CHAPTER 8: KENDALL, THE LOVER BOY
"I'll drive you home." He says, I smile and he leads me to his garage.
I thought we were going home until he brought me to an empty rink stadium.
"This is where I play hockey." He says, handing me some skates.
"I don't play." I say,
"Can you skate?"
"DUH! Minnesota?" I say, with my chilly arms on my waist, pouting.
"Then I believe you can play!" Kendall says, lifting me up in the air and he carries me to the rink, I come with him screaming and laughing, He then makes me sit on the cold ice and fixes my skates, we then stand up and we play a bit of hockey. I've seen a lot of people back at home playing hockey, my boyfriend back at home also did play hockey but he was never as sweet as Kendall to teach me.
I find it fun and we skate until we realize it was exactly 11 pm. I then sit down in the shivering ice and tell Kendall,
"I got to get going you know!" I mention, laughing. "My dad's gonna KILL me!"
Kendall then smiles and carries me back to the warm carpet. We warm ourselves by the fireplace near the rink and we leave all the gear and go back to his truck. We drive slowly back at home. The whole night we were listening to music like Skrillex and other music we heard on the radio.
We finally reach home and we sit by his truck, realizing its accurately 11:11pm
"Hey look! Do you believe in 11:11?" I ask, pointing at my iTouch. "Let's make a wish!"
"What do we need to do?" He asks, running his fingers through his blonde hair.
I take out his hand and show him closely.
"Two fingers, Cross them, both hands. Close your eyes." I say, I then do it and we wish.
I knew what I wished for. And suddenly, Kendall holds me.
"I don't need to do this." He says, holding my hands tight. "I already have it."
"What do you mean?" I ask, laughing.
"I got you. But do you want me?"
"Kendall, I…" He then cuts me off with an explanation.
"First day, I gave you my pen. I pretended it was yours so I could start a conversation with you. You had the most beautiful smile but you were always so insecure of yourself. Your red hair makes you different from everybody and you're really down to earth. When I say you with the girls pushing you around, I wanted to scream at them. But I couldn't, so I was watching you from behind, a tear fell from my eye. I couldn't talk to you for a really long time cause I knew you'd just get mad at me because of Jo. I hugged you so that Jo would finally get rid of me. Why? Cause I wanted YOU not Jo. I don't need a senior, I don't need anyone popular. YOU are beautiful Tay, and I love you for that. I'm super super SUPER sorry I was ignoring you after what you did for me. Maybe some of the reasons why I did that cause I was kind jealous of you and Logan. And plus, I saw how you acted when you saw Camille and Logan kiss, it's fine. As long as you will always know that I am here."
I smile for a bit and as I put my hands in my pockets, I say,
"You do know that…" But he shuts me up with a kiss. As the kiss lasted long enough, we pull away.
"I love you, Tay. Don't forget that. I will NEVER replace you with anyone, EVER." He says as he intertwines his hands to mine. We then hug goodbye and I tell him,
"I've had the time of my life today, Kendall. Thank You"
He then waves goodbye and I enter home to go to bed.
As I change to my sleepwear, I sleep with a smile and think about what happened. I finally remember to close the lamp beside my bed for me to sleep under the cold dark. Until, my study lamp is turned and as I arise from my bed to check what happened, I see Jo in a dark hoodie, holding a knife.