The Year I Met Ryan (Editing)

Chapter 17: Beth 1, Ryan 0

CHAPTER 17: BETH 1, RYAN 0

Monday morning. What a beautiful day. A beautiful day to stay in bed and skip school, because school is a prison in which no one can escape from until graduation. Graduation was months away and I couldn't survive the sentence that I was being punished to.

My dads voice played in my head. Oh Beth always the one for dramatics.

I grabbed my phone and snoozed the alarm. Pulling my covers up to my neck, I turned on my side. I closed my eyes and smiled while I snuggled deeper into my blankets. A few minutes later my alarm went off again and I reached over to snooze it again, grumbling in the process. My eyes closed again but as soon as they did my door burst open.

"Rise and shine sleepy head."

I pulled the covers over my entire head. Mumbling I replied, "leave me alone."

"Get up you're going to be late, and then what will poor Ryan think huh? That you're avoiding him. Seize the moment honey. Go for it. Express your undying affection for him."

I sprang up immediately, my lower half still sitting on the bed under the covers. "I don't love him!!!!" I almost screamed out. And with that I fell back onto my bed and covered my face.

"Never said you did." My dad replied in a sing song voice.  

Mumbling again and enunciating each word I replied, "Oh. My. God."

"Now go, run, jump into his arms and live your fairy tale." 

"And you say I'm the dramatic one," I said, my head peeping out of the covers. I sat up in my bed and squinted my eyes at my dad trying to give him my best glare.

"Acceptance is the first step."  

My moms head popped out of the doorway looking into my room. "We talking about Ryan?"

"You guysssss!" I whined.  

"Sweetie just tell him you love him already."

I let out an exasperated dramatic sigh and flopped back down onto my bed, back first, and very quickly covered my head. I could hear my parents laughing as they left the room.  

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I walked into the doors leading into the main hallway. I stood there for a second trying to get used to being in school again. When I finally walked in, I noticed Nicki standing against the lockers with her friends. I briefly glanced at her and saw her head slightly raise up to look at me. Her face was blank though, there was no expression like there usually was. 

She looked away as quickly as she had looked up. Once at my locker I put in the combination to open it. I put my books in and closed it to come face to face with none other than Ryan Bray. 

"Hey," he whispered loudly.  

"Hi why are we whispering," I whispered right back at him in the same loudness.  

He laughed wholeheartedly. "Let's go to class?"  

I nodded and we started walking side by side. My mind was running with a million thoughts. I wondered if it seemed obvious to others that we liked each other, that we had kissed. But then I realized  nobody knew what had happened over break. Ryan and I had walked to class before so from an outside point of view, everything seemed normal, just as it had been before break.  

Ryan opened the door for me and put his hand on my back pushing me, forcing me into the class. I started laughing and shook my head as I walked in. The class started filling up until everyone had taken their seats.