To Our Pinky Promises

Chapter 30

As I tried my best to fight the crowd, I felt a sharp elbow hit the side of my head, and a sharp pain shot up my foot as it got stepped on another kid.

I hissed in pain as I ducked and raised my arms to protect my head to avoid getting elbowed again.

After a few moments, I finally stopped fighting to go against the current and went with the crowd.

I tried to inch closer to the wall as they pushed me forward until I was able to finally slip out of the crowd by escaping around the corner.

I opened my phone and checked my chat with Alex again to see if he had replied to my texts. I was sure that he had seen me calling out to him earlier.

But as my screen lit up and I scrolled down to the bottom of our chat, no new messages popped up. I could feel my feelings deflate as disappointment kicks in.

Then worry took over.

Was he angry at something I had done?

But what did I do that could have angered him?

If anything, I was the one who should be angry at him.

He stood me up on the day of the appointment and hasn't said a word to me ever since then.

Or did something happen?

Could it be that his parents found out that he was going to a therapist and had went off on him?

Could it be that he had another run in with Ty and got cornered?

Or worse, could it be the guys who had kidnapped him 4 years ago making a reappearance?

The longer that I stood there thinking of countless possibilities on why he was ignoring me, the wilder my imagination got.

Soon enough, I was very close to having a full-blown panic attack caused by my overthinking alone.

The power your brain holds is really something else.

The second I felt the tightness in my chest grow to the point that I had to take short and shallow breaths, I started to force my brain to stop thinking about Alex and start focusing on saving myself first.

I closed my eyes and counted to ten, forced myself to take deep breaths and focused on the feeling of my lungs taking in and pushing out air.

Once I felt stable enough, I took a look around the corridors and realized that the crowd had started to thin out.

I took one last deep breath and braced myself. I'm going to track Alex down today even if that's the last thing I do.

If I don't get any explanation from him, my mind will drive me crazy with all these conspiracy theories.

It was lunch time and judging from the direction that Alex had gone, he's probably at his hideout by the emergency stairs.

So that's the first place I checked.

Sure enough, there was Alex, his back facing me as I stormed up to him, ready to give him a piece of my mind.

"Alexander West! You better give me a damn good explanation on where you were this Saturday or I swear to everything that is holy-" I stopped mid-sentence the second that Alex turned around.

No, it wasn't because I was suddenly bewitched by his eyes or got sucked into a love trance.

It was because only then did I realize that he had company.