Cinderella my Ass

I was late... And I\'m clumsy

Okay I shouldn"t be freaking out. But I freaking was freaking out about that stupid freaking thing. I mean... It was nothing, right? But my mind wouldn"t agree with it.

We had left the roof and we were walking to my house, but Midnight was holding my hand, keeping it warm, while playing with my fingers. And I was just freaking out. Why? I have not a freaking idea. People hold hands the whole time. Friends hold hands... You and your mother hold hands, or even dad. I mean it was nothing. It wasn"t like we were kissing or something. We were just holding freaking hands! Why was I overthinking about it so much? He was just being a good friend with me. And yet...

Kill me!!!

Midnight didn"t let go of my hand till we were in front of my house and I had to get up that stupid tube, to get in my room. And I thought that would be the part when we say goodbye, but Midnight didn"t say anything. Just waited for me to get in my room. What did that mean? That he didn"t want to spend time with me again? Had I done anything wrong? Because for all I know I was pretty awesome tonight.

And for a tiny moment I thought I would sleep frowning tonight, but before I could close the window, Midnight jumped in, grinning. "Thank you for tonight Ry."

I smiled. Of course I smiled. How could I don"t do that when for all I knew he was happy? I mean his lips tugged up in a smile and his voice... His deep voice, now that I was thinking about it, it made me purr... Okay out of the point here... His voice sounded happier as well and well... I was happy for him.

"Thank you too." He was about to leave and that"s when in frowned. I couldn"t help it. It scars the crap out of the fact that I cared about him so much. More than I should. And we haven"t been meeting for too long. How could I care about someone I met just weeks ago. It was unnatural. "Midnight."

"Yes?"

"When will you talk to me about your problems? I want to help you." Midnight frowned a little.

"Maybe some other day. For now I just want to enjoy the time with you." I smiled at his words, but, I still wanted to know what was the matter with him. Why was he broken inside? "Goodnight Ry!" He kissed my forehead.

"Goodnight Midnight."

***

I started to run. Like a psychopath-is-following-me kind of run. But seriously... I was late. Super late. Why did I overslept? Oh yeah... Because I was outside the whole night with freaking Midnight. And that made me smile every time I remembered it, but it was getting pathetic. I don"t overthink about Jasmine. Like never. But maybe I"m overthinking about him, because I know he is sad and broken inside. Yeah, I didn"t know the reason yet... But I cared for all my friends and he was one of them. And I didn"t want him to feel pain. I wanted him to be happy.

The half of the first period had passed and I knew I wasn"t going to get through it easily. I mean the teachers usually make such a big deal about these kind of things. Still running I reached the door of the class and was about to grab the handle and open it when the door opened magically by itself slamming against my face.

Looks like whoever was getting out, was angry. Became s**t THAT HURT! Like a lot. I fell on the floor from the strong impact on my face, as I felt something warm running down my nose. I raised my hand to touch it. When I looked at my fingers I sighed frustrated. It was blood. Okay... today.... was officially NOT my day.

"I"m so sorry." The whoever said and I was about to scowl at the guy, but when I looked up, I saw Aiden with a worried expression, kneeling in front of me and taking my face in his hands to watch me closer. Boy you are forgiven! "I hope I didn"t brake it. I"m so sorry."

"I... There"s no problem." I muttered under my breath, but since he was so close to me I know he heard me.

Wait a minute. Stop there! Replay it a little.

Aiden was close to me? Like really super close? Oh my God. I can"t breath. And I didn"t even notice the crowd formed around me. "I should take you to the nurse." He muttered and helped me up. Pushing everyone out of his away, he growled. "Nothing to see here. Go get a life."

I frowned. He sounded angry... He looked angry... And yet why was I noticing a sad tone in his voice? It was absurd and maybe my mind was playing tricks on me, but I couldn"t help and think that Aiden was sad.

When he looked down at my face, I noticed that I was staring at him, and he kind of caught me red handed, so I blushed a little. The thoughts in my mind not letting my blush going further than that.

"I"m sorry for your nose." He apologized again. Now that he remembered me that, I realized that it was still bleeding and hurting like hell. To don"t mention the fact that my eyes were tearing up because of the pain. I was keeping my mind too busy with my "Aiden" thoughts to notice what was happening to me.

I brushed some tears away from my eyes calmly and gave him a weak smile. "It"s okay."

We reached the infirmary and walked in. The poor nurse almost fainted when she saw me. Maybe it had to do with the fact that I was a girl, looking like I had take a really good punch. And thanks to a small mirror in the room, I had the chance to see myself. Well... It was pretty bad. I mean... Blood was all over my face even though I just bumped against the door. Aiden was really putting all his anger in that door. And now my face.

I looked up at him and he was already looking at me... with guilty eyes.

The nurse cleaned my face slowly and carefully to don"t put too much pressure on my nose. After all the blood was off my face, she touched my nose lightly in a few places... "Thank God it"s not broken." She breathed relieved and gave me a smile. "How did that happened sweetie?"

"I..." Aiden started to say, but I cut him.

"I bumped against the door." I smiled and the nurse looked at me weirdly. "I was late... And I"m clumsy." The nurse chuckled a little at that.

