Why I Hate Hunter

{25}. Never Do This Again!

A.N: Chapter is divided into two because it was quite long. Enjoy!

For the first time ever since Hunter Jensen moved next door, Mavis was free of him. No conversations, no fights, no pranks and not even eye contact.

It drove her crazy.

And for the first time since she had decided to hate Hunter Jensen with all her might, Mavis felt like she badly needed to talk to him. Like, anything and everything was a reason.

She was accidentally late for school and she had to take a lift from him or else she would be breaking rules. She accidentally happened to cross paths with him and had to tell him about this new thing she found online. The game they had talked about many many weeks ago released a new update. Her father needed Hunter to help him with something. She needed to talk to him about something related to her brother.

She thought she soon had to keep a notebook of all the stupid excuses she had tried to use and which she still had to test out.

But on the other side, all of that didn't really matter, because Hunter had developed the unique ability to completely erase her presence whenever they happened to be at the same place. And despite Mavis' best efforts to increase the number of times they happened to be stuck at the same place, they drastically reduced.

Hunter Jensen was officially making her biggest dream come true.

He was getting out of her life, but instead of making Mavis' happy, it was making her stomach heavy with each passing day.

"This is stupid!" she murmured to herself as she tried to read a textbook sat outside on her house's porch. Her feet were dangling relentlessly and her eyes kept sweeping the area as if she was looking for something.

Frustrated she buried her face in the book and dared herself to not look outside towards Jensen's house for at least 5 minutes.

"Why?!" she whispered almost sadly as she pressed her hand against her chest.

Mavis had convinced herself that she wanted nothing but to stop the stupid plan Lillian had come up with. That was the only reason she was trying to keep talking with Hunter. Because it was absurd how Lillian wanted to limit Mavis' life just because she couldn't gain Hunter's affection. But because Hunter kept his part of the deal, the charges against Elijah had dropped immediately and her neck had started to heal without the fear of being hurt even more.

Mavis should have been happy with the arrangments. But she couldn't stop replaying Hunter's last words:

'I don't even want to be around her anyway.'

He couldn't have been serious. He was just doing this to keep Mavis safe for sure because previously he had even gotten drunk simply to get Mavis to talk to him and now he was nowhere to be seen.

"I don't want to be around you either," she whispered in between the pages of the book.

She was sure she really didn't want to see Hunter but she had started to increasingly show the opposite of that.

"It's just...I don't know. We have always been present in each other's lives so this is just weird. That's all. It's weird and unnatural."

Slowly, and making sure her hair wasn't all over her face and that she didn't look like a zombie obsessed with her enemy, she raised her face and cleared her voice.

Probably talking to herself while outdoors wasn't the best idea but when was the last time she actually had a proper, good idea?!

She spent another half an hour distracted and lost in her thoughts with her book hanging limbo in her hands until she heard the engine of Hunter's car.