I'M HIS | BOOK 1 | BOYXBOY

7: "...king of the gays?"

A week went by, I honestly still don't know what happened that night. I'm assuming they decided to stay together and she asked him to stay away from me. I hadn't seen Angel at all. He's been skipping global class and has been sitting with his meathead friends at lunch again. It was infuriating he wouldn't even look our way. Apparently, he told Carolina and David he was sitting with the guys again because of tryouts soon. Bullshit.

    Carolina and David still didn't know. No one knew except Angel, Jen, and me. That made things really tough. I couldn't talk to my two friends in fear of outing Angel and putting his relationship's business out there. Then again the one person I could talk to about it is ignoring me. I was angry at myself but I understood. He needed his distance and I had to understand that.

    "What are you thinking about?" David whispered to me.

    "Nothing, just waiting for this class to end."

    "Excited to see Angel next period?" David smirked at me.

    "That's if he even shows up." I rolled my eyes.

David and I talked through all of our second-period class and even walked with me into global class where he left me to go to the lab. I rushed in hoping to see Angel but he wasn't there. He has already missed all of last week, he couldn't afford to miss any more days. I took my regular seat and let out a sigh. I told myself if Angel came today I would try to talk to him.

Angel came in a minute after the final bell. I sat up in my seat as he walked in. Ms. Papadatos said something smart to him about his missing days. He brushed her off and took his seat right next to me. I'm now rethinking trying to talk to him but I had to try.

    "Angel?" I whispered. "Angel?" He didn't look at me. "Angel," I whispered a bit louder now frustrated.

"What?" He asked passive-aggressively.

"Oh . . . Well, that was kind of rude" He looked at me then proceeded to roll his eyes refocusing on the teacher who was going on and on about the Halloween dance. "Angel!" I said out loud. I hate being ignored.

"Mr. Flores, what is so important that you interrupted what I was saying to speak to Angel?" My teacher called me out.

I turned my attention to Ms. Papadatos. "Nothing, I'm sorry Miss, please continue. I'll be quiet." I looked at Angel, who didn't even make eye contact with me.

"As I was saying the Halloween dance is coming up and we are looking for volunteers" The class was silent "Okay, fine" She turned to me. "Since Mr. Flores seemed to be so focused on talking with Angel he could help out with the dance preparations"

"Wait, what?" I sat up hating the idea of helping out the dance committee.

Angel gave a little chuckle

"Oh Angel doesn't worry, you'll be joining him" Ms. Papadatos scribbled his name on her clipboard.

He looked up at her. "Miss please" he begged.

"No argument. You two are the volunteers for this class" She said

"But we didn't even volunteer!" Angel stated.

"The principal doesn't know that" She then turned and looked at the board "Okay well now that, that's over let's start today's lesson"

Angel looked at me "Thanks a lot"

"Shouldn't have ignored me." I snarked back.

    I mean truly, why would he act like we both didn't mess up? Is he only blaming me? Bullshit. I went on blaming myself for a week and now, after this. It's not my fault. He has a girlfriend, he was the one who kissed me both times, he was the one who was acting weird. It's not my fault. Is it wrong for me to want to talk about what happened? I really started to get frustrated with myself, with Angel. I can't imagine treating someone so shitty. Then again maybe I should try to be a bit more sensitive because I'm sure this is all also very hard for him.