-Chapter 17-

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Athena

The next week came and thank God I was finally able to swap Ares with Ryder because I was slowly becoming more restless. The screaming. I could never get it out of my head. I couldn't wait for Ryder to deal with the same thing I did, partly so he understood the terror I went through and partly just because I wanted him to suffer a little bit. 

"Hey you keep spacing out" Michael laughs and I smile. "Like I was saying. One of our friends had been put in jail for the while you've been here and He'll be coming back tomorrow" Michael states. "What's he like?" Olivia asks and Mason suddenly barges her. "What was that for!?" She yells at him and he turns to her shocked and then acts as if he is the victim. "My arm slipped and who do you think you are yelling at!?" I shake my head at the two, who I'm not even surprised are arguing on what is meant to be a nice Monday lunch.

"Could you guys shut up" Ryder moans as he sits down with us. "What took you so long?" I ask him and he shrugs. Did he seriously avoid my question? I mean no big deal but he could just say it's personal or something. "So what is your friend like?" I ask Michael out of curiosity.

"Well like you, he moved here but he moved in the middle of Sophomore year. However, he got in trouble at the end of summer and went to jail" He shakes his head. "I was wondering where he went. I assumed he just moved schools and those were just rumours but apparently not" Olivia adds.

"He's cool. He is like us but he is kinder but at the same time rougher. Get's into a load of fights but he has a good personality and wouldn't do it for no reason. He just gets caught up in trouble often" Michael sighs. "He better hurry up. You guys would like him" Ryder smirks. "But I know you like me more" He whispers in my ear letting me shiver.

"You're a jerk" I whisper back into his ear and I feel his breath on my neck as he releases a chuckle making me freeze slightly. "I know," He says before pulling away leaving me breathless.

He really needed to stop making me this flustered. I felt embarrassed being like this in front of the public. No. In front of anyone. Including him.

The school day finished quickly so I exited the school and just walked past the gate when I hear my name being called. I turn around and standing in front of me was Ryder smirking. "Yes?" I stand with my hand on my hips. "Let's go somewhere," he says and I turn my head to the side slightly in confusion. "Let's go to where we went before" He adds finally allowing me to understand. We were going to the place we went to when we bunked school. 

"Sure. Where's your car?" I ask him and he points back into the school car park. We both walk back into there and get into the car. He starts the engine. "How about we get snacks before we head there this time" I laugh and he laughs too. "Good idea. Oh and call your Mom telling her you are with me" He instructs. I nod and call her.

"Hello, Mom" I smile through the phone. "Hello dear. Is everything ok?" She asks concernedly. "Everything's fine. Ryder and I are hanging out today and will be a little while. Is it fine if we stay out?" I ask carefully. "Off course. Have fun and don't be too late and be safe. use a condom-" "Mom! You're worse than him! And it's not like that!" I shout at her and she begins to laugh. "Sure... Love you have a good time." She says "Love you too" I finish and end the call.

"What did she say to make you yell like that?" He asks me. "Nothing" I reply since he would probably use that against me or say something dirty. "Wait! What about Ares?" I asked him. "I paid cole and Alex to look after him" He laughs and so do I at the thought of them trying to look after little Ares, what a mess.

He parks his car outside of a shop so I hop out and so does he. We walk into their side by side and look around. I see a packet of marshmallows and graham crackers. "Get chocolate" I order him. "Yes sir" He walks over to me after getting it and sees what's in my hands "Good idea" He puts his thumbs up and goes to the counter. I pull out my purse but by the time I've pulled out my money to pay Ryder has already done so and had grabbed the food.

He walks out ahead of me. "You should've let me pay" I pout and he laughs. "Well, I didn't. so what you gonna do about it" He dares and I scoff "Oh you will see" I laugh evilly.

We get back into the car and we go to that wall we went to last time. "You better go faster than last time" He moans and bends down so I can get onto his shoulders which is what I do.

"I'll try" I laugh. This time it takes me less than 5 minutes to get up onto the wall with a lot of complaining and hair pulling yet again.

"Fucking finally. You're seriously hard work" He sighs and jumps onto the wall then jumps straight back off it. "Now jump" He orders as he holds his arms out wide. Sometimes I think I trust him with my life a little too much. I jump and land perfectly into his arms. "I made it" I grin brightly.

