Had To Be You

He is a keeper | Ch: 16

I have been trying to find Chloe for the last 25 minutes. I looked everywhere but I couldn't find her. I come back to the first floor where I see something or someone which makes me stop moving.

It was Liam.

For a moment I felt like my heart was calming down, all the tension just fell apart. When I saw him smiling at me.

Wait.

But why is he smiling at me? Not that I'm complaining but with everything going on... everyone making absurd stories, I was expecting a much worse reaction.

Wait. Did he go crazy? Because of the post? And now he's a psycho? What? No. stop. I sigh.

Not until he knows that it was Hazel who did all this.

I slowly walk towards him. He comes closer to me. Cups my cheeks and puts a stand of my hair behind my ear. There is a little grain sticking to his lips.

He noticed that I wasn't looking at him the way I usually do. He furrowed his eyebrows, and rubbed my cheek with his thumb. "Are you ok?"

"Yeah I think I am" I just keep looking at his face, noticing every little detail, and why he's not mad. Or has he really become a psyc- "Are YOU ok?" I question him back.

"Actually now that you mention I did notice a lot of people looking at their phones and maybe giving me a funny look."

I look at Leo.

"Am I missing out on something?"

My eyes go over to Leo again and he looks just as shocked as I am. He did not see the post.

"Did you not see the post?" Leo comes over.

"What post? My phone was dead when I returned home after meeting you." Liam points towards me making me remember what an amazing time we had last night but only if I could dwell over that memory.

"I was so tired from all the football practice and you know..." Turns to me "thinking about you and thinking about you and thinking a little more about you." Don't blush, this is a tense situation.

Shit I'm gonna shy-smile. Dude knows how to make me fall for him even more. That too when I'm THIS stressed. "I actually fell asleep and I might have forgotten to charge my phone so I left it at home today.

"Liam. So there is something you should know." Leo drags his phone out of his pocket. "Yesterday evening there was a post on Instagram from an anonymous account" Leo opens the post and hands the phone over to Liam.

Liam raised his eyebrows, his eyes widened too and the little chuckle escaped his lips.

"Um... well, I have not been here for a long time but I guess, this is something that the psycho ex would do." We knew whom he was talking about.

"Good god!" Leo looks at me with amusement and says "Evelyn babe he is a keeper" making my cheeks go red

"Yes, that is her. She did this just to get back at me. I told her that Jasper and Chloe were not together anymore" but somehow figured out that they are still together and this is just Hazel being herself. Trying to ruin my reputation."

"So what do you plan on doing now?" asks Chloe.

"I just want to find Chloe and talk to her." I sigh. "Look I know that Chloe and I have been friends since the very beginning and it's very unlike her to ignore me. But still.... we're talking about Jasper and her relationship here. And now that I think, there might have been a series of things which may lead her to assume something wrong."

And just when we were talking to each other in the hallway, Leo points out.

"Hey is that Chloe?" I turn around.