The scope of love

Chapter 10

Friday night was perfect. I loved every moment of it. Even the walk back to the school. The worst part is when we had to say goodbye, but at least I knew that I would be seeing him again today. I woke up to get ready for another day with Declan. Madison was already awake. She was busy studying for a test and we can clearly see that our priorities are different. I went to get us cereal. I didn’t want to eat a lot since I don’t know what our plans are for today. She wanted to know everything and I wanted to tell her everything. I was so excited to gush like a girl about my first date. Finely and I never even made it to registering. She gushed right a long with me and she had so many questions. I wonder when she will make a match. I hope I’m not keeping her to busy to meet someone. Although I did give her a lot of time to mingle with other people when I was with Declan’s grouping. Today I got dressed in a black halter top that just reaches my hips so if I lift my arms people will see skin. With it I wore a white skirt with black polka dots. The skirt comes to above my ankle. It also has a side slid like the dress from the night before. I put on some white sneakers with it and tied my hair up in a high ponytail. It was casual, but cute. I’m not taking a jacket with because last night on the walk back to school Declan gave me his jacket. It was such a cute moment and his outfit had more than enough so that he could hive me one. I want that again I loved wearing his jacket. I only put moisturizer, mascara and lip balm on. I tend to lick my lips a lot when I’m out and about and always by the end of the day they are burning. So the lip balm is like a precaution. I sneaked the lip balm into my bra.

“Alright I’m off. I don’t know how late I’ll be back. Don’t wait up and don’t study to hard. You’re making me look bad!” I yelled at Madison as I left the room. This time I walked down the hall full of confidence. I knew that no one was going to stop me. I walked up to the teacher and gave my name showing my ID and then I waited. I was a bit early and I guess Declan wanted to be early to because I had hardly walked away from the podium before he came around the corner. He showed the teacher his ID and then we walked out of the building hand in hand.

“I thought that today we can get some distance between us and the school. Then we can have a conversation without worrying about a bunch of people around us that might hear.” I liked that plan, but I didn’t really have any good news when it comes to our plans all my plans have gone to a dead end. We got a taxi nearby and left. The taxi dropped us at a park. It was a really nice place. It a bunny park. There is a tuck shop, a restaurant when you just walk in. Declan led us to the shop where he got us some snacks and drinks. We followed the path until we found a tree that was far enough away with sufficient shade. We sat down against the tree. Declan was against the tree and I was sitting in between his legs leaning against his chest. We stayed quite for a little while just watching as the bunnies came closer. They were curious about what we were doing, but they weren’t coming close enough that we could touch them and after I opened my bottle I scared them away.

“This is so nice.” I said taking in the beautiful scenery before us. In the distance was a peacock. His feather out in full. He was walking around so proudly. I wish we could be so proud about our relationship and open.

“Yeah it’s nice just having you in my arms again. I miss sitting like this by the window.” He said. I missed it too. I wonder if it would have been any different if I was born into that grouping. Would we have still gotten together and would I have trusted the program or would I have still be me, the rebel against the program. I don’t think we would have been together. He didn’t want desperate Gemini. He just wanted casual. If I was born in that grouping I would have been desperate for love or I’d be myself and have gone searching in other groupings, We are only together because of who we are today.

“I don’t wish for anything to be different. If it was I might not have ended up with you.” I told him. He tightened his arms around me.

“I love that crazy overthinking mind of yours.” I pulled away from him turning around sitting on my knees staring at him.

“I don’t want to loose you, what are we going to do? Every plan I come up with seems to only fall apart. Like you said our love won’t break up the program and the only other idea I came up with is having a lawyer look for loopholes taking the whole program apart piece by piece, but no one is brave enough to do that and we don’t have enough money for that. Do you have any ideas?” I asked in earnest. Basically begging him with my eyes,

“Not really. I have one plan, but I don’t know how much it will help us.” Any plan is better than no plan at all I guess.

