A/N I do not own Alex Rider. Did you miss me saying it before? School has started Whoop-de-doo so my updates will become random and far in between. I am so sorry about this but Ido hope you like the following chapter. ~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~
Pretend Relatives
Chapter 17
Ryan sat on the edge of Janelle's bed, every now and then he would peek at her but most of the time he just looked at the wall across from him. Janelle went back to reading her book, she knew that Ryan would talk to her in his own time and it would just upset him if she tried to rush him. His fingers twisted in the edge of the blanket.
"Janelle, you told me that someone told you to stay away from you. Who was it?" Janelle slowly closed her book putting the book mark in place, and set it down on the bed side table.
"Ryan I know you are going to blow it out of proportion. They told me to stay away from you the first time I told them about you. I didn't listen to them then but you don't help me in the situation. Sometimes I think maybe I should have listened to them and you wouldn't be like this but I don't think anything I could have done would have changed this." Janelle gestured towards the room and Ryan. Ryan reached out and took her hand.
"I didn't set out to cause you pain I just need someone to love me god knows my family failed in that area." Janelle set her other hand on the one Ryan was looking at.
"You know if you love something you should let it go." Slowly she slipped her hand out from his.
"I let you go now it's your turn." Janelle walked over to the window pushing it wide open and hanging her head out taking a deep breath of the cool air. She turned slowly around to Ryan who had taken his place behind her. Slowly she stepped to the side.
"We can start over. If you leave we can start from the beginning we can rerun into each other at the music store. You can ask me out for lunch in the rain again, and offer me your soggy sweatshirt like it will help. But you need to let me go and call your brother off because just like that sweatshirt you're smothering me. If someone loves you even after you let them go they will return to you." Ryan wrapped his hand into a fist at his side.
Then he released it. Janelle gasped as two arms almost crushed her ribs and a head found its way to her shoulder. Slowly she raised her arms to Ryan's back; but they had hardly been there a second and he was gone. His black trench coat flew out behind him like a cape as he fell toward the ground.
As soon as he landed he turned on heel and bowed. Then he ran off into the night.
Janelle watched as one of the K-Unit run out into the back yard as she heard the rest check out the downstairs. A pair of footsteps came up the stairs and doors slammed till Alex suddenly burst into the room. The cold steal shined in the pink rays of the slowly setting sun. Janelle dropped the book which she had been reading earlier and shirked back in to the wall.
"ALEX!! What in the world is the matter?!?" Alex waved the gun around the room scanning it for any threats. He went over to the window and tapped the glass gently with the tip of the gun, after he messed with the lock a little he turned back to Janelle.
"Did you hear or see anything in the past few minutes?" Janelle's eyes just followed the gun; Alex saw this and flicked on the safety sticking the Sig in the back of his trousers.
"Hey Janelle I need to know have you heard or seen anything in the past few minutes?" Janelle looked into Alex's eyes.
"Alex what is going on you run in here with a gun, and then ask if I have heard or seen anything?" Alex sat down on the edge of the bed where Ryan had been sitting minutes ago.
"Janelle calm down the guys just saw something running across the back yard I just want to make sure that no one hurt you." Slowly Janelle scooted closer to Alex.
"I hope you have the safety on, on that gun because if not that is one story I think might frighten the Emergency Room doctors." She smiled and gestured towards the gun. Alex grabbed the gun and set in on the night stand, laughing he rechecked the safety to be sure.
"Janelle only you would think of something like that at a time like this." Janelle laughed and set her hand on Alex's shoulder.
"So are we ordering pizza again?" Alex cocked his head to the side.
"Oh I guess we need to take a quick visit to the kitchen." Janelle laughed again and took Alex's hand leading him down stairs to take a peek in on the state of the kitchen.
A block away a guy in a dark trench coat sat on the edge of the curb his head in his hands.
"Jan I swear I will make this right again."
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Well I hope you guys liked it please review I need all the support I can get to keep going so I can get through school and continue to write.