Awkward Triangle

Chapter Three: Questions

Ross' POV: 

Walking into fourth period, English, I look around and I see all of the people that annoy me. So naturally I decide to sit as far away from them as possible. I sit in the front of class, closest to the teacher's desk.

A couple of minutes passed when I notice someone sit down in the desk behind me. I hope they are talkative or at least bearable. I noticed it was a guy, judging by his backpack, black with a little Mario key chain on it. 

I turn around to see a familiar strawberry blonde haired, glasses wearing, average height, adorable male. I grin at the sight of him and I noticed that he had wide eyes, surprised with me being here in front of him. 

"Well well well Brandon. What are you doing here?" I ask him teasingly. 

He replies with an attitude, "This class is required to graduate, duh."

Ouch. Maybe I shouldn't tease him. I don't think he likes sarcastic guys. "Hm, well.. hey." I say quietly hoping he won't snap at me again. 

"Hi.." he mumbles.

"You don't talk much do you?"

"Not to people I don't like or don't know." he responds.

"Well..which one am I?" I say curiously.

Right now, I feel so nervous. Why? I just hope he doesn't already hate me. People get fed up with me often, I hope this isn't the case. 

He looks at his phone after I ask the question. Is he ignoring me? What the fuck, I just asked a question. "Rude, aren't we?" I mutter. He looks up and I feel my body grow tense as I try to hold a poker face. 

"Why would you want to know?" he says back.

I want to know because I kind of find you attractive.. "Well, I guess I thought we could be.." I get pissed at myself for saying this next word, "..friends?" I really didn't want to be just friends. 

"Sure, I guess. I don't have many friends and I'll need someone to talk to in here.." he says. I notice a slight blush spread across his face. Wow, he's really cute. 

Brandon's POV:

WHAT? What did he just say to me? Did he just ask me to be his friend? I didn't think he liked me with all the sarcasm coming from him. I notice him staring at me. Am I blushing or something? Just the thought that I might be blushing makes my face even more red. He sneaked out a laugh that I guess he was trying to hold in but couldn't.

Now that I actually looked at him without those stupid glasses he had on, he was really attractive. Not my type, but attractive. Usually I pay attention to the guys that are either my height or slightly taller. Ross was really tall compared to me. It was a little intimidating.

"What are you laughing at?" I ask, annoyed. 

"You. Are you blushing?" as he laughs even more.

"WHAT? No! Why..why would I be blushing?!" I exclaim utterly embarrassed. 

"You tell me." he replies with a huge grin on his face.

"I..I don't have an answer.." I mutter. 

"Cute." he says very quietly. *ba-dump* 

What? Did my heart just skip a beat? Did he just...call me cute? I heard right, didn't I..? No one has ever called me cute before. I was getting ready to ask him if he called me that except the teacher came in, interrupting many conversations.  

I sat through the rest of class with my head resting on my hand, while resting my arm on the desk. The whole time, shaking my knee up and down, anxious to find out if he really called me cute. My heart skipped at the single thought of it. 

Just 10 more minutes and I would be going home. I needed to ask him but I didn't want to be awkward. Suddenly bringing it up like that, I couldn't imagine a more awkward conversation..

Maybe I could just get his number and ask him in a text. Yea, then I could hide my embarrassed face behind the comfort of my phone. How would I ask him casually for his phone number though? I sigh loudly on accident. I notice his head turned around slightly glancing at me, making eye contact with me and he quickly turns around. I feel my face grow hot as i try to clear my throat. 

After class is over he slowly turns his body around and looks at me. "So..um, now that we're friends..you should probably give me your number.." he says shyly. 

Well that made it easy for me. Now I didn't have to ask him. "O-oh yea. Give me your phone and I'll type it in there." 

He hands me his phone and i quickly type my phone number into the new contact. "Here you go." I say handing him his phone. 

"Thanks, I'll text you later then!" he says with a huge smile on his face. Why is he smiling so much?

"Y-yea okay." I stutter. "Well, I have to head to my bus now, talk to you later I guess.."

"Bye!" he says enthusiastically, walking away

What would we talk about? I don't think we have that much in common. I guess I'll just have to wait and see.  

After I got home, I went to the kitchen grabbing a package of Oreos and a Mountain Dew. I head up to my room with my backpack on my shoulder and I head straight to my computer. Opening the package of Oreos and Mt. Dew, I turn on my computer and go on Facebook and YouTube. I watch a couple of gamer videos before I notice 2 messages from my friends. Lexy messaged me normally as she always does just talking about random stuff, while my friend Shannon rants in her message about some new anime that made her pissed. 

After about an hour of procrastinating on my math homework, I get a text message. I picked up my phone to notice and unknown number saying "Hey, what's up?". 

Assuming it's Ross I message back 'Nothing much, just on my computer watching Youtube. This is Ross, right?'

'Yepp! I love youtube, who are your favorite users??' 

After our conversation started, we couldn't stop texting each other. I found out that we had a lot more in common than I previously assumed. We both love games, Youtube, and he's starting to get into watching anime. We continued texting each other until about 1 in the morning. 

'Hey, I'm getting tired. I'm going to sleep, talk to you tomorrow? :)' he texts. 

'Yep. Hey, I have a question before you go.'

'Yea?'

'Why did you call me cute today in English?'

My heart starts beating fast in anticipation for him to answer. I jump at the sound of my phone vibrating. I start to get nervous as I slowly unlocked my phone. My eyes widen at the text.

'Because...I like you.'

AN: Hey guys! Wow, I didn't think anyone would actually read this! Hope you continue reading it and I'll probably continue this story, it's really fun to write :) Thanks!