a broken arm || dear evan hansen

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evan's pov
i walk off the bus and spot zoe and she seems to be looking for someone. her eyes lock with mine and i hear her shout   "tree boy!! nice to see the you!". she's smiling and her face is filled with glee and it's beautiful. i quickly walk over to her and she engulfs me in a warm hug. then, she looks down and frowns.
"h-how did that happen?" she points at my arm, looking slightly worried. i tell her that i just fell out of a tree, though i stutter and i think my voice cracked at one point. me and zoe have been friends for forever, she knows when i lie, lets hope she doesn't spot it this one time. i see her smile, but its a pitiful smile. damnit evan, she knows. she knows your lying. we walk into the school building and the bell rings, signalling that we need to go to registration. she walks off and so do i.

(time skip to break)

i meet zoe and connor in the cafeteria. connor, like zoe, asks how i got the cast on my arm. i say to him what i said to zoe, like its rehearsed. probably because it is. connor just chuckled snd said "only evan hansen would find himself in a sad situation" i chuckled back but it was fake and in the corner of my eye i saw zoe frown again. yup, she definitely knows.
"lemme sign it" connor said and i nodded, taking out a sharpie from my pocket. he writes in big letters along the cast. great. he looks at zoe and hands out the sharpie and she takes it. i turn my arm so the bottom side of my cast is showing a little, making it so that zoe could at least sign the cast somewhere. she writes in small, neat letters, or at least i think she did. i couldn't see very well. i notice that i looks like she wrote 4 letters and not 3. i figure its just my eyes playing tricks on me and shrug it off, not checking what she wrote. then the bell rung and i left to go to my lessons.

(time skip to lunch)

lunch. fun. i hate eating in front of people. i feel like they're all staring.
i meet zoe again, as per usual. she's been kind of off today since i told her i fell. since i lied. she knows i lied and she probably hates me now, which is really unfortunate because i have a huge crush on her snd now i have no chance because she hates me yay thats so fun. i spent the entire lunch with zoe even though it was a little awkward. the bell went snd we both went to our lessons. after the final lesson, i made sure to rush home, i really didn't want to talk to anyone.