What Could Go Wrong?

Chapter 1

"So, here I am," I thought, "Just a few weeks into my Junior year." Yes, I like him but I wouldn't think he could like me back. I still feel the need to tell him though, and I'm not quite sure why. It's probably a bad idea but I'll take the chance.

Who, might you ask? His name is Matt, and he's been one of my closest friends for years. The first time we met, I had moved to the middle school in 7th grade and he played bass clarinet while I played saxophone. He was one of the first friends I made in that class, along with Tarren and Val, who played French Horn and Tuba.

I walk to B lunch from my 4th period class. Of course, Matt and I get to the table at the same time. I get to the spot I normally sit at and hear, "Savannah!!" I glance up to see Matt looking at me. "Feed me! I forgot my lunch and don't have any food!" He begs.

I chuckle at his antics and reply, "Okay, okay! I'll get some extra fruit or something!"

I go to get my lunch and decide on a make-your-own sandwich and grab chips and some fruit for Matt. I walk casually back to the table and toss the chips to him. "Thanks!" He says, "Now let's just see how many chips there actually are in here...." He proceeds to open the chip bag and eat.

About 10 minutes go by, filled with random chatter and jokes, and Matt had left with a couple of his other friends to walk around in the halls. Damn, that wasn't part of the plan. I recruit my best friend Sammy to come help me find him since I felt determined for him to find out about it somehow today. I'm not sure why, though. First, we ask one of our other guy friends to check the bathroom for him. Nope. We wander back to the lunch room and that's when we see him coming through one of the halls to the cafeteria, nonchalantly conversing with another guy I haven't seen before.

Suddenly, the world spins around me and the ground sways beneath me. I stop in my tracks as my best friend Sammy tries to drag me over to him, but my feet are glued to the floor.

"What's wrong?"

I notice her hand fall from mine, giving me my freedom back. So, as any normal person would do, I took the chance to let my feet carry me as fast and as far as they could from that impeding situation. I hear footsteps running behind me, followed by Sammy screaming, "Savannah!! Come back!" but I don't stop. I round the corner of a door frame and finally can't hear the footsteps anymore. Looking around frantically, a small crevice in between the wall and vending machine catches my eye, and I elect to hide in there, receiving some weird looks from fellow students.

Mind your own business; haven't you ever had to hide from your best friend who's trying to drag you over to confess your feelings to your crush?

No? Just me?

The security in my chest is short-lived when Sammy finds me less than a minute later. "Savannah, come on!" She urges as she struggles to pull me out. I will not budge. I finally yell, "No!"

"Do you want me to get his phone number so that you can just text him?" She offers after another second of failing to pull me along, abruptly letting go of my wrist and causing me to fall back into the wall behind me.

"Actually, that's a pretty good idea. Yeah, do that." And with that she leaves with a triumphant smirk to seek out Matt once again. I sneak out of that crack and run over to the lunch table again so I can just sit down. After all, that was quite the debacle I just went through and I'm currently more out-of-breath than any day of P.E ever. My eyes snap over to Sammy coming towards me when she calls, "I got it!" Our other friend Tanaya walks over with a confused expression on her face, as she had been a bystander to the whole situation, and we blatantly explain to her that I liked Matt.

At first, I'm relieved that I won't have to talk to Matt directly, but then I see him heading over here and my pulse races recurrently, and of course Sammy notices. But I fail to see the devilish grin on her face in time.

"Hey Sav, want a piggy back ride?" She then asks out of the blue, and for some unknown reason, I comply. Maybe I had false hope that she would help me get away. I really should have thought that through a little more. After I get on her back, she walks towards Matt without a second thought. I whisper-yell, "What are you doing?!" She doesn't respond. We get within an arm's length of the tall brunette who makes my heart race, and he asks "Why did you need my number?" And that's when I have the realization that Sammy told him the number was for me. A feeling of utter betrayal crosses over me.

Sammy starts bumping me into Matt, snapping me out of my thoughts, yelling, "TELL HIM WHY, TELL HIM WHY!!"

I violently hop off of her back and yell, with just as much conviction, "NO!" Then I, again, start to run away. But Sammy is still holding on to my wrist, which lets me get absolutely no where.

Soon, a lunch monitor with a very serious expression stops us to say that this isn't the best time to do this kind of thing and to save it for after school. We nod quietly to avoid getting into more trouble and trying to get out of this awkward situation as okay as possible. Afterwards, Tanaya walks over to us and I immediately ask her, "Did you tell him?!"

"No," she replies.

"Ok, good."

"But he figured it out."

"WHAT?! How?!!"

"He figured it out by your reaction."

Well, my life is over now.

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So, first chapter. Funny story, this entire situation literally happened to me in my freshman year of high school. Not sure why I felt the need to write it down, but it's a really funny memory looking back on it. Note that this little paragraph was written WAY after I started the book. Like, years after. Please keep going with the book, the later chapters are a lot better than these first few 😂