The rumors

Chapter 3

Achara's POV

I tried to pay attention to what the teacher was teaching us and ignore how people were looking at me. I saw the teacher walk to the back of the classroom and took it as an opportunity to look at how people were acting. And by people I mean Liam.

Illene was just staring at Liam as if waiting for him to look back at her. Alex was looking to the front of the room and it took me a while to figure out he was looking at Sienna. I inwardly smiled at that. When I saw that people weren't staring at me like I expected them to I realized maybe they didn't even give a crap about Liam's love life.

Liam. 

I turned to look at him.

I wish I didn't.

He was staring at his book not doing anything.

I turned back around to face the front. Maybe I'm not the only one who got affected by the rumor. No one in my science class cared but other people definitely did. 

Wow, Achara how selfish could you be? I talked to myself. 

Liam's popular and your not, what do you think he felt like to have some random girl say that he confessed his love for her?

"Achara," Sienna whispered to me. I looked at her and she gestured for me to look at her notebook.

U ok? It said.

I rolled my eyes at her and wrote down, r u srsly asking me that?

U should apologize.

I want 2 but I'm 2 scared. What if he hates me???

Gurl, just say that u were talking abt sumone else, I'm sure he'll understand.

Easy for you to say, I thought in my head but didn't write it down. I just nodded at her when she looked at me.

When Ms. Reeves said that we had to work with a partner to answer the rest of the questions my head immediately whipped to the side to look at Sienna. But she wasn't looking at me, she was looking at the back of the classroom.

At Alex.

At that moment I forgot that I had to go find a partner and smiled as my ship started sailing. I made a mental note to tease Sienna about it later.

I watched giddily as Alex walked up to her and asked, "Wanna be partners?"

"Wanna be partners?"

It took me a second to comprehend that it wasn't Alex saying it twice but someone was actually asking me that.

I turned around to find Liam staring down at me. Nonononono, this is not happening, I screamed internally.

I quickly looked to my side again but Sienna was happily laughing at something Alex was saying. Wow, what an amazing best friend, who stayed by my side during tough times.

I looked back at Liam and smiled. I just realized I had lunch, was there food stuck in my teeth? I wanted to get noticed by him but not like this.

He sat in Sienna's seat and we answered all the questions when we had spare time, he decided to make everything awkward.

"So... about when you said I confessed to you."

Uh-oh. Not this. I knew at one point I would have to talk to him about this but not right now. I'm not ready.

Before I could even explain to him that I was talking about someone else he asked, "Did you do it for attention?"

"No! For your information, I don't give a crap about popularity and I didn't do it for attention. I was talking about a different Liam, your not the only Liam in this world you know. If you thought you were open your eyes and welcome to the real world."

That was what I said.

...in my head.

But that was still good enough right?

I wanted to say something but nothing came out of my mouth.

He looked at me as if he wanted me to say no and after a minute of waiting he scoffed. "I thought you were different Achara. You are just like the others, thirsty for attention."

I internally scoffed, excuse me? How would he know me if he never talked to me?

He walked away when the teacher dismissed us and Sienna sat in her usual seat next to me. I was about to tell her about what happened with Liam when I noticed her smile. I didn't want to ruin her mood so I kept to myself.

"Are you smiling? Because of Alex?" I teased.

"Alex? Who's Alex? Oh you mean that guy who asked me to be his partner, I didn't know his name was Alex."

I rolled my eyes at her, right.

"By the way," she added. "I wasn't smiling."

"Yeah, and pigs can fly."

Sienna was about to reply when Ms. Reeves started going over the answers.

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Later that day.

"I forgot to ask, how did it go with Liam?" Sienna asked when she caught up to me in the hallway.

I filled her in on everything and occasionally rolled my eyes.

"No way!" She yelled and a few people looked at her but she couldn't care less. "I actually thought he was nice or something but he's acting like a dickhead right now."

I just looked at her and tried to understand what Liam was feeling. "I don't know, I mean everyone thinks that he asked me out. You would get mad if you were in his shoes, wouldn't you?"

"I would, " she said. "But I wouldn't act so self-centered."

I just smiled and shook my head as if asking her to end the conversation right there.

It was only when we almost reached her house I remembered about Alex.

"Wait, I forgot to ask. How did it go with Alex?" I asked wiggling my eyebrows. "Do you like him?"

"You know I like him, your just trynna get me to say it," Sienna replied.

"Oooh, did Sienna Parker just admit that she likes Alex?"

"Oh shut up," she said and shoved me before walking into her house.

I laughed and walked towards my home. I thought about Liam again. Did he mean to say that or did he accidentally say it? I hope it was the latter because the Liam I know and liked in elementary school was not like that.

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