk to.
I made it to school within plenty of time. Nothing much was going on, apparently I was late. The assembly was already over, now some people were leaving and talking to teachers, or leaving to go to a classroom with a teacher.
I saw Ash talking to Mr Connolly with Drew hanging at her side. I could see parts of the cheer squad talking to parents, friends and teachers, while I stood here with nothing to do.
I couldn't notice but to gaze at Erik with his father talking to the principle.
He must have felt my gaze, because he tapped on his fathers shoulder and indicated to me. I looked over my shoulder to see if he was talking about someone else but nobody else was there, and he started towards me.
"Hey." He said. He looked me over and stared at me intensely to see if I was holding. I put on a fake smile, noticed how he grimaced, and I knew that he heard nearly all my one sided conversation. Including the part about how I put on fake smiles and acted like everything was okay, even though nothing was okay. I downcasted my before I noticed Drew leave.
"Hey." I whispered grimmly. Erik stared at me thoughtfully.
"I was talking to my dad, and... well, we came to a decision." He started then took a breath. He wasn't going to continue until I spoke, I knew that.
"Decision?" I squeaked. I sat down on the log at my feet. Erik watched me but stayed on his feet. He frowned, clearly figuring out how to explain this to me.
"I saw you... and, you need help. Not bad help, like putting you in a hospital, I mean... your clearly struggling being with only your brother, who, might I add, is never home." He started. "My family wants to help, and... well, we've talked to your bro, and we know you have no other family, so... we came to decide, that... your coming to stay with us for awhile."
I blinked. I counted to three, and I blinked again. Counted to five an exploded.
"WHAT?" I screamed, I jumped up and nearly the whole school turned towards my sudden outburst. Erik covered my mouth with one hand and looked around, people continued what they were doing.
"Whbat Matks oi ink that?" I was supposed to say 'what makes you think that?' but it came out jumbled because of the hand.
"You don't have much say in it. You need the help, because, like you said, by fall you'd be dead, and I'm not going to let you die, no matter what, so to ensure that, I need you close." Erik shrugged. To demonstrate his point, his pulled me to his chest, his body pressed against mine.
What made that move worse was the fact that it was comforting, and that I wanted to just lay limp against him.
"I'm not going with you, I don't even care for you. I don't care that you like me, in fact, I ha-" I was cut off. Erik's mouth crashed against mine and I responded immediatley, the problem was, it was the wrong reaction. I wrapped my arms around his neck and pulled him closer. He groaned and pulled away with a gasp.
"You were saying?" He breathed.
"Nevermind." and I pulled him back, putting the force of my mouth into his. He fought back just as much.
It was like we couldn't get any closer.