Endless love (Discontinued)

Chapter 11: The Morning after

(Betty's POV)

I didn't know what was going on but Sweetpea was staring at me, not in a creepy or annoying way though. It felt like he was impressed. My cheeks turned redder with every second his eyes lay on me.

It was exhausting. I didn't know what to do next; we were just staring at each other. Time had stopped and the world stopped existing. Everything else was gone, the only thing that mattered was us.

"Wow," he simply said without looking away. It was honest and not as mean and annoyed as he usually sounded.

I remembered that he had said he was going to meet some friends. "Is it something important?"

My question obviously confused him. "Pardon me?" He raised his left eyebrow and I answered immediately. "You said you were going to meet your friends. Did something happen?"

When I looked at Sweetpea in that moment, I saw something sparkle in his eye, maybe a tear. But I was quite sure that the big bad boy never cried so I didn't say anything.

"No, well not exactly. We just have a job to do. Me actually. I have to do it. The rest is just there to tell me what to do today. Not that I need someone to tell me what do to, just... I don't know, it's a task," he answered very honestly and it surprised me that he wasn’t trying to hide anything. I smiled once more and then opened the window.

"You can leave if you want. I'll text you when I'm done with the project." He nodded and left without saying another word.

And I just stood there and watched him drive away on his motorcycle.
That had been a surprisingly good meetup and it didn't turn out the way I expected it to. I was happy, well, not entirely. But I was satisfied with the way we talked to each other today.

Of course, I had to text Veronica now to tell her every little detail about the afternoon we had spent together. She answered shortly after. "so proud of you!!! you're going to be dating soon, I can feeeeeel it." The smile that appeared on my lips was honest but unfamiliar since I hadn’t been as happy as I have been on that day for a long time.

I sat down and started writing into my diary to process everything that had happened today.

[next day]

It was a new school day and I was surprisingly excited for it. Mostly because today we had to present our project to the class. Working with Sweetpea had been fun and I was quite happy about the outcome.

After I had woken up, I texted him 'good morning. Today is the presentation.' but he didn’t respond. He probably wouldn’t.

I put on my normal clothes, pastel pink sweatshirt and cute blue jeans. My hair was in a ponytail, as usual. I decided to experiment a little more with the makeup but after I ruined the eyeliner I gave up and removed all of it again.

My parents weren't at home this morning, they probably went to work earlier and Polly already went to the doctor, she had been sick for quite a long time and wanted to check what was wrong.

I left the house and walked to school. Alone, my thoughts were running. About the project, about Sweetpea and about how I finally felt a little bit of happiness.

When I stood in front of my locker, I opened it and placed my bag in there, searching for the books that I was going to need today. Suddenly I felt someone rambling into my shoulder and turned around. It was Sweetpea and apparently, he was in a bad mood.

His facial expression was like a lion ready to kill his prey.
"Did you tell people we are dating?!" he screamed at me. I wanted to answer but he didn't let me. "You and I? Never going to happen. DO YOU UNDERSTAND?" I could feel his hand as he pushed me against my locker and ran away.

I was shivering, not sure if I was allowed to stand up. So I just decided to sit there. And then I started crying. All of the happiness that I had because of him was gone. I felt wrongfully attacked and destroyed.