Bad Timing

Chapter 11

Angel's Pov

They say that in order to feel happy is not entirely up to you. Most times is up to the people you have around you. The people you decided to let in. Although, pain, most times, is the aftereffect of letting people in but what I like to believe is that pain demands to be felt in order achieve happiness.

That night was a taste of how it is to feel happy, to not have a care in the world. It was the only thing I was thinking. He made me feel something that I had to feel for a long time...

After that night, though, everything changed.

He is distant.

It's been two weeks since then. He hasn't talked to me since that night. He only smiles at me when he sees me in the hallway or at class but that's all.

I tried to talk to him, start a conversation anything but nothing.

He always made an excuse and left.

"He doesn't like you anymore!" said the voice in my head.

Does he?

The weirdest of all was that the last couple of days John tried to hang out with me and Alex. I don't get the reason why? I could tell from the first day he saw me, he hated my guts. The feelings are mutual, so why is he doing this?

As I thought all those things, Alex started poking me in the arm throwing me out of my thoughts.

"What?!" I asked irritated. I nearly yelled.

Unfortunately, for me, our English teacher, Miss Koukou, heard me.

Meet my teacher for this year.

Miss Koukou was the classic teacher. She never had favourites . If you want good grades, you had try. That's all she wanted.

Pretty good teacher.

Note the sarcasm.

She as well was young; blonde hair and blue eyes. Beautiful if I may say.

"Angel. Is there anything you want to share with the class?" she asked irritated.

"No, miss" I said embarrassed.

"Then, please stop talking you two." she said annoyed and she continued talking about Shakespeare.

I rolled my eyes annoyed and turned to Alex.

"What happened?" I whispered.

"Calm down girl. Look, I know that you don't want to talk about Kyle, but he wanted me to give you this." she said passing me a piece of paper.

I looked at the paper terrified.

What did he want? He nearly spoke with me all these weeks and now he does this. I unfolded the paper, curiosity running in my veins.

'Angel, I need to talk to you. I know I've been a jerk the last couple of weeks. I can explain. Meet me at the athletics court. Please...'

My eyes open widely as I saw what was written in the paper.

He wanted to explain himself for his behaviour and as I understood for what he wrote, it was a big deal for him to show up. He can't do this. Ignoring me one day and then asking to explain himself, out of the blue.

I looked at Alex and she gave me the 'I told you so' look.

When we finished our English lesson, I went straight to my locker with Alex following behind.

"So, are you going?" she asked.

"What?" I asked confused.

"To the court, to talk to Kyle, duh." she said.

"Oh, yeah. I don't think it's a good idea." I said unsure.

Is it a good idea? I mean we had fun that night but why was he distant after that? Was it because I didn't let him kiss me? I know I'm difficult to handle but I warned him, so I don't own him anything, right? 

"Why not?" she asked confused.

"Cause.. I don't know. Maybe because he ignored me for two weeks! Why does he want to explain himself, now? Why now and why was he behaving like this? I get that he might thought that I wanted space or something, but that's not the reason for nearly not talking to me. If he wanted to kiss me, he could just do it. I warned him to stay away from me but he didn't listen! I don't own him anything, Alex. Damn it!" I blurt out the thoughts that had been running in my mind the last couple of minutes.

"Look, calm down. I guess, if you want to find out, you have to go. The answers to these questions can be given only by him." she said like it's the most obvious thing in the world.

She is right. I need to give him a chance to explain but what makes me believe that he won't start ignoring me again.

"I guess you are right...but how can I know he won't do it again?" I signed. "Can I ask you something? Don't you think that it's kind of weird for Jo trying to befriend me, while Kyle didn't talk to me?"

She got confused as she shook her head.

"Don't be ridiculous, it's..." she waved off.

"I am not, why didn't Jo talk to me all day?! I tell you why, cause he knew that Kyle is going to explain himself to me!" I yelled cutting her off.

"So? What's your point? Huh? Listen to me; I'm not saying that it's not weird. It is but leave those things at the back of your mind and go talk to him. Only then, you will find out." she said truly.

I looked at the ground. She was right, why was I over thinking this? The boy that I liked wanted to explain himself to me and I didn't want to listen? It was ridiculous. Besides, if I didn't like what I was going to hear, I would just walk away.

"Okay, I will. I'll call you when I get home." I said as I took a breath.

" I will see you soon, ok?" She asked worried

"Ok." I signed.

As Alex walked away, I took my bag and followed the way through the athletics area.

My heart started pounding fast.

I went to the court and searched for him.

There he was running around the field.

Alone.

He was just wearing his shorts and sneakers, like the day we had our first real conversation.

No shirt. Again.

I stood there for a while admiring his abs.

Get over yourself.

When he noticed me, he stopped and gave me a shy smile. I smiled back and he approached.

'This is it Angel, now you will get the answers you've been seeking.' I thought.
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Sorry guys! I know it's been a month from the last time I updated. I didn't have any ideas on what to write. I will try to post tonight the Chapter with Kyle's Pov or if I don't, will be definitely tomorrow.

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