All We Know Is Falling: Fall With Me: Volume One by Nicole Thorn Read Free Book Online Page B

laced his fingers together and rested them on the table. “Had to take the chance. You are far too interesting to just give up on.”
    “Again, you don’t know me. And you don’t know me enough to find me interesting.”
    He shook his head. “Just takes one little thing to make a person real. And you’ve done several.”
    “You should stop wasting your time on me. I’m a lost cause,” the truth in the words made my stomach feel hollow.
    “No such thing.”
    Little did he know.
     
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    He let me sit alone for lunch and he was quiet all during Art. He sat beside me while we sketched, but he didn’t try and talk to me. I didn’t know what his game was but I was sure that this was part of it.
    I changed into my Gym clothes and put my normal ones in my locker, along with my boots. Then I headed to the gym.
    Jay was already in there and she was setting up the stations for the day.
    “What are we doing?” I asked as I approached her.
    She glanced back at me. “Well, you get to pick. I’m making Fridays free play days from now on. So we’ve got a jump rope station—though I wouldn’t recommend it for girls as endowed as you,” her eyes dropped to my chest. “It hurts like a mother fucker,” she frowned. “Or you can walk again, play dodgeball. Whatever you want.”
    She looked behind me and smiled. “Maybe you and your new friend can play together.”
    I looked behind me to confirm that Hale was approaching. “You know I don’t do humans,” I looked back at her. “Too fragile.”
    She put her hand on my arm. “Sweetie. Odds are you can wait a whole lifetime before you meet another immortal. Don’t waste your time being alone because you’re afraid of hurting.”
    I took a step back from her. “I just can’t do it, Jenna.”
    “Can’t do what?” Hale said as he caught me by the hips.
    Jay laughed, “Speak of The Devil.”
    I glared at her. “Funny. Bet he’d think you were a hoot.”
    “You would know, Damian,” she stuck her tongue out at me and walked away.
    “You’re friends with her but you refuse to be mine?” his nails dug into my hips and I got a little dizzy.
    I turned around and forced his hands off of me. “She’s a friend of my mother.”
    “Not a nice one if she’s joking about you being a child of The Devil,” he said with his eyebrow up.
    My heart started beating faster. “Yeah, that would be terrifying, I’m sure.”
    He shrugged. “Maybe. Depending on what person it was. I imagine the Antichrist, if he were real, would be more annoying that anything. Entitled.”
    I scoffed. “You’re not off.” I’ve met too many of my siblings to disagree. Some can be real bastards.
    He glanced around the room and said, “What shall we do today, Rory?”
    “We?”
    “Yes. We.”
    I sighed and rubbed my eyes. “I don’t know what I have to do to make you understand this.” I opened my eyes and put my hands on his face to pull him down to eye level. The closeness was unnerving. “Listen to me, Hale. I do not want to be your friend. Ever. Nothing you do will ever change how I feel about this because the reason will never change. I don’t have friends. I don’t date. And that is going to stay that way for a very long time.”
    He smiled and grabbed my shoulders, pulling me right to him. I let go of his face. “Aurora, I hear you. I just think you’re wrong. I think you’re a little lonely. I think you can use a friend. I can too.”
    Oh. I hadn’t considered that before. That this didn’t have much to do with me. He was new and all alone and he wanted a friend. He thought I was someone who could understand. But he picked the worst person in the world to try and be friends with.
    I gently took his hands off of my shoulders. “I’m sorry that you’re lonely. But I wouldn’t be good company for you.”
    He clicked his tongue. “I’m not so sure. And I never said I was lonely. I said that you were. I just said I wanted a friend.”
    “Then find a better one