A month passed.

My dad kinda changed up his additude with everything. I don't know what made him do it but I think one of his decisions is to kick me out.

"Hey!" I heard from the back of me. It echoed through the halls. Garrette was running towards me.

"Hey garre-" he throws his arms out and hugs me tight. He nearly knocks me over so I hug him back tightly.

I love when he hugs me like that. I feel like I'm important to someone.

For those five seconds more I'm still in his arms and he's rocking me left to right. My face is buried in his chest. God his cologne smells good.

"I got good news. Our first Football game is coming up and I think you should come. That's if your dad'll let you go." He gives me a half smile.

"I'm pretty sure I can go. I'll take Loren with me. She enjoys to see hot guys run into each other on the field." We both laugh.

I close my locker and twist the lock to double check it's locked.

"Loren is weird. And there's no way around that." He says.

"Of course she is. But don't judge, that's not nice. She has those weird fetishes. I think that any guy who has muscles and puts them to work on the field is hot." I say.

"Like you." I mutter under my breath.

"What?" He's confused.

"Nothing." I look away from him. Smiling.

"I think I heard what you said it's alright. You'll see on Friday." Garrette smiles.

"We'll see." I say while smirking back at him.

" The first game is this Friday. It's a home game. I'll tell you when it starts, right now I have no clue."

He's always clueless. It's adorable when he is. Even the face he makes while he's clueless.

"Okay. Just let me know." I say.

A few people in the halls look at us and start whispering under their breath. It's starting to get annoying.

As I look back to Garrette he's already looking into my eyes.

"Your eyes are beautiful. Like Hazel Graces eyes. They are a nice type of hazel." He says to me as he closes the space between me and him.

"Haha hey you, your funny. But Hazel Grace's eyes aren't even hazel smart one. But thank you" We both laugh. I give him a little punch on his left arm.

"Ouch. That really hurt Nikki." Making a baby face at me.

"You get hit harder then that during your games. So don't be complaining. Big baby." Going on my tippy toes as I say big baby and shaking my head.

"Hell yeah I do. Unless they are all girls like that one school that we played in the beginning of the season last year. They acted like we were playing flag football." He says.

"Haha I bet you guys had an easy win that game."

"We did! Surprisingly most of those guys went home with no broken bones."

"Damn. Is our football team that good?" I ask.

"With me? Yes." We both laugh.

"Yeah. My team knows what to do when it comes to winning." Garrette is looking all tough and serious.

I roll my eyes and look to my side.

"Okay I'll just see you at lunch. I need to head to the library. To finish some homework." I start to walk.

"Okay smarty pants." He says as he is walking me to the library.

We get to the library and there is half of the football team is there and a couple of cheer leaders.

Of course there's cheerleaders and the half of the football team in the library.

One of the cheerleaders looks towards us. "Garrette! There you are." She shoves me over and gives him a big hug.

The girl kisses him on the cheek as he hugs her back.

Wow. Okay let's just walk away like this never happened.

I didn't walk away. I barged off like a mad girlfriend would.

"Nikki!" Garrette yells as he pushed the cheerleader away from him. Making the girl squeal.

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When I got off the bus I didn't even bother looking back to see if Garrette got off the bus. I hurried home and didn't look back.

I'm pretty sure he was at practice though. I didn't really care.

Well I can't lie. I did care when that cheerleader kissed him on the cheek. Jealously is like a drug to me. It's terrible.

I close the front door of the house behind me and I see my dad talking on the phone with a whole bunch of papers laid out on the dining room table.

"I told you to rent the apartment! I know that it may take a few weeks but she needs it! I don't know how much longer I can take." His voice fades out as I walk to my room.

What does he mean, book the room?

Is that for my mom? Or him? My mind is saying that it's for me. If he's putting me in my own hotel room then so be it. I'd rather be by myself then with him.

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Dinner came along. My dad called me down stares to eat.

"How was school?" He asked as he put mashed potatoes on my plate.

"The usual. Not much of an exciting day." I respond.

"The phone call that you heard when you came in. Your mother and I were talking about you."

I stopped chewing my food I had in my mouth. And looked at my dad's face.

