I Hate Loving You.

Chapter 7: Tough Love

Kaitlyn's POV

"So what are we supposed to do?" Toby asks me standing in my doorway as I fix my hair for school.

"Act like you love me." I swear I heard him say 'Don't have to act.' but my mind has been everywhere this morning. I walk downstairs and Toby follows. I flip the pancakes that are already in the pot from what Nick has all ready done. I sit down quickly and chow them down.

I wait in the car as the boys fight over who gets to seat next to me in the passenger seat. After about 10 rounds of rock, paper, scissors, I see Caleb sitting down next to me. The rest of the boys buckle in the back. We are off. We stop at a red light and Caleb blasts the music and rolls down the windows. We all start rocking the car and screaming. I look over at the cars next to us who are staring. I give a little laugh. I stop automatically when I see Tyler laughing at us from the other side of the car. I just look at him and keep singing until the light turns green. We arrive at school the same time as Tyler does.

As usual, Mallory and him both get out of the car. We all pile out of my car almost dying in laughter. We get a bunch of looks from people, but we don't care. I silently whisper to the guys as we are laughing, "Remember me and Toby are together." We all laugh even more because that sounds so wrong. I mean like that would ever be possible. I mean it would but it would be awkward. We start walking in and Toby puts his arm around me. This isn't unusual though. We all walk in still singing the song that was on. I don't even know the name but I do know the lyrics.

At our lockers, Toby kinda pushes me against leaning in close. "Is this pretending enough?" he asks whispering in my ear. I give a giggle that was real. I peck him on the cheek and then grab my books. Tyler is grabbing his too. I walk away to get to class and Tyler catches up.

"So you are together?" he asks rudely. I smile and walk faster. He is believeing it. "Listen to me." I keep walking. He grabs my shoulder harshly and yanks me to face him.

"Let go of me!" I yell at him.

"Not until you listen to me."

"I don't need to listen to you."

"No but I want you too. So just listen."

I stare intently at him waiting for him to talk. He takes a breath that he lost from yelling at me. I start walking again. "Dammit Kaitlyn. I just need to think of how I put it. Give me a freakin' chance."

"I have given you chances. I tried to like Mallory for you. I tried to be nice to you. I tried to have fun with you. I tried to talk to you. I have tried. I have given you chances. So don't give me that crap." I say waking away in tears. I didn't give away that I like him but I did give a hint I guess.

He doesn't even try to talk to me right now. Toby runs up and wipes my tears from my cheek. "Hey don't worry about him. He is a douche. And I'm your boyfriend." He says with a wink. I can't help but laugh at that. Tyler is watching us. Toby notices my gaze. He leans in and kisses me. My eyes flutter shut and the bell rings indicating its time for class. We break apart and I have no clue what to do then. I walk away sort of smiling and take a seat in front of Tyler. Tyler moves and sits besides me. I don't even dare looking at him. But I don't have to. He passes me a note. I am tempted not to read it but he pushes farther by me. I sigh and grab the note.

'You never let me talk.'

I give a groan and reply: 'yes I did actually multiple times.'

I slide the paper back to him as Toby passes me one. I laugh as I read 'If he hurts u in anyway he is dead.'

'I think I can handle myself with him but thanks :)'

Tyler just sits there pencil in hand thinking about how to respond. I shouldn't be giving him this hard of a time. Should I? I mean he really didn't do anything. Well besides taking my heart and ripping in a million pieces. Twice. But he really didn't do anything. I just keep telling myself that.