I walk with Zach at his side in the huge building, are hands entwined. I sigh as I lean my head on his shoulder. This was something I am going to miss, the warm feeling of his hand in mine.
"So…what do you want to do on your last day here?" Zach asked leading me to a bench near a huge window overlooking the whole orphanage. He sits down and I do the same sitting close enough that our legs were touching.
"Please don't mention anything about tomorrow." I pleaded looking down in my lap, letting go of his hand. "I don't want to think about it." I say feeling sad, not wanting to cry again, which would only make things worse. I bit my tongue down to feel physical pain instead of emotional.
"Well, we could finish packing your-"
"No packing." I say cutting Zach off shaking my head. "Let's do something fun, something that will get my mind off of…sad things." I slide myself closer to him and feel his arm rap around me.
"Ok…" He said considering it. "What do you want to do…as I just asked you a second ago?" He chuckles while I look down blushing.
"I was talking about the last day thing."
"Just kidding Cam." I hear him chuckle again making me more embarrassed, but suddenly becoming serious. "I know your depressed with all that's going on, and believe me, you have know idea how I feel, but–"
"Then why did you want me to live with this family?" I asked already knowing the answer to my question, but I just hope that he realizes that I will never see him again…ever. If Zach didn't want me to go, I would be more then happy to tell that family off.
"Cammie, I want you to leave with this family…" My heart sank slightly. "More then you could ever imagine, but could you just do this for me?" I hear him sigh and I peek up at his face.
"I already said yes." I mumble annoyed removing his arm around me. I get up from where I was sitting, and stretch my hand out towards Zach, waiting him to accept my offer. He does gratefully with a huge grin on his face.
"You don't know how much this means to me Cam."
"Actually, I think I do." I say letting go of his hand and walking the other direction, away from Zach.
"Where are you going?" Zach asks keeping pace with me easily. He grabs my hand into his and I immediately pull away from him. Coming to a stop, I turn around and face him making him halt in place with a confused look on his face.
"You asked me what I want to, so I'm going to do it." I say getting it all out at once. I turn around walking away again, but only got to a few steps before Zach put his hand on my shoulder. I couldn't help but form a smile on my face turning around to face him had a serious, confused, angered look on his face and I couldn't keep myself together any longer and burst out laughing at that moment. Right away, he got the impression that I was just kidding and I started to run away up the stairs as fast as I could go. I know what Zach is good at and one of those certain things is speed.
I run down the main hall heading up to the second flight of stairs, urging my feet to move faster then they were going now. Before turning the corner, I couldn't help but glance behind me to see that Zach was two feet away from my reach, mimicking my footsteps as I headed for the stair-
Unexpectedly, I hit into someone hard, making me loose my balance and start to fall backwards. Before I knew it, hands came around my waist to support me up, and I turned around to thank him, but to loose Zach's balance with me coming down with him. Zach still tightly held my waist and I hear a thump from the fall we made. "Ugh" I sigh moaning and close my eyes now on his chest. Immediately, I cradle my injured forehead, feeling Zach's strong chest muscles right under my hand making me feel queasy.
"Ahhh…the love birds." I hear a sarcastic voice say above me, and knew right away, who it was. I squeeze my eyes shut still holding my injured head feeling a massive heading coming, wanting for stupid Macey to leave.
"Could you leave us alone Macey?" Zach moans sliding his hands around my waist moving me in a more comfortable position. "The least you could do is say you're sorry."
Macey gasps and I open my eyes to see her have a look of annoyed in her eyes. "You know what Zach…when this bitch of your girlfriend leaves, you could do way better." She says trying to change the subject and obviously referring to herself. She twirls a strand of hair around her finger, bulging her eyes out trying to look so…cute, but that was the last word I would say it's more like frantic. "And anyway, it's not my fault. Your beloved girlfriend here wasn't paying attention where so was going."
"Umm Macey." I said cutting into her speech or whatever. I try to move my position of my body so I could look her straight in the eye, but Zach held me down. "You would be the last person Zach would want to go out with…Sorry." I say giving a fake smile, but vanishes right away when suddenly my headache became worse, pounding in my head.
"Whatever." She says flipping her hair over her shoulder and gave a flirty wave to Zach before walking past us and stepping on my leg.
"Ouch." I cry out in pain and immediately move my free hand over my left leg, but Zach beat me to it, grabbing my shoulders and positioning me upright. He moves me off him, leaning me against the hallway wall and scoots next to me, gently grabbing my leg to rest it in his lap rubbing the injured part.
"Thanks." I sigh and lean my head on the wall removing my hand from my head enjoying the smooth flow of his fingertips. There was a long comfortable pause before Zach went on.
"You know what Cam, so many horrible things have happened to you in the past two days." He states I guess trying to lighten the mood up. Zach rolls my jeans up to the lower part of my knee, and I look down to see a big purple bruise from where Macey stepped. I gasped and couldn't even look at it, turning my head the opposite direction as Zach bends his head down to my leg and kisses it. I shuddered at the unexpected coolness of his lips on my skin, but enjoying every minute of it. He gives my leg back to me as I look up at his face to see pain in his eyes. "I'm so sorry Cammie." He leans his head down toward mine and I suddenly felt nervous forgetting about my headache and my leg. All I could think about is he's going to kiss me!
