Melancholic (BxB)

Chapter 17

"Can you do me a favor?" I finally gathered my courage and asked.

"What kind of a favor?" Andrew responded with a question.

"Nothing serious... I just..." I didn't know how to phrase this without making it sound suspicious. "Well, could you give me a ride to our English teacher's house? She lives near the church."

"You mean Ms. Ziegler's house? Yeah, but what's the occasion?" Andrew threw a glance at me with a confused facial expression.

"It's nothing important, I just want to ask her something about the homework."

"And it can't wait until you see her at school?" He hoped that I'd reveal my true intentions about why I wanted to go to Ms. Ziegler's home but I couldn't tell him anything about that. I didn't even process everything myself so I had no clue how this whole situation would unfold.

"No, I have to go there as soon as possible." I said and avoided eye contact with him so he wouldn't be able to tell that I was nervous.

"Okay, let's go."

You might be wondering why in the world I asked Andrew Wilson to go with me. Well, I did have my reasons and let me tell you what they were.

First one was that I couldn't ask Lucy to take me there because she's a very curious person in general so she'd definitely find out that I was hiding something and I didn't tell her about my twin, that died 18 years ago.

Felicity didn't know how to drive like me so she didn't even have a car and I couldn't ask her to take me there either. Even if she did have a car I doubt she'd be able give me a ride anywhere. Ever since her dad's accident she can barely get into a vehicle and asking her to drive one would simply be too much.

I could have gone there alone, it's not like my English teacher's house is ridiculously far away from here. Even though I don't have a car or a driving license I could have just walked there on my own and it would take about 45 minutes.

Why didn't I do that? Well, actually I did. I went there on my own and when I was about to knock on the door some weird feeling in my stomach wouldn't even let me go inside. I just stood there like a lunatic for 10 minutes staring at the entrance of the building and I couldn't bring myself to take another step. A few minutes later I heard someone approaching the door from another side and ran away from there without looking back like some kind of a criminal.

You might ask, what does any of that has to do with Andrew? Well, I'm taking him because he won't ask me a lot of questions about why I'm going there, he'll just wait for me in the car while I do my 'research' so he's a better choice than Lucy in that department. And also if there will be someone waiting for me outside I won't have a chance to run away. I'll have to face my fears no matter how frightening they might be. So Andrew's the best choice I've got. He won't bug me with the unnecessary talk because he doesn't care enough for any of that crap and I just need him to be there so I won't hesitate for so long next time.

The hardest part about this plan I thought would be convincing Andrew to help me but that turned out to be the easiest one for some reason. He didn't even blink an eye and agreed to assist me in a second. I didn't know why but that seemed a lot stranger than it should have. It's not like he'd be benefiting from these circumstances if anything he'd be losing his time and gas from his car. Well he probably didn't much care for the gas money since his parents were loaded but he also didn't seem like a person who would do favors to others without expecting something else in return.

I feel strange because I don't know why he went along with assisting me on this mission since I didn't offer him anything. I was fully prepared that he'd have some conditions but him complying with everything without any objections was somehow suspicious to me.