birthday candles | the inheritance games

part five

but it's like can read my mind as he says, "you are not being stupid, I love you"

I smile and say to him, "I love you" he pulls me in for a hug,

and I dont let go for a while, but when the time finnaly comes I pull back,

"I will see you soon Malia" Scott says before kissing me,

and that kiss stays on my lips even as he gets into his car, even as he waves goodbye, even when he drives off, it still remains on my lips.

Amelia comes up beside me and pulls me into a hug, "lets go see your sisters" she says leading me to her white mercedes.

I finnaly began calling Avery and Libby my sisters, Scott said something to me over the summer that made me open my eyes.

"they are there for you Malia, you just gotta wait till you can be there for them" he said to me one late summer night,

and the next day I texted Avery asking to meet up, since then its been like we were close our whole lives, we pull up to their complex and Amelia parks the car before we both get out and head up the stairs.

Libby opens the door on the second knock and she lightens up when she sees me, "he Malia" she says, "hey" I say giving her a side hug, its weird to think about that just a few months ago I would be cold to her whenever i'd see her and I would find some excuse to not talk to her.

I see Avery sitting on the couch watching TV as me and Amelia walk into the apartment, "oh hey" she says turning around to look at us, she continues watching her show for a few seconds before pausing it and turning to me.

"he left today didnt he?" she asks with sympathy, I nod my head once before taking a seat on the couch with Amelia close behind me,

Avery scoots close to me and awkwardly wraps her arms around me, I almost laugh because Avery has never been good at comforting people,

Libby does laugh as she says, "Ave you better let me and Amelia take this one" Avery pulls away from me laughing too and that begins to lighten my mood,

I spend the rest of the day with me, Amelia and Avery all watching the notebook and other movies about love, which according to Libby is unhealthy, but I didnt care, because sometimes you just need to watch a sad movie.

Libby made us red velvet cupcakes and we ate them while watching titanic, we went through about five movies before Libby turned the TV off,

"its almost 9:00" she says, "you guys have school tommorow" I sigh remembering I start back at the high school tommorow, "first day of senior year" Amelia pipes up next to me, "junior for me" Avery says rolling her eyes.

"well we should go" I say standing up, "I will see you tommorow" I say to Avery and then wave goodbye to Libby before dragging Amelia out of the apartment, we moved all my stuff into her house this morning with the help of Scott so its all set up.

when we get to her house Amelia turns to look at me before we open the front door, "remember-" she begins but I finnish her sentence for her, "no bringing up Delilah" I say reffering to her sister, "yeah" she says smiling but I can see the pain behind her eyes.

we walk into the house and I hug Amelias mom, Julie, before me and Amelia make a break for her bedroom, she always has had an extra bed in here so thats where I'm sleeping.

"senior year tomorow" I say laying down on the bed, "tommorow" Amelia says shutting off the lights, and we leave it at that as we both fall into a deep slumber,

but the last thought on my mind before I drift to sleep is that this is my first night not sleeping in the same bed as Scott in months.

the next morning:

I jolt awake at the sound of my alarm, I grab my phone out from under my pillow and hit snooze, I slide out of bed and head to the bathroom where Amelia is already brushing her teeth.

"morning" she says after spitting the toothpaste in the sink, I just look at her with the most tired expression on my face,

"once again you are a fucking mood Malia Grambs" Amelia says laughing at the look on my face, I brush my teeth but abruplty stop when I hear my alarm going off again,

I run into the room and grab my phone, stupid snooze.

I have my outfit picked out within half an hour, a simple black skirt with black tights that I paired with a white button up tshirt,

Amelia is wearing white cackys and a brown sweater, we both look ready for boarding school and not a public high school, but who cares.

me and Amelia do our makeup in less then 20 minutes, I grab two muffins for me and Amelia before following her out the door and getting in the car.

I shoot a text to Scott asking him how College life is so far, he replies right away, it would be better with you here I smile at that and send him a heart emoji before putting my phone in my bag.

senior and year are the only words running through my head the rest of the drive, and once we get to the highschool I almost throw up at the sight of it, nothing like Avalon high.

the halls are busy and filled with students running to get to their classes as we enter the building, we go to the principals office and he introduces himself as Prinicpal Altman, he hands us our schuedules and we walk back into the crowded halls, me and Amelia part our ways seeing as we have diffrent classes and so I do the only thing I can.

I find room 2B.

by the end of the day I am already tired of this place, everything about it is just not my scenery, Amelia seems to be fitting in well enough though as when she meets me at the car she is smiling, "whats got you so happy?" I ask her, she pulls her phone out and shows me a text Brandon sent her,

I got you a plane ticket to see me for next weekend, do you want to come? I look down at her text right underneath his, of course I do,

"thats so sweet!" I say smiling at the grin taking over Amelias face, "speaking of boys" Amelia says raising an eyebrow at me,

"is Scott coming down this weekend?" she asks me, I grin and I can tell she already knows the answer, "of course he is" she says answering her own question,

"when the hell are you two going to get married" she says pulling open the drivers side door, I slide into the passenger seat and answer, "hopefully soon".

Scott texts me the second we get back to Amelias house,

I got us tickets to see that new movie that came out I smile and reply, cant wait, I miss you

I miss you too, love

this is going to work, I think to myself as I sit down on the couch, It's still hard not seeing him everyday but we facetime every night, and he will be down here every weekend, maybe this will be easy.

A/N:
sorry for the short chapter, but I wanted to get the book moving along to involve the inheritance games plot, so be ready for the next few chapters. love you lots xx