Falling For the Unexpected

Chapter 4

   Monday came along with the all too familiar whispers and stares. The only person in the hallway who wasn’t staring or whispering about me was Damon. He was not a face that I wanted to see today. He was shuffling through his locker nervously, shoving things in his bag. I don’t really like him cause I barely even know him, but it still hurt that he stood me up. One day he says he’s in love with me, and then the next he doesn’t show up for our date.

   I walked past him, looking over my shoulder to see his gaze ignore me. That kind of hurt to. Is he going to start ignoring me now? 

   What sucks is that I have to go and sit by him in chemistry this period. Oh, joy. Something I’m not looking forward to. 

   I sat in my seat and waited for the bell to ring so the class could start, already wanting it to be over. I looked to my left and saw a group of girls giggling and talking about me. As soon as I looked over at them, they quickly looked away.

   Damon nervously walked into the room, looking at the ground the whole time. He didn’t look at me as he sat down beside me. I noticed him glance at me a few times, but he didn’t say anything. I was hoping he would. Hoping he would at least mumble a quiet ‘Sorry.’ But no, nothing.

   “Hey,” he finally said quietly during the middle of class.

   Mr. Jefferson was letting us work on a few questions with the person beside us which, unfortunately, for me was Damon. 

   “Yeah,” I said looking away from him.

   “We should probably go to your house or mine today after school so we could work on the project some more…” he said trailing off.

   “Why? So you can just ditch me again?” I said coldly before I could stop myself.

   “Grayson…” he said looking down at our desk. “I’m sorry… I was nervous… I didn’t think that you would like me. I thought you’d hate me. I thought that maybe you’d ditch me for something else. I wanted to come pick you up but I got scared… I’m sorry,” 

   I looked at the wall to my right, not saying anything.

   Damon slid something across the desk to me. “I knew that you like them and they’re coming not too far away from here Friday,”

   I looked down at the desk and saw two tickets to a 3OH!3 concert. 

   Oh my god. I’ve been wanting to go to this, but I never got the chance to get tickets for it.

   “Oh, wow,” I said staring at the tickets. “Thank you. I’ll pay you back, I swear,” 

   A small smile appeared on his face. “No, you don’t have to pay me back. It’s an ‘I’m sorry’ for ditching you,” 

   “Do you want to go with me? It’ll make up for Saturday,” I said sliding one of the tickets to him. 

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I know that this was really short but I needed to upload because I've been busy and I will be busy.

And AH ! I got my first kiss Saturday c: