Roses - A.J Beth (best books for 20 year olds TXT) 📗

was of me and Andy at the park and he frowned.
“…Oh…” He said awkwardly. He was sad about it and I felt a little bad.
“Oh my… I’m sorry Bryce.” I said putting my hand to my mouth.
“Don’t worry about it…. I had my chance and I blew it.” He half smiled .
“Well wanna have a together, since I’m back and I know how good of a partier you are.” I asked him smiling, he looked back up and smiled really big.
“I’ll bring the beer.” He smiled I looked at him and gave him a hug.
“Okay tonight, at our favorite spot.” I said, I had to go. It wouldn’t be a get together with just two people so I went and got some other people.

I drove over to Steven’s house and knocked on his door. He opened the door and gave me a hug.
“Where were you? Haven’t seen you all year!” He acknowledged, I looked at him and took a breath.
“I moved, but I’m back for the summer. There’s going to be a get together tonight.. At the abandoned house Tell Alice too.” I smiled he laughed.

“Wow not even here for a day and you already got something planned. You were always best at that though.” He smiled, I have him another hug before leaving.

I posted it on my face book, then at 9 at night everyone met at the old house, I found Bryce and he brought the beer. I went up to him and gave him a hug, “You’re the best.” I didn’t get drunk but I had a few beers, then Alice my best friend showed up with Steven, just the four of us like old times.
“Honey!!!” I yelled running up to her, she looked at me and gave me a big hug.
“Babe I’ve missed you!!!” We both laughed, we weren’t lesbians but in this town that’s how all the girls greeted each other. When Steven and Alice showed up it was perfect, the old house was beautiful inside, but no one would buy it, and only the four of us knew how to get in it.

We were all hanging out in the kitchen when Steven took Alice’s hand and they went upstairs. So it was just me and Bryce with some beers.
“So whatcha wanna do?” I asked him, he looked at me and took a sip of his beer.
“Want to go lie down on the porch and stare at stars.” He asked, I loved the porch of this house, it was off the ground and pretty high up. I smiled and took his hand.

We lied out and just looked at them, I ended up falling asleep like I always do. I sat up fast as I could after having another nightmare, Bryce was gone. I got up off the porch and went inside, “Bryce? Alice? Steven?” I asked, I had a bad feeling in my gut that something had gone wrong.

I walked all through the first floor of the house, and no one was there. The I was getting even more scared and it was almost pitch black so I couldn’t see very well. “This isn’t funny come out where ever you are!” I said aggravated, but no one came out. I check everywhere in the closets, the bathrooms, everywhere.

Then I texted Bryce, ‘Where are you guys?! This isn’t funny!’ I never got a text back, I didn’t know if it was wise to leave or to stay. I called Bryce’s house.
“Hello.” He grandmother picked up the phone.
“Oh hello ma’am is Bryce home by any chance?” I asked her fidgeting with my fingers.
“Oh why no he’s not..” She told me I sighed and took a breath.
“Okay.. Thank you for checking.” I said before hanging up the phone.

I went outside of the house and then into the barn. “Hey! Are you guys in here!!!” I yelled out. No one answered me I was tired of this so I walked back to my house. In the mourning I got up and went back to the house, I walked into the boiler room, but no one was there and everywhere else. I just sat on the floor in a room and sighed, it was completely silent until I hear something a scream it sounded like Alice.

“Alice?!!?!?” I yelled out worried. I kept hearing screams and I jumped off the porch which kind of hurt, but oh well. I ran towards her screams, they were coming from the woods. I found her tied to a tree, I ran up to her trying to untie the rope. “Why are you here? Who put you here? What the hell!” I asked her, her eyeliner had ran down her face from all her tears.
“I don’t know… I went to sleep with Steven and woke up here.” She explained, I untied her and took her hand.
“Come on we have to go find those two.” I said before running farther into the woods.

There was a trail that we followed to an old shack, it was old and had mold on it. I ran up to it and looked inside and it looked like someone was living there. I still went inside with caution and Alice stood outside for guard. “Bryce? Steven?” I whisper, it was a bad feeling in my stomach so I took my knife out. I learned to bring it everywhere with me since the kidnapping.

I heard a muffled sound coming from a room, I walk in and see Bryce and Steven tied up in the corner. I take the bandana away form their mouths and untie them. “Tell me what’s going on..” I said after helping them up. They just shrugged and ran out of the place.

