I dare you...

Chapter 3

From enemies to friends?

Something odd happened today. When I went to school, no one snickered at me or called me names. they just kept staring at me. Some girls even said good morning to me.

Usually, I'm the invisible girl and I liked it that way!! What happened now??

I hurried through the hallways, looking for Lin. As long as she's with me, the students can't touch me. Finally, I spotted her talking to Alex in front of his locker.

"Roxy! You won't believe what happened!!" she screamed as soon as she saw me.

"What do you mean? What happened? and why is everyone staring at me?"

Lin glanced at Alex. She was delighted to see him nod at her.

" Today Jessica asked out Thomas but he refused! He announced that he already likes someone!!" She declared.

I don't know if I should be outraged or devastated, or simply accept that he was way out of my league.

"who...who is it?" I managed to say.

"it's you, dummy!! He said he already likes you!"

WAIT WHAT?!

I didn't know what to say... Was I happy? Yes! Did I feel butterflies in my gut? Definitely!

"Umm... Roxy? You're smiling like a creep," joked Alex. He looked quite amused with the situation.

"Oh come on!! You can't even let me be happy for a second!!" I sighed.

Alex's phone suddenly buzzed then he hurried away. That gave me the chance to just talk one on one with Lin.

"Wow, I didn't know you really had a crush on Thomas!" speculated Lin

" Yeah, I'm sorry I haven't told you..."

Lin smiled at me, then patted my back. "Well look at you now! Thomas Leville likes you!"

It was too good to be true... Did he really like me? Why would he just announce it suddenly? the more I think about it the more suspicious I get.

"Hey!! REX!!" shouted Alex behind me, pulling me out of my thoughts.

I turned around, and to my surprise, Thomas was standing next to him.

"Roxy, we need to talk," said Thomas.

Even though he looked like a nervous tomato wreck, his voice was deeper than usual. He sounded more confident than he looked.

I'm nervous too. I'm not used to this; getting attention I mean. It feels good knowing there's someone out there who you're precious to. But it's stressing me out too much. How should I act? How do we treat each other now? What do we do? those are all questions I've been asking myself from the minute he told me he knows I like him.

I suddenly felt the need to run away.

Driiing driiing! And my savior is right on time again! ok, sorry no more puns.

The bell is officially my best friend!! It's been saving me from a lot of awkward situations lately.

"I'm sorry. I can't right now... The bell... Maybe next time?"

Spoiler alert, that never happened, because "next time" I literally ran away.

I grabbed Lin and pushed her towards the gym where we have P.E together. Later on, I realized I was so caught up talking with Alex and Lin, then Thomas, that I forgot to go to my locker and get our sports uniform.