𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮 - Chris Sturniolo

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𝐈 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐲𝐨𝐮
2 years ago

"Chris, you overslept. We have to go to school, get up." Nick said and turned on the light in Chris' room.
"Turn the light off. I'm staying home." Said Chris and pulled his blanket over his head.

Amber, who had been sleeping at the boys', came in and pulled the blanket off his head. And what she saw there broke her heart. His eyes were red from crying and his eye circles were darker than before. He tried to hide his face in his pillow.

She sat down at the edge of his bed and stroked his back. "Chris...you can't miss again. It's time to get over her."
"I can't."
"You're going to miss the whole school year? you have to get over that girl."

He knew she was right and that made him angry. "About the girl? Her name is Loureline. You act like she's just some unimportant girl."
"Because she deserves it."

Soaked in wather, I arrived at the sturiolo's house and quickly rang the doorbell. Matt opened the door and looked confused to see me.
"Lori, what are you doing?" I quickly walked past him into the living room and looked to see if he was here.

"I need to see Chris. Is he upstairs?" I asked and was about to go up the stairs.
Matt held my hand and made me look at him. He noticed that I was crying.

"He's not here, why do you want to see him? What happened? Weren't you supposed to meet Jeremy?"
"Where is he? I have to see him" I said and went towards the exit. He held me again and Amber came down the stairs.

"Lori, you can't go to him now." He said and Amber looked at me, not knowing what was happening.
"Why?"
"He's on a date." -amber

My heart dropped. " With Jesssica" told amber.
Tears ran down my face and my whole body shook.

"On a date?" I didnt wanted to hear that and I had to breathe even harder than before because of the running.

Matt took my shoulder and made me look at him, he looked worried.
"Loureline, what's wrong?"

I covered my face in pain, heartbroken that he now had a new one. Why didn't I realize earlier that I still loved him?

"I remember." I said quickly, shaking my head in anger at myself. Matt's gaze softened, he knew what, and Amber looked at me questioningly.

"What do you remember?" asked Amber.
In tears I said,

"I kissed him. I kissed him and I forgot because I was so drunk and he, he pretended that nothing was wrong." I sank to my knees and cried.

I had been so stupid, so stupid to think he wasn't dating her. I could hardly breathe. Suddenly nick came running down.

"What's going on?" he asked.
"She remembers." Matt said and nick looked surprised.
"You have to tell him." Nick said and sat down next to me on the floor to stroke my back.

"No she doesn't and she shouldn't, sorry to disagree with you Nick." Said amber and I looked at her shocked. Her voice sounded pissed.

"Lori, I love you but what did you expect? You find someone new and he doesn't? Now he's ready to get involved with someone new and you're supposed to ruin it.? Don't do that, it's not fair to him." She explained.

She was right. It wouldn't be fair. I shouldn't tell him that, not when he has someone new.
"Amber, what are you talking about? We all know Chris still has feelings for her." Nick said, and my heart hurt because it wasn't true, he wasnt in love with me, not anymore.

"Doesn't mean she should tell him, he felt like hell about her for a year and then again when she came back. It's not good if she tells him. And if he still has feelings, he has to realize it himself."

"Can you stop talking about loureline like she's not there." Said Matt.

"Lori, weren't you on a date with Jeremy? What happened?" asked Matt.

"We broke up because I remembered the kiss. And I.... I think i still love him" I said emotionally. The others looked at me with shook.

Suddenly we heard the front door open and Chris came in with a friendly face.
We all looked at him, me still sitting on the floor.

He looked confused and when his eyes met mine, worry came over his face.
"What happened?

"I had a fight with my dad." I lied and looked at the others with a pleading face so that they would play along. I wiped away my tears and got up to leave. But as I walked past him, he held me by the shoulder.

"Why didn't you call me if it was that bad?" Our eyes met but this time I couldn't read anything in them as if our connection was gone. I looked down and shook my head.

"Didn't want to interrupt your date." I said and walked out the front door.

His Pov

I watched her walk out the front door, I thought I was imagining that her statement sounded like an accusation.

"What exactly happened?" I asked the group. Everyone was unusually quiet.
"She'll have to tell you herself." Nick said.
"I didn't understand the whole thing anyway." Said Amber, who took Matt by the hand and pulled him up the stairs. Nick followed behind. Why arent they talking to me?

I don't know why, but I went to the front door, opened it and ran after Eline. I was worried about her and something told me something was wrong.

I caught up with her in the rain. She seemed surprised to see me again.

"Tell me What happened?" I wanted to know. "Chris, I don't want to talk about it, it was just a little fight about the thing with my mom." She lied to me, that couldn't be true, she said everything was fine.

"A little fight? You're not crying over a little fight, are you?"
"Chris, I don't want to talk about it."
I knew her, so I could tell by the sound of her voice that she wouldn't talk about it no matter what I said. She kept walking, me next to her.

"How was your date?" she asked.
"You want to talk about my date?"
"We talked about mine, too."

A stab went through my heart, just being reminded that they were dating someone else didn't please me, but I didn't want to think about that.

"It was nice. We had dinner, Jessica is great, very funny." But not as great and funny as you.
"I'm happy for you." She sighed.

"Chris, thanks for helping me, but I'd rather be alone right now." She said and I was surprised that she said that. She had never sent me away, but things change, don't they.

"Okay, then I'll go, but call me if you need to talk. And enjoy your favorite weather." I said and she smiled sadly.

"I will, it's good to know you still know that, night Chris."

"Good night Eline." I said and she walked towards her house, leaving me standing in the rain.

On the way back to the house I thought. Eline and I were getting more and more distant and I didn't know if that was good or bad.

Because on the one hand she made room for Jessica who is really great.
She is pretty and really funny, I don't really know her well enough to say that this could be something between us but I didn't let myself be pressured.
And so Eline made it easy for me to meet someone new but on the other hand it felt like I was losing her and a big part of my life, I didn't want that again.