The Lonely Girl

Chapter 4

I laid on my bed that night, hugging my pillow, smiling nonstop . He gave me butterflies I just couldn’t explain. It was 11:47 pm and I wasn’t tired one bit at all. I was listening to music all night. Even my family thought it was weird that I was smiling at dinner.

“You okay sweetie?” Kevin had asked me. I just nodded eating my Mac n cheese. They must of thought I was on drugs or something.

I walked to my window and looked at the view I had. It was nice, but the nicest thing about the view was that I could see where he lived. But what caught me by surprise was I saw that his window was right across from mine. And I saw him taking off his shirt and sitting on his bed, getting ready to play his guitar.

I couldn’t help but to just watch him. A part of me wanted to lift up my window to yell at him to lift up his window so I could hear him. But I already felt weird watching him without him knowing. It would be even more weird if I asked him that.

I was too much in a stupid daze that I didn’t realize he had caught me looking and lifte up his window and yelled, “Guess you couldn’t get enough huh?”

I blushed madly and closed my blinds in an instant and walked away from the window.

I curled up in my bed. All embarrassed and swore I would never show my face ever around him. Again. Never.

The next morning was Friday and I sat in my typical spot and lunch, reading my book and just minding my own business when I saw him sit next to me. Joey. Yeah, him.

“So, did you like the show yesterday?” He asked taking a bite out of his apple grinning.

I didn’t know what to say, let alone do. I just shrugged and tried to look interested in my book.

“Whatcha reading?” He asked.

God, why doesn’t he just go away already. I just showed him the book cover, Before I Fall, by Lauren Oliver.

“Looks like a good book.” He said. I just nodded and kept pretending I was reading.

“So, are you ever going to talk to me? Or are you just going to give me the silent treatment all the time?” he asked.

I smiled at him and shrugged.

I don’t know what it was. But when I smiled, it seemed like his smile became bigger. Like my smile made him think I was attractive or something.

“You know, you have a really nice smile. You should smile more.” He said and got up and walked away.

I just sat there, not knowing what to say. He made me completely speechless. I didn’t know what to do or how to react. Was there a correct way to react? I didn’t know. I never had a guy talk to me like he has. This was all too new to me.

All of a suddenly Kate stormed to my table and sat down. “So, who were you talking to?”

I just gave her a blank stare wondering why she cared.

“Look, girls like you don’t get guys like him? Alright? So you can just try to find an unattractive guy that’s shy like you and leave the cute popular guys alone.” And with that, she got up and stormed off out of the cafeteria.

Leave it to my twin sister to ruin my moment.