Three Thousand Miles To You(32)
“Alanna it’s not for me to tell you.”
“It’s clear to see that, I am in some kind of danger and all I get from you and Adrian, are vague non-answers to every question I ask.”
“Alanna this is not my secret to tell.”
“Whatever he did, must have been so bad that someone wants to kill him - am I right?” I say shouting.
“Alanna they don’t want to kill him, it’s you they want to harm.” Michael shouts back.
“Me, what did I do?”
“It’s because Adrian cares about you.”
“So they want to hurt him, by hurting me?”
“Now you finally get it,” he says a little too sarcastically.
“You have to understand that all this is new to me, I have never had to deal with anything like this before.”
“How do you think Adrian feels he has had to live with this his entire life?”
There is nothing that I can I say back to him to. We walk in silence back to the dorms. When I walk in the though the door, I am faced with a whole lot of curious faces looking at Michael and me together. Not least, the one I cannot bear to look at right now Marco. I walk past him and I hear him say,
“Can we talk a minute?” I look to Michael and say, “It will only take a minute.”
Marco leans against the pale yellow lockers with his arms folded, Michael stands near buy. “Alanna what has happened to us?”
“What do mean Marco, there were no us.”
“You know what I mean, the little cute arguments we used to have.”
“Okay Marco, I think you are little crazy if you thought they were cute, they were anything but.”
“You don’t even talk to me anymore; I want to know what your problem is.”
“Marco, I have had the worst day, so please can we talk about this some other time?”
“No, it’s now or never.”
“Then I guess it’s never, goodbye Marco.” I try to walk away but I feel Marco’s hand pull me back and before I can breathe he has me pinned up against the lockers, there is about an inch between our faces and the look of rage that’s on his face is terrifying.
“Get off her now.” I hear Michael shout; he pulls Marco away from me and slightly pushes me to one side. I gasp not believing what has just happened. I look to Michael, and his hands are forcefully griped around Marco’s neck.
“If you ever touch her again,”
“What will you do huh?” Marco says in a voice that is too smug,
“I will kill you.”
Michael takes my hand and marches me back to my room. “Adrian is right that bloke is trouble.”
“No Michael he’s really not, I just wound him up that’s all.”
“Alanna he was about to hit you or something even worse, don’t you stick up for him.”
“I am not sticking up for him, but don’t you think we have more to worry about than Marco?”
“Maybe, but I will be telling Adrian about this.”
“No please don’t?”
“Why?”
“He has enough to worry about and I don’t want to give him any more stress.”
“Stress you think that this is stressful. Alanna you have no idea what he has been through.”
“No you are right I don’t because no one will tell me.”
“You don’t deserve to know.”
“What?”
“You heard me.”
“Why are you being like this?”
“Like what Alanna, honest, cause that’s all I am being and I am honest when I say, that I wish Adrian never laid eyes on you.”
“Michael, what is wrong with you?”
“Nothing wrong with me,”
“Then why are you saying these things?”
“Because it’s the truth, if he had not met you, then none of this would be going on.”
“I was under the impression that this had been going on for a while, long before I came along.”
“Yes it was, but you brought it back to the surface.”
“What on earth are you talking about?”
“If he hadn’t met you, then there would be no one for them to hurt. Adrian would be free to live his life.”
“Surly you can’t blame me for that? How was I to know that there were people after him?”
“You didn’t, but the second he sent you those gifts, you should have put a stop to it.”
“How could I?”
“It would have been easy enough; you were just too desperate, to tell him to go away.”
“How dare you say that, you don’t know me?”
“No but I know your type and you always get what you want, as long as it’s in your best interests, tell me do you even care about him?”