Long Lost Love

1: jerk fever

(I AM SO MAD it deleted while I was writing the other chapter and now I have to gain my votes back Ugh 😑)

Gus's Pov
"So does this mean we're friends now?"

Matt just shrugs, and says, "I don't know, squirt." He softly punches my shoulder, making a joke. "You're such a jerk," I respond, punching him back.

Then we start heading back to Bones Borough.

I rewind the illusion and watch it over and over again. I just can't stop thinking about how we saved the Galderstones from that group of idiots in the Looking Glass Graveyard. Something about the way we were able to work together made me want to know him better. But I could never actually ask him to hang out...

Right?

(Time Skip)

Ok. I know I can't tell Luz, because then she'll just make a big deal out of it. She'll say, "Gus has a cru-ush! Gus has a cru- ush!" WHICH I TOTALLY DON'T! And then she'll make me ask him out. Well, I don't want to ask him out. I just want to be his friend. Hopefully, he feels the same.

But not in a crush way, "I hope he likes me too," just in a friend way, "I hope he wants to be friends like I do."

I can't tell Willow. She hates him for getting me thrown into the Detention Pit. But I forgave him for that. I mean, he practically saved me when the Glandus High asses.

"AMITY!" I shout. I fluster and put down my apple blood. Amity looks over at me from next to Luz, confused. "I need to erm- I need to speak with you. In the potions lab. "Ok?" She sets down her bag of Hex Mix and follows me to the potions lab.

"How do you get someone to be your friend? I mean- like how do you ask someone that you kinda met a while ago, but had your differences, and now you're starting to like- I mean want to be friends with them- How do you ask them to be your friend?" I ask.

Amity looks at me confused. Then smirks and giggles. "This is about Mattholomule, isn't it?"

"What!? How did you- No!" I say, "Just tell me! Please?" I say, blushing.

"Well, Luz is the love- I mean- friend expert. You'll have to ask her. Here I'll go talk to h-"

I cut Amity off, "No!!" She looks at me, surprised I yelled at her. "Sorry. I meant, please don't tell Luz. She'll just make a big deal out of it you know?"

She holds her hands together, and smiles, "Yeah, that's my Luz." Then she blushes, and straightens her posture out, "I mean- Yeah, I know what you mean. Maybe... if you just tell Ma- I mean the mystery enemy-friend-person how you feel?"

I roll my eyes, and start pacing back and forth in the classroom, "Ugh! I was afraid you'd say that." I put my face in my hands and say.m, "Ok. Yeah. I'll just ask them."

Amity sighs, and pinches her brows, slightly frustrated, "Ok then, are we done here?" She asks. I nod and she walks out of the classroom.

"Ugh. How am I supposed to just "ask" if Matt wants to be my friend? I'll sound like a baby. Even worse, I'll sound like Hooty!" I whisper to myself. I pull my knees up to my chest and rest my head on them to think.

Then, an idea comes to mind!