He laughs but then starts walking through the forest. I run and catch up with him. Attempt to run may I add. After a few minutes into the forest I fall over a tree root that was on the ground. "Ow.." I wince and hold onto my ankle. He laughs under his breath but I caught it. "What you laughing at! Help me up" I pout as he puts his hand out so I can grab it which is what I do.

We both go to walk again but after the first step, I fall back down with my ankle in pain. "Shit" I mumble. He laughs again and just as I go to look up to moan at him once again I feel an arm going around my back and another underneath my knees.

"I'll carry you there. Don't worry" He smiles at me and I smile back. I place my arm over his neck and he begins to walk again. After a few minutes go by we are back at the cliff with a beautiful view. I had to take a minute to let it all in again.

"So, how have you been liking our school so far, you told me about life before but what about now?" He asks and I smile. "As I said before, I had only one friend in my previous school who moved anyway, so having you guys and Olivia is nice. It feels great to get along with people who are as kind as you all are" I smile at him and he looks at me happily "Did thee Athena Livera the midget just call me kind?" He says and I roll my eyes, "don't make me take it back as soon as i said it."

We had many conversations that held us talking for hours. "Hey how about the s'mores now" I suggest and he nods. He gives me the bag with the stuff and then walks over and grabs a few sticks to light up a fire.

He takes out a lighter "Why do you have one of those?" I ask. "I bought it from the shop we was at. He realised what was doing and borrowed me it. But I need to give it back" He smiles and I knew that he was telling the truth, although I honestly wouldn't of minded if he smoked- everyone had their bad habits. 

We start a small fire and begin making the s'mores. I finish the first one and take a bite and moan at the taste. It was amazing. "You want some?" I ask and he nods. I put it near his mouth and just as he goes to take a bite I pull it away, leaving him shocked. I laugh at him and he begins to pout.

"Well if you won't let me eat that.." He starts moving closer towards me until his body is over mine while we sit down "I'll have to eat something else" He smirks and I start blushing again. "You're really annoying" I whisper. He moves his face closer to mine and I stay still.

I look down at his lips and back up into his eyes but before anything could happen I shoved the s'more I was holding into his mouth and smiled. My heart was pounding a little too fast and I couldn't control it at this point.

I don't understand why I shoved that in his mouth, it was pretty dumb but when I heard a loud laugh- I turned around and he was holding his stomach from laughing too hard.

We waited until there was complete darkness until we left and he carried me the whole way back. We both struggled to get me across the wall, not like that wasn't already hard enough before, but once we had done we had a moment of victory.

He drove me all the way back and when he parked he went straight to my side of the car and helped me out. I tried to walk again but it just wouldn't work without me falling back onto the ground. So he helped me up once again and picked me up bridal style. He knocked on the door and my mom answered but when she saw us like this she made a "O" Sound.

Surprisingly my mom was quite dirty-minded and would make inappropriate jokes . Yet if we say something that's not even that bad to her, she would throw a remote or something at our head.

"Could you please carry her to her room. I can't carry her and plus I need to get a first aid" She asks him and he nods.

He walks in and carefully places me on the bed. My mom walks in "I don't actually know how to deal with any of this so the two of you figure it out" She says as she rushes out of my room, winking at me on the way out. "Liar" I think as I squint my eyes.

He carefully takes my shoes off but it still hurts. I wince and he looks at me "sorry" He apologises making me smile. He takes my sock off and looks at my swollen ankle. "Ow. Must've hurt huh?" He says and I roll my eyes "You think". He puts his hand under my foot and moves it in a circular movement. It hurt so I clench my fist and bite my lip. After a little bit, he puts the ice pack over it.

"It won't take too long to get better but I suggest you stay off school just for tomorrow. It might get worse if you use it too much while it's still like that" He says and I nod while smiling at him. "I'll talk to your mom about it" He adds. "You know. Your really kind" I randomly speak my mind and he looks up at me in shock.

"W-what?" He stutters. "Your kind. You've helped me out a lot" I admit and I look at his ears which have gone red and it makes me smile. He rubs the back of his neck and smiles a little at me. "You too" He chuckles. He didn't react like this earlier, but I think it's because I directly made the comment towards him rather than everyone. 

He wraps my ankle in bandages carefully and then turns to me. "I'll go now," He says and goes to get up but before he does I pull him into a hug. "Thank you" I say sweetly. He hugs back before we let go of one another. "Cya" I wave and he waves back before walking out.

