Forever Mine (The Moreno Brothers)

FOREVER MINE - Chapter 26

CHAPTER 26

Seeing Sarah had been worse than Angel could've ever imagined. It was completely unexpected, and he was in no way ready for the blow. He had sat in class that first day for all of twenty minutes before he'd ducked out the back door.

He almost went home but instead decided to go to the counselor's office and switch his schedule around. He didn't care what classes he got stuck with as long as he didn't have to see her every day. It would kill him.

Since then, he'd done everything he could to avoid her. Sofia told him the first night that all Sarah had told her was that there'd been a snag in her plans, but that it was only temporary. She was still going back to Arizona. She just wasn't sure when. Sofia wasn't happy that Angel had no intention of reconnecting with Sarah, much less hang out with her.

The whole week had been a nightmare. The more he tried to not think about her, the more nosy idiots asked him about her. It seemed the whole damn school was talking about it.

To top it off, Dana was at it again. She conveniently mistook their little coffee outing over the break as an invitation back into his life. She'd gone back to hugging him every time she saw him. And he knew she was behind the rumors that had quickly spread about Sarah cheating on him.

The weekend was uneventful, and he finally went a whole couple of days without anyone asking him about Sarah. Monday went by pretty fast, but Angel wondered if he'd ever get over that tense feeling he had the whole day, worrying about seeing her.

That evening he worked out with Alex in the backyard. They'd just finished when Sofia strolled out holding a bottle of water. Angel lay back down on the bench to rest.

"Sarah got hurt today during practice." Sofia sat down on one of the patio chairs.Angel sat up.

"She's still here?" Alex asked.

"Yeah." Sofia turned to look at Angel. "You didn't tell him Sarah didn't leave after all?"

Angel shrugged. His thoughts were still on Sarah getting hurt.

"No shit?" Alex smirked. "No wonder you've been so uptight all weekend."

Angel ignored him. Sofia hadn't moved her eyes away from him. But he still couldn't bring himself to ask anything about Sarah. Turned out he didn't have to.

"She twisted her ankle during one of the runs. It was pretty bad. Coach Rudy had to carry her to his car."

Alex wiped the sweat off his brow and laughed. "The perv?"

Angel had a feeling Sofia coming out to tell them was not without reason. And if that reason was to piss him off, it was working.

"To his car?" Angel tried not to sound as disgusted as he felt.

Sofia took a swig of her water and eyeballed Angel. When she was done, she took her time putting the cap back on before she answered. "Well, yeah, she wasn't gonna walk home."

"He took her home?" Alex's bemused enthusiasm wasn't helping Angel. He was trying hard to keep his cool. He had a feeling what Sofia was up to. But even if it was all true, it didn't matter what she was up to. He was still incensed.

"Yeah, that's why I'm home early. He called the rest of the practice off."

Alex sat down cackling. "Oh man. This is rich. So now she's dating the coach?"

"Shut up, Alex." Angel finally snapped.

"Yeah." Sofia jumped in. "You see that's how rumors get started. He was nice enough to take her home, and all of sudden they're dating?"