Barely Holding On

Chapter 13

I sat down at my seat in English, nervously waiting for him to come. I was nervous for two reasons: 1) He wasn’t here yet and I didn’t want to have to present our project in front of the class alone, and 2) I was just plain nervous about seeing him. I had actually started to like spending time with him, and it was scaring the shit out of me.

The bell rang and Nash slipped quietly in behind Mr. Roberts. I breathed a sigh of relief. Well half relief, I was still nervous about issue number 2.

I glared at him as he sat down, “I thought you were going to ditch me.”

He smiled, and it was absolutely stunning, “I would never ditch you, V.” Him calling me V used to really piss me off, but now… His words created butterflies in my stomach. I thought I was going to throw up. I needed to stop spending so much time with him.

Mr. Roberts droned on and on but finally people started presenting their projects. Nash and I sat in the back bored to death.

Eventually it was our turn to present. We got up in the front of the class room, and I literally could not say a word. I had major stage fright. Nash quickly caught on and started speaking.

Nash did most of that talking and I just kind of threw in a bunch of “mhmm”s and “yeah”s. Overall it went pretty well.

We handed in our project and then took our seats. “Alright V!” Nash cheerily said high-fiving me, “Other than the fact that you looked like you were about to throw up, I’d say it went pretty well.”

I nodded in agreement, “Definitely. If we don’t get an A I’m going to be pissed.”

“There’s no way he can’t give us an A.”

We sat in silence for the rest of class listening to the other projects, but none of them were as good as ours.

After the bell rang I started to walk out of the room with Nash when Cameron came up and put his arm around me, pulling me away from Nash before I had a chance to say bye.

Cameron was really starting to annoy me, but I figured it was just PMS so I put those feelings aside and tried to concentrate of the fact that Cameron Dallas, the guy I had been in love with FOREVER, was walking down the hallway with his arm around my shoulder.

He didn’t even say two words to me; we just walked down the hallway while he said hi to everyone. We walked into the cafeteria and I started to walk over to where Nash was sitting, but Cameron grabbed my hand, “Hey, where do you think you’re going?”

“I was just going over to much lunch table,” I looked behind me to see Nash watching us.

Cameron laughed, “That’s not your lunch table.”

“It’s not?”

“No silly, you’re my girlfriend now; your lunch table is wherever I am.” My heart started pounding in my chest. I was his GIRLFRIEND? I instantly forgot about Nash and followed Cameron like a love sick puppy to his lunch table.

I sat down next to Cameron and all his friends just ignored me. In fact Cameron ignored me too. I just sat there and ate my lunch quietly.

I looked over to where the boys and Maci were sitting, and I saw that they were all laughing hysterically. However, Nash just sat there like he was pissed off (which wasn’t unusual, he did that a LOT).

I looked around me, and then at Cameron, was this what I really wanted?