Ahhh, I need to update all my stories desperately, I know. Today I should have time for this one and MAYBE another. I'm spending the night at my sisters and then going to my friends tomorrow night then coming home, but late, then Friday I'm going to my friends house then to the movies. So I won't really even be home until Saturday, and were going to see some fireworks then setting of our own (on the 4th of July my parents have to go pick up my brother from the airport...he's in Mexico. So no fireworks) So I probably won't be able to update till Tuesday, and even then I'm not so sure. So I'm sorry if I don't update for a while, but this story was sort of left on a cliffhanger so here yah go...
Disclaimer: Not Mine.
Chapter 4
Saturday, September 13th- Next Day...early morning.
I woke up in a state of confusion. I sat up in bed and groaned as I turned to observe my clock, 12:30. I scrunched my face up in frustration and dropped back onto my pillows, hell bent on going back to sleep, when there was a tapping on my door. I sighed as I realized someone was out there, and that was probably what had woken me. I rubbed my eyes and swung my legs over the edge of the bed. As I stumbled towards the door I managed to stub my toe, cursing out loud.
"Shit!" I fell against the door, rubbing my toe and willing my watery eyes to go down. I breathed deeply a few times then set my throbbing toe back down, controlling myself. I leaned away from the door and opened it, ready to murder the offending late night caller.
"Hey," Kiley stood outside my door, pillow in hands, her smile wilting as she saw my scowl, "Well aren't we just a bundle of roses?" I was shocked to see her, and smiled as she said this, choking out a laugh.
"Sorry, stubbed my toe. I was about ready to murder you, feel lucky." she patted my arm and passed me, walking into my room.
"I heard you, hurt like a bitch if your exclamation was anything to go by." I shook my head and closed the door, turning on the overhead light, but only slightly. (Kiley tends to swear a lot, please don't be offended. It is her personality.)
"Yeah, well, I could have done without." I wearily rubbed my eyes, deciding against the light and turned it back out, letting the moon shine the pathway back to my bed, "So, Marmy kick you out?"
"Mark decided to come over, a little late night PDA, if you know what I mean." she shrugged and stared pointedly at the bed, covers thrown askew, "Mind if I bunk with you tonight?" she was already making her way towards the bed as I climbed beneath the covers.
"Sure, just don't hog the blankets." Kiley laughed and jumped on the bed, snuggling into the opposite side of the large bed.
"Wow," she sighed, situating herself, "This thing is like heaven. Don't mind me if I stick it in my back pocket before I leave."
Almost asleep I murmured a reply, "As long as I'm not on it." Kiley chuckled tiredly and we both drifted off into sleep.
I squinted my still closed eyes as I wiggled my nose, trying to itch it without moving. Finally it went away and I sighed and started to drift back off into sleep. As I felt my body relax my nose started to itch again and I swatted at it, and I came in contact with something soft.
"Mmm." I groaned, turning over.
"Ammmy," I heard Kiley say in a sing-song voice, amusement evident.
"Go away," I mumbled into my pillow, almost positive she couldn't understand me. Suddenly I felt a tickle on my nose and this time reached up, fast, and ripped the object out of Kiley's hand.I opened my eyes the slightest bit to see a little feather that belonged to my down comforter.
"Amy...whatever your middle name is, Fleming, get up right now. I've already taken a shower and everything, trying to give you time to wake up. But do you? Noooo." she jumped onto the bed and bounced around, "I want breakfast and so you need to wake up!" she paired each word with an exuberant bounce until finally I turned over and opened my eyes to look at the clock. 10:23.
"Are you mental?" I moaned, pulling the covers up and over my head. "It's not even noon for Christ's sake...on a Saturday!"
"Oh, your one of those people," she sighed and patted my arm as if consoling me, "We'll fix that, don't worry."
Suddenly the covers that surrounded me, nice and warm, were ripped away. I howled in frustration and curled up into the fetal position, trying to warm the now cold parts of my body.
"You're a stubborn one, but not as stubborn as me." then, a long pause ensued, and I believed I was home free, and relaxed into a comfortable position. Two more hours of sleep, at least. Pure heaven.
'At first I was afraid.
I was petrified.
Kept thinking I could never live without you by my side
But I spent so many nights thinking how you did me wrong
I grew strong
I learned how to carry on'
The music, turned full blast, startled me and I jumped up, covering my ears to block out some of the noise.
