Friday, November 1st, 2019.

I wake up and look over to Connor, his arms wrapped around me, he looks peaceful. I grab my phone from beside me on the couch and look at the time. 11:30 am. We are way late for school. I don’t even think it’s worth going to school, but I wake up Connor to ask. “Hey, Connor.” he opens his eyes and looks to me. “Good Morning. What time is it?”

“It’s 11:30.”

“Oh shit really? I can’t believe I slept that long.”

“So no school?”

“Well I’m not going.” we both laugh. We sat on my couch and watched movies most of the day. It was really nice, doing nothing with someone special to you. My mom was coming home on Sunday so I did have anything to do all weekend so I asked Connor. “Hey what are you doing this weekend?”

“Nothing really, why?”

“My mom doesn't get home until Sunday so I was wondering if you wanted to do something?”

“Sure, like what?”

“I’m not sure. I haven’t gotten that far.”

“okay, why don’t you let me plan something for us tomorrow.”

“But it was my idea I don’t want you have to do it.”

“No I want to do it.”

Later that night Connor and I were just sitting around so I asked him if we should go see a movie with Sof, Sydney, Marcus, Brooke, Amy and I. He was all for it. I asked everyone and everyone was free except for Amy, she said she had some homework and that she was tired. We all went to the movie theater on the other side of town because the movie that we wanted to watch wasn’t playing in the one near us. Me and Connor go pick up the tickets for everyone but when we come back we saw everyone talking with a group of people and Amy. “I thought you said she had homework.” Connor says quietly to me. “She was or that’s what she told me.” we walk up and Sof is talking to Amy. “That’s some homework you got. You know you don’t have to lie about everything. We get that you have other friends but you could have just told us you had other plans.”

“I-I what are you guys doing over here anyway, you guys usually go to the other one.” Amy said.

“The movie we wanted to watch only plays here. So are you going to tell us why you lied?”

“I didn’t they asked me after Bella called.”

“Okay so you wouldn’t hang out with us but you would hang out with other people? You make no sense. So why, what makes us so terrible?”

“It’s not you guys, it’s someone.”

“Okay who?”

“Bella.”

When my name came out of that girls mouth I was ready to put my foot into it. I think I’ve had all of three conversations with her. What in the world did I do to her? “What can I say I haven’t liked her since I first seen you. It’s nothing personal, actually never mind it is. You know my step sister that lives in our old town, that will soon live here. Amber.” When Amy said her name everything stopped, I could feel the cold running through my blood. It’s like my heart stopped, but when I came back to what had just happened and realized that I wasn’t asleep this time, my stomach flipped. I didn’t know what to do. Connor looked at me and it’s almost as if he could see the fear in my eyes. “We are going to find out seats.” Connor said and grabbed my hand and started to walk when I feel someone grab my arm, hard. I turn and look it was Amy. “After the stories I heard, your going to pay.” she said. My first thought was that I'm not doing this again, I’ve grown, I won’t do this again. I rip my arm out of her grip “Yeah that’s what you heard stories and don’t you ever touch me again.” I start to walk away but she yelled “We aren’t done talking.” Connor turn to go to walk over to her and he was not happy. I put my hand on his arm and give him an I got this look. I turn to her. “Well enjoy talking to yourself because no one here is listening to your bs.” She said nothing after that and we started to walk and I grab Connor’s hand. I was shaking more than a building during an earthquake, but I did it.

I felt like I was dying during that movie, I don’t even remember what the movie was about. After the movie I tell Connor that I just wanted to go home. When we got to my house it was 10:30 pm and after the afternoon I had I just wanted to sleep. I kept getting text on my phone from everyone and I could tell Connor had questions too but I just wanted to sleep. I said to Connor “I’ll explain tomorrow but now I just want to sleep.” He agreed and we sat on the couch watching one of my favourite shows and fell asleep. I wish that night never happened and that they would disappear and all the memories with them. All I could think about was how Amy was Amber’s cousin and I’m not sure how I’m going to explain what happened to anyone especially Connor. I hope that I get to explain it before Amy does or even worse Amber. I look up to Connor and I see he’s sleeping and I’m happy. Out of everything that has happened I am happy and I don’t care who comes here this is my life, they can’t take that again.

This time will be different. I won’t sit back and let this happen again. I have great new friend’s and someone I can see myself falling in love with and I’m not just going to let her come in and ruin me. Sorry not this time and not anytime after this. I woke up and looked at my phone it was 4:57 am. I feel uncomfortable from sleeping on the couch for two nights in a row but I don’t want to just go upstairs and leave Connor down here. I sit up and tap Connor in the shoulder “Hey, wake up.” I say just loud enough that he would wake up. He opens his eyes and looks at me. “Hey, what time is it?”

“Like 5:00 in the morning.”

“Why did you wake me up?”

“Because we should go to my bed this couch is to small and uncomfortable.”

“Okay sure.”

I stand up and walk Connor follows me upstairs. We get up to my room and Connor lies on the bed with the covers underneath him. I tug at the covers and then he grabbed me by the hand and pulls me onto the bed. “At least let me get the blankets out from underneath us.” I say. “Fine.” Connor sits up on the bed and stands picks me up off the bed and pulls the covers over onto themselves. He grabs my waist and pulls me back onto the bed and pulled the covers over us. “Are you warm enough?” he asks. “Perfect.” I say. I kiss him then we both fell asleep in each other's arms. This is the reason, he is the reason I won’t back down this time.