I try to roll over, confused by why I can't move. My eyes flutter open, squinting from the light shining in as I look down to see Eddie spooning me, his arms wrapped around me tightly.
I look down at my watch, panic setting in as I wiggle free from Eddie's grasp. "Eddie! Get up!" I tap on his chest as his eyes flash open, just as confused as I was "It's 8 AM!" I panic,
How did we manage to fall asleep and stay asleep all night? If I thought I was in trouble before, I was hell casted now.
"No it's not," Eddie squints, groaning as he looks at his watch "Aw shit," he whispers in realization, his arm dragging across his face.
"Not only are we about to be late for school, my parents know by now that I'm not home." I start rushing around his room for my clothes
"Shit.." he groans again as I pick up my shirt and whip him with it "Is that all you're going to say?" I snap as he sits up , eyes barely open "Uncalled for," Eddie points a finger at me.
"We are both dead. Dead dead dead.." I repeat as I find my pants, "I can't wear this stuff to school," I grip onto my clothes in frustration, they were basically pyjamas.. not exactly school attire.
"Just grab one of mine," Eddie stretches his arms out, being way too laid back about the situation. "Get moving," I huff at him, opening multiple drawers to his dresser in order to find a shirt that wouldn't stick out like a sore thumb.
Landing on a black Kiss concert T-shirt with mildly shredded sleeves, it would do.. it would do better than what I had at least but now I was going to be stuck in pants that shouldn't see the light of day.
Wait! Gym shorts! Maybe they do come in handy after all. Oh no I have none of my books. God damn it!
I practically have to push Eddie out of bed just to get him in the process of getting ready. Both of us rushing around like chickens with our heads cut off.
"keys! keys? Where's my keys?!" Eddie's now losing his own mind, patting down his pants, jean jacket and leather jacket. I grab his keys off the night stand, tossing them over to him and motion for the door. "Lifesaver," He grins.
Even in our frantic state on the drive to school, Eddie still reaches over for my hand.. our fingers intertwining as we share a mutual knowing, small smile.
Not saying anything, but both thinking the same thing.
Also did I mention this guy drives like a maniac? How he doesn't died by way of car crash is beyond me. I think I'm more terrified of his driving than my parents.
Jumping out of the passenger side after Eddie parks his van, I walk around the front of it as he does the same. "Uh..." his eyes widen, moving my hair away from my neck with an uneasy look on his face.
"What? What!" I begin to panic more, grabbing at my neck "Yeah so, the hickeys I left.. kinda noticeable," his teeth clench together apologetically. I bring my hands to my face, shaking my head while it's in my hands "I forgot my sweater," I groan. Stupid me.
I watch as Eddie shrugs off his self customized jean jacket and hands it to me "Are you crazy? I wear this and it's a dead give away we were together." I look from him to the jacket "It's either that or everyone knows we.." My hand covers his mouth, feeling him smile behind it.
"Fine," I let out a huff of a breath, sliding my arms through the sleeveless jacket as Eddie checks me out "It looks so much better on you," He raves, leaning in for a kiss as I snap my fingers in his face "Focus, Eddie!" I whisper yell at him.
He looks at me like I'm a mother scolding him "Either way we're fucked," Eddie says in all honesty, it was strange seeing him in his leather jacket with out the other one over top. "Way to make me feel better," I sigh, pinching the bridge of my nose.
"There's no way I can lie my way out of this," I gesture to my neck and wardrobe. "I'm sure your parents had a pretty good idea of where you took off to anyways," he weighs his head to the side, bringing his lips to my forehead as I groan "This is all your fault." I whine,
"You and your stupid pretty smile and eyes and lame ass charm," I groan more "As long as you think they're.." he pauses, placing his lips on mine "Pretty," he lets out a hard laugh. "Shut up," I glare up at him, both of us laughing now.
We part ways, Eddie going in one side of the school and me going into the other. It was obvious what was going on to anyone that gave more than a five second glance in our direction.
We were soooo beyond screwed.
It wasn't long until there were whispers among the students, anytime I would walk by they would snicker and sneer. Turning towards their classmates to gossip about the new hot topic going around school.
I was now the new girl who was associated negatively with Eddie the freak Munson, their words.. not mine. Not exactly the reputation I wanted hanging on to me for the rest of the school year.
"It's bad guys," Dustin says as he seats down at the cafeteria table across from me "Yeah I've heard about five different rumours so far," Mike states as he sits down beside Dustin. Eddie sitting at the head of the table as I sit to the right of him.
I put my arms flat across the table and bury my face in them, groaning out in misery. Eddies hand rubs my leg under the table, trying to provide me some sort of comfort "Not helping," I mumble to him, "Right," he says sharply, moving his hand away.
"Alison Clark please come to the office, Alison Clark please come to the office immediately." The PA system blares my name over and over, I smash my palm against my forehead "Great," I sigh. "Time to meet my demise,"
I felt like I was an inch tall walking to the principals office, everyone who was in the cafeteria glaring at me like I had two heads. As if they weren't up to secretive stuff themselves, like they're so much better than me.
I passed Steve on the way to the office, he could barely even being himself to look at me. Why was everyone so up in arms?
An extremely loud, dramatic gasp exits my mothers mouth as I enter the principals office, taking one look at me and what I was wearing, knowing full well what happened. "Alison, no." She says in horror, bringing her hand over her mouth.