After a few minutes goes by my mom walks into my room, "He told me about how your ankle will need some rest. You can have the day off school because I don't want it to unnecessarily get worse." She smiles and kisses my head. "Thank you and Love you" I smile back and she walks out.


I woke up and look at my phone to see it was 10:30. My stomach felt empty, Maybe because I didn't have any dinner last night and fell asleep straight after my mom went out of my room.

Then my door opens up and I instantly turn to it. "Huh, what are you doing here? You should be at school" I ask Ryder who was leaning on my door frame. "Well your mom said she wouldn't be in today so just before she left for work I offered to look after you." He states making me laugh.

"Is that necessary" I giggle and he nods while smiling. "You need to wash right?" He questions and I nod. "Ok, I'll help" He walks towards me. "W-what?!? You will not!" I yell all flustered and he laughs "Don't worry I won't do anything" He goes onto my bed and slowly takes off my bandage which is still revealed my very swollen foot. "It's worse today" He sighs and I look at him.

"Where are the towels?" He asks and I point into the washroom. He goes and gets it then comes back. "Is there a bath in your house?" I think for a second "There's one in washroom downstairs" I reply and he nods.

"Get dressed and put a towel over you and I will come in after the towel has covered you and take you to it" He instructs. "C-can you turn around" I ask with blush over my cheeks and he laughs. "Do I have to?" He asks and my mouth opens. "Off course you do!" I yell and he puts his hands up in defence and turns around.

I finish getting dressed and wrap the towel around me. "I'm done" I say and stretch my arms out. He puts his neck near them so I can wrap them around him and he puts his arm behind my back and behind my knees. He pulls me up, and begins carrying me downstairs.

Where he would touch is where I would feel a tingle, an electric shock. I didn't know what it was but the feeling make me shiver but want more at the same time.

I smile and lean my head on his chest. It felt warm like I was meant to be there. We walk into the bathroom. "Ok, I'll put you in the bath with your towel since there is no water. You have to take it off and I'll start the water. There 's a curtain so I won't look" He instructs and I nod.

He gently places my body into the bath and makes the curtain cover the whole bath. He puts his hand out, I take my towel off and place it in his hand.  He turns on the hot and cold water and they come out and touch my skin. He didn't look once.

"I'll be making breakfast. Just call me when you're finished." He orders. "Ok," I reply and wait till the water has gone up a little. When it does I wash my whole body and make sure to go gently with my ankle and then I wash my hair. I take my time since there wasn't anything rushing me.

"Ryder. I'm done." I yell and I hear him step over and come into the room. "Can you manage to get out of the bath?" He asks "Yes. I can" I reply and slowly put one foot after the other over the side of the bath then use my hands to pull myself up. He passes me the towel and I wrap It around my body. I pull the curtains and Ryder is standing there, waiting.

We look at one another in the eyes. "You worry me" He blurts and I get taken aback. "I-I do?" I ask him quietly and he nods as he quickly sweeps me off my feet and carries me again. "A lot." He adds and smirks while we look at one another staring until I look away embarrassed.

He walks out of the bathroom and over to a table with me and places me on one of the chairs. There was a well-made meal in front of me. "Did you make this?" I ask him while still in my towel. He starts rubbing the back of his neck "Just eat before it gets cold" He looks down at his plate with slightly red ears and takes a bite.

"Where's Ares now?" I question again, and he points to the chair next to me, making me flinch in shock. "I got him back from Alex and Cole last night. Wasn't the best sleep. But luckily we are allowed to turn him off since it is still school hours, even if we aren't in school" He smiles and i nod at the smart thinking.  

I finish it quickly since it tasted amazing. "Woah that was good" I grin widely and he smirks "Off course it was". I shake my head and he gets up and takes the plates away and washes them. "I'll get your clothes in a second," He says.

He finishes the dishes quickly and runs upstairs and comes back down with a pair of shorts and a shirt. He goes to the toilet and I use this time to get dressed. He comes back and picks me up and carries me over to the living room. "There's a lot of picking up today huh" I laugh and he joins in. "Clearly" He sits down but he places me on his lap.

I look up at him for a few seconds. Before looking at the movie he turns on. He places a blanket over the both of us wraps his arms around me so I put my head onto his chest and I close my eyes for a few seconds. Expect it wasn't just a few seconds


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