I Know You

Back to School..

Ahh Junior year, the hardest year in all of highschool. I'm just so excited. I'm really not but we'll see how it goes. My first day of school starts in about 1 hour and I'm reminiscing summer...

I get ready and change into my outfit for the day. I go downstairs to make myself egg on toast. As I'm frying my egg in a pan Trey calls me and says "we have to leave in like 15 minutes, we have to pick up Hamzah." He says.

"Dammit where's his car?" I ask. "His mom's using it for work, just please cooperate." He says. "Ughhhh." I groan. I quickly eat my toast and gather all of my stuff together.

Trey calls me from the car, "Come on we cannot be late for our first day of senior year." "You're first senior day." I say. "Yeah yeah whatever." He says.

We jump in the car and head to Hamzah's house. Trey texts him to let him know that we're there. I check my phone until I hear the car door open, its Hamzah

"Hey Trey, Hey Evan." He says while glancing at me before taking his front seat. "Hey Hamzah." I say. "So you guys ready for the first day of school?" Trey asks. "No." Both Hamzah and I say. We look at each other "jinx." I say.

Hamzah let's out a joking grunt. I laugh at him. We get to school and see Jillian the most boy crazy and meanest girl in my grade with her big group of friends.

"Oh hey guys, I see you guys are still going strong." She says looking at me up and down. "Huh?." I say. "Um you and Hamzah? Aren't you guys dating?" She asks. "Oh yeah for sure, still going strong!" Hamzah says.

He quickly holds my hand and lifts it up. "What? Going strong?" Trey asks. Hamzah hits him on his arm hinting him not to give it away. "Oh didn't you know?... apparently Hamzah and Evangeline are dating." Jillian says.

Trey looks at us and we hint him to go along with it. "Of course I know." Trey says. "Okay well good luck to you guys then." Jillian says sarcastically while rolling her eyes.

"What's that about guys?" Trey exclaims. "Okay well we once saw her at the mall and she was literally droooling over Hamzah, and Hamzah doesn't like her so Hamzah told her we're dating." I say then look over to Hamzah annoyed.

"She's gonna find out we're lying to her." I say to Hamzah. "Yeah I know." He says. "Okay well you guys figure that whole thing out, I'm going to class bye!" Trey says. "Bye!!" We both say.

"Whatre we gonna do Hamzah?" I ask while walking to my class. "I don't know, she'll probably forget." He says. "Well obviously not, she still remembers." I say. "I just don't like her and I don't want to reject her either." Hamzah says.

"Oh please reject her, she is so mean." I say. "Oh really?" He asks surprised. "You are so blind." I say. "Yeah whatever." He says. "Okay this is my first period bye!" I say. He waves at me with a smile.

I go into the classroom and see absolutely no one I know. I deal with the god awful icebreakers to start school. I wait until I can have my next class with Diana.

Once the bell rings I bolt out and head to my chemistry class. "Diannaaa I missed youu!" I say when entering the class and seeing her for the first time since camping.

"Heyy girll!! I've missed you too" she says while giving me a big hug. Then the teacher strictly assigns an assignment already! We start to do our work when Diana whispers to me "hey so I heard things are well with Hamzah since camp, why didn't you tell me you guys started dating?" Diana asks.

"What. Where did you hear that??" I exclaim in a whisper. "From everyone. Everyone is talking about it, you'd be surprised at how many people like Hamzah." Diana says.

"Ugh Jillian, we're not dating, Hamzah only told Jillian that because he doesn't like her and didn't want her to think she had a chance." I say. "So you guys aren't actually dating? Even after camp?" Diana asks.

I shake my head and shrug "nothings happened recently so I guess we just left it at that." I say. "Come on you guys are such pussies." Diana says. "It's hard okay???" I say. "You need to make a move or else people like Jillian will get in the way." She says.

"I know I know." I say. Diana continues to focus on her work while I'm worrying about this fake relationship that's spreading around. The bell rings and its break. I told Diana I'd have to speak to Hamzah about this.

I look around for Hamzah and I text him to ask where he is. That's when I turn around the corner and see him. "Hamzah! We need to talk" I say. "Wha-" he says. I bring him to a janitors closet to talk privately.

"Woah okay this is a little too freaky..." He says jokingly. "Oh shut up I actually need to talk to you." I say. "Okay what is it?" He asks. "Well everyone thinks and knows that we're dating." I say.

"Okay well it was bound to happen." He says. "Okay but the only problem is we're not dating!!" I exclaim. "What's so wrong with people thinking that you're dating me?" He asks. "Nothing but its the fact that we aren't!" I say.

"Don't worry, you're overthinking this." He says. "Can we just say we broke up?" I ask. "Oh hell no, then that mean Jillian girl will try to find a way to get with me." He says. "Just be a man and reject her!" I say.

"Nooooo I will not, do you know how big her friend group is? She can literally ruin my future, she has connections." He says. I think about how his statement can be true. "Okay well I'll give you until march to fake date me." I say.

"Sounds good to me." He says. "Okay good." I say. We nod and get out of the closet, hoping nobody saw. We were clear and realized this whole thing was  getting real. I sigh and say " so ready to fake date?" I say. " boi i'm ready." He says.