I close my eyes as he leans his forehead onto mine and feel his cool breath blow onto my face. "It's not your fault." I mumble waiting for his lips to attach onto mine.
"I'm not talking about that." He whispers turning his head the other direction.
"Then what are you talking about?" I ask suddenly alert, taking his hand in my, but he rejects and slides an inch away from me. "Zach?" I asked now so confused. I didn't know what to do with my limp hands, so I just lay them in my lap.
"You know about your forehead and when you asked what happened, I said I didn't know." He says so quietly that I had to lean forward to understand ever word. He runs a finger on the floor, tracing random patters. I concentrate on his finger, my eye following ever move.
"Yes" I breathe afraid what he might say next.
"Well, I did it." Zach says turning his head looking at my forehead. He lifts his hand to the bandage, stroking the rough rapping. I was so shocked; I couldn't seem to get words past my mouth. Zach sighs dropping his hand in my lap grabbing both of my hands into his. "It was the only way I could get you to go with this family Cam…I had no other way."
"Why would you do such a stupid thing?" I ask suddenly feeling so shaken, that tears started to form in my eyes. Something I was trying very hard not to do this whole day. I sniff a few times and take my hands out of his to wipe my eyes.
"It was so dumb of me." He says looking up at my face and catching a tear with the back of his finger. I turn my head away from him, not wanting to look at his face. "Will you forgive me?" He pleaded grabbing my face to look at him. I sigh ignoring the question.
"What exactly happened?" I mumble wondering this whole time. He was the one to turn away, letting go of me.
"I'd rather not talk about it." He whispers. "But I'm just asking you this one thing…please forgive me."
"That's a lie." I stammer and drunkenly try to stand up and take one-step, but end up stumbling and fall onto Zach's lap. I try to squirm away, but he wraps his arms security around my body, impossible for me to move.
"What are you talking about?" He whispers into my ear tightening his hold around me. I try to wiggle into a more comfortable position, and was grateful that he couldn't see the look on my face.
"The one thing you wanted me to do was go off with this family and I accepted that, even though it was the last thing on my list that I wanted to do." I expected to hear him argue with me, but he didn't say anything. I try to turn my body facing him, when I accidentally moved my leg the wrong position making me cry out in pain. My head goes limp and falls onto his shoulder as I close my eyes and try to forget everything that happened to me. This was the last day I would be with Zach. "I'm sorry." I cry regretting everything I just said, even though it was true. "I do forgive you." I whisper with tears still rolling down my cheeks. There was a long pause before Zach went on.
"Cammie, I'm the one who should be apologizing, so don't make this your fault because it's not." He strokes my hair and rubs my back as I calm down gradually.
"Can we please go somewhere else…like your room?" I ask, wondering how long we've been in this hallway.
"Whatever you want my princess." He mumbles lifting me up in his arms, carrying me as if I'm a fragile little kid. He walks slowly with his face a few inches from mine and it took all my stretch not to move my head closer to his and press my lips onto his.
I was in Zach's room, on the bed, my head lying on his chest. I am so totally bored, that I don't know what to do with myself, and to make it all better, Zach is still apologizing even after I forgave him. I mean hello…We only have eleven hours to be together and he out of all things is doing this?
"Zach," I pleaded, as I slide off his chest and lean on my elbow looking up into his eyes. "Can you please stop bringing this up and get over it. I only have so many hours to be with you." I close my eyes and lay my head on the soft comforter that smelled like him. I wanted to kiss him so badly, but made myself not to. I know he's really upset and he still hasn't told me exactly what happened, but by kissing him, would probably make him feel a lot worse then he already is.
"Yeah, I guess your right." he says and starts stroking my hair. I sigh in happiness making me doze off. That's a start right?
"Thank you." I mumble suddenly feeling sleepy, But that's understandable since it was right around midnight. There was a long pause hanging in the silent dark room.
"Can you do me a favor?" Zach asks me removing his hand from my hair and scoots down closer to me so we were face to face…an inch away.
"Anything…" I breathe, suddenly wanting the urge to slide my arms around his waist to bring him closer to me.
There was silence hanging in the air. "I know how you are, and when you leave, your going to expect me to be there for you, but I'm not so, after tomorrow morning, I will never see you again and there's no point in torturing yourself…I guess my point is, is to live a life." He sighed and he did what I hoped for him to do, pulling me closer to him, but now it didn't matter. I buried my head on his shoulder sniffing a few times trying not to cry.
"So you just want me to forget about you…like you never were a part of my life?" I mumble on his shirt pinching myself to see if this was reality or not.
"God no…I want you to remember everything, it's just I don't want this to end for you. OK?" He says leaning back to look up into my face.
"OK…" I whisper and he kisses me on my cheek, before bringing me back to him. I sigh and close my eyes hoping I could get some sleep, but I suddenly felt nervous wondering how my future would be for the rest of my life.
I was just about asleep when I heard a soft, quiet whisper. "And never forget that I will always love you."
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