Not In Love With Liam

7~ Kiss and Don't Tell

I stayed at the hospital with the others for most of the day, then Darcy, San and I went back to campus together.
Hayden was being discharged today and that made me feel so much better.
I thought a lot about Liam though.
I couldn't even begin to imagine what he went through.
He'd helped me through my relatively tough time and I was determined to do the same for him.

I made my way to my first class of the day, alone.
Illustration.
According to my phone, I was ten minutes early, so I sat in my seat, the other early kids around me, and drew little sketches in my book.

"Early much. That's not like you."
I turned to see Oliver. He slid into the seat beside me.
"Yeah, um.. I woke up a little earlier than usual."
"Also, not like you." He smiled.
I chuckled slightly and scanned the room.

No Hayden.

"Well, what are you doing here so early?"
"I guess, since Hayden's not in, I didn't have anyone to wonder round campus with before class."
"He's not coming in?"
"Naah. He's got a week off."
"Oh."
"Yeah. I'm gonna go see him after lessons."
"Cool."
"You can come with me if you want, I'm sure he'd like to see you."
"Yeah right."
"I'm being serious. He thinks you're still mad at yourself about what happened."
"Yeah well I am."
"He says you shouldn't be. Really Noah, it wasn't your fault,"
I sighed.
"Anyway. You should come."
"I guess."
Olly smiled. "Good."

Between figuring out how I felt about Liam and trying to forgive myself for almost killing Hayden, I almost forgot about my other boy bestfriend.

I hugged Oliver.

Darcy came in with a huge smile on her face.
"Okay, it's 8:53am. There's no way she can be that cheery."
"Tell me about it." I chuckled. "What's up with you, Trey Songs proposed?"
"No." She said gleefully.
"Your dad finally let you get your belly button pierced?" Olly asked.
She lifted her t shirt to reveal an already pierced belly button.
"No."
"Rebel much." I smiled. "What is it then?"
"You."
"Me?"
"You. Noah."
"What about me?"
"You'll find out soon enough." She sat down in front of me.
"What the fuck does that mean?"

Our lecturer came in.
"Okay class.... books open."

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All lesson, I wondered what on earth Darcy was talking about.
It's not like I'd done anything particularly great recently.
Maybe she had a surprise.
After class, she continued to ignore me.
I decided to leave it and go to Hayden's house with Olly. It'd been a while since the three of us had spent time together.
I was just about ready to head out when Olly texted me.

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05:00pm Sorry, can't make it to Hayden's later. :(

First of all.... who the hell makes a sad face using ":(" in 2016?
But more importantly,

TELL ME THIS BOY DIDN'T JUST DITCH ME!!!

I quickly replied him, telling him that I was really pissed off and I didn't want to go on my own, then Olly being Olly, sent back a long message about how I had to, and Hayden was really looking forward to seeing me and blah blah blah. Basically, he persuaded me to go by making me feel guilty for thinking about canceling, while taking the pleasure of canceling himself.

(Note to self: Stab Olly next time I see him, (but attend the funeral afterwards so you don't look suspicious.))

I walked off campus to the front, then continued down the street to the bus stop. Olly canceling seemed all too cliche.
Now I had to spend the rest of the day with the boy who I thought was just my bestfriend, but turns out I sort of like him, and oh, by the way, he was hit by a fucking car just the other day, and the person I was supposed to go with decided the last minute would be the perfect time to CANCEL on me, meaning I now had to go alone!