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I nodded, thankful for the reprieve His hand tightened inus out into the now deserted hallway

Chapter 14

Being the centre of attention really wasn’t lances that were directed aterupted everywhere I went thatas I walked past people ‘That’s the girl that I was fighting with Sandy,’ or ‘Apparently her boyfriend cheated and now she’s lost the plot’ I tried to ignore it, I really did, but it followedmy mood with a wave of depression and huo hoain, which was slightly weird after the fact that I’d kissed hi, but thankfully he didn’t mention it The rest of the day wasat htest Gym was especially hard because Sandy was there too I noticed with some measure of satisfaction that she looked a little weary of me, and didn’t really make eye contact with me at all That, coupled with the fact that she had a subtle bruise forinally better Of course Zach was there,sarcastic to the teacher and generally not doing anything he was told to do As usual he h a couple of ti within a hundred yards of o ho from my dad and curl into his side atched TV like I used to when I was a little girl I didn’t want to wait for Alex to finish his football practice, so I decided to walk home instead Lucky for me it was a fairly pleasant day, so I enjoyed the sunshine as I walked After a couple of minutes my cell phone vibrated inat the caller ID "Hello?" I was"Hello?" When no one answered I sighed and disconnected the call

I barely et the phone back inat the screen I saas an unknown number "Hello?" I answered This time it wasn’t dead silence No one spoke, but I could hear quiet breathing Someone was on the other end of the call, they just weren’t talking

"Alex, is that you fooling around? Because it’s not funny!" I snapped, glancing around the deserted road as I shiftedcontinued on the line

"Who is this?" I asked, pulling the phone away froain as if the ansouldnuain and suddenly the phone buzzed in ain What the hell? I decided to just leave it this ti a joke onto it this ti it in er built up inside h recently? Now someone had decided to heavy breathe on a call? People sucked! My ain But she wouldn’t call , surely

I huffed and liftedto appear unaffected Whoever was callingto upset etting the satisfaction of upsetting hts only on her and how much she’d screwed upday was better in the sense that soht and vandalised the Principal’s office et toilet paper and silly string Talk was therefore no longer onwho had pranked the principal For that I was grateful at least

My day passed quicker than the previous one At lunchtiet another of those silent calls from the unknown number I had been sat with Charlotte and Beth at the ti nu when this was going to end I’d noted at the time that Sandy wasn’t in the lunchroo with her friends as she tried to tor another scene I was convinced that Luke was right in what he’d said the previous et me into trouble Therefore I just wouldn’t rise to it, I’d pretend as if it weren’t happening and hope that she got bored before it started to play on my mind

Today was Friday, so thankfully I had a whole weekend of relaxing to look forward to I just had to get through tutoring Zach first though, and then I could relax, but even before that I had to go with hiht with his group I really had no idea what to expect

We pulled up in the parking lot of what looked like an old abandoned building instead of a gy to hi with unbridled excitement because of the ride on his bike He smiled over his shoulder at me as I unwoundthe hel his chuckle as I smoothed roup of like, and they spent an hour or two going through new stunts, or plans that they had to ju week I had no idea that people actually paid for traceurs to put on perforroup of fellow freerunners had a show co up in a couple of weeks, so they needed to build up a routine that looked polished, but at the same time, looked like it was , but I still just didn’t get it or its appeal

"Ready?" Zach asked, shoving his hands in his pockets and nodding off to rinned as we started walking across the parking lot, skirting along the edge of the building that looked like it was extre panes, broken or boarded up Graffiti covered al I looked at it all in awe, it wasn’t just people tagging stuff and scribbling crudities like usual graffiti, someone had made a kind of mural on the wall It was incredible, and I looked at it in awe as alked, taking in all the colours and noticing how perfectly they blended together It was all segmented off, different scenes in each little section My eyes stopped on a perfectly spray-painted picture of a geisha in full costuht sun overhead It was beautiful and tookhow someone actually created that with paint cans

Zach s in each segment, shocked by the intricacy of each one "Like it?" he asked