Making Circles by Vanessa Gilbert (summer beach reads .txt) 📕

soon till I saw a figure standing in the shadows of the building watching me and Kyle. It was no one other than of course Carter. Kyle and I slowed are pace as we both asked the same question…did he see us? Would he think I was cheating? “Hey babe,” Carter said as he stepped out of the shadows and stepped closer to me.
I smiled and wrapped my arms around Carter’s neck and said, “Hey.”
I heard what sounded like a snort from Kyle and slapped him telling him to be nice. Carter pulled away and placed a gentle kiss on my lips then looked at Kyle and said, “Kyle.”
“Carter,” Kyle said back.
I looked between the two and said, “Hey, hey now let’s not get to close to becoming friends. God you two are looking at each other like the other one as the plague or AIDs.”
They both looked at me and I sighed. Yep they aren’t ready for jokes yet. Both of them exchanged another glance before Carter wrapped his arms around my waist and pulled me to his body and said, “I’ll see ya later hot stuff.”
And then as if though people weren’t starring at us…as if though Kyle wasn’t there and giving him a very dirty look he planted a hot kiss on my lips. He let his grip drop then walked off in the opposite direction than us. I stood in a dazed state trying to get my mind back. I looked at Kyle then blushed and said, “Sorry.”
Kyle shrugged and said, “Isn’t the first time that it’s happened to me.”
I blushed even more and said, “Still sorry.”
I heard Kyle laugh and then I felt a hand grab my hand and lead me in the direction we began to walk in. “Come on slow poke I can’t drag you all the way there,” Kyle said.
I laughed and nodded and began to walk as fast as he was…forcing myself to ignore the fact that he was holding my hand. We began to jog watching as some of the other students began to run to their full ability to their classroom which left us in the state of “Oh crap we might be late”. Kyle and I began to run as fast as we could towards the building and without warning…without even a hint of the event I fell to the ground and just like that a loud crack came from my ankle. As soon as I hit the ground I sat still and Kyle stopped and starred down at me waiting…my guess for tears.
I opened my mouth and let a loud a laugh and fell back laying completely on the ground now and laughing out. “Arien are you okay,” Kyle laughed.
I laughed and nodded then said, “Yea but um I think I may have sprained my ankle.”
Kyle laughed and said, “Um, here I’ll go carry you over to the building and ask the teacher to carry you over to the nurses.”
I nodded and laughed, “Sounds like a good plan.”
Kyle wrapped one arm around my waist then his other arm around my thighs and picked me up. I wrapped my arm around his neck and tried to help him...afraid he might be getting tired of carrying someone so heavy. “I’m sorry if it’s hard to carry me, “I said sheepishly.
Kyle looked at me surprised and barked out a laugh and said, “You’re not too heavy for me. You’re the lightest person that I’ve had to carry for…ever now.”
I blushed and laughed then said, “Well I guess that’s a good thing to know.”
Kyle smiled then carried me into the shady building and then began to carry me down the hall towards our class. I could just picture it now…him carrying me in…every one stopping and starting at us…every one whispering about us…I shivered. Now I’m bringing down Kyle. Kyle got to the door and began to bang on it with his knee. There was a small window on the door so you could see into the class room. I could see a few people that I recognized from around the school, no one I knew personally…perfect.
I tightened my grip on Kyle’s neck and felt him lift me up a little and hold me closer to his body…like he was losing grip. Please don’t drop me, please don’t drop me, please don’t drop me, I begged in my mind. “Arien, you okay? You looked kind of pale,” Kyle asked.
I looked at him and nodded…I feel pale...if that makes since. I let out a held back breath and then looked back at the door and saw finally someone getting off of their lazy butt to come help out a cripple and a poor guy carrying the cripple around. I rested my head on his shoulder knowing that the teacher wouldn’t believe that I was badly hurt unless I put on a show. I nuzzled my face into the curve of his neck and felt the muscles tense under the touch of my skin. “Calm down Kyle, I’m just putting on a show so that the teacher will let me go to the nurse,” I said.
I could feel Kyle nod and feel his muscles slowly relax. I smiled, wow I can’t believe I have this affect on him…and I barely know him. The door opened and a ray of light sipped into the small crack between my face and Kyle’s neck. I shut my eyes violently feeling my head ache and scream with pain…did I hurt myself more than I thought? “Oh wow what happened,” I heard a familiar voice ask, not the teachers voice.
“Um, she fell is the teacher in. I kinda need to take her to the nurse,” Kyle’s voice answered.
“Well, he’s here but the teacher is kinda busy, can she wait,” the stranger’s voice asked.
“Arien, can you wait,” Kyle asked.