After we get back to the road we are all out of breath from the running. I gave Bryce a hug happy he was okay, “Well that was crazy… maybe we should stay away from abandon houses from now on.” I said. Everyone nods yes and we go to my house, when we got there everyone got something to drink and we sat on the coach. My mom came out of her room and looks at all of us, “Now what happened, you all look like you’ve been rolling around in the dirt.” She giggled, I looked at them then my mom.
“Yeah.. That’s what we did.” I smiled and everyone nodded. My looks back at me and then her light bulb went off. “Oh right A.J. Andy is going to be coming down he should be here tomorrow.” She told me. I tried to pretend not to acknowledge what she said to make Bryce feel better, but on the inside I was saying ‘Yay!!’

The day went on and we just hung out together, until it was around nine and I went to stay the night at Bryce’s. We played video games that he beat me at each time, we laughed and had a good time. I feel asleep when he went to go take a shower, I woke up to my phone going off. Bryce was next to me, but he kept his distance even though he was sleeping.

I answered it, “Hello.” I said rubbing my eyes awake.
“Hey hun, I’m over at your house.. Where are you?” He said excited to see me.
“Omg! I’ll be right there.” I smiled I ran over to my house because I didn’t bring my car. When I got to my house he was in the living room, I ran to him and gave him a big hug. “I’ve missed you so much!!” I said, I gave him a kiss and he smiled.

“Lets go for a ride.. I wanna show you around. I’ll drive!” I say taking his hand.
“Your not old enough to drive.” He stated. I laughed at him.
“Yeah I know.. But in this town everyone cares for everyone, and we’re really tight like a huge family.. So no one tells the police or anything.” I explained.

I drove everywhere showing him around, then I stopped at the park that was in town. It wasn’t as good as the other one, but it was fun to just hang out. We sat on the swings holding hands, I smiled.
“You remember the way we met.” I asked him, he smiled at me.
“Yeah. It was the best day of my life.” He said, I looked at him and looked up at the sky.
“I was looking through the town.. When I see a boy with a beautiful smile, who shared my love of skittles…” I explained to him. “…When I saw you, I thought you would never like me. I almost didn’t come over and stay hello to you that day.” I continued explaining.
“I loved you when I looked up at you that day, and I am so glad you said hello.” He told me. I smiled at him and I felt loved and my heart skipped a beat.
“Lets go get some skittles!!” He laughed. We got up and then went to the store. After buys a huge bag of skittles we went to the abandoned house, even though what happened yesterday was horrible I figured I was safe.

I took him inside and we went upstairs, eating skittles and playing patty cake like little children. We started kissing and then here a horrible sound, it sounded like finger nails on chalkboard. We stop and get scarred it came from downstairs so if we went down there who knows what would happen. I took Andy’s hand and led him onto the roof.

“That was terrifying there’s something here… We should go.” I said with my hand on my chest.
“Yeah, but how it’s probably inside and going in there doesn’t sound like a good idea to me.” Andy replied. I shrugged and then went to the part of the house facing the road, I slowly hung my feet over the edge so they would land on the railing and then dropped. I was okay, I watched so many movies and had done so many things that doing that was a breeze.

“Do what I did and be careful.” I tell him. He looked at me,
“Um. I may be different then most people, but I can’t do that.” He said, then he decided to just jump off the side, it didn’t even hurt him.
“Ha ha we can go now.” He smiled, I looked at him astonished.
“How did you do that? That would have broke someone’s leg for a normal person!” I asked. He laughed and took my hand.
“Yeah, but I’m not normal people.” He smiled lightly as we ran. I thought to myself, ‘maybe that’s why I felt so protected by him?’ We got into the car and just sat in it for a moment. He started the car and we drove off.

“…..What did you mean your not normal?” I asked him, he starred at the road and stayed silent. “Andy, you can tell me.” I tell him smiling. He looked at me and then back at the road.
“Nothing hurts me… well maybe getting shot, but not little things, like knives; punches; falling; jumping.” He explained to me, my eyes got wide.
“That is so cool!!” I smiled, he looked at me and smiled sweetly.
“You know you can do something ‘cool’ too… I’ve noticed it since the beginning.” He told me, I was confused I never felt like I could do anything.
“What would that be?” I said. He giggled a little bit.
“Well you aren’t afraid of anything.. And how you can do things other people can’t… Like at the