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Butterfly

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A/N: so I finished this and wattpad didn't save it so this is a rewrite and hopefully it's as good as what I wrote before

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   Brandon watched her as she walked down the hall hand in hand with Aaron her boyfriend, his heart was beating out of his chest, he looked around wondering if any one could hear it too. He's had an crush on tali since they were kids, they grew up right next door to each other. You would have thought that would mean that they were going to be eternal best friends and Brandon once thought that too, but high school is high school and people grow apart. Sophomore year Puberty hit tali hard, her head grew into her body, she got boobs, and her body filled out, she started hanging with a specific group of people and she started dating Aaron her boyfriend who made it clear he was a grade A privileged asshole. Tali slowly began to bail on Brandon and cancel plans, she began to only talk to him when they were alone and then not at all.

He never knew what happened, neither did their parents, but even with all the canceled plans, and ignoring him at school his crush on her never disappeared.

When she and Aaron breezed by him, Aaron casting him a mug while tali gave him a small smile as Aaron pulled her away from him. Brandon never understood why Aaron hated him, it wasn't that cliche popular guy hates nerd for no reason type of thing, Aaron genuinely hated Brandon and the reason has always been unknown. Zion and Edwin always said it was because he was jealous of how close he and tali were, but that friendship ended before him and tali were even dating so he was sure that wasn't the reason.

"Dude she's gone, she turned the corner like two minutes ago so you can stop staring" Nick, one of his best friends said clasping him on the back and turning him away from where tali was previously walking "now let's get to third period or Mr. Johnson's going to be on our ass again"

"He's going to be on your ass again, this will be my first tardy" Brandon laughed but still put some pep in his step to try to avoid Mr. Johnson's wrath.

When they made it to their history class, the bell had just rung, they scurried to their seats and waited as their teacher called for attendance.

Halfway through the class Brandon needed to use the bathroom, instead of putting his hand up and disrupting the entire class he walked up to the desk to ask Mr. Johnson.

"Mr. Arreaga to what do I owe the pleasure of you not being in your seat?"He looked up from the papers he was grading eyeing Brandon skeptically

"I just need the hall pass for the bathroom"

Mr. Johnson dug around in the desk and pulled out the boys laboratory pass handing it over to him but not without swift commentary "you have ten minutes, or it's a detention".

Brandon nodded and bolted out the door to the bathroom, after relieving himself in record time he was about to make his way back to class when he heard sniffling along the staircase.

He rounded the corner to tali sitting there on the steps, head in her knees sniffling and holding back tears.

"Tali?" He said in shock causing her to startle and look up "are you okay?"

"Brandon hi" she said quickly wiping her face "I'm fine"

"You aren't fine tali, why are you crying?" He sat down beside her

"Brandon go back to class, I said I'm fine" she stood up from the steps rolling her eyes down at him, before walking away back towards wherever she was hiding from.

He sighed, he just wanted to help her. He knew she wasn't fine, after all these years he was still able to read her like a book, something was bothering her and he was determined to get to the bottom of what it was, but first he needed to get back to class.