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I shivered again as I stood up without a word, making my way toward the front door.
It felt like I was walking straight to my own funeral.
The car was already started once I got outside, and Felix sat in the driver’s seat, his heavy gaze on mine as I walked to the car and slipped inside.
“I’m so sorry,” I gushed the moment I got in the car.
He said nothing. Not a word. The entire ride back to his house, he was silent, though his mind was loud. How fucking angry he was for not even discussing it with him. That my friends knew about it all, and I couldn’t even say it to him in a passing conversation.
I get it; I didn’t need to keep it from him, but I’m also spontaneous, and I did it without thinking, and then once I realized my mistake, it was too late. And all I did was end up digging myself a bigger hole.
He didn’t speak to me until he pulled into his driveway, when he turned off his car, facing me.
“Why the fuck didn’t you say something?” he lashed at me, his eyes piercing my soul.
I clenched my hands into fists. “I don’t know.”
“You left me in the dark,” he growled, and guilt instantly filled me. He was hurt.
“I’m sorry,” I whispered. “I never meant to keep it from you. I just… I told the girls because they were all applying, and I never even realized I wanted to until I did, and it just… I fucked up.” I groaned, shaking my head.
“Yeah, you did. You fucked up big time. I don’t like not being told shit, Hazel, and that’s the last time you’re going to do shit without even fucking letting me know first.” He opened his door, slipping out and staring at me. “Meet me in the woods. We’re playing tag.”
So, here I am. I’ve waited here for long minutes, cold and freaked out in the fucking dark, thinking he wasn’t going to come out at all. Maybe this was his game, his punishment. Making me wait outside all night was game enough.
But no, he’d changed, ready to blend into the shadows while I stand out like a sore thumb with my purple hair and checkered leggings.
He stops once he’s only a foot away. His guard is up, and the Felix who I’ve realized cares for me, the one I never want to live without, is closed off.
This is the scary Felix. This is my enemy.
The enemy I love, though I’ve never told him. I wonder if he even knows.
“I’m going to say it once, and I’m never going to say it again. Got me?”
I blink at him.
“Got me?” His voice raises, and I quickly nod at him.
He narrows his eyes. “I’m fucking proud of you, you know? The shit you’ve done, everything you’ve conquered. Being in fucking casts, battling the world. Shit, even dealing with me.”
I roll my eyes.
“But now you want to go and be fucking educated, and go to school, and do all this shit, and I’ve never been prouder of you than I am right now.”
My heart gallops in my chest.
“But… it’s fucking tainted. Because you didn’t even come to talk to me about it. Like I didn’t exist. Like I didn’t fucking matter, Hazel.Not a damn word.” He growls the words at me, and tears spring to my eyes.
“I’m sorry,” I croak.
He whips his head back and forth. “It doesn’t matter, Hazel. You kept something from me, and it’ll be the last fucking time you hide anything,” he snaps.
I nod. “Okay,” I whisper.
“Now, touch me, little witch,” he rasps.
My brows furrow.
