Intoxicated I Love You

Chapter One: Hello Again

I hate remembering that day. The day we became friends, the day... I let him in. It was a mistake to let him do this to me, why was I so blind? But here we are again....another break up, make up, when are we both gonna wake up?

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The next day was a school day, wasn't excited or lazy. I didn't feel like getting out of bed...I didn't want to see him. But either way I dragged my body out and did my usual routine which is wake up, fall back to sleep, wake up and got half an hour of preparation, then leave. Autumn was probably at school already and so goes with my friends. I ran my way and luckily got five minutes to spare before the first bell rang. My first class was Maths and I knew instantly it wouldn't be an eventful day. I was in a class were we knew each other but didn't know one another, but I guess some were friends.

"What a bore..." I said to myself while I was half listening, half doodling shit on my extra notebook.

"square root of twenty one......" Ms. Heather continued on and on and on. The only people I think who were eager to learn this crap was Fred and Amber who were nerds, in a good way.

After first period, I went straight to my locker and got my stuff for Biology class. I  shut my locker close and started to walk away when I noticed someone was leaning against the next locker to mine, so I turned around.

We weren't saying a single word, if only stares could kill he would've killed me already.

I sighed, "What do you want?" I tried my very best to sound calm not hurt.

He walked a few steps forward. "Look...I'm sorry...I di-"

"No." I raised my hand, "You were Amy's ex boyfriend and I shouldn't have made that connection with you... she hates me now... it's been a long summer, Braden, let's leave whatever we had and not bring it with us because we'll only get hurt" He looked hurt, and good because I don't want to see that heart melting smile. I turned around and walked and walked and walked....

(flashback)

In the middle of summer Amy and Braden broke up because Amy lost interest, leaving him sad yet relieved. I called Amy multiple times to check if she was alright.

"Are you really really sure that you're okay?" I asked.

"I told you Kadey, yes I am fine. Plus it was only a game to me" Amy said.

"What do you mean game?" My eyebrows were furrowed. For some reason I felt my heart beat pound massively.

"To Braden it may seemed serious but to me it was just a game, I never really loved him, Kadey, hahaha I just went with it" I felt Amy grinned.

"If so....I- I have something to confess" I didn't know how to say it or where I should begin at.

"Spill"

"Well... Braden and I are really good friends and we uhh... sorta have this mutual thing-" Before I could finish screaming came through the phone.

"WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK KADEY? JUST BECAUSE BRADEN AND I ARE OVER DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN NOW SLITHER YOUR WAY ONTO HIM!" I didn't know how to reply to that so all I did was say sorry.

"I'll avoid him if you want to, I can stop whatever I am feeling for him. I'm sorry" I said in a quiet tone.

Braden and I, just I don't know, clicked, after that night in the kitchen we started to talk a lot more since then, but we mostly talk when he has the time to visit Autumn. Then one day, he was telling this amazing story about his childhood when I got distracted by how adorable he was saying it, his eyes full of joy, his tone was filled with so much enthusiasm that I couldn't help but smile. After he told the story he caught my gaze and smiled sweetly, I didn't notice that I was blushing, that Autumn and Vic were teasing us and that Braden said, "let's give it a shot" and immediately I knew what he was talking about but the thing that surprised me was him feeling something for me. He told me that Amy and him broke up but it bothered me a lot that I was "dating" my friend's ex boyfriend. The whole summer was a struggle. Braden and I had arguments yet we also enjoyed each other's company.