“I think we should document everything. Like the toll it takes on the students, the pressure we experience and the lengths we will go to to abide to the program. Then when we have enough information we can take it to the streets, show the people what happens behind the scenes of it all. We could go house to house and show them and make them sign a petition to cancel the program.” It is a good plan, but we need to have a bigger plan. This program is worldwide.

“It’s a start. We’ll get their attention like that. Then at least the world will see how wrong it is and then maybe we can at east reach parent who haven’t put their children in the program yet.” Now all we need to do is gather incriminating information. We sat there for a while longer before we decided to see what else this place have. We came across a petting zoo. Declan left to go and get food for the animal while I waited there for him. He came back and we started to to feed the animals. They came over to the fence and took it out of our hands. If only we could have the people eat out of our hands in our plan and get rid of the program. It was the first time I touched a pig. It felt different than what I expected. It was a fun experience. We then went to the restaurant for some lunch.

”Do you think my plan will work? I’ve never thought about any of this until I met you. You made me open up and want this. I can’t imagine loosing you. I will always choose you no matter what.” He said after we ordered.

”I would always choose you too. This is just a thought, but when you don’t follow the rules, are you forced to actually comply or are you just like banished to a town that doesn’t partake in the program. If it is the latter then we can just be banished together and live a life there together, right?” It is our last option, but at this moment I can’t imagine my life without him. I know that we are in high school and that is so intense, but this is how we have been conditioned. They want us to fall hard and fast.

“I would love to be banished with you,” He said taking my hand on the table. Our relationship will always be filled with fear and concern. We just need to push past it and try our best in enjoying our time together, hopefully we have a very long time together. Our food came and we got to enjoy it.

“Do you think if the world was normal we would have met?” I don’t think we would have so meeting him is the only thing I’m thankful to the program.

“No I don’t think so, but I’m very glad when we met this world wasn’t normal. I’m excited to make it normal along with you.” He answered me. I just feel like I need reassurance of our love today. After finishing our food we started walking just to see what is available around here. We didn’t want to do anything. It’s a scouting afternoon for future dates. We stopped for ice cream and decided to walk back to school. We weren’t so far from school and we have time to just walk hand in hand together. Declan gave me his blazer and it fit so well with this outfit. It was a bit big on me, but I loved it. Declan’s hair is loose today and it kept on blowing in his face from the cold breeze so he pushed his hair behind his ear.

“Hey Brooke!” I turned around to see Fineley marching towards us. What is he doing out here. Since when does he have a registered partner. He had touch my leg just a couple of days ago. He stopped near us. He gave Declan a once over.

“So this is the guy from the other school? Do you really think he can compare to me?” Right of course Finley would be saying stuff like this he has always been full of himself.

“Is this guy the ex you told me about yesterday?” Declan asked me and I only nodded.

”I thought you were lying when you said that you are a registered couple, so when I heard about your date yesterday I had to see it for myself. I mean who would want someone that is such a hand full like you. You are so hard to manage. Anyway I wanted to see who thinks he got you down. I had one of my side chicks register with me.” I clenched my jaw at hearing what he was saying. Did he want to scare Declan away.

“It sound to me like you are jealous. It’s not any man that can be in a relationship with such a strong and opinionated women, I don’t want to manage her I want to be her partner. Maybe you should reflect and realize that you aren’t such a great catch. I mean you had to register with some girl instead of making a real connection. That actually tells me a lot of what type of person you are. You are the type of guy that messes around and then end up settling with someone you’ll get bored of and then you’ll have no where to go. Your life is a disappointment now and will only be on a decline from this day, mostly because you are such a jerk that you lost out on a wonderful girl like Brooke.” It seemed to shut Finley up completely.

“Let’s go baby there is much better things we can be doing than talking to this waste of space of a boy.” a smile spread on my face as we walked away. I wanted to laugh so badly. I just fell for Declan more. He just defended me and insulted Finely. I don’t think he will be bothering me again anytime soon.

Book entry

We had a plan, but neither of could even start to imagine just how hard it would be and how much work we would have to put into this plan. although in our minds it was worth t because this plan meant that someday we could be together.