" Nikki. You need to understand that right now not alot of things are happening the way I want it to be. I've decided that just until I get back on my feet, I need you to be in a hotel room. Or hell even in your own apartment." He said.

My mind is in knots.

"How are you supposed to expect me to just move out and forget about that my own father just kicked me out of the house he just bought. The one that we just moved into." I say back.

"I'm not expecting you to get used to it. I'm expecting you to act mature and do as I say. We both know that we are living on a very thin string Nik. And if that string snips, where are we gonna go to?"

Wait wait wait. Did he just lose his job?
"Did you lose your job?!" I say in anger.

My dad rubs his temples. "I did."

"I'm going to use everything that I have left for you to have the best five star apartment in town. Your going to need this. I'd rather you not deal with me always bringing you down. Now that I don't have a job, me and your mother want to push you to the beginning of adulthood."

This is all overwhelming. Tears start to build up in my eyes.

I let go a deep breath and my tears run down my face. "When do I get out?" I mutter.

"Speak up louder." He says.

I look him dead in the eyes. "I said when do I get out?"

"By the end of this week." He said.

*It's Wednesday.

"I'm sorry that it has come to this point. But I'm only making this better for you. I'm only doing this becau-" I interrupt him.

"Why don't we get through this together? Like how every family does."

More tears run down my face. I try to wipe them away. My voice cracks on the word family because I know I have a broken one.

He gets up and hugs me "Nik let's just see how this all goes and it'll all be okay. I did this so then you wouldn't have to stress out on something you wouldn't need to, that's my job."

I wipe away my tears. "Okay dad,
okay."

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I woke up and checked my phone. Damn it I'm late.

I throw on some sweat pants and a plain white shirt.

My dad drops me off to school and it feels like I have nothing to worry about. But it's my first time being late.

The only time I was late to something was when I was too late to see someone in the hospital..

I got out of the car as fast as I could and waved back to my dad. Just thinking about what we talked about last night was saying things in the back of my head. Annoying things.

I get to my locker and Loren was walking down the hall towards me.

"Aren't you a late bird this morning." Loren is smiling.

I laugh as I open my locker. "Yeah, I'm going to blame it on my phone. I didn't hear it. It wasn't doing its job. It's the first time being tardy."

"Oh man, I do that all the time. You'll
be fine. Nothing is gonna hurt your grades if your tardy. At least your here and not absent." Giving me a smile that it's going to be okay.

I close up my locker. Smiling back at her "Thanks. Wait did you just get to school? Or what?"

"Nah I still need to get to class. I just got here too." We both laugh.

We are already becoming good friends. I start walking away. "Get to class Loren." Saying in a joking matter.

"Yes ma'am." She salutes to me.

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Loren and I are at our lunch table.

"So I've been wanting to ask you. Why do you have both parts of your friendship necklace?" I asked.

"The other half is my sisters actually. She past away two years ago." Loren looks down at her salad.

My heart drops.

"Loren I'm sorry. You didn't have to tell me-"

She cuts me off. "No no no. It's okay. I'm fine with it. My younger sister and I were close and everything but it was a long time ago. It took me a while to get used to that she's gone. But it's okay. Thanks for asking though."

"No problem Loren. I'm here for you if you need anything." Nodding my head and patting my chest.

Loren nudges my arm.

"How are you and Garrette?" She questions.

I looked her in the

"That guy." Loren looks straight in my eyes. "I guess he's on his own path right now."

Loren stands up. "What did he do?"

"Another girl kissed him right in front of me. He let it happen."

"He's such an ass. Did you talk to him after?" Loren questions.

"He called my name after I barged off. I don't know what he could've said to me after I turned around. I didn't want to take the chances on letting another guy hurt me." I took another bite of my sandwich.

"I think you should give him a chance to explain." Loren says.

"I have. But why hasn't he come to me yet, to tell me anything. I haven't got a single message either." I yelled at her.

"Then I'll talk to him. I'm pretty sure he has something to say to you. He's just agrivated." Loren is trying to calm me down.

"Okay. I appreciate what your doing. Your my first true friend that I can trust. We should hang out some time." I say giving her a half smile.

"Of course. What are friends for Nikki".

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