Just Friends?

Chapter 3: Anything's Possible, Right?

Ellie's outfit: all black leggings, dark grey tank with a white sugar skull, black American eagle sandals, beach waved hair, dark smokey eye. AKA make Cade want what he can't have outfit.

~~~~~the day after the breakup~~~~~

"Hey Ell, how ya feeling?" Jace greets me at the door of my homeroom class.

"Better than I thought I'd be today, to be honest," I responded to him with a small fake smile. It seemed like all my smiles were fake nowadays.

"Good for you," Jace responded to me, "is Hailey here?"

Jace has had a crush on my best friend Hailey since they broke up last year. For some reason, hearing his say her name sent a pang of jealously through my chest. I remember that pang whenever I would see them together last year.

"Um...no not yet," I managed to mutter, looking anywhere but his bright hazel-green eyes.

"Oh ok, do you think she likes me?" Jace always asks me this. I hate to hurt his feelings by telling him the truth about Hailey just liking him as a friend, but I don't want to lie. And I want him to get over her. Wow I'm a great friend. *note sarcasm*

"Honestly," I take a deep breath to tell him the truth, but the hopeful glimmer in his eyes breaks my heart, "I don't know anymore. We don't really talk about who she likes."

"So she could like me?" Jace asks me with excitement evident in his deep voice.

"Uh, yeah. Anythings possible right? and I mean, it's you: track star, baseball star, basketball star, tall, funny, handsome, swee-" I stop myself from naming off all the things I like about this boy.

Now you may think it's whorish of me to like another guy right after a break up, but you have to understand something. Cade and I's relationship has been over for a long time. Not as in I didn't like him, because that was the reason I held on to the remains of our broken relation ship, but because he's been giving me signs that it's done. I'm thankful for that really, it made this heartbreak hurt less than one would think. It also helps that I've liked Jace ever since we dated from 5th to 6th grade.

"Aww is the single Ellie flirting with me?" Jace feigns shock and winks at me like his honored or some shit. I wasn't meaning to flirt with Jace, it just came easily between us.

As the bell rings for class I bid my friend goodbye as I enter my classroom. The classroom I have with Cade, to be specific.

When I walk in, he's in his assigned seat in the front as usual. I walk past him confidently but I feel his piercing blue eyes fixed on me. I get to my seat in the back and loose my willpower and steal a glance at him. He's not looking at me anymore though, he's got his eyes I once found beautiful fixed on my friend Sadie's ass. Well that hurt. I get we aren't dating and he dumped me and I like his best friend, but doing that in front of me right after he was starring at me? That's a dick move.

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Hailey had high jump practice in the gym again, same as yesterday, so I'm going to either be a loner or hang out with the guys and ignore Cade. I doubt the guys want to hang out with me now so I guess I'll be a loner. To my surprised delight, Jace meets me outside of my class and we walk to the tree we all put our bags under.

"Whatcha wanna do?" he asks me.

"Hang out with all the guys?" I recommend.

"You sure? Cade's going to be there..." Jace trails off.

"Ye-yeah, I'll be fine," I assure him with a weak smile.

"Ok, well let's go find them then," Jace declares overdramatic-ly and marches out to the field, leaving me behind.