tahliajade

Bill offered to drive me home. I told him not to bother but he and his mother insisted. "Its dark out, im not letting you walk home alone!"

I saw nothing of Tom  the rest of the time i was there. I was beginning to feel guilty. The look on his face was one i wouldn't be able to forget any time soon.

The silence that filled the cadillac was deafening.

"Bill?" I began, breaking the silence, "Iam so, so sorry."

I waited for him to say something...anything!

He exchanged a glance between me and the road ahead, "I..Im sorry too." He breathed out.

"What do you need to be sorry for? This was my fault!"

He exchanged another glance, "Well...none of this would of happened had i not come around to your place...i could of handled my anger better-"

"But you had every right to be angry with me!" I cut him off.

He looked at me again. He didn't say anything.

We pulled into my drive way, "Thanks for bringing me home."

Bill smiled. Hardly genuine. But it still comforted me just that little bit.

"Its alright."

"And Bill?"

"Mm?"

"I truly am sorry...for everything."

He huffed, cupping my face gentley with his cold, soft hands, "Bee, stop. You nor I can change what happened,"

"But-"

He placed a finger over my mouth, i took the hint.

"Things are the way they are for a reason."

Ouch? I nodded, pulling away & stepped out of the car. I watched the beast speed off into the dark streets.

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First class. Maths. Excellent. I prayed to god that Tom wouldn't be there. I hesitated before opening the door. Trying to gather up something to say if he was there. Taking a deep breath i opened the door.

"Bryony! How nice of you to join us." My teacher greeted me sarcastically. The class had already well and truly started. How long had I been standing outside?! I ignored him and looked at my table to see if he was here. Sure enough, there he was. I cringed, heading over to my seat. I sat taking out what i needed then threw my bag under the desk.  I glanced at Tom from the corner of my eye. He wasn't doing maths. He seemed to be writing music? Nothing out of the ordinary though. He never payed attention. He noticed me staring at him, "What?"

"Huh? oh nothing."

I took a deap breath, "Listen, im really sorry about yesterday."

He rolled his eyes, "Don't worry about it."

"I can't not worry about it. I shouldn't of been so-"

"Bryony! Listen!"

"Sorry sir"

I was beginning to feel annoyed. I was sick of saying "Sorry." The expression was slowly losing its meaning.

"But you know...you shouldn't of told Bill"

Tom looked back up at me, his eyes widened, "Excuse me?"

"Well you didn't have to go blab to him!"

"He is my brother! He has all the right in the world to know!"

"Tom" The teacher warned, "quiet please?"

"There is a difference between telling someone cos' you care and telling someone out of jealousy." I kept my voice at a whisper, trying to avoid being told off...again.

Tom scoffed, "Jealousy? Do you honestly think that this is what its about?"

"Well why else would you go and tell Bill?!"

"Okay, one! I couldn't lie to him any longer, its just not fair. I owe him better than that. And two!-"

"Thats it! Bryony, Tom, get out!"

"What?!" we said in unison.

"Get out, both of you! When you can learn to control yourselves you can come back in."

We both rose from our seats. The whole class was staring as we left the room. The teacher slammed the door behind us, startling me a little. I leaned up against the wall. As did Tom.

"Well?"

"Well what?"

"Are you going to tell me the second reason?"

Tom huffed.

"Well?"

Rolling his eyes, he pushed himself off the wall opposite me and slowly came closer to me. He sighed, "Second reason is..."

The bell rang cutting him off. He raced back into the room, getting his bag, leaving before i had the chance to stop him.

I followed Tom to music, without him realising. I stopped when i saw him being greeted in quite the friendly way by Catherine. I grimaced as i watched them continue to swap spit with one another. My heart sank. Georg punched Tom as he ran past the couple when Tasia and Gustav turned up hand in hand laughing and smiling. As Tom went to chase Georg, Catherine pulled him back kissing him passionately once again before they departed. I watched Tom, Georg, Gustav and Tasia walk happily to music, while i still stood against the lockers. I argued on the decsion to just fake sick and go home or just tough it out.

"You okay?"

I looked up, Bill stood with a concerned look. I snickered, "You are probably the last person id expect to ask me that"

He gestured for us to continue walking, "How come?"

"Do I need to remind you of yesterday? Or anything else?"

