-Chapter 21-

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Athena

School ended and we were all together walking out of the door. I start talking to Zane only a meter away from the others but low enough so they can't hear. "Zane, how about now?" I ask him one last time. "Fine, Athena. I'll call him now and arrange a place for you two to meet. I'll arrive 10 minutes after. 10 minutes!" He almost yells and I nod. I knew at this point he was a little annoyed at me but I also knew closure would allow me to move on from my past with Meteor, not as a (ex)boyfriend but as a person.

He goes on his phone and then brings it to his ear.

"Hey bro.

Yes, I need to speak to you,

Where abouts?

Nestoren park? 10 minutes. Ok.Cya"

And just like that he ends the call. I didn't hear what Meteor said behind the call but Zane looked towards me. "He's at the park right next to my house. You know Nestoren park?" He asks me and I nod.

"I'll be there a few minutes, if anything happens before that text me" He orders with furrowed brows and I nod.

I run to Nestoren park quickly so I get my time alone with him. We needed to talk.

I get there and I see him sitting there on a bench calmly. He didn't have a single expression on his face and looked at the sky.

I walked over to him and sat next to him. "Long time no see" I start and he looks at me blankly. "Have you been ok?" I ask and he nods without a facial expression. "It's been a while since we saw one another"

I was thinking about how he wasn't hurting me in any way at this very moment. About how he may of really been ok. Meteor was ok, maybe time was really all he needed and I came too strongly and didn't give him enough time alone.

But in an instant second that all changed when he snatched my wrist and began to drag me into the forest behind us. "Why do you always find a way to come back and irritate me? Don't you understand the definition of leaving people alone? Take the hint and fuck off Athena. I don't like being near someone like you. I've always thought that and always will" he spits, looking at me like I was absolutely nothing. All off a sudden his facial expression changes, as though he is about to mock me.

"Did you miss me that much?" He starts laughing, cruelly. I wasn't about to allow what happened in the past happen again. I had learned and had changed, I am no longer the person who lets people tread all over them. But before I can open my mouth Meteor already began talking. "I bet you want to just be by my side you slut. Your disgusting. You really think I want someone like you anywhere near me" He points but pushes his finger into my shoulder, hard.

I instantly push his fingers away and scoff, "someone like me? What is that even suppose to mean? I am a much better person than you could ever be. I thought I knew you in the past but you're such an awful person" I say, although I was mad, I was also disappointed.

"I'm awful? You are the worst out of anyone I've ever met. You thought I really loved you and you're here again probably for the same reason" He scoffs. "Think again. You was a distraction from the world around me." He smirks. "I almost even had sex with you."

"A distraction?" I scoff, " You're scum. I regret even seeing your face. You talk so much shit for someone who obviously hates himself so much. I guess this is your way of making yourself feel a tiny ounce better about your awful life, but that's no excuse. I only wish Zane had a better older brother than you" I glare at him, stepping forward and I guess that is where I immediately went wrong because as soon as I did, I felt Meteor's face drop and instantly push me away.

I began falling backwards, tripping on a tree root and smashing my head into the trunk. I instantly feel dizzy and almost throw up, I put my hand on the back of my head and put it back in my vision to see blood. Or what I could only assume was blood because all I could see was blobs of red from my awful vision.

I look up, my mind after hitting the tree so hard not having fully come to terms with the rest of the world, and spot Ryder beating the absolutely shit out of Meteor.

I wanted to run to him to tell him to stop because at that rate he was going to kill him but I couldn't get up and I could barely utter a word.

"Help" I whispered in the faintest voice yet Ryder instantly froze, looked up at me, and ran in my direction. "Athena, are you okay? Oh my god your heads bleeding. That scum, I ought to kill him. No one should ever hurt you like this. Does it hurt? Can you see? Can fit breathe? Oh, What do I do Athena?" I could barely see, but I could hear his panicked voice and the way he was rambling on. I let out a small laugh, " don't laugh Athena! This is serious!"

He picks me up bridal style and walks away. "How did you know where I was?" I ask him and but he doesn't look in my direction. He doesn't answer me either. We walk to his house in silence and we get to his house which I assumed to be empty and he threw me onto the bed. I sat up confused and he brought a first aid kit.

