Direct And Linear Relationships

Chapter 11: Jealous

I paced in Vernon's spot early Wednesday morning almost tripping over my duffel bag and backpack, yes I had to get a duffel to hold all my fucking volleyball shit. I tapped my foot impatiently waiting for him. Yesterday after mom dropped me off, I found Jungkook and he said he saw Vernon come in but seemed to disappear after that. So here I am being the bigger person stalking his daily parking spot.

I heard some kids shout and 3 rows up 2 spots to left were a group of girls laughing and giggling. That was where Ms. Minatozaki or Sana and I were the other night. She never texted me that night like she said she would and I couldn’t talk to her about it before school started yesterday because I slept in, lunch I was looking for Vernon's dumb ass, and in physics students were flooding to her desk to ask questions about their biography, after that I had practice.

Which is where I was informed that supposedly I have to participate at the pep rally on Friday. Moonbyul's exact words were:

“We are always in the pep rally. Both boys and girls varsity volleyball. They do it for lacrosse and water polo. Where have you been? Living under a rock? This year we are trying to top the ‘Who Ya Rootin for’ theme we did last season.”

It had something to do with root beers.

Vernon's black GMC Sierra screamed down the lot then he started to pull into his spot before he saw me and slammed on the brakes. He rolled down the window and stuck his head out.

“Move Dahyun.” his voice was so monotone.

“We need to talk.”

He shook his head and sighed.

“I don’t want to do this at school.”

“Well if you wouldn’t have been ignoring my calls or disappearing on me we wouldn’t be doing this here.”

“Fine. Move and we’ll talk.”

I eyed him cautiously, noticing my skepticism he put his hands up in a surrender.

“I promise.”

Believing him I stepped to the side, using my foot to slide all my stuff over and let him pull in. He unlocked the door and I opened it for him, with ease he jumped out and landed smoothly on his feet. His sad eyes looked at me only for a second then he glanced away.

“Do you want to sit in the bed?”

“Sure.”

After I threw my things over the side of his truck we walked around to the back and he dropped down the tail gate. First Vernon got in then he helped me up. With slow steps we reached the cab and hopped on the roof of the truck. Every now and then a guy or girl would see Vernon and wave at him, he would politely wave back then it was back to silence.

He took a deep breath then placed his gaze on me while I kept my head down watching as I rocked my foot back and forth.

“I’m sorry Dahyun.”

Definitely wasn’t expecting him to apologize first. I met his eyes but stayed silent.

“I’m sorry about everything. I know how you feel about me it’s just apart of me hoped maybe if I showed you my romantic side that you would see me differently. Love me. More than a brother. I was going to take it slow but then Queen came on, we started dancing and laughing. I just got caught up in the moment. And what I said about you was just...it was so...crass and rude, I’m just so sorry.”

Taking in the information I nodded my head slowly and saw the water fill up in his eyes as he blinked a few times holding back the tears.

“It’s partially my fault. I’ve noticed the way you’ve been acting and I was going to talk about it but I too got caught up in the Queen moment. It just felt like-”