I Know I Shouldn't (Sequel To I Need You So Much) [Oliver Sykes Fan Fic]

It's All In My Mind

Song: Bright (Acoustic) by Echosmith

Tyler

“How was school, love?” my mum questioned as she opened the door for me. The whole walk home, I couldn’t get Melody off my mind. She was just so… amazing.

“It was ok,” I replied, hoping she wouldn’t ask too many questions. The only good thing about today was meeting Melody and there was no way I was going to tell my mum about that.

“Who did you eat lunch with?” she asked with hope in her eyes. Well, it looked like there was no way to get around telling her now.

“This girl in my English class and her friends,” I replied as I grabbed a Coke from the fridge. I could see my mum raise her eyebrows when I said ‘this girl’ and I knew she was about to ask a million questions.

“Do you like her?” she questioned as I grabbed a bag of pretzels for a snack. I was surprised she didn’t say pretzels would ‘ruin my appetite.’ I guess she was so wrapped up in the possibility that I met a girl. I wasn’t very talkative so the the fact that I met anyone, let alone a girl I really liked, was surprising.

“She’s nice,” I responded, playing dumb. I knew she met as more than a friend, but I was trying to avoid the topic as long as I possibly could.

“You know what I meant, Tyler,” she scolded. She didn’t like when I avoided the truth like I was doing right now, but what mother did?

“Um, maybe. I don’t know. I just met her, Mum,” I exclaimed. It seemed like a good answer. It kept her guessing, but got her off my back, which was perfect.

Before she could ask anything else, I sprinted up to my room and hoped dinner wouldn't be a repeat of all these stupid questions. Mothers could be so nosy sometimes. Was it really any of her business if I liked Melody?

I then pulled out the worksheet my math teacher had given us. She just wanted to see what we remember from last year, which for me was nothing, so I knew the worksheet would take awhile. 

As much as I tried to concentrate on the radius of different circles, I really couldn’t. Melody kept popping into my head. Her smile. Her laugh. Her eyes. Everything about her seemed to be perfect. 

That was when my phone lit up. I looked over at it to see it was my best friend from London, Jake. He told me he would call me so we could compare how shitty our first days of school were.

“Hey, mate,” I greeted after answering. It felt weird not having him there in school today. We had been friends since we were in first grade and this was the first year that we hadn’t gone to the same school.

“Hey, so is it any different there?” he questioned. It was typical of him to jump right to the point. To put it lightly, he was a very blunt guy.

“It’s a bit different, but it wasn't terrible,” I responded before shoving a pretzel into my mouth. I could practically seeing him smirk because he knew I was lying. It was school; of course it was terrible.

“Did you meet any new friends to replace me yet?” he asked jokingly. I don’t really think anyone could replace an eight year friendship.

“Not really,” I answered with a shrug even he couldn’t see me. Sometimes when I’m on the phone with friends I forget that they can’t actually see me.

“Did you meet anyone at all?” he questioned, probably thinking about how quiet I was. Again, another person surprised I met a new person.

“Well, I met this girl…” I trailed off. I could feel my cheeks getting hot at the thought of telling Jake about Melody. I was suddenly thankful we were just talking on the phone and that he couldn’t see me.

“Ooo, a girl. What’s her name?” he questioned. Though we were suppose to compare our days, I had a hunch Jake would be asking most of the questions. I was terrible at making conversation, even though I was able to make a conversation with Melody this morning. She was just different.

“Melody,” I replied. I wasn’t sure if that was an impressive name. Jake always seemed to go for girls with fancy names for some reason. It was like he thought just because they had cool names, they would be cool people. He was usually wrong.

“Is she hot?” he asked. I let out a chuckle. Leave it to Jake to ask that question and be so straight forward about it. 

“Yeah and she’s really cool, too,” I replied, a grin growing on my face. I really wasn’t sure why she made me so happy, she just did.

“Ooo, does Tyler have a crush?” he teased. I could imagine the grin on his face: obnoxious and playful.

“Well, I just met her,” I responded a bit defensively. I wasn’t sure if it was possible to have a ‘crush’ on someone you barely had two conversations with.

“That doesn’t mean anything. You like her. You need to ask her out,” he ordered. Again, there he was being blunt. I never really liked when he ordered me around even if he was just trying to make sure I was happy.

“I don’t know, Jake…” I trailed off, uncertainty laced in my voice. I really had no idea how to ask a girl out. Where would we even go? I mean, I knew nothing about the town. I didn’t even know where the mall was, let alone a restaurant I could take a girl to.

“If you don’t ask her out by the end of the week, I will personally drive to Sheffield, find out where she lives, and ask her out for you,” he told me sternly. I doubted that would actually ever happen, but I could only imagine how horrible that would go.

“Fine, I’ll do it, but only because that sounds terrible,” I sighed, clearly annoyed and aggravated. He could get on my nerves sometimes, but I guess that’s what made us such good friends.

“Good, you’ll be thanking me when you two are getting married,” he chuckled. I forced out a chuckle, too, but the whole comment made me uneasy for some reason. At least I had a reason to talk to Melody again now.