Bab 127: Chapter 124
I placed the clothes on the edge of the bed, then I walked over to the other side of the room and leaned against the wall.
Will had some info on a race that would occur that same night but he hadn't reached out to Miles about it yet. But Miles had assured me he'd try his best to get me all the details, it's just that Will was always busy with his various activities.
" Whoa! These for me?" Chris asked as he went through the snacks I had gotten, I nodded and took my phone out because I just wanted to seem busy. It was weird being there with him again after so long. And whenever I thought about something to talk about, the only thing that I came up with was his reason for being there, and that wasn't really good content for light conversion.
" You didn't have to, but thanks. "
" It's no big deal. "
He went through the clothes I had chosen , then he finally picked out an outfit before he stood and told me he was going to freshen up. I hadn't been gone for long,so I kew he hadn't actually gotten any rest. He washed up, then he came back while drying his hair and sat back down.
"Has anyone from back home contacted you?" I asked and he stopped whatever he was doing to look up at me, but only for a brief moment before he went back to the hair.
" Don called me a few times. I picked up once to assure him I was okay. "
" Just him?"
" Yeah he was concerned, but also pissed off coz of what I did. "
" That's understandable. "
Don was one of his older brothers, the oldest actually. So he was basically Chris's guardian. It made sense that he was worried about him, but I still feared that they'd somehow be able to know where Chris was through tracking his phone, we were in the twenty first century after all. And he was rarely ever separated from the gadget. And when I brought the matter up to him, he hang his head in clear defeat and said he'd take care of it.
" I saw the changes on Ria, didn't you used to claim that you liked her just as she was?"
I couldn't help but smile. Chris had been there with me when I had purchased my bike. He had even been the one to pick out the name. I had never actually had any intentions of naming it, but that's just the type of person he was whenever he was with me. He had always wanted one of his own, and it had sucked that he hadn't been able to afford once because we would have done so many cool things. But back then,Ria had been ours,not just mine.
" You disapprove?" I inquired, raising an inquisitive brow with the smile still in place. It was good that he was finding common ground for us to talk because I really was at a loss.
" She'll always be sexy to me. But that little shade of red could have been darker. "
" Judgy!"
" Oh come on! You asked for my opinion and I gave it. "
He was just messing around, and because I felt a lot more comfortable, I went and joined him on the bed. Keeping a reasonable distance between us Incase he got the crazy idea to just grab me again.
" Could I give her a spin later on?"
He went ahead to confess that being cooped up in there was really messing with his head. It was forcing him to keep on thinking about things he'd rather not think about, so he would appreciate it if he got a chance to just leave the confines of that room and go anywhere else, do anything else. I didn't see anything wrong with it. I had even been planning on suggesting that he get out once in a while and tried to get some fresh outside air.
He had nothing to worry about considering how far from home he actually was. But if I really thought about it, things were really feel from his end. For him to have traveled all the way to Boulder in search of me because he had known I would help was somewhat intense. We were able to talk freely from that point. It was mostly about bikes, but I also asked him a few questions about back home. How the only other people I actually used to hang out with were and how he had been.
But somehow, even when I was fully invested in the conversation, my current situation with Kyle kept ringing in the back of my head. Like this alarm that was set in reminding me that things were not okay. As if I didn't know! In less than a week, our relationship had changed entirely. It had gotten to a point where I couldn't even pinpoint when things had stated going south. All because so much shit had piled up and we now had an entire mountain of issues to sort if we wanted to get to the core of it all.
I somehow ended up spending the day there with Chris. We just talked, he knew me as well. We had been too close for him not to have picked up a few traits about me, and somehow he was able to note that there was something on my mind. He was straightforward when bringing it up, he just asked me what it was that I was thinking about. That he had noted the same thing the previous day but had decided not to ask. But despite how close we used to be and how easier it was to talk to him, I made the choice to keep my own affairs to myself. I knew the reasons why. There was no way I was going to start telling him about Kyle, and not only because he probably still liked me. But that was also a main reason, why would I intentionally just hurt his feelings like that.
When I told him it was nothing, there was finality in the words. My way of letting him know that he shouldn't ask me anything else regarding the matter.
I texted Miles half an hour before classes officially ended. Asking we meet up at a skateboard park not too far from school. I also needed to ask for his help with the entire Chris situation.
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KYLE'S POV
I had known that if there was anyone who could tell me where that crazy huma was, it was Miles. He had tried to pretend at first but I had grilled him until he gave in and said he'd take me to Austin. Actually, on the way to wherever he was, Miles had admitted that he also didn't agree with Austin's decision to drop out. Of course he didn't. Anyone who would was just as crazy and shortsighted as Austin himself. Because what the hell was that? He had surpassed the league of unpredictable and gone to being plain illogical. And once we were face to face I was going to really give it to him straight. I didn't care how he took it as long as he got the point. And I swear I was going to do whatever it took to ensure he went back to school. Dealing with him was giving me a headache, but I wasn't going to just sit back and idly watch as he destroyed his entire life just because if some teenage mood swing. And no matter what he claimed, I was certain that I had, in one way or another, contributed to his actions. So it was up to me to fix it.
" He's real gutsy. If I dared to drop out my parents would kill me! " Miles said, his focus on the road.
" What he did is stupid and unreasonable. There's nothing gusty about it. "
I really wasn't joking about giving it to him straight. He was already mad at me, so it wasn't going to make that much of a difference. But I was going to get him back to school even if I had to drag him there myself. Since Miles told me what he had decided to do, I had been unable to concentrate on anything else. And I was even more angry about the fact that we were so close to graduating. Why not just hang on a bit longer? We finally got to to our destination and Miles parked the car. I had been there before with Max a few times. he was really into skateboarding so sometimes we'd just go there to hang out while he got the chance to do what he loved. But you didn't see him dropping out to become a professional skateboarder!
Shit! I was so angry at Austin that somehow I found a way to make everything about him. But it was well deserved. Immediately after Miles parked I got off the car,I could already see his bike, which meant he was there.
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