Alone in Paris: A Standalone Young Adult Romance by Ashley Earley

Author:Ashley Earley [Earley, Ashley]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2017-03-31T18:30:00+00:00

CHAPTER SIXTEEN

No One Sees Me

“It’s getting late, shouldn’t you be getting home?” I ask Nathan. I’m lying on top of the covers on my bed with my arm draped across my forehead as I gawk up at the ceiling. Nathan is sprawled out in the rocking chair; his long legs stretched out in front of him with his arms hanging off the sides of the chair. It looks kind of funny, but I manage to swallow my laughter.

I push myself up, moving to the edge of the bed so that I can look at him. I fold my arms on top of my knees and rest my chin on them, keeping my eyes locked on him. His head tilts slightly after a moment of silent staring. “Did you have a boyfriend back home?”

I blink, taken aback by his random question. He hasn’t answered my question yet, but I’m shaking my head in response to his. My eyes drift down to the covers. “No. No, boyfriend.”

“How come?”

I frown down at the covers. This is the last thing I want to talk about. Why can’t he just answer my question? Why did he have to ask something so random and awkward? “I don’t know. No one caught my attention, I guess. I never really thought about dating while I was in high school. I always thought that there would be time for that later, like in college, I guess.”

He’s caught me off guard, making me feel lame about not having gone out with anyone. He always seemed to ask the questions that I didn’t want to answer. “What about you? Do you have a girlfriend?” I try to push back the small amount of hope that was forming, telling myself that his answer made no difference to me.

A smile tugs on the corner of his lips, and his eyes shift downward, making it difficult for me to read him. “No. Are we playing twenty questions, or just asking questions?”

I roll my eyes. “We’re playing the ‘ask as many questions you want’ game.”

“Are you going to leave tomorrow when my Dad comes?”

“Nope. I’ll be here, watching.”

His brows pull together in concern. “I really think you should go to the park or something. Just anywhere but here.”

“Why are you more worried about this than I am? It’ll be fine.”

“And what if it’s not? What if he sees you? You’re seventeen; you’ll go into the foster system.”

“It’ll be fine,” I assure him again. “No one will see me.”

No one ever sees me, my mind whispers.

∞

I creep around a corner, my bare feet quietly padding on the perfectly white and sanitized floor. Seeing that the nurse’s station is empty, I quickly bolt to the other side of the hall. Nearly all the rooms in the hospital are pitch-black, and there isn’t a nurse or doctor in sight. I make it out of the hospital easily; ducking around corners to avoid nurses and doctors before exiting through the sliding double doors.

A breeze carries through the air, blowing my hair back.

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