When We Were Friends || ✔

A Punch In The Gut, Literally

Ethan's POV

After talking, and blushing, with Margo I start to make my way to class. I'm heading down the halls, minding my own business when someone pushes me into a locker and growls in my face.

"Hey." says the tall muscly boy with brown hair that's pushing me into the locker. Another boy comes and spits at my feet before taking my wrists and pinning me to the hard metal that is pressing against my back. After what seems like a good two minutes of hard staring the one with brown hair speaks. "What are you doing?"

"Um, you are the one pushing me against a locker for no known reason." I cringe slightly. Shut Up Ethan and stop with the attitude! You're going to end up in the freakin' toilet if you keep this up!

The blond one chuckles before pressing my wrists further into the cool metal. "Get away from her." He states.

"Get away from who?" I ask confused clearly written all over my face.

"I think you know exactly who we are talking about." He says with a smirk that creeps me out.

"Do you mean Margo?" I ask. Surely they didn't want me to stay away from her. I needed her. We literally only just starting talking and now... now I couldn't? That was so f****d up.

"Yes, and if you even touch her then we will..."

"And what if I do?" As soon as I say this, I regret it. Where was this courageous Ethan coming from? It was probably the adrenaline rush from talking to Margo. Oh Margo, my beautiful Margo. 

"This." My daydreaming is cut short by a fist to my gut. The blow is so hard I stop breathing. I fall to the ground and clutch my stomach. There are still people around but no one even gives me a second glance. There are still a few minutes till classes actually start so after debating with myself what seems like hours, I get up and make my way to class, I turn around and say "Do you guys like Margo or something?"

They both blush before the Noah guy mutters "No sh*t Sherlock."

I nod my head and turn around before quickly heading to class. I couldn't compete with those guys. Even though I loved Margo with all my heart I knew that she would never choose me. After shaking my head I turn towards my maths class, with Margo... Well, this was going to be fun.

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I turn around occasionaly during maths and whenever I do so Margot seems to flinch. Maybe she really does like me? Pppphhhhhhhhuuuuiii!!!! Stop lying to yourself Ethan!
I sigh dramatically before I start to turn back to Ms. Reago but not before I catch Margot's eye. I give her my biggest Im-In-Love-With-You smile. She smiles back. 

God, I really have fallen hard...

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After Maths class, I head straight to the school cafeteria. It gets really crowded so it's pretty much every man for himself. The cafeteria is pretty much like all the others. All the 'populars' sit in the middle of the cafeteria, while the nerds, emo's and gangsters sit around the outside. Our school is as stereotypical as you can get. I mean we have the jocks, we have the nerds, we have the emo's and we have the hot cheerleaders. But at least the food is good. I spot Cole at the back of the room talking to Catherine and Jack. I go and buy my usual lunch, chocolate milk, and a caesar salad. I walk over to our table and sit down next to Catherine. She smiles up at me before returning to her conversation. Cole was arguing that the tomato is a fruit while Jack was saying it was a vegetable. I scoff at their conversation. Everyone suddenly looks up at me and Cole smirks.

"What do you think Ethan?" I glare at him and return to the rest of the group.

"Well, if it's so important what I think. All fruits have seeds. A tomato has seeds so therefore it is a fruit."  I state. Cole smirks at Jack while he pouts "But, you also have to remember that you would never have a tomato in a fruit salad or smoothie, so, that is that." Jack immediately brightens and smiles at me gratefully before returning to his burger and fries. This was my job in every argument. I was the decider, I had to make sure both people won in the argument so everyone was happy. It was kind of annoying but I did it anyway. I start to talk to Catherine about random nerd crap. We start discussing the likes of the quantum theory. Yeh, that's the kind of stuff we nerds talk about for fun. I sigh and look towards the cafeteria doors.

And and that's when she walks into the room. Her face was flushed but she had a smile on her face. She was busy talking animatedly to Bella and Quinn, her best friends. I smile as she talks and somehow she catches my stare. She grins at me and holds my gaze. I show her another small smile before returning back to my conversation with Catherine. Back to quantum theories. FML...

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Author's Note
Hey guys... Nothing really to say here. Hope your enjoying the story B)