𝓦𝓸𝔀, 𝓘'𝓶 𝓲𝓷 𝓛𝓸𝓿𝓮 ~ 𝓚𝓵𝓮𝓲𝓷𝓹𝓱𝔂 / 𝓒𝓸𝓷𝓶𝓪𝓷

. － Fourteen // Jared － . (Rem;)

Jared's P.O.V (Remade)

The next day. 

I walk through the halls, (Which are completely deserted,) and look around. I stop at a bulletin board. All over it are those same neon orange and black posters, with weird ass fonts and corny descriptions. There's also Halloween decorations hung up everywhere. I heard some guys say there were gonna be full on streamers in the hallways, and teachers in costumes by October 30th. They could be right. But then again, this is a high school. Who'd want to dress up as a witch just to have all of your students laugh at you because you suck at makeup, or some shit?

I hear footsteps getting closer to me. "Hey." Connor says, quietly. I look at him, and clear my throat. "Hi." This whole interaction just got way more awkward than it should have been. I guess that's just our (My) thing now."So, uh... we're going to this, then?" He takes a poster off the board. "I guess. With Rich, though. Not just-- us." I definitely wish it could be though. 

"Right, right. Um." I stuff a hand in my pocket and tap my phone probably too aggressively. "Michael finished with that rebellion yet?" I shrug at him. "Probably. Who knows, the guys kinda surprise-y when it comes to this kinda stuff." He nods, and with both just sort of sit there. In the middle of the hallway. Quietly. Alone. 

"Then I guess I'll see you at the dance in four days, huh?" He chimes in all of the sudden. I nod. "Yeah, totally. Definitely." I laugh. "I hope somebody spikes the punch, though." 

~

The next hour I spend in English. An annoying subject, but some of the kids there are somewhat entertaining. They'll do stupid shit, and the teacher will occasionally scold them. It adds a little life to this boring classroom, I guess. And then there's Zoe. Zoe Murphy, a year younger than me. Connor's little sister. Evan's long-time crush. Yeah. Her.

Usually, I'll try to ignore her. But I got shoved into a table with her, and now she's constantly giving me looks. I don't know what their supposed to mean, but she'll shoot them randomly at me. Like I know what she meant when she glared at me for two minutes for no reason. (I don't.)

I look up, trying to avoid her once again. Failing, once again. She makes her expression soften, and literally just smiles at me. I stare back, and then immediately dart my head back down. What the fuck was that? Her way of saying 'Hey! Let's be friends!'? Because it definitely screams more of a 'I'm gonna make you uncomfortable' kinda vibe. 

I try to get out of there as soon as possible, but of course, she calls after me, pulling on my backpack. "Jesus Christ, what?" I look back at her. I hope she can see how annoyed I am. "You going to the dance?" I blink. "Yeah. I'm not interested in going with you, though." She rolls her eyes. "Yeah, no shit. You think I didn't notice the pride patch on your backpack?" 

"Whatever, Murphy. What do you want?" Her smile reappears. "Nothing. Maybe I'll see you there." Then, she skips off to god knows where. I speed-walk to my next class, and try to forget about that. 

About her, about the fact that she makes me so insanely angry and uncomfortable. How is she even Connor's sister? Seriously? The vibe I get around him is more like Evan's. The good Evan. Not the asshole-Evan. Her's is more like a less intense last year Connor Murphy who acts like a teenager most of the time. (Like, seriously acts like a teenager.) 

It doesn't distract me too much in my next class. She doesn't distract me too much. Connor doesn't, either. It's not like I'm over him, hell no. He's just less all up in my head, recently. 

I eat my lunch outside. Just kind of wanted to enjoy some peace and quiet, away from everybody, y'know? It's not so much relaxing as it is relieving. I don't have someone up in my face asking me about that stupid dance. I don't have Connor being cute-as-fuck and making me want to literally bang my head on the table. No Michael, no Veronica, no anyone. It's nice. It's really nice. To just have a moment to myself. Seriously.

Word Count : 778

Time : 9:50 p.m. my dudess

Inspiration : v nice, v nice. i need to give jare a moment to relax and shit. cuz like give this boy a break pls-

P.O.V For The Next Chapter : Connor :^