Love Isn't Always Fair

Chapter 5

Andi’s POV

Eli had been trying to get a hold of me for the past hour, and I couldn’t bring myself to answer. He was going to say that what happened was a mistake, a spur of the moment. I just couldn’t deal with that. I had to convince myself I didn’t like him and everything will be fine.

I spent the rest of my weekend in my room, not wanting to face either of my parents. Whenever I had to come out, I made sure to make as little conversation as possible.

The weekend flew by quickly, most likely because I was dreading going to school, and having to face Eli. After a long, silent drive to school with my mom, I knew I couldn’t hide any longer.

Eli was leaning against the school. Half of me hoped he wouldn’t noticed, the other half hoped he would, get the rejection over with.

“Hey.” He said softly, as I passed him.

“Hey,” I replied, mentally cringing as I turned.

“So...” He trailed off awkwardly. “About the kiss...”

“It didn’t mean anything,” I said quickly, maybe if I was the one to say it, it wouldn’t hurt as much. “Just a spur of the moment thing.”

Eli glanced up with a look of shock momentarily. “Uh, nothing, right.”

I sent him a false smile. “Like it never happened.”

Eli laughed drying. “What kiss?”

I nodded. “Well....see you around.”

“...Yeah.”

As soon as I was out of his sight, my arms came up around my torso like I was trying to hold myself together. It took all I had not to cry. I focused on the tiled Pattern of the floor as I made my way to my locker.

I had been paying so much attention to holding myself together, I hadn’t realised someone was in front of me.

“Oh!” Someone cried as I bumped into a figure.

“I’m so sorry!” I looked up it was Jake, that made the situation a bit better. “Oh, hi.”

I started to walk away, but he grabbed my arm. “Hey, are you alright?”

“Yeah.”

He looked at me with disbelief.

I sighed. “Love sucks.”

We began walking and I explained the whole situation, finally admitting I had feelings for Eli.

“Do you think you just read his signals wrong? I mean you didn’t really give him a chance to explain, maybe he just didn’t want to be embarrassed.”

“Yeah, that’s likely.”

“Andi,” Jake stopped. “I see the way you guys act around each other, the way you look at each other. I don’t think whatever happened was a mistake.”

I shook my head.

“Look, I need to get to class; I’ll talk to him ok? I know I’m right, you two were made for each other, deal with it.”

I nodded and gave him a careless wave.

I took a few deep breaths and leaned against and leaned against a nearby locker, closing my eyes. I felt a tap on my shoulder.

“Hey, you look tired, hot date with Eli?” Lily’s way to cheerful voice teased.

I didn’t talk to lily as much as I use to, but even to her it was obvious I liked him. I shook my head. “I wish.”  I started toward my first class; the one I shared with Eli. Lily followed.