Pretending

Chapter 4

"Love is patient and kind." -1 Corinthians 13:4

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Ok first of all, 'Pretending' is #9 in #pretending! That is amazing! And I'm sorry that these chapters may be bad, I'm just really stressed rn because we are moving, so it been really stressful, but just stick with it, you guys :)

Ok sorry, back to the book.

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"Are you serious? You don't like strawberry ice cream?" Antonio asks the next day when we were coming up with ideas for the Science Fair in the kitchen.

"Yep," I say smiling evilly.

"Wow you are strange," He says going to the fridge.

"Whattt are you doing?" I say looking suspicious.

I see him get a bucket of, wait, what is that?

Oh no. It's strawberry ice cream.

What is he doing?

He slowly takes the lid off the ice cream and grabs a spoon.

"What are you doing with that ice cream?" I say slowly while getting up.

"Oh, nothing." He says smiling evilly and shrugging.

He slowly approaches me and I back up until I hit the wall.

Oh no.

He takes the spoon and gets a scoop. He slowly goes up to me until we are less than an inch apart.

"Open." He says staring into my eyes.

"Never in a million years," I say slightly nodding my head.

"You know you have the prettiest baby blue eyes." He says smirking.

"Whatever Martinez, you just want me to eat the ice cream," I say rolling my eyes.

"Or else." He says seriously. But I can tell he is joking behind it.

"Or else what?" I say with a challenging tone.

"I'll tell everyone about your worst fear." He has a slight smile which makes me roll my eyes again.

When I was 7 I was playing outside when I heard a slight meow, of course, me being me, I went over to investigate, I went over to the side of my house and saw a hairless cat. He hissed at me and I ran because I thought ALL cats had hair. Since then I have been afraid of hairless cats, and unlucky for me, I told Antonio like a dummy.

"You wouldn't dare," I said, still challenging him.

"Oh yes I would," He said grabbing his phone from his pocket and waving it at me.

I sighed defeated, I nodded and slowly opened my mouth, then he did what I never expected.

He put the plop of ice cream right on my nose.

"Seriously Antonio?" I say going to grab a paper towel, he grabbed my wrist.

"I got it covered." He says as he takes his finger, wipes the ice cream from my nose onto his finger and eats it.

I laugh and roll my eyes. He is such a dork.

"Is your Abuela home? Cause your acting like my 'boyfriend'" I say putting air quotes around the word 'boyfriend.'

"Yep," He says and then leans closer. "and I bet she is listening to us."

I laugh quietly and grab a chip. "Probably."