I nodded trying to act weak…no having to act to hard. “Wait, Arien, Arien Fusion,” the stranger’s voice asked.
I wanted to peak my head out from my hiding spot, to look at the stranger, to see if I knew them…but I knew that if I did and this person did not like me…I could never go back…and the possibilities of it being a person who likes me is one in a million. “Yea,” Kyle answered for me knowing that this is just not my day.
“Oh my god, Arien, it’s me, Marcus,” he said.
I felt my body tense and my gag reflex activate…the throw up was climbing up my body. Marcus, my cheating, douche of a boyfriend, standing close to me…right in front of me. I closed my eyes and felt the tears well up in my eyes and spill out. “Arien are you okay,” Kyle’s voice came.
I opened my eyes and staring right down at me was his perfect face. I blushed and gulped…why did he make me feel like this? I shook my head afraid that if I opened my mouth either a sob sound or screaming would come out…or throw up. Kyle starred down at me sincerity in his eyes as he asked, “What can I do to help?”
Oh come on it can’t be a no or yes answer question, I begged. I closed my eyes in frustration and took a deep breath…okay that didn’t help. I took several more deep breaths…go to your happy place…go to your happy place. “Um…can you…please…take…me…to the…nurse’s,” I spit out, bit by bit afraid that I might throw up.
“You heard her, go get the teacher or better yet tell him that I’m taking her to the nurses,” Kyle’s voice said.
Suddenly I could feel my body moving forward and I could feel the air move around me. I can’t believe he’s in my guitar class, I can’t believe that I’m going to have to deal with him…every…single…day. I could feel the throw up still climbing up my throat…oh god…I can’t throw up on Kyle…but I can’t walk on my sprained foot…I can if I need to. “Kyle, could you may be set me down…I need to go to the…bathroom,” I said quickly and in a slush.
“Uh, sure,” he said as he gently sat me on the ground.
I began to walk on my foot and as soon as I did I felt tears run down my face, pain run through my ankle, and up my leg. I fell to the ground screaming bloody murder and feeling sicker than ever. “Arien,” Kyle called as he quickly wrapped his arms around my body and held me tight to him.
“Ow,” I screamed out in pain.
Kyle picked me up again and made a fast dash to the nurses…it felt like we were flying. “Arien, close your eyes…it’ll make the trip faster for you,” Kyle said.
I did as he asked and again nuzzled my face into his neck and shoulder covering my face from the air that now was beating on my face. Did the wind pick up? I pushed my thoughts away from reality and to my fantasy land…a land where no one got hurt that night, where no one hated my guts, the sky is always a light green, and the ground is a rainbow of colors. I went to my dreamland where at the moment I was sitting on a swinging couple chair meant for two starring up at the sky and the sun, the wind gentle hitting my face and the sun warming me up as the sky and pastors begging for me to come and run with them.
I brought my knees up to my chest, wrapping my arms around my legs, and starring at the empty seat beside me. The sky became dark…everything turned grey and dark…the sun withered away…the pastors dying away. The empty seat still empty….as with my heart. “Arien, you can open your eyes now,” Kyle’s voice said.
I opened my eyes slowly and standing before me was Kyle starring down at me and his hand gently stroking my cheek. “What-were am I,” I asked.
“You’re in the nurse’s office. They think you may have re-fractured your ankle,” Kyle said.
I lifted my head and looked around the room making sure Kyle was telling the truth. I was lying on one of those comfortable nurse beds that were to the right of the nurse’s desk with a kind of curtain wall separating me from the other patients if there are any. The walls are a dull white, the tile a pattern of grey and white, and on the wall with the door on it had a line of counters, of cabinets, and of course in the corner on the same wall as the counters and doors is a huge metal closet filled with pills and other things. I starred around then brought my eyes back to Kyle to see him still stroking my cheek and looking more worried than Carter did…when I came back to the house with bits of blood on my face from that night a face that I missed seeing.
“Kyle you don’t have to stay here, I mean…I’m not gonna be here for long, “I said after a while of starring at him.
Kyle smiled a light smile and said, “True…but I wanna stay.”
I smiled at him and felt myself…relax….get comfortable…and blush at him. Kyle smiled and moved from his metal chair that he was sitting in comfortable to down on his knees gently stroking my face and smiling. I smiled at him and felt my hand move up from down by my side and to cover his hand. He smiled and then turned his hand over so now my palm and his palm covered each other’s palms and our fingers fell into place. It’s a friendly hand holding that’s it, I told myself.
Kyle smiled and said, “I’m gonna go get your bag, I’ll be right back.”
I smiled and nodded then released his hand as he released mine and watched as he slowly walked away. My body shivered…I am