Right Through Me (Austin Mahone Fan Fiction)

Chapter 23- "We need to talk."

│Present time│

People around us stared in our direction, I could literally feel their eyes burning at the back of me.

This was the first time we were all together again, the first time our table was complete. I couldn't even remember the last time it had been like this. We weren't sitting beside each other but the tension was still there. Between the both of us not talking and the nosy people around us staring, something was bound to happen. It was like we were on the spot and I hated it because clearly, we hadn't done anything in particular although, that was probably the whole point. We weren't doing anything.

Everyone knew Austin stopped hanging around with us Junior year. They all knew he went at the back of the school and hung out with either the jocks or the pot heads but now, here he was sitting just like old times.

Kaylee, Ethan, Austin and I; we were all together. The weird part is that I hadn't even asked him to come, actually, I hadn't even spoke to him. It had been two days since the competition which meant that today was Friday. Yesterday, we went around school not saying a single word. I would catch Austin either staring at me or stealing glances but still, neither of us would say anything.

And now here he was seated at our table as if nothing had ever happened or at least, that's what he was trying to portray. I hadn't told Kaylee about it yet, all she knew was that we had talked and it had gone down somewhat okay and that was the reason why he decided to join us on this lovely afternoon. I felt as if I couldn't tell her yet because even I myself, couldn't understand what had happened. Everything was so twisted and I just wanted to sort things out before I went off and told the whole world about it I mean, it was already bad enough that Morgan knew.

Now as for Ethan, he just seemed genuinely confused but I shrugged it off thinking that maybe Austin was going to tell him. To say the least, this discussion wasn't going to happen today and certainly not now.

Grabbing my juice box, I pulled the straw off of it and opened the plastic wrap before bringing it over to the box itself and trying to puncture a whole though it. I must've tried at least five times before I sighed in frustration to my shaky hands. With Austin there, everything seemed near impossible to do. I was flustered and couldn't even get the stupid straw to go in.

"Let me do it." his voice suddenly beamed from across the table. I shot my eyes up and simply looked at him in something I could only describe as shock, or maybe it was confusion. He was holding his hand out waiting for me to give him my juice but I wasn't moving. Instead, my lips were pressed together in a straight yet very thin line as my eyes scanned over his face repetitively. It almost felt weird to have him this close to me, to have him sit across from me on a lunch table in the middle of the cafeteria. One thing's for sure, I'd have to get used to it.

"I'm fine." I said shifting my gaze away and bringing it back to the situation at hand. I tried a few more times with fail before the juice box was being ripped out of my hands and given back to me in a matter of seconds, the straw firmly punctured through.

"What's wrong with you? You can't poke a straw through a small hole?"

Glaring, I shot daggers in Ethan's direction. "I had it."

"You obviously didn't."

"Did I ask for your help?"

"No," he began "But Austin offered and you turned him down. I wasn't going to watch you struggle with that for another ten seconds." I scoffed. Of course Ethan would say something like that.

Shaking my head, I took a sip of my juice and averted my attention anywhere but. I tried taking a bite of my lunch but my appetite was practically nonexistent. It was only then when I realized that Austin didn't have a lunch or from what I could see, he hadn't brought one. Again, he was just sitting there as if the conversation was going to magically happen which we all knew, was actually not.