Spill The Tea

Chapter 2- Feelings

"This can't be happening" I thought to myself. "I was just complaining about the LGBTQ+ community and now I might be turning into one of them." I was worried. If my parents found out about my feelings I would be kicked out for sure. "My emotions are just running too high. When I think about it later, I won't be looking at Nikoru the same way."

"Why don't you tell us a little bit about yourself?" Mr. Teira said enthusiastically, a little too enthusiastically. Mr. Teira always had the slight undertone of a peppy person, and I don't like peppy people. He just seems like the type of person to celebrate at a funeral. "My name is Nikoru and I like sad movies and black cats." Nikoru told the class. I kind of felt bad for her, the whole class was silently judging her because she was the new kid and there was nothing she could do about it. As the Class President I couldn't stand by and watch this happen anymore.

"What's your shoe size?" I questioned to Nikoru. "Huh?" Nikoru confusingly asked me. I know it is a strange question, but I had to get conversation going so I had to start somewhere.

"Well, I guess I am like a 9." Nikoru said, starting to blush now. "No way! Me too!" I said excitedly.

"Keeitorin, please don't put so much pressure on Nikoru. She has only been in class for 5 minutes." Mr. Teira said as he was showing Nikoru to her seat.

Just as I was pulling out my science notebook to start a labelling a diagram of a frog, Nikoru and I's eyes met for the first time. "Please don't catch feelings!" I said to myself. "If I keep looking at her I will for sure be full-blown crushing on Nikoru. So, I need to figure out a way to stop this from all happening" I said in my brain, my head rushing woth thoughts.

"So the liver goes...." "THAT'S IT" I screamed at the top of my lungs in front of the whole class. My body filled with embarassment. "Excuse me?" Mr. Teira said with anger in his voice. "Ummmmmmm, I-I just found the answer to a question! Sorry about that." I said with a small voice. "Thank you, please take a seat and don't disrupt the class again."

Anyway, back to the idea. "If I go over there and talk to Nikoru and maybe become friends with her, then I won't have the same feelings for Nikoru!" It was genius. I felt like Albert Enstein for a minute. "This has got to work!" I thought to myself.

As the school bell rang, informing me to go to my next class. But instead of walking across the school, I stayed behind in class and waited for the rush of people to clear away from Nikoru.

After a few minutes everyone cleared away from Nikoru. "Now's my chance!" I thought eagerly to my self. I took a deep breath and counted down from three before I went over.

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