everything has changed

chapter 3

"Look at my fav smartass." God, him. Again? "Just tell me what you need,"I answer already irritated.
"I can't I just say hello to my favorite girl?" he says.
"I repeat. What you want."
"So I know about the movie night I think we can fake to be friends or even together"
"No, thank you."I say and then he smiles at me "Oh come on, you would love pretending to be with me. I'm handsome."
I can't even find the strength to answer that.
"Bye, see you in hell, "I say
"See? You're already asking me for a date. If they think we're together and we kinda act like that they wouldn't question anything." he says with that stupid smirk on his face.
"Ok, I agree. There's this one guy who is always around me asking me for a date and it doesn't matter how many times I say no, he doesn't stop."
"Whatever can help you, love. Just don't fall in love with me, smartass. I know it's difficult.
So...first, we should show we're together. Just hold my hand while we walk." Yeah, I regret it. Just then he takes my hand and it's warm. I don't know why but right now I really feel the lightness and for some reason, I feel like I can trust him. I'll definitely have some disease. "No kisses." he says whispering "I wasn't thinking about that, I would never kiss you." Suddenly I can see some sadness in his eyes but it turns into shamelessness. "I'm a great kisser, your loss." Whatever makes him happy. "I think we should start to know each other" Uhm? "For when people are gonna ask us some question about our weird relationship. Not that I'm interested in you." He's making this so difficult. "Ok, what do you want to know?"
"What's your favorite color?", seriously? Fine. "I don't have a favorite color, you?" I say and it's true. I don't get so emotional about anything in fact I found having favorite colors something stupid but I can't say that to Chloe, she was the one who yelled at me for not having one. "Liar. Mine is yellow."An interesting answer "Why?" at that he smiles but not a teasing, a sad one before saying "My mom's fav color. She used to buy me so many yellow shirts and I couldn't put myself into telling her that I hated that color. Now that she's gone every time I see something yellow I can't stop thinking about her and it's killing me. I dream about her every night. She's haunting me." Whoa. Why is he telling me all of this? Maybe he just needs someone to talk with about this. "Mine is probably orange. Not that light orange, but the sunset one. Or white, it reminds me of the moon."
"I knew it. You liar. I hate the night and the moon, it's when you realize you're alone and all of the bad memories just come back to you."
My heart can't take it. I know he's a total idiot but right now all I want to do is just give him a big hug and I don't even like physical touch so I just squeeze his hand. "That's not the way I see it. When I'm home alone and it's dark outside I can see the stars in the sky. I feel less alone because once I realize I'm just a speck in the world, all my fears melt away." I never said that to anyone, not even Chloe but after his confession, I couldn't stay quiet. "You're nothing like what I expected." he says with a quiet smile "How did you imagine me?" he doesn't even hesitate before answering "A pain in the ass." Who's gonna tell him he's actually a pain in the ass? "You use your cruelty simply to defend yourself from others. You're terrified of letting other people into your lives in fact you prefer to push them away. Or so it seems to me." I don't know if the thing that scares me the most is that I feel good talking to him or that he can read me like a book when no one has ever done that.

"Here are some flowers for the most beautiful girl I've ever seen." Not him again. I turn myself around still holding Leo's hand and I watch Trevor's expression, he looks angry and sad at the same time. "Thank you, I was totally thinking about getting flowers for my girlfriend." Leo says and I grin like an idiot "It was nice to see you,Travor" and we leave. "You did that on porpoise." I say when I don't see any sign of that red-haired boy "What?" he asks acting innocent, "You know his name is Trevor", he put that sad dog face before saying "Really? I totally didn't know." And while we laugh, I realize that Leo Hale is not that bad.

"Oh my god! You two? Holding hands?"Chloe. I don't even have to see her face to know that she's smiling like an idiot "Congratulations, I guess." Charlie says a little bit confused. "How did that happens? Tell me everything. Every stupid detail", we didn't prepare anything but it's not gonna be so difficult faking a "fall in love at first sight." "Well, she is funny and I love teasing her because I can see her pretty cheeks turning red. It started all for the movie night, we wanted to be friends to make you happy, and then she started talking. God, her voice and her intelligence made me like her so much." He was really good. And before I can say something Chloe hugs me. "Oh, come on I have all of your hairs in my mouth." I say trying to pull away from her but she holds me tighter "I love you too, Rye."
"Sorry to interrupt," a girl with beautiful red hair says "Chloe, take this." she handles her paper and before I can ask anything Chloe starts screaming. "What is it? Is she threatening you?"I say anxious and she gives me the paper too happy to formulate words and then I relax.
TOMORROW
7 PM
THE FINALLY TALK
ABOUT LGTBQ+'S
RIGHT.

WITH A SPECIAL GUEST:

CHLOE SHANNON

AN INCREDIBLE AND VERY INTELLIGENT STUDENT.

I'm really so happy that she got this chance to talk, she's always so supportive and now she can show that to everyone.