a kiss is just a kiss

005

louis finally caught up with us.

"i take back what i said in the auditorium earlier today. chelsea isn't that bad once you get to know her," he says after a minute of silence. the rest of us kind of just stood there in shock at what louis just said.

"please let me punch him in the face. please nova," nailea begs.

"nailea. no...louis you're joking right?" i say.

"no...i'm being serious, why?" luke, valerie and nailea looked over at me waiting for me to make the next move on what to do with louis.

"be friends with her all you want but just know we won't co-exist with her. not in a million years." i tell him. nailea, luke and valerie look at me, shocked as if they were expecting me to grill his ass but i wasn't going to..

"uh okay. i feel like i did something bad though," louis says.

"nope. unless you think that hanging out with our enemy is an alright thing to do even though she's a two face, backstabbing bitch, then yes you have done something deeply terrible," i retort.

"oh, i didn't know you felt that way. If you don't want me hanging around her then i won't," he replies.

"we can't decide who you can and can't be friends with, we're just warning you," valerie comments while the rest of us nod our heads in agreement.

"i really don't know what to do..." he mumbles while scratching the back of his head uncomfortably. "i'll divide my time to hang out with you guys and getting to know chelsea. does that work for you guys?"

"sure," we shrugged. "you still up for today though?" i asked.

"oh shit, i completely spaced. i made plans with chelsea to rehearse lines after school," he says while running a hand through his hair. i was going to kill this man. firstly he wanted to hang out with my enemy and now he was ditching us when we had already made plans but i had to play it cool.

"whatever, come hang with us once chelsea is done playing around with you." i roll my eyes at him. if i'm being honest with myself, i really like this kid but the fact that he was already hanging out with chelsea after we warned him about her ways was really starting to play with my head. we walked off to the basketball courts as he headed back to the auditorium.

"why couldn't we punch him?" valerie asks.

"wow. valerie wanting to hurt someone, now that's a big shock." i was actually shocked, she was never mean to anyone besides chelsea of course.

"seriously. what's the deal nova, you're usually more tougher than that and you definitely wouldn't have let one of us get away with anything like that, so spill," nailea says sternly.

"isn't it obvious?" luke asks the group.

"is what obvious?" valerie and nailea question.

"nova obviously likes louis. that's why she's not being hard on him, she doesn't want to push him away and she's trying to make sure that he doesn't end up hating her," he explains.

"you just can't shut up, can you?" i looked over at luke while valerie and nailea looked at me, waiting for confirmation.

"love you too, ugly rat," he says while blowing me a kiss. i looked at nailea and valerie who were still waiting and told them the truth.

"okay fine. i really like the kid and i know he doesn't like me but i still don't want him out of my life because he's really sweet," i confessed.

"yeah we understand. forget we said anything," they gave me an empathetic look and we continued on with our lunch break.

*bell rings*

we all went to the back and took our seats talked amongst ourselves as we waited for the class to begin. soon enough, louis walks in with chelsea while smiling as us and they take a seat in the middle row.

"uh, that's weird. he usually sits with us, is he gonna start sitting with her now?" luke asks.

"i know right." nailea and valerie agree. "nova, how do you feel about it?" valerie whispers to me.

"it's whatever. he's not my property so it's not my place to speak on it," i mumbled while i looked up at valerie. i was upset that louis was starting to ditch us for chelsea but to be honest i saw it coming from a mile away. class was really boring as usual but soon enough the end of the day came and we all got up and began to pack our things up.

"so we're not going to wait for louis?" nailea asks.

"no. he said he's running lines and practising for the audition with chelsea, remember?" i reminded nailea.

"oh, righttt..can we get some maccas?" she asks.

"sure why not, and can we do something after. i'm kind of in a mood to do something spontaneous," i questioned.

"if we say no we're still doing it so, sure why not," luke gives in. we all leave school, leaving louis behind.