Hidden Love

Chapter 11

 

In the morning, I woke up to the smell of eggs and bacon. I dragged myself out of bed and proceeded to follow my morning routine.

After all of that was done, I went to the kitchen. My eyes were still blurry, and some what unfocused, so I didn’t notice the long haired stranger sitting at the table. As I got closer, the stranger turned around, and that’s when I realized it was Hope!

“Alex! Oh wow, you look, awful. Honey, you have a bad case of bed head.”

Oh yeah, totally Hope.

“Hope! What are you doing here!? I had no idea you were coming over. Girl, you need to warn me!”

Sometimes Hope will do that. Her dad will bring her by, and she’d stay over a few nights or so. Its always amazing to see her. I loved hanging out. We don’t really get to do that much. Most people always hang out with their best friend because they live in the same town, or whatever. But for Hope and I, we’d see each other only three or four times a year. Five at most. But when she did visit, we’d always have the loads of fun, and because we’re basically the same person, it was even better.

“How long are you down for?”

“Just a week. But hey, i’m here!”

Then theres that, when she did come to visit, she didn’t stay for very long. After breakfast we went to my room. That was when I told her everything that was going on. I told her about Oliver, Ryan, Andrew being a slut, and Kevin. She was pretty shocked. To be honest, so am I.

“Please say something, I’m going to need your A plus advice here.”

“Okay, Alex, first, did you tell Kevin all of this.”

“Yeah, I told him last night. We snuck out and he drove me out to this spot that is just outside of town, and I told him there.”

“Wait, you guys snuck out!?”

“Oh my god, shut up. It’s something parents aren’t supposed to know. You know, sneaking out late at night to hang out with your boyfriend, with anybodys parents, does not float well.”

“Right, well… You need to keep me in the loop!”

“I know, i’m sorry! I just thought I need to work on it you know?”

“Got it, well, in my department, cute boy who eye humped me yesterday, has my number, and we’re talking.”

“Oh really? Get it girl!”

“Oh shut up.”

Her and I laughed.

“So what’s his name?”

“Elliott.”

“And do you have a photo of Mr. Eyehumper?”

She showed me a photo from his facebook. He was actually pretty cute.

“Alex, hes perf. He reads, he’s funny, and witty, he also has the same humor as us. He volunteers too, and he works at an art museum.”

“Sounds like you’re already in love.”

“Hush.”

My phone buzzed and I got a text from Kevin.

“Look who I just got a text from.”

“Who? Ryan? I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.”

“Eww, no. It’s from Kev.”

I smiled like a dork when I said his nickname.