The Innocence is Gone

charity case

April's POV.

"Are you crazy December?"Alex asked me.

I shook my head creasing my eyebrows. "No I am not crazy. Why would you think that?"I asked back. I needed to know why he would ask if I am crazy. Did I look like I was crazy, really?

Alex stared at me for a few seconds. He just stared. I lifted my eyebrows then I snapped my fingers in front of his face but as I was retreating my hand, he held my wrist up in his hand. "Never snap your fingers at me. EVER."he warned me in quite a calm but dangerous voice. Then he let go of my wrist suddenly as if it was trash and my hand dropped aggressively to my side.

His actions made me mad but....."Does that mean you will give me a ride to campus? Come on, it is just a less than five minutes distance." I paused thinking about my statement. " Okay, it's five minutes by car but by foot it would take me longer time."I tried convincing him. I needed his ride so bad. If he left me in his apartment, then I would have gotten lost trying to find myself a ride to campus. I was in an unfamiliar place for heavens sake. It was a given for me to get lost trying to find my way to campus.

Getting lost meant getting late to the dorm and finding all my belongings thrown outside. The dorm administrator was so mad because having a boy sleep in a girls dorms was perceived as a very serious crime. If she were to find anything belonging to me in the dorm she had wanted me and my roommate gone by the end of the day, he would throw it away without second thought. I did not want that happening at any moment. It would be embarrassing.

The things my roommate was making go through made me want to hate her so much. Maybe I hated her a little. This was too much. I had turned to a person who begs and I did not like it. I was not the type to beg. I preferred dying with my problems alone but today's problem was too critical and major for me. I had only encountered minor problems in my life and maybe that was why I felt no need to have anyone's help. But this time round, I wished I had connections with people. Maybe I would not have found myself embarrassing myself in front of the nonchalant guy named Alex.

"You should mark this as the last time I am offering you any help. I don't do charity."Alex told me and I just nodded. He was in other words calling me a charity case but since I needed his help, I had to just shut my mouth and not complain.

"Thank you, I guess."I told him.

"I do not need your thanks December."he nonchalantly said. Then, he nudged his chin towards the rack and I frowned confused. "Take a helmet inside the drawer on the last shelf down the rack."he said and I softened my face looking down at the rack and true, there was a drawer. I found it thoughtful to have a drawer on a shoe rack. Actually, it was more thoughtful to have a shoe rack at the entrance.

I opened it and there were two black helmets. I picked one a frown back on my face. "Why am I picking a helmet?"I asked holding the helmet in my hands looking at Alex so confused.

"I do not have the time to answer your stupid question. Hand me the other helmet."he told me and man, he was cold.

I bent down to take the other helmet but before handing it to him I said, "you do not have to be rude to me just because you are doing me a favour. Trust me, if I had another option I would not be bothering you asking for favours."I told him then I handed him the helmet with quite a force that the helmet hit his stomach instead of resting in his hands.

He glared at me before passing me the keys he took from the bowl resting on the top of the shoe rack. "If you are back early use them."he told me and he led the way outside. "And lock the door behind you."he added.

I did as he said but when I was done locking the door, he was already at the elevator and the door was closing. My eyes went wide as I begun running so that the door did not close on me. "Wait......"I yelled while running but Alex did not not hold the door open for me. He watched me run, he heard me yell and yet he let the door close. When I got to the elevator panting like crazy, it was already going down. "Son of a......."I hissed the rest of the words angrily then I pressed the up elevator buttons and waited for it to take Alex down and come up back for me.

After a short while, the elevator door opened and I got down. In a minute, I was in the basement looking around for Alex until I heard a loud sound from a motorcycle and I gasped in realisation when I saw who was on the motorcycle. The need for the helmets made sense now. I had not thought of a fact that Rainer could have been owning a motorcycle. I actually did not know what the helmets were for when he asked me to pick one for myself and for himself. I was expecting him to have a car, like almost everyone who lived off campus. A motorcycle was the last thought I had.

Plus, with all the fame that Alex had, there was no information that he had a motorcycle. Or maybe I didn't pay attention to what went on his life. I was a pro at not focusing on what happened to people. All I knew about him was that he was very famously known as the college playboy.

"Get on December." Alex told me when he drove to where I stood watching him ride towards me. For some reason, I found Alex very attractive on a bike with a helmet on. He seemed very cool and unique.

"You could have held the door for me and wait till I got in the elevator."I told him just standing and not getting on the bike.

"I don't need your lectures November. I do what I want and I did not want you in the elevator with me."he told me and my heart sunk. Why was he so insensitive? "I am not going to tell you to hop on the bike again. You are not that important to me to keep me waiting for you and repeating myself."he added and my heart just started bleeding from too much compression. If he said another insensitive thing to me, I was sure it was going to explored into tiny pieces.

To avoid that, I just hoped on the motorcycle pursing my lips.

"Get off." Alex suddenly snapped.

"What?"

"I said get off."

"But you told me to hope on?"I asked confused.

"Yeah but you need to put on your helmet first. You are dumb and slow at the same time?"he asked me and it dawned on me that the helmet was still in my hands. For starters, I had never been on a bike. Secondly, Alex's words earlier messed with my head I forgot about the helmet.

I hoped off and I wore the helmet under the watching gaze of Alex. After I was done, I heard Alex sigh annoyed and the next thing I knew, I was being pulled by the waist by him to stand near him. He lifted his left hand and I did not know what he did but I felt the helmet fit in my head better. "You are so annoying I cannot wait to get rid of you."he muttered under his breath. "Let's go now, June."he told me like he never muttered the meanest statement a second ago.

I smiled sadly before I got on the motorcycle and he drove away and the whole ride, I was so scared. He was very careless with how he rode the motorcycle. He made me to never want to be on a motorcycle ever again. I was too young to die.