A Hard Fall ( Josh Hutcherson)

"Pretending"

Josh's POV:

I went to sleep fast tonight. Allison kept sitting on my bed and talking, but I was so annoyed by her. I kept telling her I was tired. She didn't buy it, but didn't say anything so I don't care.

In the morning I walked down to breakfast before she got up. My mom asked where she was, and I said she was still sleeping, and of course, Connor was listening to my tone and eyeing me suspiciously, like always. I shot him a glare and he looked down at his oatmeal.

"Are you okay, Josh?" My mom saw the way I treated Connor, and I was never mean to him.

"Yeah, I'm fine." I said as I played with my oatmeal. You know, broken hearted by my best friend and annoyed she thought I was too weak to handle being denyed, but yeah. I'm perfectly happy. I thought as my spoon wandered through the oats and cinnamon. I was about half done when Allison came downstairs with her hair messy and had tired eyes. Once she saw me she woke up a little more. Time to act. She would think. Time to do something i feel is wrong just for his satisfaction. I knew she was thinking that.

Once Allison got to the table, she looked at me before picking up her spoon. As we were eating she reached to grab my hand, but I pulled away. Instead she rested her hand on my lap, and I couldn't take her faking it. I dropped my spoon and left. Allison and Connor about 30 seconds behind me.

Allison's POV:

Josh seemed really mad tonight. I kept trying to talk to him, but he said he was tired and started ignoring me. I don't know whats up with him.

I woke up to see that Josh already went downstairs. That's strange.

When I got down there, Josh looked over to me, and his sight just woke me up. He is so perfect. I thought. I want him to be mine so bad.

I sat down at the table, and glanced over to Josh, then started to eat. As we were eating, I decided to grab Josh's hand. I just wanted to be closer. I reached toward him, and when our hands touched- he pulled away. I felt part of my heart crack, and put my hand on Josh's leg instead. And he walked away. Got up and left. Connor and I rushed after him. I need to know what's going on.