Life Series High School

^Confession^

Heh...Did you miss them?

Jimmy's POV:

My eyes widened. I felt my tears stop. I looked at Martyn and opened my mouth slightly to say something. Except, I didn't know what to say, so I closed my mouth again and just stared down at him. "Shit." I heard him mumble as he turned around.

 "H-how long?" I finally asked, it had been around a minute or two since Martyn had turned around.

"I don't know, a while....." He mumbled, still not turning back to face me. I went silent again. I didn't really know what to say, I had questions. Like, why? Why does he like me? How long is a while? Do I like him? I paused. "Do I like him...." I whispered to myself. Well, I think I knew the answer, somewhere in my brain. I heard a small voice say yes, but Martyn also turned around as I said it too. "You probably don't, and it's fine if you don't! I just really don't want to stop being friends with you. I feel like I can talk to you, even though I've been ignoring you." Martyn began rambling.

I stood and listened as I was also thinking about the question. Do I like Martyn? I'm closer with him than anyone else in our friend group. I obviously cared about him more. He understood me more. "And I'm sorry if I'm making you extremely uncomfortable right now-" I cut Martyn's rambling off with a hug. "I'm not uncomfortable." I said, I took a silent deep breath.

"Are you sure? You've been silent and you look incredibly confused." He chuckled softly. I pulled back from the hug. "Yes I'm sure. I'm almost never uncomfortable around you." I said again. 

"Um, we should probably get to class. We're kinda late." Martyn mumbled as he stepped to walk away. I grabbed his hand and held him back from walking. "Wait. Um, shouldn't we talk more about what you said?" I asked, holding onto his hand kind of tightly.

He seemed to pause, he then turned back to face me. I kept my grip on his hand still. "A-alright. Can we please stay friends? I really don't want to lose you because of a silly crush." Martyn chuckled, he was rubbing the back of his head slightly. Even though he was chuckling, I could tell he didn't like saying "silly crush". "If it's been awhile, and you're this serious about it," I began, pausing and grabbing his other hand. "It doesn't really sound silly?" I laughed slightly as I looked at him.

Martyn's POV:

My eyes widened as Jimmy grabbed my hand and said my crush didn't sound silly. He started looking me in the eyes. I quickly turned my head away. I would've turned my whole body away, but I didn't necessarily want to let go of his hands. "Well, it's silly cause you're my best friend." I said as I looked back at him. "It's also silly because of me I could ruin our friendship." I added. I wanted to leave, I was embarrassed and still didn't believe Jimmy when he said I wasn't making him uncomfortable.

I had been staring idly while I'd been thinking. I came back when I felt a light squeeze in my hands. I looked back and focused on Jimmy's face. "It won't ruin our friendship." He said he must've noticed I didn't believe him because he continued. "I haven't even said if I like you back or not." He said, tilting his head to the side slightly as he looked at me. For someone who usually sucks at holding eye contact, Jimmy hadn't broken eye contact for about 3 minutes now. "I know, but I already know the answer..." I mumbled. "Then what is it?" He asked, laughing slightly. "You're my best friend. You don't like me." I smiled back at him, even though I didn't like the words, I knew they were true.

"Well. You're wrong...." He whispered. My eyes widened. "What?" I asked. "I like you Martyn. I hadn't ever really thought about it till now." He said, finally breaking eye contact. Which I was thankful for because the eye contact was making me nervous. 

He looked to the ground, but still held onto my hands. "Then....how can you even be sure?" I asked, not in a whisper but only a little louder than a whisper. "Because. I care way more about you than most of my friends. I wouldn't cry if Scott or Joel stopped talking to me for a few days. I also can't talk with them how I talk to you." He said, smiling as he continued looking at the ground.

I smiled big, I let go of his hands and pulled him into a hug again. "You aren't lying right?" I whispered. I didn't actually think he was but I still had a slight worry. "No." He said, I could tell he was smiling too. I hugged him tighter. "Will you be my boyfriend?" Jimmy said in a barely audible whisper. "Yes." I said while nodding.

We stayed hugging for a few more seconds before hearing two people come in. "Dude." I heard Scott say, I stopped hugging Jimmy and turned around. "You two are skipping class to do this?" Grian asked, scrunching his nose and pointing at me and Jimmy. "We aren't skipping, I just found him in here and we talked, longer than I thought we would" Jimmy shrugged, looking at his watch. I nodded.

"Mhm, well the teacher sent me to look for you," Scott said as he pulled Jimmy out of the bathrooms. "Our teacher also sent me for you," Grian pointed at me and opened the door to signal for me to come on. I smiled at Jimmy in the hallway as I followed Grian the opposite way to our class as Scott pulled Jimmy to their class.

Jimmy's POV:

I sat down at my usual spot at lunch, Joel was next to Scott again, in Martyn's spot. "Soooo~" Scott said, looking at me and smirking. "So?" I asked. "What were you and Martyn doing in the bathroom earlier?" He asked, my face started to heat up slightly. "Nothing. We just talked." I mumbled.  

"Wait what?" Joel asked. "Found your brother and Jimmy being weirdly intimate in the bathroom." Scott smirked. "Ew..." Joel scrunched up his nose. "Shut up Scott! We just talked." *I groaned and put my head in my hands.

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