Free Trust Me (Finding my way) by R.S Burnett Page B

normal for two minutes?” he asks
    “ Fine, but if it takes too much effort, I’m out,” I shrug.
    Sophie and Matt watch us bemused, so I ignore them and pick up my coffee. “Are you walking me to class or what?” I smile sweetly at Tucker.
    “ Yeah, let’s go,” he stands and pulls me into him with an arm around my neck.
    “ I have tickets for a fight tonight,” I nudge his shoulder with my own as we take our seats in English.
    “ Explain this whole fight thing. I don’t get it,” he asks while twirling a pen between his thumb and forefinger.
    “ I don’t know exactly,” I shrug “Sophie and I, we usually just go for the party afterwards. Remember when we went to see Heavens Devil’s ? Well I’m close with Dave – he’s the one with the little boy that I was on the beach with; he normally gets them for me, but he doesn’t go, so I meet Gavin there. Basically, the fights are held at an old abandoned gym and there’s a bar; it’s a cage fight I think. You can bet on them as far as I know, but we just go for the house party afterwards with the band. You interested?”
    “ Yeah,” he shrugs “Should be fun.”
     
    ***
     
    “Come on, get up.”
    “ Stop shaking me,” I pull the pillow over my head.
    “ Fine,” Tucker chuckles, two seconds later he kicks me softly.
    “ What do you want?”
    “ We’re going out,” he announces and pulls the blanket off me.
    I make a grab for it but he ’s too quick “Where are we going? Aren’t you tired?” After the fight last night, we went to the house party and didn’t get in until four this morning.
    “ Of course I am.”
    “ Then why can’t we stay in bed?” I lift myself up onto my elbows to watch him start the coffee machine.
    “ We’re going shopping.”
    “ You’re a guy, guys don’t go shopping.”
    “ Sure we do, how do you think we get to own things?” he raises an eyebrow at me.
    I think about it for a minute “You get girls to do it for you?”
    “ No,” he laughs. “We do it ourselves, well sometimes anyway.”
    “ What are we shopping for?” I ask as I climb out of bed to get ready.
    “ I was hoping you’d know. It’s my mom’s birthday this weekend.”
    “ Dude,” I can’t help but laugh. “You’re twenty one and you can’t pick out a present for your mom on your own?”
    “ Did you just call me ‘dude’?”
    “ Do you have a penis?”
    “ Yeah,” he answers amused.
    “ Then you’re a dude” I shrug.
    “ Fair enough. Let’s go,” he pulls me out of the room by my arm.
     
     

Six
     
    “ I’m so sorry, Soph” I say for what feels like the hundredth time that day.
    “ It’s okay. I’m fine, don’t worry about it,” she assures me while grabbing herself another coffee.
    I know I kept her up most of the night with my tossing and turning; the nightmares were bad last night.
    “I know, but I feel really bad. You’re losing out on sleep and we have exams coming up. I’ll go to the doctor and get some sleeping pills or something.”
    “ No, it’s fine. It was only last night that I lost sleep. Don’t go on sleeping pills just for one night out of a week,” she tells me over her shoulder as we head to our usual lunch table  where Tucker is already seated.
    “ You two look like crap” he grins at us both as we take our seats.
    “ My fault,” I wince as I acknowledge the restless night’s effect on us both. “I kept Soph up most of the night”
    “ That’s because I wasn’t there,” he jokes but I look down.
    This is something I had already picked up on; it isn ’t lost on me that the only night of the week Tucker didn’t stay in our room or I didn’t stay in his, is the night I had nightmares.
    Sophie, after hearing this theory and obviously catching on, whips her head up and frowns at him then turns to me “Oh my god,” she whispers looking back at Tucker.
    “ What?” he frowns at her.
    “ Nothing,” she says frowning herself.
    “ Anyway, what are we doing tonight?” I