Why Did It Have To Be You?

Chapter 1

I got out of the car, grabbing my backpack off the floor in front of me and slinging it over my shoulder before I closed the door.

"Damn, you got something against car doors?" Kelly asked me, a playful smile on her face.

"More like something against mornings, and school for that matter," I grumbled. At least it was senior year, even though it was only the first day. I sighed as we walked up to the main entrance of our school, where there were people swarming everywhere. Mostly girls screaming and hugging one another like they hadn't seen each other in years, which was pretty annoying at seven am.

When we walked in Jason was standing by the water fountain right inside the entrance waiting for Kelly, of course. He beamed at her when he saw her, not even shooting a glance my way even though we were all supposedly "best friends." All of that changed when they started dating. But whatever right? As long as they're happy.

When Jason walked towards us I turned and started to walk away before Kelly wrapped her hand around my upper arm, spinning me back around.

"Where do you think you're going?" She asked me, trying to raise her eyebrow but failing miserably, causing me to chuckle. It always made her mad when I raised mine because she knew she couldn't, but she still tried.

"Uh, to class?" I responded, raising my eyebrow just to piss her off. I smirked when she rolled her eyes.

"Don't leave me with him," she quietly begged so that Jason wouldn't hear. See, when her and Jason first started dating I knew my place and took a step back, letting them have as much time alone together as they wanted. But now that the honey moon phase was over... well, I guess that's the problem. It ended for her but not quite for him. He needs to spend every second of everyday with her and only her, and I can tell she's starting to feel suffocated.

"I don't want to deal with his temper tantrum when he doesn't get alone time with you," I told her, shrugging my shoulders and trying to turn around again. When he didn't get his way he would just pout the whole time if I was there, or ignore me. When she just plain told him no, it's gotten to the point of him fake crying so that she would spend time with him. Yeah, he's psycho.

"Nicole, please stay with me?" She pouted and tightened her grip on my arm.

"Fine," I said reluctantly. Ugh, I give in to her too much. She is my best friend though, so I guess it makes sense. She smiled at me and dragged me back over to Jason.

"Hey," I said, giving him a nod.
"Sup," he said, returning the nod. Then he turned to Kelly and started talking about his upcoming football game. I rolled my eyes and took my headphones out of my pocket, not wanting to hear his voice any longer. At least he wasn't pouting this time. I put the headphones in and starting blasting music so that I could barely hear anything.

Eventually the bell rang, and I sighed in relief. I knew me and Kelly had first period together, but I also knew Jason would walk her to class. I turned and tried to start to walk away again and then I felt Kelly grab my arm, again. I pulled out one of my earbuds and turned to look at her.

"Can I help you?" I asked, the sarcasm obvious in my tone. She frowned.

"I know you know that we have first period together. You don't wanna walk with me?" She asked, tilting her head to the side as if she was observing me. I shrugged.

"Sorry I don't wanna see you guys have a make out session before class, can't I just save you a seat?" I proposed. She crossed her arms, turning to face Jason.

"Jason, go to class. I'm walking with  Nicole." With that she turned and started walking to class. I paused for a second to turn around and look at Jason's face, which was totally worth it even though had to jog to catch up with her. He looked like he was going to cry for real.

"Woah, you grew some balls," I huffed once I caught up to her, "but I think you made him cry, he didn't spend enough time with you." I would bet that she'd be getting a million texts during class from Jason asking what he did wrong.

"He doesn't need anymore time with me. He's up my ass twenty four seven, I need a break sometimes. Plus I miss you, I feel like I spent my whole summer with him," she looked over at me apologetically as we turned into our English class. I just shrugged and kept walking. It actually bothered me more than I let on, it hurt when she didn't even try to hang out with me anymore. I didn't exactly try either, but I knew it was pointless. She would've been busy with Jason. I went to the back of the class and chose an open seat in the corner, Kelly sat down in the seat to my right.

"Ooo, look who's in our class," Kelly said with a wiggle of her eyebrows, well as much as she could wiggle them. I looked in the direction she was looking in, and my heart dropped to my stomach. Sabrina Anderson. I hadn't seen her all summer, I mean of course I hadn't we weren't good friends. But I didn't realize that I'd missed her until now.

She turned in my direction and saw me looking at her, so she flashed me a smile. I smiled back, positive I looked like a goofy idiot but I didn't really care. Kelly nudged me gently with her elbow. God, she had perfect teeth. And those hazel eyes, they killed me a little bit every time I looked into them. Then of course, her naturally tan skin, perfect body and-the best part-those dimples.

"Earth to Nicole. I didn't know your crush on her was still so intense," Kelly whispered.

"I didn't either," I mumbled, "but damn she just keeps getting hotter and hotter."

"It's your last year to make a move, you better do something or you're gonna regret it," Kelly said with a stern look. I rolled my eyes. Yeah, I'd had a crush on Sabrina since like elementary school. We used to be pretty close, she lived right down the street from me. But she moved in middle school, only a couple of neighborhoods away but we didn't talk much after that.

"Please. She's straight as a pole, plus she's a solid ten and I'm a solid three," I gave a casual shrug, knowing that I was stating facts.
"You're kidding me right? You are not a three. She's totally in your league, you just gotta go for it," Kelly said.

"You mean be like Jason? Be relentless until she finally agrees to go out with me? Nah I'm good. His psychopath methods may have worked on you but I don't think they'd work on any other sane person." She kicked my under my desk, but it didn't hurt much. Not really surprising, Kelly couldn't hurt a fly.

"Are you calling me crazy?" Kelly glared at me.

"Woah there, calm down. You gotta know you're crazy if you're dating Jason, that kid is the definition of crazy," I told her. Even though he's one of my best friends, or used to be I guess, I always knew he was crazy. At least when it came to Kelly. He never shut up about her, he obsessed over her for four years before he finally convinced her to date him.

"You're right, you know I've been thinking of breaking up with him..." She seemed like she was going to say more but then the late bell rang, and the teacher stood up to begin class.

Was it bad that hearing her say that made me happier than seeing Sabrina did?

I hope that doesn't mean what I think it means.... Do I like my best friend?