Beep . . . Beep . . . Beep . . . Beep . . . Beep.
I jerk awake. My head feels like someone ran it through the dryer. Overheated and banged up and spinning like a top. I groan and roll over. Something is beeping, splitting my head open, so that I can't get back to sleep. I sit up.
There's a mound of blanket on my couch. Then I remember that Kaden slept in here last night. His watch is going off, but for some reason, he isn't turning it off.
I'm out of bed in one second flat.
I drop to my knees by the couch and pull the blanket off. The couch is empty.
Where did he go?!
I stumble to my feet and take the fastest way to Kaden's room. Through the bathroom. I bump into someone at the door.
"Whoa!" Kaden grabs me and holds me up while my head pounds and spins around. He stares at me with a strange look on his face, and that's when I notice the alarm stopped. He lets me go and puts his watch on. "How's your head?"
"It's killing me." I groan and slump back into my room. I can't believe I jumped out of bed like that. Over a false alarm.
"I'm going to go for a run," Kaden goes back to his room.
"You're going running now? Seriously?"
Kaden doesn't answer.
I follow him into his room. "Can't we wait a couple hours?"
"You don't have to come with me," he says, but we both know that's bull. The worst part is that I know he's holding last night over my head, and I don't blame him.
Itlooks like we're going to get some exercise this morning.
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In My Head
Teen FictionTeenage baller Kaden Hastings has a fit when his family moves to California. He can handle the new medical diagnosis that slowly eats away at his life, but when his parents separate him from his teammates and girlfriend to move him to California to...
