Trying too Hard

Chapter 8

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Chapter 8

    Next thing I see is Alex running out of the room towards the door. Before opening the door he calms himself, makes sure he's all fixed, lets out the breath he was holding and puts on a player face, then he opens the door.

     "Hey, babe" he says with a smirk.

Is that how all the guys really are?

    "Hi, good morning" I hear Marie reply and then I see her enter with a big smile, "Morning guys".

    "Morning" we all say in unisound, even Dylan from inside the shower. We all laughed, me nerviously. I was still in shock and very nervious about Rick's question. Marie noticed my laugh and gives me a weird look, I just look away.

    "Soo... what's going on?" Marie asked, but only I got she was directly asking me about me being awkward, but she made it sound like she was asking the details for the day.

    "We still don't know what to do for today" Alex replied, offering her a chair.

    "Then why was I invited over?" She asks while sitting and smiling affectively.

    "We were hoping you could help us decide" I answered.

    "Umm, I see. What about the new laser tags park? That should be fun" she suggested.

    "That would be awesome, if it were already night" Rick said.

    "True girls" Alex commented.

    "Then I guess we don't have anything" Marie said giving up, "I do know that I'm hungry, though." then added.

    "Uh, then you should have my specialty; it's called 'Lets call Domino's 'cause we are just lazy assees college guys' " he said and finished with a big smile.

     Marie rolled her eyes at his stupidity, but couldn't hold to smile back at him. Alex did the call while Rick went back to his phone, what was he doing there? And Marie doesn't stop staring at me, she knows something happened.

    The door of the bathroom opened and a almoust naked Dylan gts out. He is just wearing a towel on his hip. He went to his bedroom to get dressed I suppose and hope.

    "Erm.. Marie, will you accomp-YES!" Marie cut me off and dragged me into the bathroom. She does this constantly as you can see.

    "What happened??" She asked demandingly. She sounded a lot like Alex, they were spending a lot of time together. She's always been like that, though. I think that's why Alex's into her, she puts up a fight, not like other girls that only agree with him just because he is so handsome. Well, warrior-like handsome.

     "Nothing!! Chill out, dude!" I scream-whispered to her. "It's just that I got really nervious because of something Rick said" I explained to her while I start to undress.

    "And? What was it?" she asked turning around, giving me privacy.

    "Well... he kind of brought up the me-liking-him topic..." I said slowly.

    "He what??" she asks full of surprise and now facing me.

    "Dude!" I shout to her.

    "Bitch, please! There's nothing I haven't seen before so calm your tits" she said.

    "Then stop staring at them!!"

     "I'm not! And you're just avoiding the topic! So just get into the shower and tell me already" she said waving her hands to the shower, encouraging me to enter. I did.

    "So?" She asked after I still wasn't saying anything.

    "Well it's really nothing, he just caught me by surprise" I started, "he asked if I didn't have a crush on him anymore, but he did it as a joke, to mock me. It wasn't anything romantic as you may be thinking" I told her.

    "You should talk it out with him" she suggested.

    "Are you crazy?" I said sticking my head out of the shower curtain. "Well what are you going to do then? Pretend he didn't asked? You should face this and know what's going through his mind, 'cause I'm sorry babygirl, but you're obssesing over him and it's not good for you, specially when you don't know if he feels the same. Wouldn't it be awesome if he did? And if he doesn't then you can move on, 'cause this is not healthy" she said worry in her eyes.

    "You know? You're right!" She smiled. "Imma pretend he didn't say shit" I said, closed the curtain and returned to the showering.

    Marie sighed loudly. She was right though.

    I just couldn't face reality, 'cause deep inside I knew the truth. At the same time that's all I wanted. To know for sure. So I could or finally be happy or just move on. But honestly I preffered to be tortured with the doubt, because I preffer to pretend than have to forget him for one whole minute.

A/N: Hello again, everybody! i know I haven't updated on a while, but my english is not perfect soo everytime I do a chapter I send it to my sister who does knows perfect english, so she can edit it for me, sadly she hasn't had he time to do it in months sooo i decided to trust a little on myself and do it as perfect as i can do it, just for you guys, so enjoy and support! Forgive any mistakes. Love yaa!

-tinykathy01