One Girl, Boys Boarding School

Am I Right?

// Joe's POV

"So what's it like? Really come on tell us everything." Xavier asked.

"Yeah you've told us like nothing about her!" Peter continued.

Me and my mates were sitting outside the library, our usual spot.

"It's nice, she's nice." I said simply.

"Come on! Give us more than that!" They pressed.

"Fine, sometimes I walk in on her in just her underwear, or with like a bra and leggings on or something, and she's just doesn't care if I see her like that, which is nice." I admitted, I had been ignoring this topic with my friends for a while now, also Sophie basically always hang out with us so we can't exactly talk about her when she's around.

"So... you hitting that?" Xavier blurred out.

"No! What the hell Z!" Z is Xavier's nickname.

"Come on Joe, we can tell you have a thing for her, and with basically every other guy in the school after her it must be hard." Lenny started.

"No!-" I tried to protest.

"But you have the upper hand, you're actually a decent guy and you fucking live with the girl!" Lenny continued.

"Yeah Joe, you've gotta get in, because if you don't, I will." Tom winked at me and gave me a nudge.

"Alright, alright that's enough, I'm not getting in with her, I don't like her that way, she's just a friend alright?"

"Well if she's just a friend then do you mind if I ask her out, and maybe you could put in an good word for me aye?" Lenny added. "Honestly she's a great friend and all but I don't know, sometimes you just need to like do something sexual, does that sound weird?"

All the guys shook their heads, "nah I can understand that"

"Stop here she comes!"

//

"Hey guys what's the hippity hap?" I approached the group of goofballs I was lucky to call friends.

"Did you just say hip-"

"Yes I did and I will never again." Today I was embracing the end of summer with a flowing white dress and brown sandals, my hair in a half up half down top knot.

"Actually, I wanted to have a chat with you, in private." Lenny led me across the hall, out of ear shot from the guys.

"So I was thinking, you and me Friday night? Your dorm or mine?" Lenny was a funny guy, he had this cockiness about him but he's super nerdy so I can't take him seriously sometimes.

I let out a laugh, "Wait what? Are you being serious Len?"

"Well yeah, I thought we could, I don't know, what do the kids call it? 'Netflix and chill'?"

"I'm sorry Len, you're just not really my type but I can help you find another girl, let's go out another night and I'll help you get some numbers, how's that sound?" I tried to make him feel better.

"Yeah I guess that'd be alright." He looked slightly defeated and walked back to the other boys with me.

I looked at my watch and saw that I was going to be late to history, I have history with Joey, so I made our lateness apparent and we scooted off to our lesson.

Half way through the rise of the British Empire, we had some time to talk.

"So, Lenny asked me out." I said with a chuckle.

"Yeah he said he would, I'm guessing you let him down gently?"

"Yeah did my best." I stopped to think, "I wanted to ask, and be completely honest here okay? Is there anything about me or living with me that you find annoying?"

"Seriously? Nothing. You keep your stuff neat and tidy, and you know how OCD I get, we can have good conversations and respect each other's privacy, there's nothing bad." Joey was being sweet, as per usual.

"Okay, I'm glad." I gave him a toothy grin and went back to note taking.
I looked up after a minute and Joe quickly moved his head, was he staring at me? I feel like I'm getting closer and closer to understanding how this boy feels about me and... I don't know if I feel the same way.

After the lesson I caught up with my dad for five minutes, told him how my classes were, how the teachers and the other guys were, about my friends and my dorm room. I told him the good and ignored the bad, I know how guilty he would feel if I told him I sometimes felt super isolated here, that I've caught a few guys taking pictures of my ass when I was bent over. He doesn't need to worry about that, and anyway I have Joey to tell. It seems I tell him almost everything now, honestly I'm starting to feel like a nuisance to him, I need to find out more about him rather than talking about myself all the time, which honestly I'd always had trouble doing but he just opened me up.

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