You hold me close to you. I feel safe when you're holding me. You move around, telling me you're awake. You stay lying with me though. You comb through my hair with your fingers again. I turn to face you. "sorry i woke you up last night" I whispered to you. "it's fine" you whispered back. I feel bad still for waking you up and you stay awake as I fall asleep. We lay in bed for a few more minutes, but after a while we get up to get breakfast.
As he cooks the eggs, I start cooking the bacon. As we sit down to enjoy the meal we hear a knock on the door. I stand up to open the door, but Kadin says "I'll get it", so I sit back down. He opened the door just enough for him to see who it was. He then opened the door more and walked outside onto the porch and closed the door.
I finish eating and I started to head upstairs to take a shower and get dressed, when Kadin comes back in. "Who was that?" I asked as I stopped where I was and looked at him. "Oh it was nobody" he said looking away. He then sat back down and finished eating as I headed upstairs. He was acting a little weird. He just didn't seem like his usual self. Maybe he just didn't want to ruin the get together and that was one of our old friends?
After I finished I went back downstairs to wash the dishes. He was down there doing a little bit of laundry.
After we got done with some work he went upstairs and get his laptop to do some work. "I didn't know where you kept yours so you'll have to grab it. "Why would I need mine?" I asked confused. I never really use it for anything. "Don't you have that interview on zoom to get that job at 10:30?" Oh shoot! I totally forgot about that. I checked my phone for the time. 10:24! I dashed up the stairs and ran into my room. I grabbed it from inside my desk. I hurried downstairs and sat at the table. I opened it and DEAD!!! I ran back upstairs and grabbed the charger from my shelf. I almost slipped on the last step, luckily Kadin knew I would get hurt so he stood right by the stairs waiting for me to be the clutz I am. He caught me as I almost fell backwards. I finally plugged in my laptop and got on. Kadin sat back down at the table and kept laughing at me as I hurried to log in. I got onto the zoom and I patted my hair out so it wasn't so messy. I got in just in time as a few seconds after I got in, the manager logged into the zoom call.
"Are you Olivia Brownie?" he said in a very cold voice. Kadin pretended to shiver and I had to stop myself from bursting into laughs. "Yes sir" I said with a giggling smile on my face. His stare was freezing. I felt like I walked into a giant, cold freezer and the door locked behind me.
After he started interviewing me and asking me some questions, he got colder and colder. Sometimes he'd sneer at the answers I gave back. I don't think I would pass the interview or even survive it. About 15 minutes of his icy attitude and his sneering and scoffs, he told me that they will contact me when he has talked it over with everyone else. I was so nervous. I hadn't realized that Kadin grabbed some blankets from his room. He wrapped himself up in them. After I got off the zoom call he pretended to shiver again and we bursted out laughing. He sat down on the couch and motioned for me to come by him. I got up after I closed my chromebook and walked over to the couch. I layed down and had my head laying on his laps and my legs hanging over the arm of the couch. The many blankets covered my face and we just laugh again.

~ After a little while I decided to leave Kadin's house since it was getting later and later. I didn't want him to be suspicious of why I wasn't going yet. I leave and walk home. It wasn't too far but it was cold and Kadin's mom offered to drive me home but I declined. If she drove me home then she definitely would see where I lived.
I didn't know that Kadin actually was following me home. Kinda creepy but he wanted to know what actually happened and how I got the horrible cut which I still have not cleaned up. He escaped from his house saying that I forgot to take my medical pills. I didn't take medical pills but he found an empty tube in the bathroom. His mom let him run after me to give it to me because she didn't know that it wasn't mine but he just caught up then walked a little ways behind me.
He saw me entering the old and loud house and as soon as I opened the door he could hear the screams of another fight. He saw me barley flinch at the screams and saw me walk inside. I didn't know that he saw me and I didn't know that he even did more research and asked my neighbors questions if it was always loud. Three days later he pulled me aside after school got out to talk to me. I was confused about what it was about then he told me he knows why I don't go home right after school. I tried to pretend that I had no idea what he was talking about. I was so nervous that I fell backwards onto the wet rainy grass. He then told me how he found out and that I didn't have to hide it from people.
My parents were always like that and the only reason that they were still together was because they "want to make sure you have two parents to look after you" which I didn't believe anymore since I was getting hurt more than I would've if they had just divorced.
He held his hand for me to grab and as I did he pulled me off the ground. I wiped myself off and looked at him. He was sweet but he wouldn't be able to help me. I smiled weakly and said, "Can you not tell anyone about it. You can't help me with it but at least there is someone I can talk to about it." He was about to go on about how I shouldn't hide it but bit his lower lip instead as he nodded his head. I knew exactly what he was going to say. I knew he was hesitant to keep quiet especially since I was getting hurt.
When I was younger I thought it was normal for parents to fight so much that the loud noises and screams was muffled by cries and tears. I was used to the bruises and cuts. I would come to school everyday with bruises and cuts and I thought it was normal. People asked what happened and I got confused in why they would ask me about my bruises and cuts. ~

We now just sit on the couch staring at each other. I wish I knew how he felt before because that would have given me courage a lot sooner. I've always been afraid to speak in front of people and was socially awkward. I never had courage or confidence in myself.
We finally get off the couch and we part with each other as he needs to go into town to get something but he didn't say what. I was offering to go with him but he told me it would be boring and I probably didn't want to come. It hurt but I pushed it down. I was just laying on my bed on my phone. I was just looking at the news and the weather. Very boring but I didn't really have anything else to do. I then went onto my laptop and started to write my story or at least trying to come up with a plot.
My mind wandered to our old friend group. We used to call ourselves "the undescribed file" because we didn't really fit into a clique. Some of us used to belonged to other cliques but somehow we all came together. Most kids hated school but I loved it because I was away from screaming and fighting and I was with the people who actually cared for me.
I started to write a romance realistic fiction about a girl who hid from everyone but wanted to be set free and finally find love with one of her best friends. They both secretly like each other but she nor he admitted it to anyone. I was too fixed on my story that I didn't hear the front door open and close. I kept writing my story as someone came up the stairs. I was still unaware about the intruder. I scream as I look over to see them sitting right by me, staring at me, scaring me. He chuckled and sat on my bed beside me. It was Diego.
Diego was a very old friend. We didn't go to the same school but we used to be close. Actually Diego was my ex boyfriend...............