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day forty-eight

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It's been a whole month since I knew about how Riley felt about me, and he still doesn't know that I know. Thank Jesus he actually stopped the beer thing. That really wasn't him, and I will never get used to him consuming liquor. Ever since that talk with him, he got back to normal. I'm honestly happy on what he has become, but I've reflected on how I was reacting for the past days.

I wasn't me.

Things have changed ever since Riley told me that it was me who he likes. NO! I wasn't turning into some alcoholic or drug-addict. The change just occurs on how I interact with Riley. I've honestly become shy with him for some reason. I don't know what's with me, but I think, I am staying away from him.

Maybe it's because it's so awkward to be hugging, and kissing eah other's cheeks when you know that the person who's doing those things to you is your best friend who is your crush, and at the same time has a crush on you. But he doesn't know, that you know, that he has a crush on you.

So, I tried to make myself believe that my feelings for Riley were just a normal school fling. I might find my real soulmate someday, and I am just in the normal "Crushing on someone" stage. But as days pass by, Riley has noticed my move on ignoring him. He kept bugging me but it seemed like I didn't care. He has noticed how I've changed rooms in the tutor center, and he has noticed how quiet it was with him being away from me. He had stopped bugging me since then.

After a few days, I got curious, the tutor center got noisy again. Strange. Probably Brianna and her troop. Well, people are added in the tutor clan. Brianna had more batchmates, and well, I did have more batchmates too. There's a good friend of mine named, Ardell. Yeah. Her name's too cute. Then, there's my tomboyish friend named Grace. Trust me, she's manlier than Riley I suppose. We were classmates last year, and we became very close because we were backmates, and we made an eject button for whenever English class comes, we imagine ourselves, getting ejected from our seats. 

For the day, I am seated with Grace in the tutor center. She actually brought the eject button we made from last year! Probably it's because she's hating Mathematics now because of Geometry. 

"Do you have any idea what happens after line segments BD and AC are parallel to each other because angle ACD is congruent to angle DBA because they are alterate interior angles?" Grace asks me.

"Well, quadrilateral ACBD is a parallelogram is the statement so the reason or proof must be definition of parallelogram. Because you now, line segments CB and AD are parallel according to the given, and you have just prove line segments BD and AC as parallel. So, yeah. Definition of parallelogram." I told her.

"Can I have your brain Geometry kid?"

"HEY! HEY! HEY!" Christine comes in with Riley. She has one arm hanging around his neck. I must say, that was us before I was confused with my feelings for him.

"Natasha! Grace! Wanna go out for a while to eat? We'll come back her later. Riley just lost a bet, and is willing to buy us food." she said.

Grace and I looked at each other and shrugged. "Fine with us, I guess." Grace says.

I looked at Riley and he seemed silent, and unhappy. Yeah, he would smirk. But it would only happen when we make eye contact with each other.

"LET'S GO!" Christine shouts as she and Riley went out first. Then, Ms. Reynolds comes in. "Are you two done?"

"Yes Miss! We're confident with our answers now!" Grace exclaims. I hit her shoulder. "Shut up you son of a bitch. You just copied my answers. No, Ms. Reynolds, we're going out. But we'll be back." I tell the both of them.

"Make it quick!" Ms. Reynolds says, and we both nod. Then Grace and I walked out. While walking out...

"You like Riley." she tells me. Oh here we go again.

"Nah, man! I don't know. I'm confused. I'm new to this shit." I tell her.

"Well, does he like you back?"

"Yeah. He told me a month ago. NOT DIRECTLY THO. HE THOUGHT OUT LOUD. I HEARD HIS THOUGHTS."

"Oh, so you know that he like you, but he doesn't know that you know?"

"Exactly. But let us not mind this matter. It's probably just an "Ooh I have a crush on him" stage that every girl has."

"Take my advice, Take the chance before it's too late."

We finally got out of the tutor center, and nodded at Grace. I gave her a manly hug, and I'm so happy that for the first time, I was taller than somebody. Trust me, Grace is like 5ft. flat. But don't underestimate her, she's a varsity in basketball in our school. She's a starplayer actually. Many girls actually like her. Sometimes, people get jealous when I'm with Grace and I have no idea why. We're just friends who want to eject ourselves from English class.

So, we went to Starbucks, ordered what we want and sat at a table. Christine was getting kinda close to Riley. But he seems like he doesn't want to be friends with her. Probably, because of the bet. I didn't want to know what the bet was about, but who cares.

At some point, we made eye contact with Riley, and he mouthed something to me. I looked at his lips, and read what he said. I guess, I'm not the only one who have noticed that I have changed in the way I interact with Riley.

"I want you back."

A/N:

I DID A PRETTY GREAT JOB WITH THE LAST WORDS FOR THIS CHAPTER, I MUST SAY.... not. Those are honestly the worst last words. I can't think of something right, and short. JESUS! I am so bad. Anyways, is it cute that Natasha is actually refraining herself from Riley because she's confused? No? Yeah, it's fucking irritating, like girl you're making things complicated. You like him, he likes you, just get married. That's all for this update. I have no idea when I will update again, but hey! It's sembreak. I update quicker than when there are classes. kbyE