Together Forever.

Confused

We pulled up to our high school we've now been attending for three years, James Bailey High School. As we parked his bike we got tons of strange looks, since our relationship status was on Facebook saying single for both of us. I slid off his bike, took off his helmet and flipped my hair knowing Ethan was watching me,

"Hot" he whispered to himself thinking it was silent enough for me not to hear. I started to giggle letting him know that I had heard, his cheeks were redder then a tomato, which only made me giggle more,

"So, me and you. Relationship? Friends? Handholding?" he said nudging me, the last question reaching out his hand. I rolled my eyes and grabbed it,

"You know everybody is looking at us right?" he leaned down to my ear and whispered to me, I kinda got caught up in the moment. I tossed his hand down to his side; I forgot that we weren't together anymore. It was weird because for the past two weeks I had been so depressed and couldn't stop thinking about it, but now that I'm with him it's different. I had forgotten about all of that, it's crazy I never thought I would,

"So, we aren't together?" he asked with a lot of emotion behind it, I kinda just looked at the ground and shook my head. Sure I was happy with him, but I couldn't just jump back into a relationship like that,

"I'll, uhm, I'll see you later Ethan" I said as I kissed him on the cheek, he grabbed my wrist and pulled me back,

"Am I taking you home?" he asked quietly as he looked down into my eyes,

"If you want to" I replied back to him, as I walked away. 

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"I can't make up my mind, I really care about him but I can't let him hurt me again" I complained to my friend Sparrow as I closed my locker,

"Don't worry, you'll make the right decision!" she said rubbing my arm, she closed her locker and we were on our way down the long, dreadful hallway to class.

After school I was walking down the hall, alone the way I like it. I heard the sound of loud, heavy footsteps clomping around behind me,

"Marie, wait please?" I turn around to see those words just came from Ethan's lips,

"Ethan, I can't. I just got caught up in the moment today, I can't do this yet. I'm not ready" I cried out to him, he walked over to me and wiped my tears away,

"Don't cry Marie, I've seen you cry enough the past few days" he tried to comfort me, I rolled my eyes at him,

"But seriously, please don't cry it means I've hurt you. I don't like hurting you because you are so special to me, Marie" He said looking down into my eyes; I smiled a big smile back at him,

"Ohhhhh Marie!!!!!" I heard whining from around the corner, just then his soccer friends came from around,

"Shut up guys I'm spending time with my woman" he assured me, still looking into my eyes,

"Come on man, we have practice!" one of his friends whined as he slapped his arm, Ethan leaned down to my ear, "You wanna stay for my practice?" he whispered into my ear, I nodded to let him know I do,

"Then after if you want you can come over, my mum hasn't seen you in a while and she misses you" he whispered again, I giggled as he kissed my neck. I had forgotten his mum let him back in the house again.

"okay" I whispered to him, his friends made gagging sounds before he could kiss me,

 "Come on, I'll walk with you to practice, maybe I'll wait up" I winked at him and I started walking, he caught up and held my hand.

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"Come on Ethan! Get your head in the game, what's wrong with you?!" the coached screamed from across the field at him, Ethan just kept running with the ball down the field shaking his head,

"Come on Ethan, what are you doing?" I whispered to myself, he really wasn't doing his best today, he ran past some of the guys on the opposite side. He kicked the ball up in the air and did a sideways jump to kick it with full force into the goal. I stood up and cheered for him along with some other girls, one of those girls was Lindsay, the girl Ethan was cheating with. When she looked over and noticed I was in the crowd and we were both cheering for the same boy, she gave me a dirty look which I gave her one back. Ethan noticed from the field she was there, we both looked over to him and he blew me a kiss. Lindsay just stood there with her mouth wide open, me I was sitting there with a big smile on my face.
After practice Ethan came over to the stands where I was sitting, I didn't notice he was standing right over me,

"Texting your other boyfriend?" he said scaring me half to death,

"If I was texting my boyfriend, it would be my only one" I winked at him, he grabbed my hand and pulled me up. Lindsay got up and came walking over to us, her long blonde hair, blue eyes, perfect skinny cheerleader body, super short hoochy shorts, and a shirt that is just a little bit too tight for her. She flipped her hair thinking Ethan was watching, he wasn't,

"Hi Ethan, haven't talked to you in a while. You should come over again soon, I miss you" she giggled in a little girly voice, and she tried to wrap her skinny little arms around his neck to give him a hug. He just grabbed my hand tighter and walked away, leaving her standing there with her arms in the air looking like a crazy person. I just laughed as we walked into the school,

"I'm gonna head to the locker room to shower up, here's my keys if you wanna head out to the bike" he told me, letting go of my hand,

"Oh, I left my bag out on the bleacher, I'll meet you out there" I added, he nodded and headed into his locker room. I walked back to the benches, the happiest girl in the world today. I saw Lindsay coming towards me walking to the parking lot,

'Don't talk to me, don't make faces, just keep walking' I kept repeating to myself.