TO ALL THE BOYS I'VE LOVED BEFORE AU

CHAPTER 5 - COLLAPSE

When you walked into school the next day, something weird happened. Like, really, really weird. You stepped foot into the building and suddenly almost every single student there started clapping, very obviously at you. What the hell was going on?

"Did you do something?" You asked Eli, who had his arm draped around you as usual, in a whisper.

He shrugged. "This is just how they get with new couples I guess."

"We're not a new couple to them."

"I don't know. Don't worry about it. Let's just go, right?"

You looked around, unsure, confused. But nodded your head yes. "Sure."

. . .

"You know you don't have to keep driving me around if we're not fake-dating anymore," you pointed out as you got off his motorcycle, taking the red helmet off.

"That's kind of just what boyfriends do."

"So is that what you are? My boyfriend?"

"Why, do you not want me to be?"

"Just sounds weird. To say it for real."

"Well get used to it." He took his own helmet off. "Hey can we hang out? I don't really have anything to do."

"Oh wow so I'm the second best option to anything?"

"You know what I meant."

You laughed. "Yeah sure, come on." You walked up to your place, unlocking the front door and letting yourselves in. You sat down on the couch, decided on finding something to watch on Netflix, but he had to get up to go to the bathroom pretty soon. As soon as he stood up he got a notification on his phone, and asked you to read it for him.

"You sure it's okay?"

"Yeah."

You grabbed the phone from the coffee table in front of you. You smiled when you saw his lockscreen was a picture of the two of you together, where you were sitting on his lap, facing the mirror on his bedroom wall. "What's the password?"

"1205!" He yelled.

You typed it in, and unlocked it. The text he got was from Moon, apparently, and you opened the conversation.

It said 'please check out kyler's instagram right now. tell y/n not to freak out'

You frowned in confusion, wondering what this could be about, when your phone vibrated with a notification too. But all you could focus on were the messages before that one, which you didn't mean to look at, but ended up doing so.

Your phone vibrated once, twice, three times more, but you didn't check it. Hawk came out of the bathroom, and you felt your eyes hurt, knowing you were about to cry.

"Were you waiting for Moon at the hot tub?"

"What?"

You handed him his phone. "You asked her to meet you there."

"Why were you looking at her-"

"The text you got was from her. Are you fucking kidding me?"

"No you don't-"

"Get out."

"Let me-"

"Please, get out, Eli."

He walked out without a word.

You were so, so fucking stupid to think this would work. But you didn't have any time to cry before someone banged at your door at rapid speed, scaring you.