Idiot's Guide To Falling In Love [Completed]✔

Chapter 12

December was finally coming in and everyone was dying to study and pass finals. But the biggest exam of the semester was in a few hours and everyone was going crazy. The history exam that every junior in The Town High School is afraid of.

A few hours until the exam and I got asked the dumbest question Shawn has ever asked. "Do you like Vincent? I mean, of course you like him but do you, like, like like him?" Of course I said no. He was my best friend, but those feelings didn't surpass friendship. I could never feel more than love as brother for Vincent. He's like the younger brother I never had.

Weeks passed since the camping trip. My friends and I had become close again. Not as close as we were before but closer than we were before the trip. They acted okay about my friendship with Shawn and not because they trusted my life decisions but because he was Tamara's half brother. Even if he wasn't my friend we all had no choice but to respect him.

Also, Shawn and I were becoming closer every day. We had left any kind of past we had behind us and concentrated on the future. It was all that mattered since we were only a year and a half until we left for college, we wanted to try and become friends until then. It would be hard but maybe I'd be easier next year, when we were all seniors and hopefully more mature.

A few minutes before the exam I was really stressing. I was beginning to sweat and my hands were shaking. History was one of my worst classes and this exam was all I needed to get my grade up. Shawn snuck up on me.

"Hey Emma!" He noticed my nervousness and said, "Come here." He took me in his arms and rubbed my back. He then kissed my head, probably hoping to calm me down. Little did he know that it made my pulse go faster.

Why, if I was so crazy about him did I not tell him what I felt about him? You might ask. Trust me, I asked myself the same thing over and over again. And I would have told him if it wasn't for the fact that he had asked a girl on a date. He told me that he didn't want to wait for me. He wasn't going to stay in the friendzone forever. So, he decided to make a move on a girl that was just as head over heels for him as me. Only difference was that he actually liked me. Okay, that was rude. Sorry Ellie!

Ellie James. She wasn't bad, nor was she good. She was okay. She wasn't much but I didn't tell Shawn. It wasn't okay for me to break his heart and then tell him to get a new girlfriend. That's just being an a* hole. And we finally had a good thing going on, I wasn't about to tell him that the girl he liked wasn't good enough for him.

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I finished the test very quickly, faster than I had in mind which made me question if I even got half of my answers right.

A few minutes after, my friends finally started coming to the cafeteria. I'd already eaten since I was hungry and didn't want to wait for them.

Vincent sat beside me and I placed my head on his shoulder. It felt good to finally be in good terms with all of my friends. This was freedom to me. Too bad Shawn and I had already turned in our arts project. Turns out the "big lesson" that Mrs. Thomas had planned was just how most people had the same general idea about freedom and liberty.

Even if I did feel very at place now with my friends, the awkward silence was noticeable from miles away. It was like we couldn't be together without talking or else it felt weird. Fake, even. I couldn't remember the last time things were this awkward between us. It was sad, really. How much and how fast people can drift apart.

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Winter break came fast enough. I was finally free from drama, boys and awkward silences. And my favorite activity of vacation was right around the corner: the winter soccer tournament. It was held every year on the first week of winter break. All the neighboring towns have a huge soccer tournament. The Town had never won but we were sure that we would this year. We had been training really hard after all.