Please stop

5. He's just a friend.

Liam has been overly nice the past three days and it's caused my anxiety to skyrocket. I'm just waiting for him to flip out on me. I got up out of bed and started getting dressed for school. I picked out a long sleeve grey tight fitting shirt. I paired it with some jeans. I threw on my sneakers and ran down my stairs. I grabbed a granola bar and started walking my way to school.

Sometimes I enjoyed to walk to school instead of drive because I liked feeling the wind on my skin and hearing the birds. It was my safe place.

Unfortunately the walk from my house isn't that far to my school. I already arrived.

I was greeted with Amy by the front doors of the school.

"Heyy!" She said eagerly.

"Hey!" I said just as eagerly.

"Are you excited for the dance!?" She asked.

Shit I forgot all about the dance!

"Of course!" I said even though i'm not excited at all.

"We need to go dress shopping!!" Amy said with a huge smile. I mean how am I supposed to say no to such a sweet smile?

After Amy was done talking about how excited she was for the dance we split up to go to our classes. I haven't seen Liam yet which is weird. I entered the classroom and took my normal seat.

I set my notebook and pens down and organized them while I waited for the teacher to start the lesson. I heard someone sit next to me and turned around thinking it was Liam. I was surprised to see a boy I didn't recognize. I quickly whipped my head back around. If Liam walks in and sees this I am going to be dead.

"Hey can I borrow a pencil?" The mystery boy asks.

No. No. No!

I grab a pencil out of my bag and hand it to him without a word. Liam can't see this.

"I like your hair." The mystery boy says.

Stop talking please.

"Shit are you deaf? No you can't be because you heard me ask for a pencil. Are you ignoring me?"

"Thank you." I say not even looking at him. I felt rude but I want to stay on Liam's good side for as long as possible.

"Wow I didn't know I was that handsome that you can't even look at me." He says in a playful tone. I laugh quietly and decide to stop ignoring him. I mean it looks like Liam isn't going to show up to this class anyway.

"What's your name?" I asked finally looking at the boy. This time I got a good look at his appearance. He had light brown hair that was parted in the middle and reached down to his eyes, he had a defined jawline, his eyes were hazel, and he looked pretty tall. My guess was maybe 5'10. Around the same height as Liam.

"Asher. What is your name?"

"Camila."

"That's a pretty name." Asher says while giving me a smile. He gives off nice boy vibes. It's kind of like a breath of fresh air from the boys i'm around all the time. Liam is Liam and Marquis is more of a "bad boy" which makes sense because he's with Ebony and she's the same way.

"Thank you." I return the smile.

We both go back to paying attention to the teacher. I'm writing notes when all of a sudden I feel a tap on my shoulder.

I look to my side and it was Asher. I look at him confused as to why he tapped my shoulder. He leans over and try's to whisper something in my ear but as soon as he gets one word out the teacher is shushing him. I let out a little giggle as he slowly leans back into his chair with a guilty looking smile on his face.

Once the teacher turns back around he pulls out a piece of paper and starts writing. When he's done he folds it up and slides it across the table to me. I discreetly grab the paper and open it up. It reads:

"Meet me after class?"

I smiled and turned over the paper to write my answer. After I was done I folded it back up and slid it back over to Asher. He quietly unfolded it and when he read it a big smile spread across his face. I said yes obviously.

The rest of the class was pretty boring except for Asher occasionally poking my side which caused me to start uncontrollably giggling and him to die of laughter. Let's just say the teacher was not happy but she let us go because we're both good students.

The bell rings and everyone starts rushing out. Me and Asher grab our textbooks and we walk out of the classroom. He walks me to my locker and after I put my things away we walk outside and sit on a bench.

"So what's your favorite thing to do?"

"I like to read." I said.

"Me too!" He says excitedly.

"We should definitely rea-" I was in the middle of my sentence when I felt someone grip my shoulder harshly. Panic fills my body as I look up and see a fuming Liam.

"Hi, i'm Asher." he says holding a hand out to Liam.

I start chewing on my lip as i'm about to explode with anxiety. There's no possible way this will turn out well.

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hey.. i'm back

that was a long break and i'm very sorry but i'm back now and hopefully for good :))