What the Heart Wants

Chapter Seven

I found Sophie chatting with Lauren at the lockers. They looked like they were having a deep chat so I tried to keep my distance. But then Sophie noticed me and gave me a half-hearted smile before shooing away Lauren. “What was that all about?” I asked her.

“Oh it was nothing. Just the usual stuff, you know? But anyway… Why are you in you so late? You’re normally like the first one in school!”

“Oh ha ha, real funny! I’m not that much of a nerd!”

“Pfft whatever… Just spill the beans, why so late?”

“Well I was walking to school with Alex and-”

I didn’t even get a chance to finish my sentence before Sophie started screaming. “OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! OH MY GOD! Ahhh this is like a proper OMG moment! I knew you two would totally fall in love! We have to go sit down somewhere cause you’re telling me all the details!”

I couldn’t help but laugh at my best friend. She was so over the top sometimes. I rolled my eyes and tugged her arm, “Come on then, Sophs.”

I took her into the library where we could be alone and I told her all about my wild morning. She just stared at me with a massive smile all over her face and wouldn’t stop squealing. There were a lot of “ooh’s” and “ah’s” as well.  We chatted about it for a good twenty minutes before the bell rang signalling for us to go to lesson one. Sophie looked disappointed that we couldn’t keep talking but I promised I’d fill her in on the rest at lunch. I made my way to double physics, oh the joy…

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The first half of the day seemed to fly by and before I knew it, it was time for lunch. I went to the lunch hall and scanned the crowd of teenagers for my group of my friends before someone grabbed my shoulders and shouted “Hey there!” I turned around to see Sophie.

“Jeez, Sophie! You gave me the fright of my life!” I said while trying to slow my heart rate back down.

“Oh don’t be such a baby.” I just humphed and glared at her. I wasn’t a baby.

We grabbed some trays and stood in the queue. There was someone really tall in front of me so I couldn’t see what was being served. Ugh. I hate when that happens. “Excuse me, could you please-”

I was cut off by the beautiful god who turned to face me. “Oh hey, Lucy.” Alex greeted me with a warm smile. I couldn’t help but smile back. He just made me feel so tingly inside! “Sorry, was I blocking your view?” He said with nothing but concern. I just nodded feeling slightly embarrassed.  “Well let me make it up to you. How about you sit with me and the guys today?” He said nodding towards a stream of good looking guys in front of him.

“Actually I was going to eat with…” I turned around to see Sophie frantically shaking her head.

“Don’t you dare make excuses, Lucy! You will sit with that boy no matter what!” Sophie whisper-shouted at me.

“Your friend can come too if she wants. We don’t mind.” Alex said with a wink. God I love it when he does that.

Sophie just nodded, beaming up at him. “Why thank you, we’d love too!”

I rolled my eyes at how goofy she was being. We proceeded to get lunch, which smelt amazing by the way, while Sophie chatted up Alex the whole time. I knew she was just trying to be a good friend but I couldn’t help the jealousy and bitterness I felt towards her. Why was I being like this?

We paid for our food and made our way towards the table of guys. Alex is the year above us so all his friends are older than us as well. Sophie was full of confidence as she sat down next to Dan, one of the hottest and most popular guys in school, and started flirting away with him. I just stood nervously behind Alex. However, he seemed to notice my hesitation and took my hand in his before pulling me along the other end of the table. He pulled out a chair for me and I couldn’t help but think how much of a gentleman he was. I smiled and sat down next to another hot guy whose name I didn’t know. He gave me a friendly smile before going back to joking with more of his hot-guy friends. Why were all good looking people always friends? Was it like some unwritten law?