Alex and Jared

Alex

"Hey... Alex, right?"

My heart almost stopped beating with the shock that he would talk to me. I pushed the disappointment that he didn't really know my name back.

"Yeah. Hey, Mark."

"Um, can you do me a favor?"

My eyes probably lit up right then, my grin spanning from ear to ear.

"Sure!" I said, probably too cheerful, to excited to do something for someone I had had all of two conversations with. Well, three now.

"Do you know who Celia likes?" He spat out.

Celia. My best friend. Who also liked Mark. Who seemed to like her back.

"Ask her." I spun on my heels and, once again trying to put as much distance as possible between myself and the guys in my life.

Men.