No control

"I wish those rumours were true."

Mary's POV

I woke up on the couch, I slept really well. I have no idea how late it is, I stood up and walked to the pool, still wearing my nightgown. Thinking about what happened yesterday here, what happened this weekend. Still not knowing what to do about Francis. Speaking of Francis.

"Slept well?" He asked. I turned around and saw him smiling and made some tea.

"Yes." I said, I wasn't sure what to tell him otherwise.

"What shall we do today?" Francis asked me.

"I was planning on going home today, I already packed my stuff yesterday. I'm meeting my girlfriends today in the city." I said, it wasn't true. I was going to call them for sure. But yesterday I was thinking about everything, Francis and Lis. I don't wanna hurt both of them but I need to get rid of my feelings for Francis, because who knows next week I'll be in love with him. I need to avoid him as much as possible and figure out what the hell I want and definitely don't think about Francis.

"Oh, yeah, would you mind if I give you a drive?" He suggested.

"That would be great." I said and smiled at him but not for too long, I runned upstairs to get my stuff and changed. When I got back Francis was waiting for me.

"Shall we go?" He asked, I nodded and then he opened the door for me and we walked to the car.

The ride took like ages, it was quite a trip for me to get to Lis but I never thought it could take this long, the silence between was killing, awkward and certainly uncomfortable. I could feel that he turned his head at me from time to time.

We finally arrived, and Francis opened the door for me, which made me blush. I tried to remove it before he could see it but I didn't care anymore.

"You should know that I can open a car door." I said and walked to the elevator.

"Well if you didn't like it, why did you blush?" He said, I didn't look at him, I just walked into the elevator and he did too.

"I didn't say I didn't like it." I wasn't sure what to answer otherwise, it was uncomfortable. We looked at each other through the mirror.

When I came up I said goodbye to him, not sure what to do if I would invite him. I runned a bath and read a book "Optimists die first '' It was my favorite when I was fourteen and I found it in the library so I needed to read it. After I went to lie down on my bed and called my friends, Kenna, Aylee and Greer. I have known them longer than Lis, but only Kenna is in the same highschool as me, and I'm the closest to her.

I was still lying on the bed. I just finished calling my friends and we talked about everything except Francis.

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I was preparing for school. I fixed my hair and waited for Lis to pick me up with Francis. My phone went off and it was Lis she was waiting for me, I picked up the phone "I'm coming." Then I grabbed my bag and got into the elevator.

"Mary get in the car, We heard that there could be traffic so that's why we came a little earlier , hope you don't mind." Lis said, hugging me.

"No, I don't mind at all. Hai." I greeted Francis and he smiled at me. I got in the car and surprisingly there wasn't any kind of traffic, I was sitting in the backseat and my hair blew in the wind. Summer is already starting. In one month summer vacation will start, I can't wait! And after that we all will be seniors.

I was looking at Francis through the front mirror, his blue eyes were concentrated but relaxed at the same time. He looked in the mirror and saw me staring at him, he winked at me and smiled. I turned my head to the seat next to me, trying to avoid him seeing me blush.

When we came to school everyone was staring at Francis, and as I said the popular girls immediately went after him, the first lesson was chemistry, with Lis. The next with Francis and Lis and the other lessons were with Francis. He always made me laugh, everyone was getting the wrong intentions of us, but I didn't mind. I tried to push the feelings away but believe me it was impossible.

When we had a break, I was walking with Francis to my locker when Kenna ran at me.

"How? Mary how? How could you not tell me that you're not single anymore? Your boyfriend is really cute. Francis, right?" I didn't mind stopping her because she was talking so fast and was over enthusiastic. Francis couldn't answer because she already asked the next question.

"I still can't believe you didn't tell me yesterday!" She nearly screamed out, she finally stopped.

"Kenna, first of all this isn't my boyfriend, I'm still single. And if I would have a boyfriend you would be the first one to know, perhaps even before the boyfriend." I tried to tell her this as politely as possible. Francis was looking at me and then smiled at Kenna.

"Oh, why is everyone talking about you two being together?" Kenna asked, I was quite surprised by the question, I always thought I was a walking ghost around here.

"People are talking about me, us?" I corrected and looked at Francis who was smiling at me. Of course I couldn't say I didn't like the thought of being popular and having Francis by my side, as boyfriend. But it wasn't true. And it will never ever be true.

"Yes, the entire school is talking about you guys and the popy's," The nickname we made for the populair girls. Kenna continued " are incredibly jealous of you. At first I didn't believe it but now I saw him myself and I can say I was wrong." She ended that sentence and winked at Francis. Francis looked at her and then at me.

"Alright Kenna, thank you for this gossip but I can tell you that none of it is true." I ended the conversation and walked to the next class. That was humiliating.

"So I guess that was your friend Kenna?" Francis said following me.

"Yes, I'm sorry." I turned around to face him.

"Don't be, it wasn't your fault, other people are just mistaken that there is something between us." He said and I looked into his blue eyes trying not to drown.

"Yes, they are mistaken, the only thing we are, are friends." I said and smiled at him. I could admit that the word I said to him hurt my feelings, but I didn't want him to think I had the wrong intention. Which I had.

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Chapter 4 guys! I completely changed the plot line so I'm just improvising and trying to make something out of it. I will try to post chapter 5 tomorrow! BTW [>SPOILER<] Francis will be jealous!:) (Not the best spoiler but yeah something.) This isn't my favorite chapter, and it also isn't the best, also far too short. Comments would be appreciated. 

-B