"Did you and jack really break up!?" Some freshman I've never seen in my life walks right up to me. "Um yea." I say in a whisper and walk around her. "News travels fast." My best friend Jade mumbles next to me as we walk towards the junior hallway. Eyes stare down at me as I make my way to my locker. In reality, it was probably 20 or so people looking at me. But it felt like the whole school knew. Which actually, they did. When a girl breaks up with the most popular jock in school, people are going to hear about it, and spread rumors about it, and judge you about it. And that's exactly what I planned to face for the next week or so.
"Ok well I better get to geography. Good luck today." Jade says giving me a sincere smile. "Thanks." I mumble returning her smile before she walks the other direction leaving me alone at my locker with multiple pairs of eyes on me. I walk into math making eye contact with Mr. Jones as he gives me the same kind smile he gives me everyday. The guy was way to cool to be a math teacher. (My exact thought every time I walk into math) I sit in my desk and put my heads phones in, not being in the mood to hear everyone talking with their overly loud voices (also me in math) "alright class, let's get started." Mr. Jones says as the start bell rings. I take my headphones and take my notebook out to start taking notes.
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"And to solve for it we just--" Mr. Jones is cut off by the classroom door swinging open. "Ethan, you're 15 minutes late. Why?" Mr. Jones turns toward the dark haired boy. "I wanted a snack." He says as if it's no big deal holding up his cup of grapes. I scoff while everyone else in the class snickered. I couldn't stand this kid. "Ok well just go sit down now." Mr. Jones says trying to hide his smile. Ethan walks to his desk which just happens to be right behind mine. "Good morning Y/N." Ethan gives me a wink as he pasts by my desk. I only roll my eyes in response. Mr. Jones continues with his lesson as before but this, multiple pieces of paper hit the back of my head.
"Would you stop?!" I whisper yell turning to Ethan. "Just read them, then I'll stop." He lightly throws another piece of paper, bouncing it off my nose and on to the floor. I scowl at the annoying kid and turn back around. "Alright. Let me go print some more copies of the worksheet and I'll be right back." Mr. Jones exits the classroom, sending everyone into a frenzy of conversation. I didn't have any friends in this class except Madison who was a friend of a friend. But she never spoke more than a word to me at a time. "So. I heard you and Jack broke up." Ethan says leaning over to my desk. I turn around to face him. "Yea? Well your not the only one." I say with a sad smile.
"Go on a date with me." He says out of the blue. "Nah." I turn facing forward in my desk. "Ethan suddenly appears in front of me sitting on my desk. "Come on Y/N. We've known each other since 2nd grade, I've liked you since second grade. " I got out of a relationship 3 days ago." I say to Ethan in a duh tone. "I love it when you play hard to get." He leans closer and whisper in my ear. Shivers run down my spine and I suddenly become very nervous. "W-what do you mean?" Ethan smirks knowing he's making me nervous. "I have every girl at this school wrapped around my finger except you. And you wanna know why that bothers me?" I stay silent, motioning him to continue. "It bothers me because y--" "alright class everyone get back in your seats." Mr. Jones re-enters the room with a freshly printed stack of papers.
"We'll talk later beautiful." Ethan sends me a wink and goes back to his desk. My heart was racing out of my chest. What was he about to say? Throughout the whole rest of the class, which went by rather quickly, I never turned around to face Ethan. Even though I could feel him burning holes in the back of my head. The bell signals the end of class and I hurry out of there as fast as I can, my heart still beating abnormally fast.
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The last period of the day finally comes to an end and I run to my locker eager to leave the building. I had done a pretty good job at avoiding Ethan all day. The only problem is that I wasn't avoiding him because I hated him. I was avoiding him because I thought exact opposite about him all the sudden. "Y/N!" I hear as soon as I slam my locker door. I knew the voice well. When I go to turn around, Ethan is already beside me. "Hey I heard volleyball practice. Does that mean your walking home?" He asks with a smile. "U-Um yea I'm walking." I say looking down. I could feel the dark blush on my face. The worst part, Ethan knew he was the reason I was blushing. How embarrassing. I start to walk away but I'm pulled back by a strong arm. "Let me walk you home, please ." Ethan says slowly moving his hand from my upper arm to my fingertips.
"It's ok. I don't want to waste your time." I start to pull away, but Ethan won't let go of my hand. "No! I want to walk you home. I-I like being with you." Now Ethan's cheeks are covered with a blush "ok let me just go tell Jade." I say pulling away from Ethan. I don't know how this boy made me feel like this all the sudden. Here I was blushing over him when I claimed to hate him 24 hours ago.
Ethan and I start walking out the door, walking closer together then I would usually ever let him stand next to me. "So...you have any plans for homecoming yet?" Ethan asks as we start entering the neighborhood. "Oh shoot! You were probably going to go with Jack, huh? I feel like such an idiot I didn't mean to--" "Ethan it's ok Jacks a jerk. I'm glad I'm not going worith him canymore. Ethan and I walk under a small grove of trees nearing my house as I sense him tensing up next to me. "W-would you...maybe want to--to go to homecoming with me?" Ethan turns his head towards me and scratches the back of his head. "Just because I let you walk me home doesn't mean we're together." "I'm sorry! I didn't mean to--I just" Ethan let's out a sigh and stops walking. "Look, I've wanted to ask you to homecoming freshman year. I even had my mom practice with me." Ethan chuckles at the memory. I laugh too. "And then jack had already asked you, man it hurt. It hurt bad. And then sophomore year you and jack were still together, and, I don't know I guess my point is, I like you. A lot. And maybe you still think I'm just playing with you but I really wanna be with you. A-And I know you just got out of a relationship, but--but at least think about it. Think about how great we'd be together. It's all I think about." Well dang. What am I supposed to say to that. Of course I wanted to give Ethan a chance, but as he said I had just broken up with jack and this was a little too fast. When o don't say anything Ethan looks down, gripping the straps on his backpack. "Come on ill finish waking you home. We're almost there." Ethan starts walking again with a sad look in his eyes.
The rest of the way home, neither of us say anything. I wanted to say something, but what do you say to the boy who said he liked you right after you broke up with your boyfriend? We approach my house and walk up the steps. Here goes nothing. I pull Ethan by the collar of his shirt into a kiss. Me leaning against the door as his hands are above my head also leaning in the door. He pulls away from me with a confused look on his face. Our bodies still extremely close to each other. "I'all think about it Ethan." A wide smile appears on his face. "That's all I need to hear." He starts leaning in for another kiss but I stop him. "Not until homecoming." He smirks. "I love it when you play hard to get."
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I just really hate the word backpack and I have no reason to. Peace out homies ✌🏼~C🌺
