You & I (Matt Lanter AU)

Chapter 11

*UNEDITED

Matt's POV:

I took my coffee from the bar and brought it out of The Nite. The sun was blocked by the grey cloud, probably it means it will rain soon or later. I put the hood on, just in case it's raining while I was walking. Since the day when Beth said we should be just friends, I haven't felt happy anymore. It felt like my life was going to end soon or someone just ripped my heart out, and it felt fucking hurt. I never want to feel this way in my entire life. I never want to fell in love with someone this deep when I was in high school, but everything is too late. Her eyes are like a shining star, and her smile... Damn! I can't even explain it. It's just too beautiful, which it leads me to the broken heart. The first time I ever saw her, it feels like I see an angel that God send to me, and I thought she's the one for me. We will end up together, kiss under the star, get married, have a child, sitting on a rocking chair in my old day while she's knitting and give me her beautiful smile, but that was all just a dream that I can't have.

Now, she and Steven were together again, not as a couple, but I thought they would be together any sooner. I started to stop thinking about them, but it was too hard. But every second or minute I was thinking about them, my wound was getting deeper and deeper. I shook my head through my hood, tried to forget everything for 1 second, but I guess it was no point. 

Water started to come down from the grey sky, luckily I already had my hood on. All of a sudden, less than 5 minutes, the rain soaked me with my jacket with it. I searched around for a shelter that could save me from the pouring rain. I ran towards the shelter, the floor was really slippery so I have to be careful. Once I got arrive, I rubbed my jacket to make my body warmer. Not for a while, a girl, with hood on, ran across the street to the shelter, she also soaked wet because of the rain.

I can't really see her face under the hood because she wasn't trying to face me, all I can know she was brunette and her hair was soaked wet. She looked very familiar, for a couple minutes I was trying to figure out the girl under the hood's face, until I looked at her carefully, and then she reminds me with somebody. 

"Megan?" I said. I was hoping I didn't get the wrong girl, but she looked like Megan.

She turned her face to the left and facing me. "Matt?"

"Hey, I didn't recognize you under the hood"

"Me neither"

"So, what are you doing here?"

"Zach's should pick me up in the mall 2 hours ago, then he told me that he unexpectedly had an important stuff. So here I am, on my jacket and hoods, soaked wet from the rain, and standing under the shelter" she said with her upset tone.

I smiled at her, it was kind of hilarious for me, but I don't think was for her. All of sudden, Bethany and Steven faces came to my head again. I stayed silent while I was thinking about Beth and Steven.

"Matt" she called, made me awaken from my thought. "Why are you stepping away from Bethany? I thought you like her"

I was shocked because she suddenly asks me this kind of question. "I do, I do like her, but, hmm... I thought it would be the best for her if I'm away from her"

"It's not"

"Excuse me?"

"If you think this is the best fir her, then why she cried to me after you guys had a conversation in the hall?"

"She cried?" I felt guilty because I made her cry. I never want to make her cry, my goal is to always make her happy. I felt I'm the bad guy now, I was trying to be the good guy for her that always make her happy and make sure she get what she wants.