Halfway In Love (#Wattys2016)

29 - It's complicated.

<Update : 23/12/16>

A/N : Hey guys! Finals are over, been on a family trip and I am finally back and now I hope to get the chapters back on track!  

So here is the next installment in the life of Stephanie and Dave and Alicia and Callum and Greg and Emily and Hugh and Dylan the Devil and Stacie the Queenbee and Matt the geek and Olivia..... and everyone else............

Hahahahaha!! That was just for you all to recall the characters! XD

Anyhoo...let's start with the chapter, shall we? If you like it, do vote and make my day! :)

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Recap:

Stephanie and Dave are getting closer. She is jealous (though only slightly) when she finds out how close he is to his childhood friend, Cynthia. They spend some time alone in Dave's house and she gets to know about his mom abandoning the family and her views against love get stronger.

Callum is back in school though his parents and Olivia are strongly against it. Olivia tries to stay strong. Cal, his friends and teammates are happy about him being back, but still doubtful because of his parents influential status.

Exams are getting closer and Steph is 'into her zone' as her friends call it, where she does nothing but study, though this time it's different..... Somehow, she doesn't mind getting disturbed by a special someone, but the oblivious girl she is, she has no clue what has changed.

Dave : Is it okay if we studied together?

Maybe because I was hoping he would ask that? But so what? I have never studied in a group. Even with Al. I just didn't do well in groups, I found them very distracting. And Dave is like, he's like, he defines distraction. The word Distraction was made to describe Dave.

Me : No problem at all!

I really don't know why I did that.

And that was when the world tipped over.

Chapter 29 - It's complicated.

"He kissed me!" Al entered my room with a crash, my door making a bang loud enough to wake the entire neighborhood and began talking. I hardly paid her any attention. My head was still spinning from the decision I had made.

Dave: Great! Thanks! I'll come over?

From the corner of my eyes I saw Al talking rapidly in Welsh...or that's what it was to me right now when I was busy chatting with Dave. He'll come over to my place, tomorrow. He has been here, once. But tomorrow, he'll be here. For real. For hours. Why the hell am I making such a big deal out of this? Well, it's going to be my first time studying with someone else, maybe that's why. I just hope it turns out better than the last times I tried them out years ago.

Dave: Steph? You still there? What time should I come? Will 9 am be fine?

Me: Oh yeah, yeah sure. I'll see you then!

".... in love with Dave all this time!" My head whipped towards the source of these words, aka my best friend, Alicia. Pretty sure I heard a crack and I knew it was going to hurt a lot later on but right now I didn't care.

"What did you just say?" I asked while rubbing my ears to make sure I heard correctly.

"I mean, this just complicates everything, doesn't it?" She asked me in turn, wringing her hands, a worried look on her face as she walked back and forth the length of my room.