"Show me your head ." He orders coldly but I just stare at him. "I said show me your head!" He yells and I flinch at his sudden snappiness. "Please just lift it up" He looks down and when I do he stares and touched around my resumed cut. 

He stares at it. "Why the fuck would you do that?!?" He screams and I flinch again. "I just wanted to talk... get some closure."

"Talk? Alone? Athena what the fuck is wrong with you why would you do anything like that? Can't you see there are people who clearly care about you? Do you not care about your own life?" He screams. I look away not knowing what to say. 

"I-i d-"

"Just shut up and don't talk to me" He says madly and I felt tears going down my face. He had been gently wiping and treating my hurt head, yet his voice was like he never wanted to ever talk to me again.

I was no longer bothered by what people say and think about me, yet after the normally so unserious Ryder shouts at me, all I want to do is curl up in a ball and cry. My heart felt shattered despite it being completely fine after what happened with Meteor.

He finished treating my head and then completely stops touching me. "Leave now." He orders coldly and I barely manage to walk out of the house. I pull myself together as I walk out, thank god not walking into any of his family, and into my own house. My mom looks at me, probably seeing that my face was most likely in a rough state but I just block whatever she says and make it up the stairs in pain.

The second I get into my room I lock it and cry in my bed.

"Honey food is ready please come down now. I'm worried" My mom begs as she knocks on my door for the 5th time. I didn't speak back but stayed in my room silently crying. I didn't sleep till late because my head was still in pain but most of all this gut wrenching feeling deep down in my tummy that was convincing me Ryder now hated me.


I wake up and drag myself into the shower barely managing to pull myself up. My head was in agony, a constant migraine following me constantly no matter what I did on no. I get ready and leave before Alex, not eating anything. I wasn't hungry at all. Even if I was to eat I wouldn't manage to force myself more than one bite since my stomach felt full.

I had a black hoodie and a pair of black jeans on. I pull the hood up and look down not wanting to make eye contact with anyone. My eyes were extremely puffy and I had the words 'fell asleep and woke up crying' all over my face.

I couldn't hear anything. Well more than that I didn't want to hear anything and decided to block everything out. I wasn't in the mood. I walked into the school and the halls weren't full. I wasn't much earlier than I normally was on a daily basis but there was at least a few less people.

Once I had sorted my locker and bag out I walked over to a pair of stairs which were never used and stayed there. I almost fell asleep when the bell went telling us to go to our first lesson of the day.

The whole of period 1 and 2 I didn't talk to anyone. I didn't hear them anyway, my brain was completely turned off. Like time had stopped.

When break came around I started to become really dizzy. I knew I needed someone, some help, anything.

Olivia

"I'm worried about Athena, she didn't answer my texts last night or this morning when she usually does" I tell the boys who were at the table, all apart from Zane. "Ryder, you heard from her?" I ask him, knowing that they had SOMETHING going on. Although, I'm not even sure they knew it themselves. "No." He says bluntly, he had been in a bad mood all day, maybe she didn't answer his texts either?

I had been staring at the careen doors since I had been here, waiting on Athena when I notice her walk in. "Athena!" I yell excitedly until I realise how pale she looked, her black hood was down showing her hair that was sticking to her forehead, from what seemed to be sweat. She looked like she was even struggling to breathe and instantly I let out a whisper, "Athena...?"

My heart sank and I instantly stood up to walk to her, as did the rest of our table, when her body drops to the ground.

We all jump up in a panic and run over to her, Ryder gets their first and holds up her head from the ground and picks her up almost immediately in bridal style. My eyes water up as I thought about what had happened to Athena the last few days and what she had gone through while I was completely clueless.

But, we don't follow Ryder and Athena. I hold back my tears while we tell everyone else to mind their business.

Athena

I woke up momentarily, not opening my eyes as I still felt too weak. "She's overly stressed and is running on a high fever. She had a small cut on her head and a minor confusion but nothing serious, we gave her two small stitches. I'll call her parents in to come and collect her." Them a woman says. "Tell them about what happened but tell them I'm dropping her off so there's no need to make their way here and not to worry too much." Ryder said. "Are you her friend?" The nurse asks. "Her boyfriend." He answers, after a second of wondering what he said, I slip back into sleep.

After a while I wake up one more. This time I manage to open my eyes and look around me. I notice I'm in my room. "Finally you're awake" Ryder sighs with relief and tightens his grip on my hands that I didn't know he was holding.