"Turn it down!" I screamed over the music and looked towards my stereo only for it to be blocked by Kiley. She was in a flowing white skirt that went to just above her knees. She had on a light yellow tank top, and then a button down dress shirt over that, tails tied at the middle of her stomach so some of the tank top peaked out. White sandals adorned her feet, and her honey blonde hair was in a simple braid, swooped over her shoulder. She had her arms above her in the air, and she was twirling around, her skirt flowing back and forth. She started to jump and dance, then crooked a finger at me, beckoning. I waved my hand in front of me in a, Oh, no, gesture. She turned down the music a little, but not much, and walked towards me.
"Well now that your awake," she nearly shouted over the music, "Why not dance? There is nothing so stimulating as dancing." she glanced me up and down, "And you need to be stimulated... sleepyhead." she grabbed my hands and pulled me up, all the while I struggled against her.
There we stood in the middle of my room, her awake and fully dressed, dancing solo to the music. Then there was me. I was in a pair of boxer shorts I had stolen from Matt years ago, folded a couple times at the top. Us and Soraya had been having a sleep over at his house a few years before and I had forgotten my pajamas so he had given me a pair of his boxers, and I'd had them ever since. Over that was a small white tank top. My hair was in a ponytail, messed up from sleep and falling limply across my back. And I just stood there.
"Come on, have a little fun for goodness sake!" she was psychotically perky, but I couldn't help but ponder that. Fun? When was the last time I had fun? My mother had only died two months previous, and ever since I had been with drawled from the world, doing nothing but sulking. Before that, by only a month or so, Pegasus had died, and I'd had extra work to do with my mom being so...gone for a while. So it had been a while, a long while. I looked at Kiley and studied her. Soraya and Matt were my closest friends, and then the stable hand Ben. They had always had fun, but Kiley was different. She was more outgoing, spontaneous. She was someone who lived life to the fullest and didn't question anything, just went with the flow. Someone who I could definitely start to have fun with again. So I stepped forward and danced, letting the music flow through me as I spun around the room, singing at the top of my lungs, and letting every bad thing in my life float away with the music. A moments peace in all that was bad.
I dropped to the ground dramatically and laid down, breathing heavily, laughing sporadically. We had danced for a while, spinning each other, and repeating 'I Will Survive' over and over, laughing the whole time until finally we collapsed.
"I'm beat," I sighed, sitting up and looked at her. She was right near the stereo, having turned it down, laying on her stomach.
"Dead." she agreed.
"Shower." I countered and stood up, kicking her gently as I gathered up clean clothes from my dresser.
"Hungry." she groaned, rolling onto her side.
"Later."
"Starving."
"Clean."
"Dying.
"Shower." I stated again and left, walking down towards the bathroom. I entered and was relieved to see that no one was there. Sure the showers were closed off from each other, but it was still odd. I undressed in a shower, dropped my clothes onto my bag, and turned on the water. A while later I stepped out in a towel and walked behind a changing wall, drying off and dressing. I pulled on a pair of jean shorts and a light blue tank top, and then a thin white, v-neck, shirt over it. I slipped on a pair of baby blue sandals and walked out from behind the wall, throwing the towel into a laundry basket. I walked towards the mirrors and brushed my long hair, throwing it up into a lose ponytail, drooping it across my shoulder. I then glanced at myself, decided against make-up, and gathered everything.
When I entered my room I wasn't surprised to see Kiley still sprawled out across the floor, her breathing steady. She was asleep. I smirked and walked towards her. I sifted through my CD collection and was planning on playing a loud, drum filled song, when I spotted a CD I loved, and wanted to hear. I stuck the CD in the stereo and turned to the track I wanted to hear. I tuned the volume up to full blast, and then hit play.
'You've got this new head filled up with smoke
I've got my veins all tangled close
To the jukebox bars you frequent
The safest place to hide
A long night spent with your most obvious weaknesses
You start shaking at the thought you are everything I want
'Cause you are everything I'm not'
I sang along to Taking Back Sunday, and laughed when Kiley jumped, scared. She smacked my leg as she sat up, a hand clutched over her heart. I turned down the volume and laughed as I held out a hand to help her up.
"You suck." she stated, accepting my help.
"Yes, well, I thought I'd repay the favor. Although, I still am going to get you, since I did the same thing you did."
She snorted, "Get me? Oh please, dream on."
"Well, I just did." I pointed out.
"Doesn't count. It wasn't original." She flaunted herself to the door, holding it open as I went through. We started to walk towards the cafeteria. "It's got to be original for it to count."
"I see. Well just keep your eyes peeled Ky, this isn't over." she looked at me weirdly and I festered under her gaze, "What?"
"You called me Ky." I looked at her dumbly.
"So..."
She shrugged, "Nothing, its just no one had ever really given me a nickname, like Marmy or Nessa, I've just always been Kiley."
