Love Me, Hate Me, I Don't Care (Bully!America x Bullied!Reader)

Rumors

(Y/N) P.O.V

"Did you hear? Apparently Alfred got a girlfriend."

"What?! No way!"

"Shhhh don't talk so loud he'll hear us..."

"Seriously though, I'm so jealous of whoever she is."

"We should totally find out who and then...."

That's new. I don't usually hear any rumors about Alfred, it doesn't seem like a bad rumor though, not like the various idiotic rumors I heard about myself before.  I wonder where it came from? I mean, it only started circulating since yesterday, which was the day after our trip, so unless he magically got a girlfriend since then I don't know where it stems from. Maybe he already had one but no one knew about it until now? Surely that'd be something he'd boast about though.... Thinking about this makes my heart sink.

I shake off those thoughts and return to my math question. Today we are going over basic algebra again, I easily go through each question since this is basic stuff that I've gone over multiple times already. I'm so concentrated that I hardly register something being thrown to the back of my head. Then it hits again. Then again, and again, and again. If I counted correctly, it took around 13 paper balls before I turned around.

My eyes landed on a pair of boys, both snickering and whispering to each other. I just roll my eyes and am about to turn back to my paper, though I'm glad I didn't do so in time. I watch as a paper ball, much larger then the ones thrown at me beforehand, hits one of them in the face, then another one hits the other guy. I bite down on my bottom lip to refrain from letting out a snort, then follow the path the balls took to see Alfred, suspiciously looking away as if he saw nothing. As cool as he is, he's definitely no where near subtle.

Wait, did I just admit he's cool? Whatever, he's not the most popular guy in school for nothing I suppose. I steal one last glance in his direction and see him smirking triumphantly at me. Then I just return to my work for the rest of the lesson.

Timeskip: Lunch break.

Alfred offered to walk me over to my locker, which isn't the first time this has happened but I still am skeptical about his motives. While walking down a particularly deserted corridor I bring up the topic that has been bothering me since this morning.

"So.. what's all this talk about you getting a girlfriend?" I look up to him just in time to see his face flare up, he pretends to choke and begins coughing into his arm to hide his face. As said before, not subtle at all.

"What? where'd you hear that?" He asks, still not looking at me.

"I have ears you know." I deadpan. "Every girl I've walked past seems to be talking about it, did you actually get one or is it just a rumor?"

He abruptly spins back to me and yells. "And why are you so interested?!"

That's out of character of him, I expected him to start bragging about it, not to get all defensive like that. I hasten my pace and speed a few steps ahead of him, completely ignoring his outburst as I speed away from him.

"Hey!" She stumbles over his words, panicking when I suddenly started walking away from him. "Uh I'm sorry about that, I shouldn't of yelled..." He catches up to me at my locker, a kicked puppy face on his features, honestly so childish. 

"That's not why I walked away." I say nonchalantly, then point my finger behind him. "(RB/N) has a thing for you, she probably wouldn't of been impressed to see me around you, especially with that rumor going around."

Alfred looks over his shoulder to see (RB/N) and two of her 'friends' sauntering over in our direction. "As if I care. She already knows I don't like her back, so don't stress it." He waves me off dismissingly.