"Young love tends to be based on nothing but feelings. The couple has not yet faced and overcome a challenge or difficulty together. They are passionate about each other. They think about each other constantly and want to spend all their time"
Isaac...
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It was Friday after the game, and I headed back home, knowing if I didn't, my dad would be pissed — and I didn't want to deal with that.
After what happened on the first day of school, I couldn't risk it happening again. Honestly, I didn't even want to think about it.
Not like anyone would've talked to me at the party anyway. The only reason I ever got invited was because I was on the team, but it's not like anybody noticed. Hell, most people didn't even know I existed, much less that I never went to those parties.
School was... normal, I guess. Well — normal for me. I don't think many people would call getting through an entire school day without talking to anyone normal, but it was what it was.
I avoided the classes where I'd have to be too visible, where someone might notice the faint bruises on my skin. Except for first period. I never skipped that. Not because I cared about the subject — it was because of Angie.
She was probably my only real motivation to show up to school every day.
At least, a good motivation.
There was another reason, but it didn't come close to her.
Seeing her in the morning was probably the best thing to happen to me all day. Though now, weekends had become the worst days of the week.
I didn't even understand why I thought about her so much — like I liked her or something.
Okay, yeah. I thought she was pretty. And I liked the way she smelled, like vanilla mixed with... something else. Sweet oranges maybe? I didn't know exactly what it was, but I knew I liked it.
And her smile. God, that smile. It was contagious. Didn't take much to make her laugh, and it always felt like she was trying to infect the whole world with it. Not that it would've been a bad thing.
And the craziest part — she actually talked to me.
Probably only because she was supposedly giving Scott McCall a chance now.
Can't blame her, really. The guy was finally getting a glow-up.
I hoped I'd get one too. Not because of Angie.
...Okay, maybe a little because of her.
Alright, fine — maybe I did have a tiny crush on her. Not that it mattered. She wasn't ever gonna look at me like that. She was looking at Scott now, which just proved I never stood a chance.
Not that I ever had one to begin with.
We were two different people.
She was out partying, probably making out with McCall right this second — and for some reason, the thought made me irrationally angry.