"Oh, well, I won't call you it anymore if it bugs you," I smiled, assuring her it was fine.
"No, you can. It doesn't bother me, I like it." she smiled and I smiled back, then she punched my arm. "Come on, lets get some grub, I'm starving." We walked into the cafeteria and walked along the breakfast bar. I got a bagel with cream cheese while she got English muffins with peanut butter.
"God, I can't wait till tomorrow." she sighed as we walked towards the courtyard to eat, "Sunday breakfast here is the best, their pancakes are awesome. And," she glanced around the courtyard as we stepped through the door, then whispered "I have an in with the cook, nice gal, so she gives me more pancakes. I could pull some strings for you...if you want." I just stared at her as she said this and then we both burst out laughing, sitting down at the usual table.
"What's so funny?" Nessa glanced at us, breaking conversation with Kevin. The courtyard was filling up gradually as the students woke, ready to eat. Apparently I wasn't the only one who liked to eat. Those who were early birds had to wait till 9 for breakfast to be served, and usually waited for friends to arrive anyways. At our table there was Kevin, Nessa, Halley, Jeff, and Nick. Soraya, Matt, Marmy, and Candice apparently weren't up yet. Also Mark. Mark had a different lunch than our group, but everyone had the same breakfast and dinner, so for those meals the table got squished so he could fit. Sometimes Charlie joined him.
"Nothing, just a joke." Ky shrugged, biting into her English muffin.Nessa looked put out, and glared at me for a moment. I suddenly realized that Nessa and Kiley were probably close, and it most likely looked as though I were taking her away.
"Nothing big." I smiled as nicely as I could, and Nessa seemed to soften around the edges. Retract the claws.
We all ate and talked, our table slowly filling up. About half an hour later the chair beside mine squeaked and Soraya sat in her usual spot, Matt right next to her. The table was now full, everyone in their usual spots. I looked away from Ky, who was directly across from me, and looked at Raya.
"Hey," I smiled and she smiled back, setting down a plate of scrambled eggs.
"Hi." she turned away from me to eat a spoonful of eggs then looked at the whole table, "What's everyone got planned for today?" everyone stopped conversation and looked at her, planning time. When everyone shrugged or shook their head, she smiled.
"Well last weekend we all were busy with homework, so if you guys are all free, I was thinking we could go to town." everyone smiled and started to talk about what they were going to do, and I turned to Raya.
"Town?" she glanced away from Matt and turned to me.
"Yeah, Charleston." (Don't know if there is such a place, but I'm making up my own town.) "Were allowed out on weekends, so a lot of people go to town. We can see a movie, shop, walk, eat, anything." I smiled at the idea, not wanting to wait.
We all piled out of one of the schools shuttle buses and stood on the corner as everyone got out. It was around 2:00 and everyone was pumped for the town outing. We all started to walk down the street in no particular direction.
"So, what's everyone want to do?" I voiced, confused as to what we were doing. I had money burning a hole in my pocket and wanted to get shopping.
"Eat." Nessa stated and Candice, Halley, and Marmy agreed, Mark started to object but stopped as Marmy glared at him.
"No, I just ate. I want to go to the beach, soon it won't be warm enough to go." Kevin pumped, ready to go. I hadn't known there was a beach. But I had to agree, for the end of September, it was August hot out.But I hadn't brought my suit, and there is no point in going to the beach to do no swimming. So I shook my head as Jeff and Nick agreed.
"Well actually, me and Matt wanted to see an early movie..." Soraya stated, looking around at everyone disagreeing. It was quiet for a moment before Ky spoke up.
"Well I don't give a damn what you guys do. All I know is that I need some new shorts" she smiled, and I totally agreed with her. I could do with some new clothes.
"I'm in." I said, smiling at her. And then Soraya sighed while Nessa glared.
"Fine, I guess were not wanting to do the same things, so lets just all split up. Come on Matt," she pulled him along towards the Cinema while the guys headed for the beach and the girls and Mark walked towards a local pizza joint. Ky linked her arm with mine and pulled me down onto the main street. Large store fronts loomed in front of us.
"Now, Charleston may be a small town, but it is a large tourist area, so the shopping is amazing." she stressed the last word, jumping in front of me and spreading her arms in a hallelujah stance.
I laughed, "I believe you." we walked down the street and entered all the shops that caught our attention. All the stores we entered had awesome clothes. And an hour and a half later we walked out of a small store called 'Casey's', laden with at least three more bags than before.
"Wow, I've never been in there before now. Thank's for convincing me!" Ky laughed, lugging along her bags.
