A High School Love Story

Chapter 7: Just Friends

Of course it would be him!

My life is literally over now. Ok, maybe not, but now I'm completely confused of where to go with him. Should I try to be his friend ? Should I try to be more that just friends ? Should I try to avoid him completely, move to Russia and change my name to Svetlana ?

So far, I'm leaning towards option three. Russia seems like a cool place to live, literally. You know, because of the weather.....

I come up with the worst jokes ever. Somehow my disastrous attempts at making jokes always make me laugh at how bad they are, and this time was no different. I laughed, well, giggled really loudly and everyone turned to look at me. Or maybe they were already looking at me and I just didn't notice....

Wait, how long have I just been standing here staring at Brian? I mentally face palm myself and try to explain myself.

"Sorry, I just thought if something really funny." I said, blushing. I'm sure my face was as red as a tomato.

"Did it have something to do with Brian's face?" joked Wilmer and everyone laughed, except for me and Brian. Ok, now I was sure my face was as bright as Rudolf's nose.

"Wilmer, shut up! You just made this awkward for both of them!" Jasmin wasn't laughing with the others like I thought she was and I have to remember to thank her later.

"Sh*t, my bad!" Wilmer fired back, still laughing. Everyone else stopped laughing and I couldn't bring myself to look at Brian.

"I'm going to the restroom, take care of stuff please" I said and left my backpack and books on the table before I headed to the restroom.

"I'll go with you!" Jasmin shouts from behind me. I couldn't say no because she was already by my side when I turned to say no. I ended up just nodding my head.

Once we got to the girls restroom, she dragged me into the big stall at the end that's meant for handicap people who need to use wheelchairs and locked the door. "What was the all about?" She whispered to me.

"What was what? What are you talking about?" Hopefully she'll buy it.....

"You know what I'm talking about." .....dammit, she didn't buy it.

"It was nothing...." Hopefully she buys THAT.

"You call that 'nothing'? Because that looked like something to me. I mean, the way he just kept staring at you was kind of creepy. He's cute and all but he has staring problems." Wait what?

"Did you just say that HE was staring at ME?" I can't hide the shock in my voice.

"Yeah, didn't you notice? He didn't look at anyone else. Not even when Jose was introducing us to him, I don't think he was paying attention to anything or anyone besides you." .....great, now what am I supposed to tell her? I guess should clue her in on the events of the past few days.

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"After I told Jasmin about everything -and I mean EVERYTHING, I didn't leave out one detail- she seemed to be just as confused as I was by his actions earlier.

"If he said he wasn't interested, then why did he stare at you nonstop for a minute?" She says in an angry tone. I didn't think she would be this upset. I think she's more mad than I am.

"I don't know, I really just don't understand boys. Especially him. But I guess I see where he's coming from. E was right when he said that it was too soon to even be thinking of having a boyfriend on the third day of school." Was I taking his side?

"So, what are you going to do?"

"I'm just going to try to be his friend, I guess. And if I still like him after we come back from winter break, then I'll try again." There was hope in my voice, a little too much hope.

"I think that's a really good idea. I can try to get close to him too and talk you up if you want." She winked.

"No, no." I couldn't help but laugh. "It's ok." She started to laugh with me but we stopped after we heard the sound of knocking on the bathroom stall. "Maybe we should go back now, they'll probably think that one of us had to take a crap." And with that we both started laughing again and we exited the stall and headed back to the table with the others.

When we got there, everyone was silent, even Wilmer, and god knows that boy doesn't know the meaning of the word.

"Damn, why'd you guys take so long?" I knew someone was going to ask but I didn't think it would be Brian, especially not with those words. What the heck happened in the past 7 minutes that we were gone?

"Woe dude calm down. I haven't known you for 10 minutes and you've already got an attitude with me." Jasmin's ego obviously got butt hurt.

"My bad, I was just wondering." He looked so embarrassed, I almost felt bad for him.

"Gee, I wonder why." Oh god Jasmin! Please stop! I elbowed her on her stomach and she made an "oof" sound.

"So why did you guys take so long." Ismael asked.

"Oh....umm...well because..." I turned to Jasmin and gave her a 'what do I say?' face.

"Because I'm on my period." My eyes widened and she gave me a 'just go with it' look and I turned back to everyone.

"Ew, gross. We didn't need to know." Jordan said with a disgusted face.

"Well it's Ismael's fault for asking." Jasmin said.

"I apologize." Ismael mocked and everybody started to laugh, including me.

This felt right, all of us hanging out together, laughing, even Brian. In this moment, This moment where he smiled at me and didn't feel any butterflies, I realized that I made the right decision to try to be friends with him.

Just his friend....

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