"Look, I'm fine.. I'm alive, can I please go now?" I rather have the talking to at home, I didn't need to give peers more to chat about. "No more, you hear me?" My dads shaking with anger "You see that boy one more time and we will send you to boarding school."
My dad points at me sternly "No more car, no more friends, no more anything!" His voice booms in my face, the veins in his forehead bulging as I take a step back.
"This is not how we raised you," my mother scolds "I wish you didn't raise me," I utter, grabbing my bag which they had brought to the school and heading out of the office. Not giving a fuck what else they had to say.
"What happened?" Eddie comes out from the cafeteria, Mike and Dustin following behind him as he grabs me by my sides so I'm forced to stop.
"Oh look it's Eddie the freak and his freak girlfriend," A guy on the basketball team taunts, "Two fuck ups in love, how sweet." The guy continues to mock, "Eddie do-" I'm not able to get all the words out as Eddie looks over my shoulder at the guy,
"What did you say?" He snarls, "Oh no. I think we've made the freak mad," the guy laughs in Eddie's face "Good thing he has his slut of a girlfriend-"
The guys body hits the lockers at full force as Eddie rushes him. I barely have time to catch up with how fast Eddie lunged at him. "You know Jason, I've been WAITING for a reason to kick your ass," Eddie says through gritted teeth,
Holding Jason (apparently) up against the lockers, Eddie's arm across Jason's chest to keep him in place "Do it then, cretin." Jason eggs him on, laughing in Eddie's face.
"Eddie, he's not worth it!" I try to reason with him, Dustin and Mike standing frozen in shock. "Shit, principal alert." Dustin whispers loudly, "You're lucky," Eddie threatened, pulling Jason forward then smashing his head against the lockers before dropping him.
"Mr. Munson!" The principals stern voice called out, "Yeah, yeah. Suspended, right?" Eddie walks backwards, arms open as he yells back to the principal. "My office now!" The principal demands, "Fuck you!" Eddie yells to him, Dustin, Mike and my own jaw dropping.
"What the fuck was that?" I barge through the back doors of the school to find Eddie pacing back and forth, hands balled into fists and nostrils flaring violently. "I'm so tired of this.." he kicks the stairs "stupid," he's kicking harder now "fucking school."
He kicked so hard I thought he'd break his foot. "Are you trying to make this worse for us?" I ask in disbelief, "What? No!" Eddie quickly responds, brows lowered and knitted "I'm not going to let anyone, especially Jason fucking Carver, talk about you like that," he points towards the school.
I bow my head, hands rubbing at my face. This just went from bad to very bad in such few seconds that my mind was still spinning. "No one talks about my girl like that," he says through gritted teeth.
I walk down the stairs, stopping in front of him and letting out a laugh so I can keep myself from completely breaking down. "My parents are ready to send me to boarding school, for real this time. You just got suspended for god knows how long," I whisper up to him, the tears welling up in my eyes.
"Don't," Eddie shakes his head "Ali.." He's whispering himself now, his own amber eyes glossing over. I shake my head, managing a trembling smile as I shrug off his jean jacket, holding it in front of me in my hands.
Eddie sniffles, wiping away at his face with his forearm.. the tears remaining on his leather jacket. "Just for right now.. I think it's best.." I didn't have to finish my thought, we both knew what I meant and honestly I don't know if I could finish my thought with out breaking down.
Eddie rubs at his lips with his fingers "I'm sorry," I whisper, pushing the jacket towards him as he puts a hand up to stop me. "I guess this is goodbye then huh, I'm suspended.. you're in deep shit with your parents.. lose lose." He throws his hands up,
"Who knows when we will see each other next, once my suspension is up? In passing? Fuck that," he lets out an incredulous laugh, digging in his pocket for his smoke pack "Eddie, it's just for right now," I repeat.
"I want you right now, not some distant future that we might not even get to." His voice sends chills down my spine, deeper than it usually was as he held back tears.
He puts a smoke between his lips, lighting it quickly and taking a well needed drag "Keep it," he points down to the jean jacket "It looks better on you anyways," he repeats his sentiment from earlier, blowing smoke out of his mouth as he turns his back to me, heading for his van.
As soon as Eddie turns the corner of the school, I can't help but feel my world shatter. The tears flowing down my face like a waterfall, my chest and sides hurting due to gasping for air as I hyperventilate from crying.
"Oh, Ali.." Dustin walks out the back doors, running down the steps as he pulls me into a hug. I sob into him violently yet silently, my throat tight and hoarse. He doesn't say anything, he just hugs me tightly and lets me cry.
Even though Dustin is my cousin, he was always like my brother I wish I had. Chris - the only sibling I do have, who left at sixteen.. well he was older than me, we never got along or saw eye to eye.
Despite my world going to shit, I'm thankful for Dustin.
My parents, however.. I'd never speak to them again. They'd never have my trust, my care, my love... ever again.
I never felt love, I had very fleeting moments of it that would last a millisecond. I was never really shown love or care either, it just wasn't something that existed in my world. I didn't give it, feel it or get it.
But I know with every fibre of my being, every atom that makes me who I am that I love Eddie Munson, I'm in love with Eddie Munson..
And now all that was ripped away. All I had left to remind me of our quick flash of what could of been, Is his jean jacket.