The Relationship Counsellor

My Best Friend is Fangirling

Haley's POV

As soon as I step out the door Charlie's head shoots up. Charlie is pale girl with red hair which is long and beautifully straight. She is slightly taller than me and doesn't need to wear glasses which brings out her bright green eyes.

"Why did we text to meet up with you?"

"Well I was going to say that I can't meet up with you at our usual place as I have to give the new guy a tour round the school."

"Where is the new guy anyway?" She looks around for him till her gaze lands behind me. Her eyes widen and she starts to talk really fast about how hot the new guy is. She is also asking me how I met him.

Is my best friend currently fangirling over the new guy? My best friend is fangirling. My nerdy, smart best friend is fangirling over a foreign new guy!

Has she suddenly caught some sort of weird virus that causes her to fangirl over a foreign new guy? Has girl apart from me got this weird virus?

"Um Charlie, I didn't know you liked foreign guys." There has to be an explanation for this. I mean, my best friend who I have known since first year is suddenly acting very unusual. I still can't get over the fact that my best friend is fangirling.

"Ah come on Haley! You don't know how much despite my nerdiness that I adore foreign guys! Have you never been into my room?" She says it so casually as if I should've known.

"Excuse me? I have never been over to your room much less your house because you are too busy studying and doing homework!" This girl! She seriously frustrates me sometimes. How are we friends again?

"Really?! I'm pretty sure there has to be one time that I invited you over..." I sigh and almost want to bang my head against a wall at how forgetful this girl can be sometimes.

"No you have never invited me over to your house, I don't even kno-" I get cut off by the bell ringing signalling that break is over. Startled that we spent the whole break talking when I was supposed to take the new guy on a tour round the school.

Turning to face him, I apologized. "I'm sorry, me and my friend got too carried away with arguing. I'll take you on a tour round the school at lunch but for now we have to get to class. See you at lunch, Charlie!" With that I head off to my next class.

"No don't worry, you and your friend seemed to be having a conversation and I didn't want to be rude and interrupt it." I hear him speak behind me. Wow, this guy is definitely not like most of the guys in this school who will just interrupt because they want too.

"No next time just interrupt or else we will never stop." We arrive at our next class and this time one lucky girl got to sit beside him while I sat down beside my desk partner, while I wouldn't really call him a friend isn't too bad. Makes a couple of perverted jokes here and there but generally has a good sense of humour and like me isn't a morning person.

"Hey Ryan. Still not a morning person?"

"Oh, hey Hale! Yeah still refused to get out of bed until my parents had to literally drag me out of it again. Though of course! It was always nice to reunite with cold wooden floor. That certainly woke me up."

I smiled a little, his parents are worse than mine sometimes when it comes to waking up. They will be awfully mean like pour buckets of water over him and blow air horns but then again, he is a really deep sleeper.

"So... who was the guy that came in behind you? You finally got a boy toy?" He smirks but it quickly falls away and replaced with a frown when I lightly smack on the arm.

"No! He is not my new boy toy just a new guy that just happens to be in all my classes? So how are things going with Cassey?" Cassey is his girlfriend who he has been going out with since 3rd year, they both are really cute together. As Cassey is nice girl who is easy to get along with and easy to talk too while Ryan is the funny type of guy who will do anything to make people laugh with his jokes.

"Things are going great! Our families spent the holidays together so that they could get to know each other better. What about you? What you do over the holidays?"

"Well just the usual stuff like sleeping in, doing a bit of revising. I wanted to play in the snow but as you know here we don't get too much snow." I always dreamed of building a snowman and having snowball fights but we rarely get snow during the winter though it is freezing and there is plenty of rain.

"Yeah true we don't get too much snow but we got some better than other places that don't get any." Hmm he makes a good point, I guess you can't take things for granted and be lucky you have things but also that not everyone is as lucky as I am.

We had to stop our conversation as soon since the teacher had started to teach but during that lesson I couldn't concentrate as Ryan kept distracting me with his jokes that were funny that I wanted to laugh but didn't as I would definitely get told off by the teacher.

It was nice to get away from the new guy for once, I didn't have to be so polite and try to find awkward things to talk about because I knew nothing about him. With Ryan, we knew each other and were comfortable talking about things that we shared in common.

I just hoped that in the next few classes I wouldn't have to sit beside the new guy, I really should stop calling him the new guy or foreign guy and start calling him by his name. His name was Zach wasn't it? I think it was but I'm not sure...

The bell rang and we all stood up and left since we only had one period of this subject rather than 2. Ryan waited for me by the door since we had the next few classes together which I was grateful for the fact that someone I knew was taking some of the same subjects with me.

Before I could head to my next class I felt someone tug my bag which startled me. Turning around to see who had pulled me back I saw Zach. Oh yeah! He is in all my classes which means he should probably follow me to class. "Sorry. I forgot that you were in my classes. Ryan meet the new guy, Zach. Zach, the new guy meet Ryan...we are sort of friends I guess."

Ryan had to be mean and laugh at me, "you guess? Nice to meet you Zach, Hale is here is always so funny. Also, don't worry I'm a taken man who has been taken for about 3 years now."

"Nice to meet you too Ryan. Who says that I was interested in Haley? I mean we've only met today. Not to be mean to you Haley." Ouch, really that literally was a direct hit to my heart despite the fact that he wasn't really being mean.

"Well enough chit chat shall we head on to class?" I wanted to get out of here since I could feel Ryan getting slightly annoyed that Zach had just brushed me off like I was not worth it.

Ryan being the good person he is knew that I didn't want the argument to drag out even longer and then gain attention.

Crisis Avoided.