Reliving life

Chapter 23

Alison had been on and off with me all week and we still hadn't been able to talk about why. There had been a couple more instances where she had passionately kissed me but as soon as I tried to say something she walked away from me leaving me stood breathless and confused.

I walked into English and saw her sat talking to Noel and Hanna normally. She acted as if everything was fine in her life and I was getting fed up. I was ready to go up to her and demand answers but as I reached her table she smiled directly at me and passed me a note. I looked down at her with a confused look plastered across my face but before I could say something she turned back round to face Hanna and continued their conversation.

The note simply read; I'll come round after school. At least now I'd be able to talk to her and figure out what I had done to piss her off. I began to think about the worst case scenario and that she simply wasn't into me as much as she said she was and that she was going to break up with me. Not that we had much of a relationship going this last week.

The rest of school dragged by slowly and as the final bell rang I headed out towards my car. I looked around the car park for Alison but couldn't see her. I figured she was making her own way to mine but as I went to pull away there was a bang on the passenger window. I glanced to my right and saw Alison stood with her arms crossed expectantly. I put the handbrake on and unlocked the doors allowing her access and we drove to mine in complete silence. It wasn't until we reached my front door and I had opened it that she spoke to me, we were still stood on the step outside the house.

"I saw you. With her" she snapped at me.

"With who?" I was so confused as I turned back around to face her. If looks could kill I would have been dead the second I caught her eye contact.

What was she accusing me of? I hadn't done anything wrong, well not that I could think of. I was so confused but I wanted to get to the bottom of this. I needed to get to the bottom of this. We couldn't keep this up for much longer, if we didn't sort it, it would break us.

"With Paige!" she spat.

"Paige?" I asked with a completely dumbfounded look upon my face?

"Before Spencer's sleepover. Don't deny it" she replied. Her death glare not dropping from her face even slightly.

I was getting ready in my room when the doorbell went. As I ran down the stairs I wondered who it was as I wasn't expecting anybody and I was due to leave for Ali's soon. As I opened the door I was greeted by Paige.

"Hey Emily, do you have a minute?" She asked me with a smile on her face.

"Uh... yeah sure if you're quick Paige, I was actually just heading out" I replied hastily.

"I just wondered if I could borrow your notes for History? I missed the class due to a doctors appointment and knew you always wrote down everything in detail" she said.

"Yeah sure let me just grab them. Come in a sec" I answered.

"Thank you so much" she said as she took me by surprise and hugged me.

I hugged her back still surprised but she kept her hold of me for slightly longer than was necessary. I let her into my house without questioning her and ran up to my bedroom to get my notes and returned swiftly and handed them to her before I ushered her out the door without getting into another conversation or awkward hug.

"I didn't do anything with Paige Ali! She borrowed my history notes that's all." I tried to convince her I was innocent.

"I saw you hug her Emily, that wasn't a we're just friends hug!" Her voice was getting louder and louder and I was worried the neighbours were going to come outside and see what all the fuss was about.

"Just come inside Ali and we can talk about this. You're overreacting!" I said with a quiet tone trying to get her to reciprocate my volume.

"I don't want to come inside. Why don't you ask Paige to come inside instead" she replied without lowering her tone.

"Ali I don't want Paige. I want you. And why were you watching us anyway?" I was starting to get upset now and I didn't understand why she didn't trust me. I had never given her a reason to not trust me.

"I came round to surprise you, I wanted to walk with you to Spencer's. But when I got to the corner of your drive I saw her ring your doorbell so I hid." She looked me straight in the eyes and I knew she could see the tears forming in them. Her gaze softened slightly and she looked down at her feet.

"I saw her hug you and I couldn't watch anymore so I ran away and got Jenna to pick me up and take me to the party she was heading to" Ali added as her voice began to tremble.

"Please Ali. I didn't do anything. If you stayed you would have seen her leave two minutes later" I said trying to keep the tears at bay but realised I was failing as I felt them running down my cheeks.

Ali reached out and wiped my tears off my face with her sleeve. She looked up from her feet as she did and sighed in defeat. She moved her arms behind my neck and pulled me in close to her, our foreheads touching before she pecked me gently on the lips.

"I'm sorry. You're right, I overreacted" her voice was barely audible and she sniffed slightly.

I looked her directly in the eyes before pulling her in for a deep kiss. All our emotions from the last week were poured into the kiss and it wasn't long before we had to break our lips apart so that we could catch our breath. Moving my hands to grab a handful of her hoody I pulled her into my house as I walked backwards. She jumped into my arms and I turned around and carried her up the stairs.