"W-what happened? I was in the cafeteria and?" I think but nothing came. "You passed out Athena. Your ok now. Your mom is on her way. I'll take care of you for now but I'll leave when she arrives." He smiles gently at me. "Don't leave. Even when she get's here. Stay with me" I beg.

"Ok. I will" He nods and I smile with teary eyes.

"I'm sorry, Athena. You was already so stressed and hurt and I added onto it. I was just so frustrated that you went alone to meet someone who hurt you so much already. I was frustrated that I didn't make it in time to prevent you from getting hurt. But I let out my frustration onto you. The one who was already in pain." He looks down and I tighten my grip on his hands making him look aback up to me.

"So you don't hate me?" I ask him and he looks shocked, "Why would I ever hate you?" He answers making me smile brightly. He looks at me with wide eyes as blush spread over his cheeks.

Ryder was really cute.

"Promise me you will never meet that guy again" He looks at me seriously in the eyes, "Off course I won't. I know who he truly is, and that is the closure I wanted. It probably ended in the worst way, but at least I got closure, that's all I asked for"

Later my mom came home questioning what happened, I covered and said that I had hurt my head yesterday from falling slipping and smacking my head on a side, hence why I was crying yesterday but was too embarrassed to say anything and that the stress was due to my injury.

Me and Ryder were talking about hanging out when I got better when all of a sudden the door bell rang. Since my mom was downstairs I knew she was going to answer it. I heard excitement in her voice and I wondered who it was. I heard quite a few foot steps coming and then my door opened revealing Michael, Zane, Olivia and Mason.

"I'll get you chairs" My mom giggles and grabs a few chairs and Michael sits down on my bean bag very happily.

"What are you all doing here?" I tilt my head in curiosity. "Visiting the pet dog you don't have. To see you off course what else" Laughs Mason. We all laughed.

"Are you ok Athena?" Olivia asks gently then when she gets closer she starts hugging me tightly.  "MY POOR LITTLE CUTE ATHENA FAINTED AND I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO AND YOU DIDN'T LOOK AS CUTE AS USUAL BUT OFF CORSE YOUR ALWAYS CUTE BECAUSE YOUR MY PRECIOUS LITTLE ATHENA!" Olivia yells dramatically.

"Someone take her off Athena! She's gonna kill her" Says Michael and Mason tried pulling her off me but she doesn't let go.

Olivia was stronger than she looked. "wour swuiwing mwe a wittle wit (Your squishing me a little bit)" I barely made out. "Oh I'm sorry I didn't realise" She says innocently as Zane laughs and Mason and Michael stand there dumbfounded at her .

We ended up talking a lot in my room. Me and Zane talked about our fun memories as children that made the others laugh and Ryder told us about when Cole once farted infront of a girl he had liked for a while and she hasn't talked to him since.

But what came out all of a sudden was when Mason spoke up after telling a few funny stories. His face was a little serious. "I thought I would tell you guys now since now seems like the best time... Me and Olivia are officially dating" He announces and I put the covers over my mouth to stop the fangirl side of me from coming out. I already knew but the fact that he said it out loud make me excited all over again.

Olivia and I were looking at each other and we could tell that we both wanted to screech.

"Yeah we know dude" Michael says bluntly. "It was so obvious" Ryder snorts. "I haven't even been in for a few days and even I knew" Zane shakes his head. Mason looked dumbfounded. "Really?" His jaw was open and Olivia was giggling at how shocked he was.

"Seriously dude. I mean you liked her since Freshman year so good on you" Michael suddenly announces and covers his mouth.

"You liked me since Freshman?" Olivia eyes sparkled at him and he nodded while looking away all embarrassed. "How?" She asks and I listened in wanting to know too.

"I was in a bad mood that day and I bumped into you and you wouldn't leave alone until I smiled. You kept telling me these terrible, terrible jokes." He laughed at the memory and she joined in. "Oh my god, I forgot about that. That was you?! You looked so grumpy I couldn't just leave you to strop" She laughs.

"Wait, what was one of the jokes?" I asked and he shook his head. "What's blue and not heavy?" Olivia asks and I think but shrug. "Light blue" She answers and the second she does we both release a seal wheeze. The boys looked at us terrified as we was in a fit of laughter at the terrible joke.


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