He Had To Be The One

Chapter 10~ I'm not short of friends...

I'm not short of friends...

"Do you think he could be your future husband?" Jake joked as we approached a table so we could eat our lunch. Of course Nancy told him about the mysterious guy. My lessons before lunch had be dreadful,I wasn't really up for talking about the guy from the store. "I'm highly doubtful of that Jake." I said with a fake smile. He noticed it. But this only amused him even more. I didn't why get my friends were making a big deal out of this. I shouldn't have told Nancy in the first place. Now all I have to do is pray that by the end of this week the whole school doesn't know about this.

"Jake what was up with you on Saturday?" It was my turn to ask questions. I know I shouldn't be worrying about the whole thing. Maybe he really was just having mood swings. But I just felt the need to know what really happened. If I was wrong about my insinuations,fine,but then again I could be right. "Nothing. What do you mean?" He cleared his throat for longer time than he's ever done before. Was this a sign of him being uncomfortable, is this what he does when he was lying? Okay maybe I was making up stuff. Jake wouldn't lie to me would he? Either way it's really none of my business why he had been angry all of the sudden.

"How's Leonard?" Here we go again about this whole 'What if Leonard likes you?' Couldn't Nancy just get over it? Leonard doesn't like me and I certainly don't either. I'm pretty sure of that. "Nancy really? I thought we were over this?" I scowled her. She put her hands in the air to say 'Okay fine I won't talk about it .' I continued trying to eat parts of my food that didn't look someone had just decided to swallow my spaghetti and then throw it back up. "But really though Alex. Think about it." Oh my word I thought were done with the topic. This girl didn't give did she? "What's she supposed to think about?" Jake was now out of his uncomfortable mood. Back in conversational mode.

"I think Leonard might have a crush on our little Alexia." She said the sentence sounding like a proud parent. Jake choked on his own spaghetti. "Are you okay?" I asked trying not laugh at him. Why had he been eating so fast in the first place? Nancy and I ended up letting all out. We laughed so hard that tears started coming out of Nancy's eyes. I don't know why were found the whole thing so funny but we just couldn't help laughing so hard.

Finally we gained our composure. And then it was silent. "Do you have a crush on him too?" Jake broke the silence. He asked me in a weird way though. It wasn't like how Nancy was making a joke out of it but it sounded like he was kind of serious. "Of course not!" I said as fast as I could. "He's definitely not my type." I added.

"Hah! And you have a type?" Nancy was back with jokes.

"I'm not like you,you know." I couldn't stop myself from saying that. We all laughed,well at least Nancy and I did. Jake was just staring at his food,with what didn't look like the intention to finish eating it. Before I was just making assumptions that something might be wrong but now I'm certain that I was right. I just had to find out what it was. I hated seeing him like this. I know I've only known him for less than a year but he was my friend. His happiness did count.

"Oh speak of the devil." Nancy got my attention. I looked at the direction that Nancy was facing and Leonard was coming our way. Though I wasn't sure if he was going to come to our table. He could decide to just pass it. He tends to do that a lot. "Hey there." Surprisingly he did come to our table. That's a first.

"Hey Leonard." Nancy's voice was cheerful as always whenever Leonard was around. "Nancy." He smiled at her. "Jake." But he didn't smile at Jake. He even said his name coldly. But Jake didn't greet him back and I didn't blame him. I would've done the same. "Maybe we should give you guys some space yeah?" Nancy was already standing up. I hated how she always assumed that I wanted to be alone with Leonard. "No not at all. I won't even be here for long." Leonard said and Nancy sat back down.