Falling for the boy that doesn't know how to love

Chapter one

" Are you still coming over after school to watch the season finale of Pretty Little Liars?" I asked my best friend, Ruby, as we stood at my locker.

I waited for a response, but after a couple of seconds she still didn't respond so I waved my hand in her face," hello, earth to Ruby. "

This caught her attention because she instantly got out of her gaze and replied," sorry what did you say I didn't hear you." Then turned back around like she was before.

I decided to turn around and see what she was staring at and turns out it was, Johnny Orlando, our football teams running back and basketball teams shooting guard. I don't understand why she was starting at him so much; it wasn't like he was that attractive, at least to me anyway. Most the girls in this school are always drooling over him, but I've known him since we were like eight and to me he just looks like your Average teenage boy.He had your usual dark brown hair and the eyes that matched it. He wore one of those boy cami things where you could literally see all the muscles in his arm sticking out without him flexing, but things like that didn't draw me in like they did other girls.

" Ruby, why are you staring at Cameron?" I asked her curiously.

" If I tell you something you have to promise not to tell anyone," she says.

" I promise," I tell her truthfully. Ruby and I had been on and off friends since we were like ten, so she knew I wouldn't make a promise I won't keep.

" Johnny kissed me this morning," she tells me and starts smiling really big, but I'm not happy about the news at all.

" Ruby, your dating Ashton, so if you kissed Johnny your a cheater," I tell her angered that she would do something like this. She literally talked about Ashton twenty-hour-seven. She would always tell me how she thinks she's so in love with him and all this other stuff that I know isn't true. How could she possibly be in love with someone; we are only in the 9th grade.

" No it doesn't because he kissed me," she tells me confidently.

" It doesn't matter who kissed who first, because you obviously liked it, and you didn't stop him. You cheated on Ashton, and once he finds out he's going to break up with you," I tell her and I think after I said that the realization hit her that I was right.

" What am I going to tell Ashton? I love him, Kenzie. If he breaks up with me I'll die," she tells me, and even though she being way over dramatic I knew I had to help her.

" Okay, I have an idea. I will talk to Johnny and try and to talk him into not telling anyone, but in the meantime just lay low and stay away from him." I tell her because honestly that was her only option.

" Thank you so much," she tells me and walks away from my locker.

I look over to where Johnny was previously standing, and see he is still there flirting with a girl. I decided to just walk over there now and get the whole thing over with. I tap his shoulder and ask," Johnny, can I talk to you for a second."

He says," I'm a little busy right now, Mackenzie." He knows how much I hate it when people call me Mackenzie. I had always despised that name, but he won't ever call me anything else.

I decided to just ignore him calling me by my actual name and say," Please Johnny, you know I wouldn't ask unless it was really important. "

He nods his head at me, and I take the opportunity to grab his arm and pull him into one of the janitor closets before he can change his mind. As soon as he realizes where I took him he says," Mackenzie, if you wanted to kiss me you didn't have to pull me in a closet to do." He starts walking closer to me, and I slowly back up. He keeps doing this until I hit the wall, and he grabs both my wrist, and puts them above my head. He comes real close to my face; close enough for me to feel his breath. He says," I always knew you wanted me." I quickly push him back, and he stumbles unexpectedly.

" I don't want you, but I came in here to talk to you about Ruby," I tell him before he can distract me again.

He ask,"Why?"

" Maybe because you kissed her while she has a boyfriend, and not to mention her boyfriend is one of your best friends,"I tell him.

He lets out a light chuckle and says," Mackenzie, it's just a kiss it's not like I fucked her. I mean if she wanted to I'd do that to though." He was already really making me mad.

" There really is no saving you is there?" I ask him and honestly I really wanted to know the answer.

He ask me," what you do mean there is no saving me; I don't need to be saved."

" You can kiss your best friends girlfriend, and just ask like it's nothing. What if he finds out and doesn't want to be your friend anymore. Your better than this," I tell him truthfully. Even though Johnny and I never really had gotten along I'd known him since we were like eight. Our parents were best friends, and we both played for my dads basketball team. The only difference between us was his dad was always in and out of jail, and his mom constantly paying the bond, so they stayed with no money. He was a good person though, even if he acted like he wasn't.

" I do way worse stuff than that everyday, besides so what if he leaves people always leave." He tells me and in that moment in got to see a side of him I wasn't use to. As long as i'd known Johnny he puts up this tough boy act. He has never cared about people, or who he hurts. He never let anyone see him vulnerable, because he says that it's weakness.