Well That Was Unexpected

Chapter 6- The Decision

I've been friends with Justin for years. Sure, I love him, but not in that way. When he asked me on a date, I didn't even know what to think. I mean I was flattered that he likes me enough to ask me but I was also shocked. I don't want to ruin our friendship so I've been avoiding him and his question. After social studies, I had French with him, which wasn't easy since he was trying to talk to me.

Now it's the last period before I could go home and of course I have it with Scott, Justin, Zoey, Mike, and Julia. Zoey has been trying to get what's wrong out of me considering that I've been 'acting strange' lately. I finally cracked and told her to come over after school so we can talk. Mike has been trying to talk to me too, and everytime he did, Julia would look at me with daggers. What am I going to do with her? Scott has been asking me what's wrong ever since lunch since I looked sad to him.

Justin has been texting and throwing notes at me but I don't read them because I'm afraid of what they say. When the bell rang, I jumped out of my seat, grabbed Zoey's wrist, and dragged her to our lockers. We dumped our crap we didn't need in them and rushed out the front door of the school. "Why are you going so fast?" Zoey asked as she tried catching up to me when we were walking to my house. "Beca-" I was cut off by a car honk.  

Me and Zoey both looked behind us to see Scott's red Camry. Justin was in the passenger side seat. Oh god. He rolled down his window and looked at me. "Do you guys want a ride home?" "Sure!" Zoey exclaimed. She hopped into the back seat behind Scott while I slowly got into the back seat behind Justin. Once we got our seat belts on, Scott drove off. On the ride home, I noticed that Justin kept stealing a glance at me in the rear view mirror. When we reached my house, I jumped out, saying a thanks and ran into the house. As I opened the door, I heard Zoey invited Scott and Justin in to hang out and them accepting. You're an idiot sometimes Zoey.

"I'm home!" I yelled when I got into the house, "and I brought Zoey, Justin, and Scott along with me!" "Honey!" my mom came running to me and crushing me into a hug, "I'm so happy to see you! I didn't see you last night!" I hugged her back, "Yeah I know when I got home I went straight to bed. I was so tired." "Hey Mrs. S," Scott and Justin greeted my mom when they walked into the house. "Scott, Justin, I haven't seen you two in awhile!" she said and ran to give them a hug. My mom was a happy woman. Zoey walked in and just gave my mom a hug and went into the kitchen to make popcorn, to get candy, and ice cream.

I took my Uggs off, Justin took his converse off, and Scott took his Jordan's. Then, I went to help Zoey with the snacks while my mom, Justin, and Scott caught up, "Are you stupid or something?" I asked her angrily. I know she didn't know my problem is about Justin but like really? Didn't she see that I was avoiding him? "What? I thought you liked movie theater popcorn!" she said, looking at the popcorn. "Not that!" I exclaimed, "why did you invite Scott and Justin in?" "Um because they're our friends and Scott gave us a ride? Why?" she stated. "Forget it," I mumbled, "let's just go upstairs." I grabbed the ice cream from the fridge, the candy for the counter, and ran upstairs.

Scott and Justin followed me along with Zoey. I picked out my favorite movie of all time, The Hunger Games. I can't wait until Catching Fire comes out. Me, Zoey, Scott, Justin, Sara, and Rachel are going to see it the day it comes out. "I'm going to go pee before the movie starts," Zoey reported and walked into the bathroom, closing the door behind her. "I'm going to get a drink," Scott said and left. That just leaves me and Justin in the same room, alone. "Look Kayla," he started coming toward me slowly, "please stop ignoring me. I hate it. I didn't mean to offend you or anything, I just like you and I don't know, I guess it was a stupid idea to ask you."

I looked at him. Those green eyes showed sadness. I can't stand seeing him sad. "Justin I-" he cut me off. "No it's okay, Kayla. I understand." "Yes." "Yes?" I nodded. "Yes, I will go on a date with you on Sunday." "Yes!" he jumped up and picked me up into a hug. "You won't regret this," he whispered in my ear as he pulled me out of the hug and looked into my eyes. "Are you guys okay?" Zoey asked us, slowly approaching us.

We looked at her. Oh god. Should we tell her? I looked at Justin, my eyes asking what we should do. He must of noticed because he said, "I-uh-my eye was irritating me and she was seeing if there was something in my eye. There wasn't." I nodded in agreement. Zoey looked to me then Justin, shrugged and sat down on my bed. Scott came into the room with Dr. Pepper and 4 cups.

I sighed in relief. We took a seat beside her and I pressed 'play'. "Oh by the way," Zoey started, chewing on a twizzler, "I'm going to spend the night since it's Friday." "Okay," my answer was muffled because I was eating popcorn. Scott laughed at me. I took a hand-full of popcorn and was about to throw it at him when my mom yelled, "Going to work! Josh is spending the night at a friend's house and your dad is at your uncle's and is spending the night there so you guys will be home alone tonight. No funny business!"

"Yeah, yeah, yeah, bye mom love ya!" I hollered back. "Scott are you staying the night, too?" I asked him. He nodded his head 'yes'. "How about-" I was just going to ask Justin the same thing when his phone started to ring. He walked out of the room. Justin walked back in a few minutes later. "That was my mom, I got to get home. I'm sorry I'll stay next time. Bye." We all said goodbye and he left.

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3 hours and something minutes later, the movie was over and we were bored. "I got to get my stuff for the night, you guys wanna come with?" Scott said, grabbing his keys and putting his shoes on. Me and Zoey shrugged and slid our Uggs on. I raced down the stairs and in the passenger seat. The other two closed and locked the door and then got into the car too. When we got to his house, we greeted his parents and ran upstairs into Scott's room. "Who's here?" an unfamiliar male voice came from hallway. I looked at Scott and mouthed, 'Who is that?' "Well hello there," I whipped my head around to the door to see a hot guy leaning against the door way looking at me. He was wearing a white see through shirt, skinny jeans, and a pair of Jordan's, just like Scott's.

"Kayla, Zoey, this is my older brother, Tyler," Scott sighed. A brother? Since when did Scott have an older brother and why haven't I known about him? "Older brother?" Zoey asked, "and why haven't you told us about him?" I looked at Scott and crossed my arms over my chest as Zoey did the same, both of us waiting for an answer. "Who are you talking to Ty?" a familiar voice echoed down the hall. "Just my bro and two very hot ladies," Tyler replied making me and Zoey blush, "I'll be there in a few minutes Josh, don't worry." "Josh?" I said, looking past Tyler to see my brother at the end of the hallway.

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What do you guys think of her decision? Bad or good? And what about Tyler? You'll be hearing a lot about him soon and he'll be popping up places too.