THE HEART WANTS WHAT IT WANTS ♡

chapter 37: new feelings

* 2 months later *

For the past two months I've been hanging out with Daniel quite often. What I didn't expect though was that I'd start developing feelings for him. I've only thought of him as a friend, nothing more. But as I've been hanging out with him more, I've really grown fond of him.

Also over these last two months my feelings for Jesse were slowly starting to fade. I haven't heard from him since he left and I'm not sure of that's a good thing, or a bad thing. I'd be lying if I said I was completely over him, because I still miss him.

"What are you thinking about?" asks Levona, snapping me out of my daydream. I really don't feel like paying attention to this teacher right now. Economics can be so boring sometimes.

"Anything that's NOT economics" I joke.

"Well you've been daydreaming a lot lately. Is there something you want to tell me?" she asks.

Should I tell her about my newly developed feelings for Daniel? I mean, she is my best friend after all. Yeah I think I'm gonna do it.

"Umm so yes, I do have something to tell you." I state.

"Spill the tea sis, I'm all ears." she responds.

"Well you see, recently, I've been uhh..."

"You've been?"

"I think I've developed feelings for Daniel." I say shyly.

"Daniel that used to live near you?!" she yells.

"Shhhh, quiet down. And yes, that Daniel. I don't know any other Daniels." I respond.

"Oh my gosh Gray!!! But what about your feelings for you-know-who?" she asks.

"They're disappearing. I haven't heard from him in such a long time. I doubt he even cares about me anymore" I say.

"Well he's loss. You and Daniel would make a cute couple." she says as she nudges my arm.

I can't help but visibly turn red. "Oh whatever." I respond, a smile very visible on my face. "And later today we're going to hang out.

"Oooo, enjoy it bestie" she coos with a smile.

I'm sure I will.

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Daniel and I decided to go to a fancy restaurant after school. And by fancy, I mean McDonald's. We're not rich okay. We both didn't have any homework and wanted to hang out with each other. He offered to fetch me since he had his license.

I've been contemplating confessing to him whole day because I feel like he would reciprocate my feelings. At least, that's what I hoped.

"Hey, how are you?" he greeted with a hug. I can smell fresh cologne. Smells so good oh my gosh.

"I'm alright, just kind of tired after school today. How are you?" I return the question.

"Much better now." he responds. Did he mean because he's seeing me now? Because that's what happens in movies.

"That's great. You ready to go?" I ask.

"Yeah let's go." he says as he gestures for me towards his parents' car.

As I was about to open the door, he interrupts me and opens it for me. Typical movie gentlemen stuff. It kinda caught me off guard because I just stood there for a good couple of seconds.

"Your chariot sire." he says in a terrible British accent. I can't help but snicker.

"That was a terrible accent but thank you." I respond before getting into the car.

We pull away from my house and make our way to McDonald's. Lucky for me Daniel loves kpop as well, so you can imagine we had our own mini concert on the way to McDonald's.

Even when we got to the parking lot, we still continued until the very end of the song we were 'performing'. It was great fun, really.

"Alright, let's go before we stay for another song, because at this rate we'll be here until tomorrow." he jokes.

We go inside and order our food together. Coincidently, we both got the same meal. The McNuggets. Quite exquisite indeed. Only the most fancy of foods. The real ones will agree.

After waiting for about 10 minutes for our food, we made our way to our table.

"So what happened at school today? Anything interesting?" he asks in between chews.

"Okay firstly eww, I don't wanna see everything in your mouth." I laugh. "Nothing particularly interesting happened today. I got my my English marks back today. Got 90% for my Literature assignment and 80% for my oral."

"Woah that's awesome. I'm so proud of you." he responds.

Now that right there, tugged at my heart strings. Damn you Daniel why'd you have to do that to my heart.

"Lol thank you. Did anything happen with you today?" I enquire.

"Nothing at all. Unless you think receiving heaps of homework from all of your teachers is fun." he says sarcastically.

"Oh no of course not, your poor thing." I respond.

The rest of the afternoon we spend talking about the most random things. It was really fun. I really enjoy his company.

On the way home we decided to stop at the skate park near my house, just to chill there. Things were going to well today, so I think I'm gonna confess to him. Hopefully he feels the same.

"So what are you doing this weekend?" he asks.

"I'm not sure. As of right now, nothing. Why?"

"So like, I'm playing a basketball match on Saturday at school and was wondering if you'd like to come." he asks.

"I didn't know you played basketball. Of course I'll be there." I say.

"Awesome. I'm sure I'll score more points since you'll be there." he responds with a smile.

"I'm just that amazing, you don't need to remind me." I joke sarcastically.

We both end up in a fit of laughter.

"So umm, I have to tell you something." I start.

"What's up?" he asks.

"So for the past couple of months that we've been hanging out, I've really enjoyed it and I.. I.." I stutter.

"You?" he asks.

"Daniel I like you. As in, I have feelings for yoh." I blurt out.

"Gray..."

That's all he says before he gets up and walks towards his car...

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hello again, it's me :)

been a hot minute but i felt motivation suddenly and decided to write

thought i'd be evil and leave y'all on a cliffhanger 😈

n e way, i hope y'all enjoyed this chapter!

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- Zachary ✨
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