"No problem, she had some awesome clothes, and did you see those converses? I just had to buy them." I shook my head and she laughed. We decided we were done shopping and started to just walk for a while, we had a couple hours before the next shuttle. Finally we hit the end of Main Street, where most of the food businesses were, and we decided to eat.
"Ah!" Ky shrieked, running across the street, and I followed her, waving as an annoyed driver beeped angrily at us.
"Ky, are you crazy?" I gasped, catching up to her.
She looked at me and cocked her head towards the diner we were standing in front of. "This is Nina's, best diner in town." I nodded, dumbfounded. She sighed, "So were going to eat here, is that ok?" she seemed as though she had an alternate reason, but I decided to let her have her way.
"Sure." we walked in and were seated at a corner booth, next to the front windows. I glanced around, the place was full.
"May I take your order?" a cheery old women asked us. I looked for a pencil and pad of paper for her to write everything down, but didn't see one.
"Yes. I'll have the cheeseburger deluxe with onion rings and a mountain dew please." Ky smiled at this women, handing her the menu.
"Um," I noticed the women turned to me, her name tag read Dolly. Suitable. "I'll have the chicken finger platter with curly fries and a coke please."She nodded andsmiled.
"Anything else?" I was trying to hold back, but was hungry and wanted my order to be right.
"Excuse me?" she looked at me. "Wouldn't you like to, I don't know, write this down?" I tried to sound nice, but she glared at me for a second, then smiled again.
"Honey, I may be old my mind is as sharp as a knife." with that she turned away and walked towards the kitchen.
I looked at Ky to see her reaction but she was sitting there, looking over my shoulder, her eyes dreamy. I was fed up with this. I wanted to know her alternate reason for coming in here.
"Kiley, I know there is another reason you brought me in here, now spill." her eyes darted to me, back over my shoulder, then back to me. She sighed and dropped her head into her hands.
"I'm pathetic aren't I?" she groaned, looking up at me.
"Pathetic?" I questioned.
"You said you've met Charlie right, that night with Mark and Ty?" My heart jumped at the thought of Ty, and I felt the hurt of him leaving bombard me. I had tried to keep him out of my mind, but now I felt confused all over again.
I gulped, "Yes."
"Well we've been friends since freshman year, but that's all. And well, I sort of like him now, and I barely ever see him since he started hanging out with Ty." I nodded.
"I'm sorry. But what does that have to do with you dragging me in here?"she looked over my shoulder again.
"I saw him come in here, and thought, well, maybe we'd bump into each other." she dropped her head into her hands again. It felt wrong. I'd never seen Kiley act like this, she was always so upbeat.
"Where is he?" I asked. She pointed weakly and I looked behind myself. Three booths down was a party of four. Three guys, one girl. Facing towards us were Charlie and a guy I didn't recognize with long blonde hair. Facing away from us was a brown haired girl, who was leaning into the brown haired guy next to her. His arm was across her shoulders. I nodded and looked back around at Kiley.
"Ky, just go talk to him. Look, the bathroom is right behind them. Just walk slowly towards it, and hopefully he'll stop you." she looked scared yet hopeful as she looked at the bathroom,
"You think?" she smiled slightly.
"Yes." she looked doubtful but then her usual stubbornness took over and she nodded."Ok, let's do it." She stood up but instead of walking towards the bathroom she waited next to me.
"What?" I asked.
"Come on." I must have looked confused. "You didn't seriously think I was going alone did you?"
I shook my head and stood up. We walked towards the bathroom at a normal pace, but slow enough to be stopped. I was closest to the booth, via Kiley's pleads, and we walked. As we got nearer Charlie looked up and recognition clouded his face, "Hey Kiley. Hey...Amy was it?" I nodded and he smiled.
"Hey Charlie." Ky smiled brightly and Charlie gazed at her for a moment before introducing everyone around him.
I followed his hand as he gestured around the table, "John," blonde guy, "Sarah," brown girl, "and of course," I stopped waving, and my smile wilted on the spot, "Ty."
Sitting there, staring at me, was Ty. He had his arm around the brunette as she leaned into him. Realization hit me hard and I think I might have actually gasped a little.
A girlfriend.
No wonder he had stopped kissing me, been unwilling to kiss me again...against his wishes. He had a girlfriend. I felt anger slowly replace my surprise, and soon disgust.
This guy had pulled me into a kiss, a long sweet mind-blowing kiss, and he had a girlfriend the whole time. The pig.
"Amy." his voice came out breathless, like he had been holding it. I glared at him, only for a moment, and then decided to play him at his own game.
