Love Rectangled

Twenty-five

On Tuesday I was sitting in my Home Ec. class, scrolling my phone, as I waited for Miss Mad to start the class. I glimpsed at the empty seat beside me. Noah hasn't arrived yet, and I haven't seen him since homecoming night.

The entire weekend, he kept running through my mind. I like him, that's for sure now, but I didn't know how it started exactly.

Let's see...

We didn't talk in years, then he came to my seat asking if I was dating Jax and accidentally that day we became partners. In the beginning, we fought a lot because I used to do all the work and he just sat in his seat listening to his songs. Then somehow he got on my nerves and made me do stupid things. Because of him, we got detention.

In detention, at first, I took revenge that made me feel bad and from then we worked together and suddenly we became friends again. Then we went to the movie and now I had feelings for him.

Uh? Weird.

Do I even have feelings for him, or is it just because I saw him with Ivy?

F**k! Now I'm getting jealous of that bit*h.

When did things turn like this?

I was supposed to make her jealous.

Speaking of Ivy, her reaction was... I don't know how to describe it. During homecoming night she was burning with anger and yesterday she kept giving me side glances but never came to me or said anything. In our calculus class, I caught her staring at me so many times, but she would just smirk.

It was confusing for me.

I shook my head to stop thinking about stupid stuff before I get depressed and continued scrolling my phone. There were lots of pictures from homecoming night posted and of me and Jax when he asked me to be his girlfriend.

After the Homecoming night, everyone kept gossiping about Jax and me, posting our pictures and videos on our school website. I read a few comments and according to them what Jax did was a romantic gesture and every boy should do that for their girlfriends.

I rolled my eyes. Only if they knew he did that to make another girl jealous. I bet no girl would want a fake proposal like that, even if it was undeniably romantic.

I felt movement beside me, but I kept my head still and continued scrolling through my phone.

I was mad at Noah, even though it wasn't his fault... Okay, so maybe I was mad at myself for feeling like this.

Why do I have feelings for him again?

From the corner of my eye, I saw him taking his ears phone out. I blew out in irritation.

Guess nobody's talking today.

Miss Maddox stood from her seat, staring at her phone. "Class... I have to go to the office, so behave yourself, and no one is allowed to leave. I will be back in a few minutes, then you can do whatever you want." She finished rushing out of the class and I wondered what happened to her.

Everyone in the class started chatting and babbling while I quietly sat in my seat, still scrolling my phone, but my attention was on the blond boy sitting next to me. I halted my thumb when out of the blue Noah said.

"You and Jax, huh?" I slowly turned my head towards him. He sat there looking at his phone, not even glancing at me.

"You and Ivy, huh?" I retorted.

He frowned, then finally looked at me. "What?"

I scoffed, switching my phone off, and put it on my desk. "Oh come on Noah, you could have told me that Ivy was the girl you were talking about. I mean, I know I hate her, but I wouldn't have judged you for liking her or say anything about it."