Hate Me Harder [BxB] ✔️ [NOT EDITED]

(39) Hate the weird glances from them

I'm crying. Literally, I didn't expect to find what I did today. HMH is #1 in mxm and #3 in LGBT+ browse lists. 😭 

I can't.

Oh my god.

I can't.

You guys, thank you so much for reading. I know I say this all the time, but it means so much to me! Love you guys! ♥️ 🤧 

So, I decided to surprise you yet again. Another chapter this week and I'm not changing the fact that there's one tomorrow as well. 😊 

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Katie eyed me. I tried to ignore it.

She's been doing it ever since break started and I wasn't bothered to ask her why. We haven't talked much too, I guess. Because she's either out with Mason, or I'm off sneaking out and kind of sometimes, dodging her.

And now, at Brian's house, she was still making it so obvious that she was watching. Tracy was also staring at me, making me wiggle on my seat.

"What are you doing?"

I glanced at the person on my right. Max had his brows frowned as he watched me try to move away from the girls' gazes. I wanted to reach up and rub the folds on his frown away but being surrounded by almost all of your friends on a movie night wasn't a great place.

Not when you're not out to them.

So I settled with, "nothing." And I looked away, trying to relax on my seat. I didn't even know what movie was playing.

The plan was a random one. Suddenly Brian was calling us over, when I was with Max at the old theatre house. So we decided we might as well join the gang and arrived at his house right when Katie pulled up with Tracy and Bailey.

Since then, the two of them have been glances at me here and there. Katie did ask where I was and out of panic, I just said at the stores. I guess she was doubtful why Max was with me then. But she didn't ask, and I didn't say.

And just to make sure, I sat as far away as I can from her to escape from getting questioned. I did glance back at her from time to time, wondering what she was doing.

The whole situation was stupid. I mean, we're siblings, and we loved each other. But then suddenly, she's frowning all the time and I'm running away because I don't want her to know my secret. I just wanted it to stop.

I mean, I could probably lie and say something to cover the plans I've made with Max in the past days. I mean, it wasn't like he was my boyfriend or anything.

Oh, who was I kidding?

I remember the night clearly.

We'd gotten back from a night stroll somewhere near the forest when Max asked out of the blue. I didn't know a few words could fasten my heart rate like that. But, that night, it did.

And when I didn't say anything and pretended that I didn't hear him because I didn't know how to reply, he's walked into my space, whispering the question again.

It took me everything to not melt into a puddle right then. And somewhere along the line, I'd managed to whisper back an okay.