𝔇𝔦𝔣𝔣𝔢𝔯𝔢𝔫𝔱 -Z.K

7

I spent the rest of the weekend with Zion on my mind. I kept telling myself it wasn't good for me but I just can't help it. Every time I closed my eyes all I can see is him.

To make matters even worse, I haven't talked to Brandon either. I can't tell if he's mad at me or not.

As Monday approached I got ready and we leave for school. I pick up Sophia and drop Gray off.

"Thanks for taking care of me this weekend, I seriously don't know what got into me" Sophia says as soon as Grayson left the car.

"That's what best friends are for" I smile.

"Oh and I forgot to ask you, what were you and Brandon arguing about on Friday?" She asks me.

"Huh?"

"When we were driving back to your place I remember you and Brandon arguing about something but I was so fucked up I can't remember what it was about"

"Oh we were just..." I struggled to come up with an excuse. "Debating whether or not to get food!"

I pause.

"Yeah nothing big. He just wanted to stop at Jack in the Box but I wanted to get you home so we just kinda bickered for a little bit" I laugh nervously.

We pull up to the school and walk towards the entrance. I gulp. This is it.

"Hey guys" Austin says approaching us. "How you feeling Soph"

"Better, Thanks" she responds.

"Where's b?" I ask him.

"Uh I told him I was gonna come with you guys and he said he was gonna go hang with his music buds" he says.

"Oh. Did he... did he seem mad? A-at me?" I ask him.

"Not sure. He didn't really mention you?"

The bells rings.

"See ya guys" I say as I walk to my most dreaded class.

I walk in to see Zion already in his seat. I take a seat next to him.

"Hey." I say.

"Hi" He responds.

"look about Friday, about what happened between us, it was a mistake. I mean like you were drunk, I wasn't thinking straight. We obviously didn't know what we were doi-"

"woah woah woah, Calm down" he chuckles.

"what?" I ask.

"China." He says softly. He looks around to see if anyone was listening. "nothing happened that night. We didn't kiss. So hear me when I say this. There is no 'us' alright? It was nothing. We're just lab partners"

"oh. yeah. right." I say smiling. What a dick. It felt like everything I was feeling this weekend had been drained from me. I was back to thinking Zion was just a douche in my first period.

After the bell rang, Zion stopped me before I left.

"aye, can I get your number, tho?" He says with smirk.

"Uh. Zion, I think you were right, there shouldn't be an 'us', we should just stick to being lab partners" I say.

"what?" he says. "I meant so we can work on our project, weirdo"

He giggles as my face turns red.

"oh. uh yeah" I say giving him my number.

Later that day.

I sit with Austin and Sophia at lunch.

"Alright, where's Brandon this time" I say fed up that I haven't seen him all day.

"In the music roo-" I get up and storm into the music room. I see brandon in front of a keyboard.

"Brandon Michael Lee Arreaga, I swear to god if you don't talk to me right now i'm gonna lose my shit"

The music stops and everyone turns towards me.

"oh. I'm sorry. Back to whatever you were doing" I say.

"What is up with you" Brandon asks as i sit next to him.

"You haven't talked to me all day and now I'm freaking out because I think you're mad at me" I say.

"I'm not mad at you." He says calmly.

"Then why have you been avoiding me all day?"

"I haven't been avoiding China, I had to talk to one of my friends for the homework this morning and I wanted to get a jump start on this project I got in music class today" He replies.

"oh" I say looking down at the keyboard. "I'm sorry this whole weekend has been stressful"

I lay my head on his shoulder.

"Oh yeah, how'd it go with Zion" He asks me.

"Turns out that kiss- or almost kiss- meant nothing to him. So everything's back to normal" I say shrugging.

"I'm sorry China" He says.

"It's fine. I really didn't see that going anywhere anyways" I say.

"You wanna hear the song I'm working on?"

I nod and we spend the rest of the period talking, and listening to the music brandon had made.