Too Perfect to Last (boyxboy)

Chapter 4

Tyler POV

My heart began to pound faster as I rounded the corner and walked into class. There he was, sitting with his back turned to me. I took a deep breath and sat down...or so I thought. I missed the chair completely and fell on my ass. Smooth. Evan turned to look at me and I awkwardly smiled at him before sitting in my seat. A tense silence floated between us like a swamp. I scrambled for something to say but my mind went completely blank.

"So uh...six flags was fun. " Evan said, finally slicing through the tension.

"Y-yeah. Really fun. Medusa is the best." I responded, looking anywhere but his face.

"Yeah. The best." He said. I could feel his eyes on me.

"So..."

"So..."

"Alright class, settle down. Good morning everyone. I hope you had a good weekend. Today we are learning factoring!" Mr. P said, picking up a dry erase marker and getting ready to teach.

I sighed in relief and mentally thanked him for starting early. I tried my best to focus on the lesson and not think about Evan, but as usual, my brain didn't obey. Soon enough I was thinking about Evan.

My eyes wandered over to his face. It's so perfect. I just want to reach out and touch it. It looks so soft and so close. I could just reach out, just a little and...my fingers brushed his cheek softly. He turned to stare at me.

"I uh. What... That wasn't me. Oh. Uh maybe there's a ghost. Y-yeah. Yeah that makes sense. Well, I guess I gotta call ghost busters. Heh. Yeah. Ummm." My words came out faster than I could think. Crap I'm spouting more bullshit than a mc Donald's at happy hour.

"Ummm. Sure. " he responded, studying me for a second before turning back to the lesson.

Damn. Why did I do that? Stupid stupid stupid.

I gave myself a mental kick to the nuts.

Now he probably thinks I'm crazy. Ugh what do I do. Wait what if he doesn't even like me? What if he just kissed me to mess with me? Oh no. I need to test it out somehow. But how? What to do what to do. Hmmmm.

I inched my hand closer to his, until our pinkies touched. He flinched but didn't move away. Success! I attempted to go further by putting my hand on his. He moved his hand from mine and into his lap. Disappointed, I retracted my hand.

Evan POV

Oh my god when is this going to be over. So far factoring looks like math and Satan had a love child. Kill me please. Oh! What's that?

I felt Tyler's pinkie touch mine. It felt nice. He's so warm. I let him do it. After a couple seconds of this he went for the whole hand. I pulled away. He looked upset but I wasn't about to hold his hand in the middle of class where anyone could see. I wanted to, but I can't. I mean, I have a girlfriend for gods sake. Oh I totally forgot. I have a girlfriend! My possible feelings for Tyler aren't totally sorted and all that, but I know I don't really feel anything for Penny anymore. She deserves to know. I have to do something about this. Ok. I've decided. I'll talk to her at lunch.

~~~lunch break~~~

"Hi baby. I missed you today." Penny said, immediately all over me.

I tried to peel her off me but I failed.

"Umm can we go talk somewhere. In private." I said, feeling guilty already.