And I ran,

I ran so far away.

Skylar Jones
Chapter 14

English class just finished and I slowly walked towards my next class. On purpose I tried to be very slow and careful since I had social study class right now. The whole time I've been trying not to stand out and avoid all of this, but that was somehow impossible.

If I'd go home now my mom will notice of how I'm not really ill.

When I sadly walked inside of the class room I found Cam sitting there already. My heart skipped a beat and I tried my hardest not to look into those beautiful dark eyes.

My eyes scanned the room in panic and luckily there was another empty seat in the back.

I know it was unfair to Cam that I was avoiding him now, especially after last night. Everything was honestly perfect and I never had the time of my life just like yesterday. It was actually way too fun for someone who barely had any friends.

The whole night I've been thinking about how much we talked and laughed without making each other go crazy whilst hugging the fish bear that he won for me. I haven't even closed an eye last night.

To be honest I can't even stay mad at him. He had been acting like a real jerk and what he did with Tyler and Jesse was also not okay even though he did help me to get away from those two the last time.

It was still not okay what he did and it'll never be okay, but that side of him that I saw yesterday is something I would want to see more often.

Since my try at being angry failed and I even had more fun with him now, I tried to avoid him like the plague.

I still made that stupid deal with Shane about breaking him and maybe if I just avoided Cam like I did right now, he wouldn't get attached to me and I wouldn't get attached to him.

It wasn't hard to pull that off. Cam showed how much he disliked me. The only thing that connected us with each other was that assignment. So avoiding seemed like the best thing right now until I had a plan.

How was I supposed to break Cam if he didn't even like me the way I like him?

Suddenly everyone already stood up which made me look up at them in confusion. I was day dreaming so much about Cam and the deal that the whole entire hour just flew by.

I sighed while grabbing my stuff and left the class room. I saw Cam not too far away from me, probably waiting for me.

As fast as I could I tried to walk to the other way which wasn't such a good idea, because Tyler and Jesse were standing there.

I tried to walk past them without getting caught, which to my surprise successfully worked.

Due to walking so fast I didn't see that I was bumping into someone. It felt like I was having a déjà vu.

"Sorry, I wasn't watching where I was going" I instantly apologized and looked at the person standing right in front of me. I sighed in relief when I saw that it was just a girl.

"Doesn't matter" The blonde girl smiled beautifully.

"Good" I smiled back.

"Are you Skylar?" The girl asked.

"Yeah? How do you know that?" I asked confused.

"Oh it goes around for a while that there's a new boy at our school" She explained to me.

Nice.. I am being labeled as the 'new' boy.

"And who are you then?" I asked.

"I'm Anna! Shall we drink some time after school to get to know each other a little better?" She asked too excited.

Kind of weird, I barely knew her and she already wanted to meet up with me.

"We'll see, I have to go.." I said and walked away.

It was better to walk away, because I wasn't very good at meeting new people and for some reason I had a bad feeling about the girl even though she seemed very nice.

I didn't really have a lot of friends so I didn't know what to do.

Maybe I should try and meet up with her for coffee some time.

My eyes wandered to the ground, I hid my face in my hoody and walked further, but of course the universe did its work again by making me bump into another person.

"I'm starting to think that this will be our welcome greeting" I heard a familiar voice say.

Shit.

"C-Cam!" My eyes widened as I look up at him.

There he was. The most gorgeous and popular boy of the school. His brown hair fell slightly over his face in a messy way and his light brown eyes had me down to my knees.

"Are you.. okay?" He frowned and watched me for a while.

"Y-Yeah! I'm perfectly fine" I spoke too fast.

He watched me up and down in a suspicious way as he crossed his arms while narrowing his eyes.

"Really? Cause it seemed like you've been avoiding me this whole time. I thought you liked yesterday?" Cam suddenly bombarded me with questions.

"What? A-avoiding?! Pff no! I had a great time with you yesterday Cam, really" I smiled at my last sentence and meant every word of it.

"Good.. I think that's a good first step in our relationship" He grinned almost happy.

But he was Cam, he was barely happy and-. Wait..

"What- What did you just say?" I asked a bit too loud.

"What? I said that it was a good step in our assignment" His eyes widened, probably knowing what I meant.

"No no no! You said relationship!" I laughed, I felt like jumping to the roof!

"I know I'm hot and everything, but I'm not gay sorry" He snorted and rolled his eyes.

"But you said- okay nevermind.." I sighed and gave up, I probably misheard it.

Damn.. I must really like him that I start hearing this stuff.

"By the way why were you talking with that girl Anna?" He asked me out of nowhere and actually started to act a bit weird while asking that.

I could see that his whole body language changed. His head hung a bit low along with his shoulder that slumped. The expression of his face was one that I never saw on him. It was hard to puzzle what it exactly was and what he thought.

"Huh? Oh Anna! Oh nothing.. She just wanted to meet up. Why?" I shrugged casually.

"Hm.. Nothing, but stay away from her okay?" He warned me and grabbed my shoulder.

The electricity ran through my body as my heartbeat sped up. All the things around us slowed down in a way that I could never explain to you.

It felt so good.

"What? Why should I do what you're saying?" I asked and shook my head.

"Just.. I can't explain it, but listen to me okay?" He said a bit more serious which made something snap inside of me.

"What are you freaking selfish.. When someone is finally interested in being friends with me, you are just trying to take that away from me?!" I sighed and frowned.

That we didn't like each other was fine, but this was unfair. I never had friends and now I was actually debating of trying it with someone then Cam thinks to be funny and tell me to stay away? That makes no sense.

"Okay.. I didn't mean it like that Sky. Look I know I can be an idiot, but she's just- You wouldn't want to be friends with her. You deserve better okay?" He sighed and almost looked desperately into my eyes.

His eyes made me feel calmer again and I just nodded.

"I'm not promising anything, but I'll look out okay? Thanks for telling me.." I smiled soft and looked away.

"Yeah if someone is going to irritate you then it should be me and not her" He laughed loud.

I loved the sound of it, it was music to your ears and I couldn't help but laugh with him in that moment.