"Well despite everything, i still care for you"

I smiled, I was glad to hear that he cared. I was beginning to feel no one did lately.

"Really?"

"Yes, so tell me...are you okay?"

I hesitated before answering. I sighed, "Well i'd be lying if i said i was"

We reached the music rooms to find our class all standing around outside. Our teacher was busy with the nineth and tenth grade classes who were setting up for a music showcase later on tonight.

"Bee!"

Tasia called excitedly. I waved from where Bill and I were standing. She skipped over and threw her arms around me almost baralling me over.

"Hey"

She finally let go, wearing a massive smile "you excited for the dance? Not long now!"

I faked a smile and nodded. I wasn't in the least bit excited about the dance. Infact? I wasn't sure i'd even go.

I hadn't told Tasia about what happened. I wasn't planning to either. It wasn't my finest, nor my proudest moment.

I looked past Tasia and Gustav, noticing Tom and Georg as they strolled out of the music room, Tom carrying one of the guitars they sat facing eachother, chatting away.

Tom's P.O.V

"So...you and Catherine eh?" Georg winked. I gave him a nod.

"When did this happen?!"

"We've always been on and off, you know that."

"Yeah but still..."

we went silent. I continued to play random melodies on my guitar looking over to Gustav and Tasia when I saw Bee staring right back at me. She looked away the moment our eyes met. I could tell she was trying not to stare. I smirked then turned back to Georg who was busy texting.

I was fooling myself in thinking i could ignore Bee or the situation we were in. Being with Catherine still wouldn't change how i truly felt. It would only distract me. We aren't even together really. I put my guitar down, "i'll be back." And got up heading over to Bee. She turned away the moment she saw me coming. I rolled my eyes. I tapped her shoulder, "Hi"

She slowly turned back, "hey?"

"Can we talk?"

She scoffed, "We tried this earlier didn't we? Well...i tried." As she went to walk away i pulled her back.

"Don't touch me!" She spun around, breaking from my grip.

"Please?"

She glared at me, "Okay...fine."

We reached the wall behind the music block. I made sure no one would see us sneaking off. Especially Bill. He'd get to suspicious.

"Bee? I think we need to talk-"

"Isn't that why im here?"

"Let me finish? I think we should talk about everything. We need to clear the air."

"Okay," She sat down on the cold, concrete floor leaning against the wall. I sat facing her, "Okay first off, im sorry-"

"Don't worry, besides its not just you its me too. We shouldn't of ever hooked up in the first place."

I wasn't expecting her to say that. It hurt a little, "wait what?"

"Well, had we not hooked up we wouldn't be were we are right now."

"You mean all of that, didn't mean anything to you?"

"It did at the time. But thats the past, and this is now. We need to just move on and except that things won't be the way they were. To much has happened between us."

Her words really stung. I didn't want to believe what she was saying.

"Besides, its pretty obvious that you've moved on anyway, you're with Catherine now so why worry-"

"Im not with Catherine!" I shot back defensively.

"Oh really? Because you guys sucking face in the hall earlier tells a different story!"

As she got up i rose with her, pulling her hand back before she could walk away, "No, Im not!"

Without thinking I pulled her into a kiss. I wrapped my arms around her waist pulling her close, as she slid her arms around my neck. I was suprised she didn't try to fight me off. After a few moments she pulled away. I couldn't read the look on her face. Without saying anything she walked off. I stood there wondering whether that really proved anything?

Bee's p.o.v

I walked back to the crowd of people, my head was spinning. Did that just happen? Its not like that kiss really proves that he isn't with Catherine. It was probably his way of shutting me up. And he definitely succeeded. I couldn't help but smile as i replayed the kiss over and over in my mind. I sat along the brick wall and watched Tom imerge from behind the music block, smiling. I snickered to myself. I don't understand! How could he have such will power?

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wow! this took forever but we finally got here! :D

This is crappy i know, im sorry >.< LOL. Hope y'all enjoyed it :) Chapter 32 will be up shortly ;)

thankyou for being patient with me :P baha! idk if this makes sense? does it? do you get whats going on?

if you have any problems with it tell me :) btw, im thinking of ways to end this fanfiction. Im only going to have 40 chapters. Maybe abit more. So i want to hear what YOU would like to happen ;) Also if you have any ideas on where you'd like the story to go feel free to comment me :)

ciao for now!

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