Befriending A Bully

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AMBER POV:

"Hayley, you should see his face when he looks at you, it's full of love and happiness. As cringe as it is, you bring out the good in him. He listens to you if you tell him to stop doing something which annoys other people, he's always there for you as well as me and Tyler but mainly you. His eyes light up when he looks at you compared to when he looks at those girls, his eyes darken and the small shimmer disappears. Trust me, he likes you. I'll get Ty to annoy him at some point today so his eyes darken and then you can go talk to him and you can see for yourself," I explained to her as she slowly started nodding at the end as to say she understands.

I really hope Zane will ask her to be his girlfriend soon.

HAYLEY POV:
I'm really hoping what Amber said is right, I'd do anything to be with Zane and to tell him I love him with it being literal and not a sympathetic saying. With how much we help each other, I could kinda understand why Amber asked if he liked me like that. All through art I kept getting distracted, I couldn't focus on ideas for my final piece of work. My theme was the colour blue as the art teacher wanted me to use a depressing colour seeing as though I always look happy. As soon as Mr Tipton said I had to base my work off of 'blue things' Amber started laughing as it was a coincidence that I have a crush on Zane with his blue hair. Speaking of which, I have drawn a portrait Zane for this topic using a dark blue for his facial features with a bright blue for the hair. Through this topic I have struggled with what I could draw so I have had to ask my housemates for ideas so Amber requested I draw her sat on top of a cliff looking out to the sea, Tyler asked if I could draw a whale, and Zane wanted me to draw a blue bird eating a worm. These requests linked to the type of person in which they are; Amber being calm like the ocean, Tyler being independent, and Zane being disobedient to the rules which only benefits one person whether it's him or someone else.

After a few minutes of thinking, I quickly scribbled down some words in the corner of the page which I could barely read; 'butterfly', 'ocean', 'birds', and even 'flowers' even though blue flowers are rare. I pulled out my phone and started typing in the group chat hoping for them to answer quickly seeing as though there was only twenty minutes of the lesson left.

To: ψ(｀∇')ψ

Me: guys I need help, name things that are blue.
Z: Me in a blue shirt.
Amy: Me in a blue dress
Z: Me and Amy in blue in front of the ocean
Ty: eyes
Ty: diamonds
Ty: blue geodes
Amy: The sky

As the texts were coming through I wrote down the ideas in the corner of the page and quickly drew parts which correspond over the page. But, in what only felt like two minutes, the bell rang indicating it was break. "Hay, can you come with me to my locker before we go to the music room? My foods in there and I feel like I'm going to murder someone if I'm alone," Amber asked with a slightly higher voice than normal and an innocent act which was obviously fake. Chuckling at what she said, I nodded my head in agreement before answering, "yeah but only if you come to my locker first," which she agreed to.

When we turned the corner next to my locker we saw Zane leaning against my locker with Tyler taking his guitar out of his. Amber signalled to me that we were going to sneak to them but as we were doing so, Zane noticed us which made Tyler turn to look at us as well which ruined our plan. "Hey! That's not fair," Amber exclaimed. As I watched Tyler, I saw him stare at Amber as though he was planning something. Zane laughed as though he could read Tyler's mind and just like that, he was trying to pick Amber up off the floor. As he was doing so, I went to stand next to Zane and leaned into him as I was cold and he wrapped his arm around me to pull me closer. He looked down at me and saw that I was already looking up at him and we both blushed, "do you want to wear my jacket? I can go get it from my locker if you want it," he asked kind of shyly which I agreed but only if he was okay with it, he nodded to it in response and asked me to walk with him which I would've done anyway.

As we walked to his locker, he was acting different. As though something was bothering him. "Zane, are you okay? Is there something you want to talk about?" I asked as we got to his locker, he took out his jacket and a piece of paper fell out of it. As I went to pick it up he took it straight out of my hands to hide it and simply said "I need to ask you so,etching but I'm scared of your response," I reassured him there's nothing to worry about before putting his jacket on and slowly walking towards the music room again. As we were walking he just stopped in the middle of the corridor and looked down at his feet. Confused by this, I walked back towards him and hugged him tightly but not tight enough for it to hurt him. He sighed before gently saying, "I don't know how to ask this but uhm, will you make me the happiest man in this school and be my girlfriend?"