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Chapter 10

Hey there quick update today! So the previous chapter was more of a filler chapter, although I also believe that filler chapters don't exist because they are necessary buuuuut... you get what I mean lol

So, here's chapter 10 hope you like it!! Enjoy your reading ;)

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I was currently avoiding Matt like the plague.

After realising how I actually felt, I hurried the conversation and I subtly told him to take me home. Now, a few days later, I was walking along the university hallways looking everywhere to see if I could spot him and hide quickly.

Half the morning had gone by pretty smoothly, I hadn't had any run-ins with Mr. Annoying aka Matt. All my classes had been the same as usual –boring to death, and a bit useless, but that was just routine now.

I had been with Mia and Stella when I could, in classes and in between classes, probably twenty minutes in total and we hadn't been able to talk much about it. Not that I had told them about the "date".

Now I was alone in the hallways, trying to find my locker to leave my heavy books and finally go home when all of a sudden I run into someone.

I felt my body stiffening and tensing like I knew who I had collided with before I lifted my head and I felt my heart beating ridiculously fast.

"Oh my god Nora I'm sorry! I didn't see you!"

That voice... It definitely wasn't Mr. Sexy's voice. Nope.

I lifted my head to find Stella looking embarrassed and trying to collect her things from the ground.

"Oh hey Stells, I'm sorry, didn't see you there." I apologized and helped her get her things together as she rose from the ground.

"Nah it's fine, don't worry silly. Hey, where have you been uh?"

"Umm... In class. With you." I said slowly.

"Yeah I know, but you've been kinda absent haven't you? Maybe it's just my imagination but..."

Stella sometimes pissed me off. Sometimes she's completely oblivious to everything that surrounds her but some other times she's perceptive as hell. This was one of those times.

She took my silence as a sign that I didn't want to talk and that I was in fact hiding something.

"Look, I'mma ask Mia where she is on our group, and we're gonna go meet her so you can tell us." she smirked at me as if saying I know you're hiding something and you're about to spill.

She messaged her and Mia answered that she was at the entrance and we were going to meet her halfway.

We got there and Mia was already there looking at me suspiciously. "What's up? What you gotta tell us?"

They both looked at me. I sighed. Damn them, I was really looking forward to going home.

"Wanna go grab a coffee?" I asked them. And that's how this afternoon of confessions began.

"So, you're telling us that you like him? Matt? Our Matt?" Mia asked me. I gave her a werid look.

"Our Matt?" I asked her rising my eyebrow.

"Ugh you know what I meant, don't be jealous." she gave me a grin and a wink.

"Oh for god's sake I am so not jealous. I was just wondering when did he become our Matt. He's just Matt, a classmate. A guy we know."

"Oh no, he's your potential boyfriend now."

"My what?! Are you kidding me? I just told you I liked him, nothing more. I am certainly not telling him how I feel, ever. Simply because I know that he doesn't feel it back so I'll just forget about it."

"No! Nora, you have to tell him! He's so sweet I'm 100% sure he likes you back." Stella, the hopeless romantic, said.

"Are you avoiding him by the way?" Mia said.

"Me? Haha, no I'm not." I laughed nervously as I tucked a piece of my hair behind my ear and tried embarrasingly not to blush. I was an awful liar. "I just didn't see him today."

Mia scoffed "Yeah, sure. That's why when I ran into him earlier he asked me about you and if I had seen you because he had been looking for you and couldn't find you anywhere."

"So maybe I was a little." they both gave me a look this time "Well maybe a lot."

Silence.

"What? If I encountered him, I would have furiously blushed, I would have stuttered, don't know what to say, make a fool of myself and run. That is pathetic. I'm just waiting."

"Oh for fuck's sake, grow a pair and face the music! You. Have. To. Tell. Him." Mia said, and with every word she said she smashed her hand against the table, causing Stella and me to jump in fright.

Ouch.

"I don't know, girls. I'll think about it, I don't wanna talk about this right now. Tell me about your weekend."

I changed the subject and tried to distract them from the whole thing. I hadn't even told them about the almost kiss because one: they would have squealed and freaked out and I'm not in the mood and two, because there was a high porbability of it being just my vivid imagination.

So I let it go and we moved on to their lives which were much more interesting than mine and at least I wasn't the center of attention.

When I finally got home it was 7pm and I was really tired. I could hear the TV going on in the living room and I figured my dad or brother was home. Then I saw my brother's room's light up under his semi-closed door and confirmed their presence in the building.

I didn't say 'Hi' or 'I'm home' when I entered through the door because no one was interested. I just went straight to my bedroom to leave my things and strip out of my clothes to get my pj's.

After I had changed, I started my laptop and waited while it loaded. My eyes landed on a picture frame that was sitting on my desk. It was an old picture from a few years ago, before the accident, that I hadn't noticed before.

My brother and I.

I must have been 12 in that photo and he was probably around 14 or 15, I don't remember exactly.

I know for a fact that my mom took that picture of us, it was one of her passions. She was always taking pictures of us. She used to say that she loved photographing the beautiful things in life, and for her we were the beautiful things in her life.

The thought alone makes me sad. Just thinking how happy we actually were and how we ended up. It's tragic.

An overwhelming feeling of loneliness envolves me. Sometimes at night I'd lie on top of my bed and think.

Think about my messed up life and how lonely I feel all the damn time.

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