High school: Auggie x Jack Will

Sparrow

I apologize for my schedule's refusal to remain stable. We really be a slightly successful actor livin' mad dreams hehe 😅🤐

But this is an important thing to me as well. And to you guys too? Wow.

Enjoy.

Auggie's POV

Jack and Summer are cute, and they seem compatible. I hope that works out. I can't really attest from my personal experiences because all of my friends and I aren't what you called experienced in the whole dating thing, (except maybe Charlotte, I've heard those theatre circles get pretty weird sometimes) but I don't think it's hard to realize that breakups do just the opposite of keeping a group of friends friends.

There are of course the rare cases where couples splitting has no impact on their shared friend group, but those are reserved only for the couples who weren't meant to be couples, and I think it's pretty safe to say that Jack and Summer are adorable together, and will last a while. It would probably in the least make things awkward, and all four of us combined wouldn't be able to survive if we were any more awkward than we already are.

So I'm crossing my fingers that they'll last, and convincing myself that I'm going to be okay when they do.

It'll be fine. He needs someone like her. He deserves that.

My walk home is kind of dreadful. I put my phone in one of the pockets of my bag before I got started to avoid over-texting Jack and sounding desperate and clingy, but not fidgeting with the home button is nearly unbearable, so I started wrapping the strap on my backpack around my fingers tightly and poorly kicking every pebble I came across as I slumped my way across the street.

Jack's POV

Summer and I went to the park after school instead of going home. I'm stressing over lying to Auggie, and being in front of my mom like that would make for some pretty bad things. She'd ask me what's wrong, and I wouldn't be able to answer honestly, and she'd notice and get mad at me. I didn't want that stress on top of that stress I've already put myself through.

"We really should've thought this through more. I kinda didn't think he'd actually believe it."

Summer looked away, which is rare for her. "Or maybe you just didn't want him to, Jack."

I couldn't find an answer. Summer, god bless her, persisted.

"I don't know why we didn't think about this at the sleepover, we had so much time and it just feels-"

"Stop, it's not your fault, Summer. It's just everything's confusing me right now and I can't really think straight and it all sucks. Sorry for dragging you through this too."

"Don't say sorry. I get it, liking someone like that. I'm glad you told me. But we need to fix this. Come on."

I nodded my head, felt slight relief in sharp and brief prickles, and followed her to the nice bench under the nicest tree there. A spot perfectly fit for getting stuff done, you could just tell.

The little sparrow sitting under it fled as soon as we got closer, and I thought about how that will probably be Auggie's reaction if I somehow am ever brave enough to tell him how I feel.

He's gonna flee.

Summer started thinking, and finally started talking. We decided to invite Auggie to the park right then and start off by asking him to join the theatre class. Hopefully that would lighten things up enough for us to be able to break the news to him that the relationship only he and like one other person thought we had was over. Geez.