Chapter 23
Luke’s POV
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Previously:
“Oh yeah!” I said. “We don’t have a spare room so you have a choice on where you sleep. Either on the couch, which I didn’t think you would want, my room, you can have the bed or we could figure something out, or you can share with Alice.”
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“Hmmm,” She paused as if in thought. “I’ll sleep in…..
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Now:
“.....in your room Luke.” I felt a surge of happiness when she said that but when I looked back at Alice and saw the sad look on her face I felt bad. Kenza must have seen it too because she spoke directly to Alice to make her feel better. “I’m sorry Alice. I know you wanted me to stay with you but I figured you would want your room to yourself and me and your brother are really good friends. Does that make sense?”
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“Yeah...I guess.” Alice said in a sad voice.
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“Hey don’t be sad. I’ll still be living in your house, we can still hang out and play and do all kinds of things together!”
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“Oh yeah!” Alice said happily again.
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By the time their conversation was over I was pulling into the driveway. Mom and Dad must have heard me pull in because they were instantly at the door, opening the door and standing there with angry faces.
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I put the car in park and looked over at Kenza, she had a worried look on her face and she wouldn’t look at me. “Hey, look at me Kenza,” she slowly looked over at me and before I could try to reassure her that everything would be fine I got lost in her sky blue eyes.
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“Luke?”
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“Huh? What? Sorry.” I forgot for a second what I was going to say because of her amazing eyes. Wait...amazing? Well they are really pretty..
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“What were you going to say?” Kenza asked me, snapping me out of my thoughts about her eyes.
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“Oh right. I was going to say, don’t worry about them. I’ll handle them. Just stay behind me and don’t say anything to them unless they say something nice to you. Okay?”
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“Got it.” Kenza said.
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Then at the same time we looked behind us to talk to Alice. She was just sitting there watching us the whole time. “Luke, why did you stop talking for a minute?” She asked.
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Before answering I looked at Kenza to see she was just as curious as Alice. Keeping my eyes on Kenza I said, “I saw something beautiful.” Kenza was shocked when I said that and Alice just nodded like whatever. “Now come on, we need to get inside so that we can unload the car.”
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As soon as I opened the door the yelling started. “YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE DROVE!” “WE TOLD YOU NO!” “WHAT WERE YOU THINKING?!” “WHY WOULD YOU RISK EVERYONE’S LIVES BY DRIVING!?”
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Ignoring their yelling I waited for Kenza and Alice to get out so we could go inside. I grabbed both their hands and pulled them with me towards my mad parents.
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We walked up to the door and I tried to go around them but they weren’t having that. They stood there and moved to block our path into the house.
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“We told you she couldn’t stay with us, Luke.” Mom said in a stern voice.
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“And I told you that I wasn’t really asking.” I retaliated and tried to go around them and pull the girls in behind me.
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They blocked my path again. I was getting really irritated with them. Yes I should have asked them and respected what they said, but then again I was helping a friend in need of my help and they should have respected that.
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“What now?” I asked in an irritated voice.
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“Did you even think this through? Like where she is going to sleep and all that?” Dad asked me. It’s like they were trying to get me down.
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“My room.”
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“No. Not acceptable. I will not have any grandchild yet!” Mom just about screamed at me.
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“Can you guys just leave us alone? I’m sure Kenza would like to get settled down and Alice doesn’t want to hear us arguing like this.” I tried to reason with them. They just kept on standing there and glaring at us. I went to walk around them and this time they let us.
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I didn’t stop walking until I had pulled both girls into my room and had the door shut.
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I let go of their hands and sat down on my bed. Kenza laid down next to me and Alice sat in my lap.
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“Luke-”
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“Kenza, no. Don’t start with how I shouldn’t of done that, I wanted to do it. Everything will be fine. They’ll get used to you being here and then everything will be good again. I promise.” I was assuring her as much as I was myself, hoping that it was true.
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“Are you sure Luke?” Kenza asked, her voice shaky, and sitting up a little to look at me.
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“Yes I’m sure.” I reassured her.
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“Luke?” Alice asked, sleepily.
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“Yeah, Alice?”
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“I’m really tired, can you carry me to bed? Please?”
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“You do realize that it’s like the middle of the day, right?”
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“Yes. Being in a car for a while makes me tired.”
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“Okay.” I agreed. “I’ll be back Kenza.”
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“Kay. I’ll be right here when you come back.” She replied.
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I carried Alice into her room right across the hall and by the time I went to put her in her bed she was already asleep.
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I put her down softly to not wake her up and then covered her up. After I finished covering her up I went back to my room and laid down next to Kenza.
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“I can see where Alice is coming from, I’m tired too.” Now that I could sit down for a minute the tiredness caught up to me.
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“Me too.” Kenza agreed. “Even though I just got out the hospital and sleeps pretty much all I got to do the whole time since we woke up.”
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“You wanna take a nap?” I asked her.
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“Yeah….you don’t mind if we both sleep in your bed, do you?” Mind? Me mind if we slept in the same bed? Of course I don’t mind!
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“Nope. It’s all good.”
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“Okay good, cause..I’m...almost….asleep…..” She slowly trailed off and I could tell that she was out cold but hearing her breathing steady out.
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Before I fell asleep I was thinking about Kenza. I was pretty sure that I like her now, but I’ll find out for sure later after we wake up and talk more.
Oh, yeah, I almost forgot that I needed to look at that girl Julia’s Facebook to see if there’s anything she knows about Aviana. But that can wait till later. Sleep was fastly creeping up on me. I need to quit thinking.
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Almost instantly I fell asleep after that thought.
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