Two Paths Meet, Brittany A. [the best electronic book reader .TXT] 📗

come back home.” Alex could tell Ren was getting mad and did Kenny really mean that Ren was in love with her. “Kenny why are you always the one he sends to find out where I am, why can’t he just leave me alone?” he asked. Kenny laughed and said, “Oh you know as well as I do, but I don’t think you want me to say it. It might up set your little friend here. So I don’t know why you asked unless you want me to tell her, or do you, because I can and it won’t hurt me none.” He jumped a little forwards and said, “No don’t do that Kenny.” She smiled an evil smile and said, “But she does have a right to know doesn’t she?” He didn’t say anything back and she could that Kenny had won the situation. So Kenny said, “Well I suppose I’ll see you when she dies, then it will be a farewell meeting, the late one you will ever have. Bye Ren.” She walked toward the door and disappeared.
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He knew Alex was waiting to make sure Kenny was gone, but she could not tell, so he said, “She’s gone.” He didn’t turn around to face Alex. He heard her get out of the bed and walk over to him. She looked at him and said, “So what was that all about?” She just asked one question but inside that question was a million. He looked at her eyes and he knew it was better to tell her the truth, but he didn’t want to hurt her either. “Well where I come from the king made a law that if any one for there was to be bound to the human world that they would… they would never be able to come back” he told her. He didn’t really lie to her, he more or less bent the truth because after she dies he would have to go back and then he would also die. “I’m sorry Ren, I shouldn’t have picked up the notebook, and I should of just left if, because now you can’t go home. I’m so sorry.” He smiled and said, “Don’t be sorry. If you never picked it up I would have never met you. So it’s not a bad thing at all.”
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Chapter 2

One week later
On their way to school Alex stopped at the curb and seen a car about to go by so she stopped and the Ren stopped next to her and also waited. After the car went by Alex was going to walk forwards when Ren took her hand in his and walked with her. She looked at him and he said, “If you don’t want to just tell me.” All she could do was smile, so she nodded so he would know that she understood and then she walked with him.
When they got to the school Ren walked Alex to her locker. Even though his locker was at the other end of the hallway and the classroom was by her locker. “Hey why don’t you go get your stuff so you’re not late and I’ll wait here for you so I can get my things as well” she told him and he smiled and nodded. “Okay I’ll be right back and I’ll try to be quick about it.”
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Ren was walking to his locker to get his things and then meet back up with Alex. So he got his things from his locker and put them in his shoulder bag. He turned around and Brandon was standing in front of him. “Hello Brandon” he said in a palate way. Brandon had anger and discussed look on his face. “Don’t play inanest with me, I know that you are just pretending to hang out with Alex and pretending to know what she is going through just to get some” Brandon yelled at him. Ren just looked at Brandon in shock is that what all human teenagers thought. “First of all I am not playing with Alex’s feeling because that is just a low thing and if anyone playing with her feelings it’s you. That was a low thing you did, not being her friend just because she would not date you, that my friend is the lowest of the low.” Brandon’s face got red and he got even angrier. Then he grabbed Ren up by the collar of his shirt and yelled, “YOU DON’T KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT.” Ren was getting mad, he thought ‘How can he sit there and lie to himself about what he did to Alex.’ “You know what I’m not wrong, you are because the way you handled things was wrong. You completely took Alex’s feelings out of the equation and you hurt her and that’s not right. You just don’t want to admit it to yourself because you did not have any real feelings for her. Now I have to clean up the mess that you left her emotions in, and I will help her get through everything you do or anyone else does to hurt her if it’s the last thing I do, because I really do care for her.” Brandon was so angry looking like he was going to hit Ren and he lifted his fist back to do it.
“Brandon stop, please stop” Alex yelled from behind the crowd of people that had formed and when she said it the crowd spilt to where she was. Brandon and Ren looked at her. She was starting to cry again. Brandon let go of Ren as Alex made her way to them. Ren seen Brandon step toward her and she stepped back from him into Ren’s direction. She turned and looked at him. “I came to see what was taking you so long” she told him and then the tears in her eyes started to over flow. He went to her and put his arms around her and she stepped into his embrace. Then when her face was in his chest where no one could see her face she started to let all the tears come. But he didn’t know why she was crying. He just stroked the back of her head and told her, ‘It’s going to be fine. Everything is going to be fine you’ll see.’
After Alex stopped crying Ren walked her to the school doors and looked at her. He wiped away the tears that were still there and said, “Do you feel better? Or do you need me to take you home?” She looked at him and smiled and he couldn’t help in wondering why she was. “No I’m fine, but we are 10 minutes late for class” she told him. She was turning to walk away, but Ren grabbed her shoulders and said, “Alex why were you crying before nothing bad happened.” She looked down and said, “Well I don’t really know why I just seem him grab you and you stood up for me and then he was going to hit you, I don’t really know why I cried.” He was shocked, she was there that long, she heard that much. He just smiled at her, took her hand and walked with her to the devils classroom.
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Alex was so glad for school to end now she only had 2 hour of detention to get through with Ren and Mrs. Red. Oh how Alex loathed the woman. So Alex and Ren made their way back to the devil’s classroom. Once Alex got into the classroom Mrs. Red sent her to the janitor to get cleaning supplies. Which Alex didn’t know why Mrs. Red was such a bee to her all the time.
When Alex got back with the cleaning supplies Mrs. Red was gone. She looked around and found Ren cleaning the top of a desk. “Hey where is Mrs. Red?” she asked him as she walked over to him. He turned and looked at her them said, “She said she had a date with her husband that they had planned a month in advance. So she said she would trust me, to get us to get the cleaning done.” Alex laughed a little and grabbed a bottle of window cleaner and roll of paper towels. Then she went over to window as started to clean them. “At least I now know that she’s not all cold inside like she pretends to be” she said out loud not really to anyone. She just cleaned the windows and thought. Then all of a sudden Ren took the cleaner from her and grabbed a paper towel. “If you’re going to clean them like that I can do it” he said from behind her. She turned and he was right in front of her now. She smiled and said, “Sorry I was just thinking… My brother is supposed to come tomorrow from college. I was just thinking what you were going to do; I guess my mind was wandering, sorry again.” Ren looked at her and said, “Well I can make it where you can only see me or have you forgotten all ready.” She nodded and smiled at him. She had not forgotten it’s just that she could see him all the time so she was used to it. “Well most of the cleaning is done all that’s left is the windows, you can go sit and think some more I’ll clean them and then we can go.” She looked around and was surprised he had cleaned the room by his self and she didn’t do anything. She was so interest. “Sorry again I should have helped you” she told him. He smiled and said, “Its fine, you were thinking about your brother and family is important, so it’s fine.”
After the windows were done Alex and Ren left the school and were walking to Alex’s house. She turned her head and said, “Hey I should make it up to you for having to clean the whole class by yourself… but I don’t know how.” Then she looked forwards after she told him. She could sense him smiling, and then he took her hand in his and held it while they walked. “If it’s a big thing to you to make it up, you can make it up my letting me hold your hand.” She smiled and said, “You know I would of let you any ways.” She looked at his and he said, “I know but you wanted to make it up.” They laughed and walked to her house holding hands the whole way.
Alex and Ren walked into her room. When they did Alex saw her brother on the floor with some guy on top of him biting his tie. “Oh my god, you would think a gay guy would have more self-control, god Brain in my room really. And