"Ty," I smiled, and it must have looked sincere because he looked taken aback. Good. "I was wondering when I'd see you. Did you finish that essay after you left my room, I was worried." I stressed the fact that it was my room, hoping the girlfriend caught on. She did.
"You were in her room?" I heard the girls curt voice ask him, not meant for my ears. Ty looked at her and opened and closed his mouth a few times before nodding. The girl, Sarah, jerked his arm off of her shoulders. "God Ty, no secrets remember? Haven't we gone over this? Haven't we broken up, what, four times over keeping secrets? You know what...I don't need this. I'm leaving." she stood up, smiled at me briefly, yet stiffly, and left. Ty lowered his arm and dropped his head against the back of the booth, groaning.
"Good going Ty." John chuckled. I could tell right away that John and Charlie didn't like Sarah, and weren't bothered in the least.
"Shut the fuck up, man." Ty glared at him, then looked at me.
"Was that because of me?" I played innocent, holding his gaze steady. "I'm so deeply sorry if she took it wrong. I mean it's not like we were doing anything in my room. Like, say, kissing?" I placed my knee on the seat next to him, that Sarah had just occupied. I leaned close to him, my lips grazing his ear. My voice was full of venom, "Now were we?" I leaned back and looked at Ky, who was staring, confused.
"Amy..." she glanced between me and Ty.
"Let's go Ky." I started to walk away and she followed with a quick goodbye to Charlie, who was reluctant to let her leave. We were outside the door when she burst.
"What was that about?" I quickly told her everything as we crossed the street and turned a corner. She looked stunned and then angry.
"That bastard!" she suddenly turned around and walked back towards the diner. I ran after her.
"Ky what are you doing?" I stopped her right before the corner.
"Um, not letting him get away with this?" she looked at me like I was dumb.
"I got him back enough, lets just go, I don't want to see him again." I begged.
"Amy, what he did was wrong. Him and Sarah have been together since the end of last year and all during the summer. Sure they broke up a lot, but that's beside the point. It wasn't like they had gotten together the day before, he couldn't have forgotten or anything."
Her words hit me hard and I leaned against the brick wall behind me, "Your right." I paused, "God, how could he do that. I mean, he pulled me into the kiss, sure I may have helped it, but still." She looked sympathetic. "And of course I had to actually start to like him, and want more. Then he just left. He's such a..."
At this her anger came back, "Bastard." she stated. "Exactly. That's why I'm going back there to kick his sorry ass." I ran after her as she turned the corner, and ran right into her back.
"Jesus, walk much?" I asked before I realized Ty, John, and Charlie stood in front of us. I felt Ky stiffen as I stepped to her side.
"Hello boys, fancy meeting you here." she crooned, her voice icy.
"Kiley." Ty seem wary.
"Oh, Ty, you especially. You who, so sadly, just lost his girlfriend." Ty flinched. "How sad. I'm so very sorry. It's not like you...deserved it or anything."
"Ky." I warned, trying to stop her.
"No, Amy, let me." she walked up to him, but I stopped her.
"No. Let me." I pulled her back, my anger coming back. She relented and let me walk in front of her.
"Amy, let me explain." Ty stepped forward and held out his hands as if to ward me off. I pushed them away and stood straight.
"Just shut up. Don't feed me this bullshit anymore. You kissed me, not the other way around, so don't even pretend like it didn't happen or you weren't with her or anything because..."
"But I wasn't with her!" he exclaimed, interrupting me. He stepped forward, "We got back together after I kissed you, I didn't do anything wrong." This just made me angrier.
"Oh, so you left me and just went to another girl, was I not good enough that you had to leave me like that? Go seek out your little girlfriend?" I pushed him with my palms, mad, so so mad.
"Amy, that's not how it happened, if you would listen for a second." I pushed him again but he grabbed my hands, holding them against his chest, "I left because I thought of Sarah, I admit that. I was confused. This morning I got back together with her because," I paused. "I'm ashamed to admit it but it was because I was depressed and wanted to forget everything for a while." I looked at him dumbly. "My dad." he reminded me.
I suddenly remembered that today was the two year anniversary of his fathers death. I felt horrible, but I was still mad. "Right. I'm sorry about that, about everything, but that doesn't mean a damn thing. Not after what you did." he looked a little hurt. "Go to hell Ty."With that I pulled Ky back around the corner.
Now he watched me leave, not the other way around.
Author Note: So? It was almost 13 pages so you all better review, my fingers are killing me, and I can't update anything else today, sorry. Friend crisis, can't be on the computer, have to be on the phone. So, here yah go, hope you enjoyed.
