Is It True? (Kristanna) EDITING

Chapter 7

"-and then Elsa accidentally hit herself in the face with her pencil!" I begin laughing like a lunatic at the end of recounting a hilarious incident that happened in biology. "Man, it was the best, I wish you could've been there." I look over to my right at Hans, who's currently rapidly typing something up on his phone. His gentle smile tells me that he was in fact listening to my story, but he probably wasn't paying full attention... "Wha'cha doin'?" I lean closer towards him, but he leans away and frowns at me.

"Top secret football stuff. Even if I could tell you, you'd be bored out of your mind." He shrugs at me, but continues to smirk at his phone. "Anyways," Hans looks at me and stops walking, I mimic him with a small smile, "practice is supposed to end early tonight, wanna do something?"

My eyes widen in excitement. Sure, hanging out is a normal thing for most couples to do, but it was all so new to me that it made me really happy when he said that he wanted to do something. "Of course!" I nod my head excitedly and quickly link arms with him. "We could go out to eat, or-"

"I was thinking," he interrupted my list abruptly, "more along the lines of me hanging out at your place or maybe vice versa..." His smile made my heart melt, and I was on the brink of saying yes when reality slapped me in the face.

Anna, there's no way you're going to bring him over when Elsa might try and pull something... but then again, his visit might be the final bit of proof that I need to show her that there's no reason to worry about me. I want to prove her wrong, but we had finally "settled" the argument (even though it was still a touchy subject) and I didn't want to ruin everything so soon.

I bit my lip in worry, hoping that I wasn't going to upset him too much if I said no to hanging out with him. The lame  excuse of studying popped into my head and the words started to spill out of my mouth, "Well.... I'd say yes, but I think I-"

"Are you okay?" His voice was filled with concern. "You haven't been acting... totally normal." He reached out and gently grabbed my hand. "You know that I'm always here for you, right?"

Great. This is just fantastic (note my sarcasm). I thought I was doing such a good job keeping my emotions to myself, but I should've know that I'd be found out sooner or later. And now I was backed into a corner, how do I casually tell my boyfriend that my best friend doesn't want me dating him? Maybe the internet has the answer... I should google that later. Good idea Anna- BUT in the mean time, you can't just whip out your phone and do that!

"Yeah," I look at him reassuringly, hoping to get my lie to sound as real as possible, "I know you're here, it's just that- this is... this is something that I need to handle on my own right now." 

"Why? What happened?"

"It's nothing, really." I try to make him drop the topic, hoping that I can move onto more positive things.

"If you're sure..." He hesitantly let's go of my hand to open the door to our geography room. "Just remember that I'll always be here for you." Hans leans closer to me and plants a sweet and tender kiss on my cheek, making me blush in return. "I love you, Anna."

"I love you too, Hans." I reciprocate his actions and happily walk into the most boring lecture I'll get today.