Long road to go

Geeks can be stupid

Stephanie

My heart beats in my chest when I close my bedroom door and slip down to the ground. Tears stream through my eyes and hurt tears me up. Is this really the Hunter I know? Is this the boy that was so kind to me? He is changed. Am I so desperate to keep on trying if he doesn't want to be seen with me? He can say what he wants, but I am not a fool.

With tears in my eyes still, on my bedroom floor, I take my cell phone out of my pants and dial Lissa, "I need your advice." She heard immediately that something is wrong with my voice, what is breaking more and more by the minute. "What is, wrong, girl?" She asked worriedly. "Hunter," I said as my voice broke over the phone. "What has that prick done now?" She asked like the good friend she is. I hate it that she had moved to another city hours away from me. "He doesn't want to be seen with me," I said as my tears poor down on the beige carpet on my bedroom floor. "Girl, you are a catch, don't let him break you!" A little laugh comes to my lips as I can see her scolding in her room at Hunter and how I am worth more than he can give me.

"Please, Stephanie, don't let him fool with you." I nod and suddenly realize she can't see me through the phone. My voice is so broken by all the tears I dropped that I can't tell her anything. She, like the great friend she is, hushed me like I was next to her. When I finally can stand up and go to my desk to make my homework, I can find a lovely text from Lissa in my messages. When our phone call broke up a little ago, she had me smiling and no longer tearing up for that guy.

With my pencil in my hand and my paper before me, I start to do my homework until my eyes almost fell closed.

When I woke up the next day, I felt like I have been crying all night instead only before bed. As I go to my bathroom I heard my parents again fighting about, who knows. In the bathroom, I look in a mirror at my reflection, which showed that my eyes are puffy. Sighing, I splash water on my face, hoping the redness will go away before I have to go to school.

After I took some toast, I got outside our home to look at the old, rusty bike that is waiting for me. I step on it with my helmet clicked on my head. Underway to school, my minds go back to the moment he stopped me at the end of the school day. What made that, I didn't hear a voice behind me. "Hello." the sweet voice behind me said to me as the boy on the bicycle comes riding next to me. "Hello," I said shyly, with my head like a pumpkin. I knew who this boy was, but could not hide my surprise when he spoke up to me. "I am Lucas, and who are you?" Is he joking with me? He knows who I am. He teased me with his best friend Dimitri from the beginning of school and now is Hunter friends with them.

"You know who I am," I said in a cocky voice, which also surprised me. Normally, I am so shy that I can't talk to boys. "Sorry for my rudeness, I just wanted to hear it from you, beautiful." Now does he have me, almost falling from my bike? This can't be real, the big popular hunk is talking to me, why? "Can we meet up later?" He asked me when we almost came to school and got away before anyone can see us. "Maybe," I said, ignoring his snorts, because I didn't accept immediately. He acts like he is the best thing there is.

"You will want it." That's what he said before I lost his gaze from far away. He is handsome with his blonde hair that looks like a tint you would see in the spring. Then, when I looked into his blueish, green eyes, I had to turn away because it was as if he looked into my soul.

In the building of the school, I walk just like every day alone through the hallway until I spot a girl who is all alone at her locker, and it looked like she has been crying. "Everything ok?" I asked her when I came closer and took a better look into her face. Shock goes down my face when I saw it was Heather, the cheerleader girl who has been with almost the whole soccer team. "Do I look okay?" she asked with a bitchy voice like she is disgusted by me. When I look better into her face, she was right she looked awful with her makeup smeared on her face from crying and big puffy eyes, like I had the morning. "Go away, geek," she said as her gaze goes through the hallway at another person who came into the hallway. We both were already late which never happened to me, and now I stood with the most beautiful girl in school in the hallway, both gazing at Hunter. Hunter comes closer to us as his look kept gazing at me. "Hunter, "she moaned in tears as she hugged him like he was there for her. Maybe he was as I looked at him laughing and stroking her hair like this is the girl he always wanted.

"What's wrong Heather?" He asked her in a lovely way what broke my heart even more than it had been the day before. How much can this boy break my heart before I got the message? "Lucas broke up with me." My head turned around when I strode away, hearing her just tell him about Lucas and how he broke up with her this morning in the hallway where all the students of the school were around. A little smirk comes through my lips as I think that even that bitch didn't get what she wants.

When Lucas came to me later that day, he asked me again about going out, together. I could not hold my answer anymore and did agree. He did break up with Heather, who still was crying in Hunter's arms later on that day. What if I go out with Lucas and had a good time with him? What am I even thinking, he is a jerk! Then, when I got a sweet text from him to meet later up in the park, I could not find a thing to disagree. What if boys can change? What if they don't always put on a stick in their ass. Or think about that thing in their pants, maybe they can be honest. Then they are worthy of me.