The Bad Ass And The Geek

Chapter 3

I must have been sat there for a good few minutes, just sat there, literally, doing nothing, just staring at that tiny screen. The worst part was, we were at Rachel's stop. She had to get off. She was going to leave me, with no help, making conversation by text, with a boy I may or may not have a crush on.

"You must text me everything interesting that happens! Seriously you must. As soon as possible, okay Megs?" she looked at me, and she was very serious about this. I nodded and waved goodbye as she got off the bus. Oh dear God no. I couldn't do this, this is not what I want. Nevertheless; whatever part of hell this part of me came from, I clicked the chat.

Hi ;)

Oh my God. He replied. He said Hi, with a winky face emoticon! I can't even begin to explain the emotions going through me right now, all the questions, and all the amount of reasons I'm going through about why I

shouldn't reply to him and not get involved. I must though, I think it actually is quite possible that I have a crush. I type as fast as I can back,

Hey James, how did you get my pin?

I click send and wait patiently for a reply. I looked out the window and see a familiar park. My stop is next, damn! I gather my bags up and try and run towards the front of the bus. Failing miserably, I trip over a string from my PE bag and end up face planting the floor. I hit my head pretty hard. Standing up slowly, I brushed myself off, and knowing full well that my face is burning red, I avoid eye contact with everyone around me. That, coincidentally, Is why I never run. The bus driver opens the doors for me to get off,

"Thanks." I mutter under my breath as I clamber down the stairs. As soon as I get off the bus I realize it's chucking it down with rain. Great, this is why I hate having a house so far away from my stop. I roll my eyes and mutter to myself as I start walking down the street with the rain pouring over me. My phone vibrated in my pocket, I grabbed it quickly and hid it under my blazer so it wouldn't get rain on the screen.

Somebody gave it to me, it doesn't matter though. Wanted to ask you why you got all flushed when I stared at you in English? x

My eyes skimmed to the very last letter of the text, x. He put a kiss. Holy Shit, he put a kiss. Maybe he does like me! Wait, I shouldn't get my hopes up, I mean look at me, why would somebody like him, fancy somebody like me? I don't want to get let down so I'll just act as if it's normal. I can feel my heart racing, it feels like it is about to burst right out my chest because it's beating that fast. I start typing back quickly,

Well I want to ask you, why were you even staring at me in the first place? x

I click send, before I would regret it or change the text, I put a kiss as well, just to make it look like nothing special, like I do it to everyone. I don't, as a matter of fact I only text Rachel and I don't even put kisses to her on texts. I felt rain seeping into my shoes. I had been standing in one spot not walking whilst I was texting, and now I was soaked. Great that's all I need. My phone vibrates again,

Just trying to figure you out, I mean trying to figure out why you never speak to anyone and why your so damn quiet. You should talk more x

I should talk more. What does that even mean? To everyone? To the teachers? Or just to him? What even is this? I now understand why most girls all say I don't understand boy-kind. I walk a bit faster now, careful not to stand in any puddles and get my shoes more wet than they already are. I speed text whilst I walk,

I'm just shy that's all. And I do talk, just not to you. That's why you never hear me talk x

Immediately after hitting the send button I regret it. What if he takes it the wrong way? What if he thinks I don't talk to him because I like him? What if he starts to ignore me? What if... beep beep

Well why don't you start talking to me more. I think we could be pretty good friends x

He didn't take it the wrong way, that's good. I sigh, shake my head and shove my phone in my pocket. I step on my Grandma's doorstep and pull my keys out from my pocket. The tiniest bit of sun bounces off the key, making it glisten in the sun light. Glancing up ahead of me, I notice a rainbow appearing through the clouds. There supposed to mean good luck right? Maybe it's going to bring me and James good luck. What am I thinking, that's ridiculous. I shake my head again, unlock the door and step on the door mat, closing the door behind me.

"Gran, I'm home!" I shout through the house, taking my shoes off on the mat. The smell of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies wafted up my nose. She'd been baking again, it smelt gorgeous. Appearing through the kitchen door, my Gran helped up a plate of cookies towards me.

"Take a couple sweetie." she smiled at me, "How was school?"

I wondered about telling her about James, but I thought it was best not too because she'd probably tell my parents and I couldn't risk them finding out. Grabbing a few cookies I said,

"It was okay I guess. I'm going upstairs to... erm... read."

"Okay sweetie. See you in a bit."

Dropping my school bag at the bottom of the stairs, I ran upstairs quickly and threw myself on my bed. I held my phone up to the ceiling and typed,

I'm not sure about at school yet, I am too shy to do that, and I'm not good with making new friends. Maybe just on the phone? x

Within the space of 3 minutes, I had finished each delicious mouthful of the cookies, plus James has texted again,

That sounds great! x

We must have been texting for hours on end. Even if we had nothing to say to each other for a full hour, the other one would come up with something to say and the other would immediately reply even though it had been ages since we last texted. I could feel myself falling for him more and more. I don't think it would be right to tell Rachel about it though, I'm to afraid about what she might say and if she would end up teasing me if I told her, even though she told me she wouldn't. Yeah, I'm going to tell her nothing happened. I have never told her a lie before, but this I'm sure of, was the right decision.

Any news from James? Rach x

It was 9:10pm. My bedtime was at 9:00pm, but I had stayed up to talk to James for longer. My parents obviously don't know though, I pretended to be asleep when they came up to check on me, I'd never done that before either but it felt good for some reason. We had only just finished talking and he'd sent me this text,

Night Meggy, see you tomorrow, sleep tight and sleep dreams x

Which I think was amazingly cute. Meggy. A boy had never given me a nick-name before, and I loved it, especially this one. I went back onto mine and Rachel's chat quickly to respond,

Nope sorry Rach. Nothing is going to happen between us I'm sure of it, I'm going back to not being interested in boys though. I have to go to sleep now. Night.

I swear she is the quickest texted ever, because I just put my phone down and she'd got back to me already,

Aww, that's a shame. I'm sorry it didn't work out Megs. Good night. Rach x

I know I shouldn't be lying to her, but it didn't even feel wrong. It felt right.