Love In The Rain(bad boy, good girl)

27- What Did We Miss

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Recap: they almost kissed.

Tyler's POV

Dammit! I almost kissed her! I'm not sure how I feel about that. I'm more worried how she feels about it. Did she even notice? Of course she did! Our lips almost touched. I'm so stupid.

I can't let my feelings get to me like that. Not until I know she likes me back.

I'm at school in a classroom where I don't want to be. I'm only here because of Cora. She isn't here yet and I'm just staring at the door waiting for her.

While waiting I begin to space out.

What if she likes me back? Should I make the first move? Of course I should make the first move. I'm not a chicken butt.

But what if she doesn't like me? But I'm a very likable person. I have the looks. I don't have the care, but I have the looks. That's what counts right? She doesn't seem like the type to go after a guy just for his looks though... That means I have to actually grow a heart if I want to win her. Ugh. I mean get her to like me back. She isn't an object I can win. I mean I could win her heart... Now that sounds too cheesy...maybe-

"Hello?" My thoughts are interrupted by Cora's giggles. "What you daydreaming about?me? I'm bet you are." She giggles.

At first I'm shocked that she can read minds, but then I realized that she is being sarcastic. " You wish" I play it cool.

She sits next to me and I am glad. I couldn't possibly survive this class without her next to me.

***

Class ends and I rush out. Bored out of my mind. And it's lunch time. I could eat a horse. Cora catches up with me.

"Hey, my friends and I were thinking about going that new restaurant down town, and I would love it if you would come as well." Cora says as we walk to the lunch room.

"Uh, Yeah sure" I say acting like I don't really care that she just invited me to go on a date. Sort of. A date with other people there.

***

Last class of the day and the bell finally rings to leave and I thought I was going to die if I had to hear to one more Romeo and Juliet vocabulary word. I don't care what Shakespeare says.

"Hey. So we were thinking about going at 7:00 can you give me a ride?" Cora comes up to my locker. "Don't tell me you only invited me to get a ride." I joke.

"No of course not. I enjoy your company. You know at first. I didn't like you. You know, because you hit my with your monster truck. But now that I know you, you are growing on me. Kind of like when I first hated Simon cowell on the X factor but then I realized he was an okay guy." Now she is just blabbing.

"Okay..." I laugh. I try to take that as a compliment. Being compared to Simon Cowell.

***

It's 7:00 and I'm impatiently waiting for Cora in my truck. 7:01! Maybe I should check on her.

Just then she comes out in a simple yellow dress. She hopes into the passenger seat and I try not to stare to long but I can't help but say. "Yellow looks good on you." Why did I say that. "Thanks. Yellow is my favorite color." She smiles. She is too innocent to know that I'm falling for her.

But I can't fall for her. She is too good for me.

"Hey what's wrong?" Cora notices me sulking. I change my expression to 'I don't care about life' look.

"What? Nothing." I play it cool. "You know you don't have to act like that when your with me. No need to impress me, because I like you better as the sensitive bad boy I occasionally get to see when no one is around." She smiles.

She sees through my act. I am happy. And she likes the person she sees so I'm comfortable with her knowing I'm not always stone cold. The smile I had on vanished when I realize that no matter how much she likes me as a person we will never be more then friends.

She sees that I'm sad again. "Seriously. What's wrong? I don't like it when your sad, it makes me sad."

"Why do you hang out with me?" I ask ashamed. "What? Why wouldn't I hang out with you? You are awesome, cool, funny, and whenever I see you, you make my whole day. And a bonus is that you are quite the eye candy." She winks. I laugh a little.

"But we are nothing alike." I say. "So? Have you seen my group of friends. We are completely different from each other. That doesn't stop us from being the best of friends." She says and that makes me feel better. That still means we're just friends though.

"You and me Tyler, are like salt and pepper." she smiles.

***

We get to the restaurant. It's an Indian restaurant. We get inside and we are the first ones there. This is the type where the table is low and you sit crisscross on a pillow.

"This is nice. So cute. I love it." She gushes. "Thanks for bringing me here. I have been thinking of what you said. We do kind of work together. I'm the storm that brings everyone down and you would be the girl dancing in the rain." I look down embarrassed.

I look up because she wasn't saying anything. She is staring at me. I can't tell how she is feeling.

"Tyler." She says. "That is the sweetest thing anyone has ever said to me." She says holding her heart.

We are so close together. I want to lean in and it looks like she wants me to. We are just staring at each other.

Then her friends come in. "Hi sorry we're late we were stuck in traffic. What did we miss?" Izzy says.

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