"Next time be more careful." And with that we left then infirmary. But I never had the chance to go further than five steps out of it, because Aiden grabbed my wrist and pulled me against the wall, pining me there.

Oh boy!

"I"m really sorry Ryder." His voice was sincere. And I believed him. But he was too close to me and I couldn"t think straight. It was like all my thoughts went messy in my head, not letting room for anything to be processed. There was something though that made me frown. It was his smell. For sure Aiden smelt good... But... I had a strange feeling I had smelt this somewhere else. But I just couldn"t put my finger on it. "Ryder, I mean it. I didn"t want to hurt you. It was an accident. Don"t be mad at me." Now his voice was panicking.

Now... There might me three reasons why I did what I did after hearing his panicked voice:

1. I went crazy.

2. He was too close to me for me to think anything sane.

And 3. The door hit my brain out of my head.

But I actually laughed. I freaking laughed like a freaking i***t. Okay not like hysterical laugh... But it was still a laugh. And I looked like an i***t. And to don"t mention Aiden looked at me dumbfounded and like I went crazy, which was one of the options why I did this.

"It"s okay." My voice surprisingly came out calm and soft. "Why were you angry?" I want wanted to ask him why was he sad, but what could guarantee me that he would answer and not run away from me?

"I got detention..." And just like that his sincere tone in his voice left us. I could carry on with questioning him and make him tell me the truth, of course that if he doesn"t just leave me there and walk away and never show up in my life again, but I didn"t say anything. If he didn"t want to say anything, he could say anything. After all, why would he tell me?

We were walking to the class, but the moment we reached it, the bell rang, so our paths parted.

I went to my locker to leave some books, when my very loved friend decided to appear. In a dramatic way I must add, making everybody look at her weirdly. Jasmine came running like a freaking lunatic, waving her arms in the air and screaming my name on the top of her lungs so much, I knew the whole school now knows my name. "RYDER!!!"

"Shut up, Jass for God"s sake. What happened?" I whispered, giving a apologetic smile to the people around.

"How was the fight? Did he looked hot punching? Don"t tell me you got turned on while seeing him like that." 1...2...3... Nope! I still don"t get her.

"What are you talking about?"

"About your Biology class girl." She smacked the back of me head and then started to jump up and down. "I wand juicy details from your point of view."

"I came late. I missed my Biology class." I said to her with a voice that begged her to stop acting so hyper and to stop confusing me. I was freaking out. Who got in a fight and why???

"What!!! You suck." She stopped jumping with a sad expression on her face. Now it was my turn to smack the back of her head and I added the glare on my way.

"Tell me what happened!!!"

"Ouch!" She rubbed the place where I smacked her and gave me a glare. But I rolled my eyes at her. "Fine. Aiden started to punch a guy in your class. I think he said something to him, which got him angry and he kind of ruined his face."

Oh. My. God.

What the actually heaven!

"You said what now?" I asked her shocked. Seriously, what is happening? Aiden was all sweet and caring.... What could the guy tell to him to get him so angry to redo his face? And that just made me think that there was something wrong with him. Like something going in his life... Maybe I was too blind by the fact that I liked him and didn"t notice little things, OR the fact that I spend a lot of time with Midnight who HAD things going on in his life made me think everyone was like him.

The rest of the day went on in a blur. I was overthinking about Midnight and I was over thinking about Aiden. No matter who it was, my mind kept screaming to me that they had stuff going on their life. I knew for sure that Midnight had stuff going on in his life. But the fact that I had the same feeling about Aiden was driving me crazy. Why would I have that stupid feeling?

"Ryder?" The voice was worried and hesitant. It made me sad for some reasons it looked like it was almost feared of my reaction... my response. And the fact that was Aiden"s voice didn"t help.

I raised my head up to him and just looked. No smiles, no frowns, no glares, no blushes no nothing. I was too busy overthinking to do any of these. But that made Aiden frown.

"I..." His voice cut short by a frustrated sigh. What was the deal with him? For the first time in my life, I looked at his eyes carefully. And I noticed something. It wasn"t the sad look in his eyes, and how sorry I felt for him for that. But it was something else. How couldn"t I have noticed this before? His eyes were green. But... It was like... I don"t know. The only think I can think of is how that green colour blended in the most beautiful way with a brown colour near the pupil. It was like... I don"t know... I should have noticed that.

And just like that I went in weird and awkward mode. Which meant I was touching his face without noticing it. Like, can I get any weirder? "You have beautiful eyes." Apparently I can.

His eyes softened and it was like they were smiling at me. "Yours too my Queen."

And for some reasons I was aware of his hand raising up to touch my face, but that just snapped me out of any trance I was, making me blush. Like a lot. I backed away and realized we were in the freaking math class, which was empty. Why was it empty? Don"t tell me the class is over. It is? Holy frack.

"We are partners."

The hell, why is this happening to me? I mean I didn"t even realize the class is over. I didn"t even know when it started. How did I got here...

Wait what?

"Partners?" My voice came out shaky.

"Yes." He chuckled with my tone. "For the biology project." Wait when did that happen? "So your house or my house?"