I whipped round so quickly I almost fell over. My heart squeezed sadly as I saw who it was.
"So how's my favourite ex then?" TJ said with a grin. I was tempted just to crawl into a ball and cry but I wasn't going to let him know that. I simply smiled at him, in what I hoped was a sexy way, and looked him straight in the eye.
"I don't know how she is, I don't know her" and with that I spun round and walked towards Biology. Peter gave me a small smile as I walked past him but I was too wrapped up in my own thoughts to acknowledge it. I couldn't believe TJ was here, he must've moved school, unfortunately for me. I hated TJ... Sort of... Well not really. But I wanted to hate him. I wanted every inch of me to want to hit him when I saw him, but whenever I did see him the memories just came flooding back. We had been dating since we had been around 5 and he had asked me to marry him. It was so sweet, and when we were around 12 things started to get serious. At the time I had honestly thought that he was my soul mate, I thought we were going to be together forever. That was before he did what he did. On my 15th birthday I had walked in on him making out with my best friend. I was devastated, and never really stopped loving him. I thought that being apart from him would help me. At that point I shook myself. This was stupid, I needed to forget him. I didn't need him anyway. I had Peter.
Speak of the Devil, just as I looked up Peter came over and knelt down in front of my desk.
"You okay?" he asked, his face looking passive but his eyes looked concerned. I nodded
.
Just wasn't expecting to see TJ here" I said, shrugging.
"Sorry" he whispered as he got up. I smiled at him and started to work.
The morning passed so quickly it shocked me when it was lunch. I walked over to the others, with Darius, as I had had maths with him. I sat down next to Tim and his eyes lit up. I smiled at him and he grinned back, with a little too much enthusiasm. Just as I was about to eat the pasta I had collected from the canteen when someone tapped me on the shoulder. I sighed, slightly irritated and turned round to see who it was. As soon as I had, I regretted it.
"Hey" said TJ, his stupid cocky mask still on.
"What?" I snapped, resisting the urge to scream at him.
"I wanted to talk to you" he said, quietly, but still with that stupid grin on his face. I was just about to open my mouth when someone spoke for me.
"Well, maybe, just maybe, she doesn't want to talk to you!" said Tim, furiously. I snapped round my head to look at him, alarmed. When I looked back round to TJ he looked slightly scared, and then angry.
"I wasn't talking to you, she's perfectly capable of talking by herself" he snarled. He then turned to me and looked straight in my eyes. His stupid mask was off and his face really looked sad.
"Please?" he whispered to me. I couldn't refuse. I got up sighing.
"Don't worry, I'll be back in a minute, guys" I said. I then smiled at Tim, who was still glaring at TJ, and squeezed his arm as a thank you and then followed TJ. We walked until we were round the back of the school.
"So, what did you want to talk to me about?" I asked, careful not to look at him. He coughed slightly to get my attention. I looked up at him unwillingly and felt myself melt.
"I can't do this" he said, looking so tired and mature it shocked me. I looked at him questioningly, unable to speak.
"I miss you, baby" he whispered, looking up at me, hope in his eyes. Everything inside of me just dropped. I had heard those words that I had wanted to hear for the past year, but now, they were everything I didn't want to hear. I had Peter, and amazingly, I loved him. It was going to be so much harder to keep away from TJ knowing he missed me...
