Beneath those eyes
Chapter 2
I sat back down on my chair in a daze and wondered. Paige just left Rosewood a month ago after I decided that I wanted to raise the baby that Alison was expecting, the baby that was injected into Alison, the egg that came from me. I loved her still, I'm not going to lie, but she wouldn't stay and I knew why. She couldn't, not even for herself to finally have a shot of happiness. It's just like she knows that we won't be happy even if she did stay. Alison dug her a permanent grave when she bullied Paige and Paige keeps on falling in to hide from Alison. I paused, awaiting a second call. 'If it was important, she'd call again. If she doesn't I'll just call her back again tonight.' I started packing my things to go home, knowing that Alison was probably long done with her classes and was grading while waiting for me to be done with work.
"Ali?" When the class door was closed and it had a dim light shining out of it, I got worried that Alison had left again or was angry, but the place I walked into was
Perfect.
Alison had candles lit everywhere in the classroom and had rose petals lying in the path to the middle of the classroom. The very classroom she was assigned to, the very classroom that we met. "Ali, this is beautiful. It's perfect." I looked around amazed, feeling tears gathering in my eyes. "I remember these two seats like it was yesterday." I looked at where Alison was seated at and smiled at the memory.
"Hey beautiful, you dropped this on your way in." I looked towards the direction of that voice and forced a smile. It was a blonde girl with piercing blue eyes with her hand stuck out to me, holding a picture of my dad. "Thanks," I reached out to take the picture from her and our fingers brushed, which send a tingling feeling throughout my body. I'm sure she felt it, too. I swore I watched her shiver in her seat a little bit.
It was the where we exchanged our first words in our very first class. "I remember coming in early that day to get the centre seat because I wanted to get the attention." Alison smiled at the fond memory. "I remembered coming in late because I thought the teacher would move all the kids to the front and I would get the back. Turns out, her favourite place in the classroom was the middle, where she would always stick her ass on our tables during classes."
We spent most of the evening remembering fond memories, eating the picnic she next surprised me with, and the night making love.
Paige.
Her name popped into my head right after I opened my eyes. I forgot to call her back. I reached to the bedside for my phone, only to find nothing there. It must have been left in my bag. We didn't think to get things out of our bags when we stumbled into the house and- whatever. In a haste, I got out of bed, forgetting I was butt naked and went to look for my bag. "Well, isn't this a sight to see." I turned around and saw Alison standing in the doorway, tray in hand. "Breakfast in bed?" I smiled and walked over to her, giving her a peck. "You're the best, but I need to look for my phone first." She smiled and walked over to her side of the bed. "I charged it for you last night. I figured you would forget your charger again so I charged mine at work and charged yours before you went to sleep. It was what woke me up this morning or I would've forgotten that we would have to go to work." She set down the tray and picked up my phone to pass to me, only to frown down on what she saw.
"Why is Paige calling you?" She almost demanded. I looked at her, stunned to silence. I didn't know the answer. "I don't know, she called me last night while I was in the office and I didn't get to answer her before the phone line went dead. I figured if it was important she'd call me back. If not, I would've last night but I got distracted." I shrugged and reached for my phone but Ali wasn't having any of it. "Emily, is she trying to get back with you? Didn't she just leave for Iowa?" I looked at Alison again, I could not do this now. "She literally called you 15 times and texted you 5. All it says that something important happened and she needs you and that you need to call her back soon." Alison looked at my angrily and I was taken aback. "You're accusing me of cheating on you and being shady now? I already told you about the phone call that I didn't manage to answer yesterday before I left the office. Maybe something important actually did happen." Alison looked at me as if I've grown two heads. "So you're planning on calling her back?" My frowned deepened and when I nodded yes, Alison threw the phone towards my end of the bed, picked up the stray and went downstairs.
I caught the phone just as before it flew up to break my nose and let out a sigh. Fucking period hormones. I sighed again and sat down on the bed. Whatever that was happening to Paige was serious, and I needed to call her back. I owed it to her. Without a second thought, or before a second thought could pop into my head, I dialled the number and held the phone up to my ear. "Hey, it's Paige. You know what to do after the -beep-." I frowned when it went to voicemail, but left one anyway. "Hey Paige, I'm sorry I didn't take any of your calls. I've been busy and just managed to call back. Your texts made it seem like you had something important to tell me so I called back as soon as I saw. Are you okay? Give me a call and let me know, okay? I love- I- I'd love you hear from you." I hung up quickly and immediately flopped back onto the bed. What was I doing?