Boy Meets Girl, Girl Meets Boy

Chapter 8

- ETHAN - 

I staggered out of the nightclub at about 3.00 am. Jake and Tom had gone home early but Leon and I kept partying till the early hours of the morning. I was close to falling over when Leon grabbed me and hauled me into a cab. Once arriving at my house, I spent 5 minutes trying to get my house key into the front door as my brain and spatial awarness were all over the place. Finally! 

I sighed. 

The door clicked open and I walked in, placed all my belongings on the side table and walked up the stairs to my bedroom where I just collapsed onto my bed. 

Ow! My head kills. Awaking to my iPhone alarm at 7 am, I think that I am about to die. I roll off my bed, slowly walk downstairs advoiding loud noises. I grab 2 panadol tablets and take them with a glass of water. This hangover is really going to make me look and feel like crap at school today, I make myself a bowl of crunchy nut. I eat my cereal in front of the television almost falling asleep to the sport highlights from last nights Arsenal vs Chelsea soccer match. I grab my sport's uniform from the laundry area and jog to the bathroom, where I have a cold shower and clean my teeth. I get dressed in 20 minutes and arrive to school 1/2 an hour late to my first class.

I go to the office, sign in and get my diary stamped. I make my way to my locker, stuff my bag into it and grab my books for science. I come running into the science lab, grabbing a quick seat at the back of the classroom. Unfortunatley this wasn't left unnoticed, the teacher yelled at me for being late and told me I looked like a wreck that had just rolled out to bed like 10 minutes ago. That's stupid I was on my way to school 10 minutes ago, I had just rolled out of bed like an hour ago. After that scream by my teacher I am given a pile of sciene questions to complete for an exam I have in a few weeks. I manage to get through the first lesson but most of it was spent thinking about Lulu and hoping I hadn't made any drunken phone calls or texts to her. Here's hoping. I crossed my fingers under the school desk then went back to doing the science questions. 

The school bell rang and I jumped up out of my seat and bolted to my locker, once there I stuffed my books into my locker and jogged to the canteen where I grabbed a juice and a museli bar. I wonder where Lulu is? I try to look through the playground to spot her lucious, brown, long locks. But I can't see her anywhere. I try to hide my disappointment by finding my friends and quitely eating my recess. Just as I am about to head upstairs to go to class I spot Lulu talking to her friends who are all sitting on the silver seats. I wave, she looks at me but doesn't wave back. I leave the converse of actions feeling confused and perplexed about why she was mad? What had I done? Just as I am tossing up whether or not to talk to her the school playground bell rings out and I have to run upstairs to homeroom so I get there on time. I have a strict teacher and if I were late he would lose it so I bolted.

Once in homeroom I still felt anxious about any decisions I made last night that I can't remember. The last thing that comes to mind is me thinking 'Should I call Lulu?' but I don't remember about acting upon that thought. 

- LULU - 

I got to school feeling uneasy due to the fact that I may see Ethan today. I don't know if I will be awkward and weird or just normal. I don't know what he was doing with that girl, but then I also know that we are not together so he wasn't doing anything wrong. I'll just see what happens. The school bell rang out all over the school as I finished my double lesson in Textiles, Technology.

I went to get my recess and made my way to the playground to meet my group of friends. Whilst eating my recess I looked up and saw Ethan waving at me. He saw that I saw him, but I didn't wave back. Was that bad? I immediately thought to myself. Do you think you should have just waved? Now he probably thinks something is wrong...well something is wrong so yeah. I'm unsure as to where we stand. No doubt he will try to talk to me later. Suddenly the school bell rings out and I leave the playground and run to my locker and then forward off to homeroom to advoid talking to him. I don't know why I am acting so weird, he didn't even do something wrong, he just hugged and talked to a girl. Friendships between a boy and girl can be platonic, right? Wait...wait...oh no...am I jealous? I can't be, I have only been on one date with him. I don't even like him that much, at least I don't think I do. 

I sighed aloud resulting in heads turning from all of my class. 

I wonder what he is thinking, does he even remember the girl, was it a one off? Stop Lulu, pay attention you have exams in a few weeks and you can't afford to flunk. Boy troubles have really given me a headache this term and I've only been back to school for 2 days. Bad start. 

- JAMIE - 

Ethan walked into the house and stormed upstairs. I let him cool off for 5 minutes before knocking on his door. 

*Knock knock*

"Leave me alone!" He snapped back, making me jump away from the door as if he was about to burst it open in my face. 

"Do you not want to talk about?" I asked trying to do a soothing voice to try and comfort him.

The door opened. He looked sad not angry any more.

"I'm sorry." He said sheepishly. 

"Apology accepted. What are you so angry about...is it about Lulu?" I inquisitively respond. 

"Yes..and yes. I hadn't heard from her since our date yesterday, and last night I went out with the boys to the city."

"I could tell when you came clambering upstairs at like 3 am." I interrupted. 

"Anyway, moving on....I waved to her today and she completley dissed me. I have no idea what I did, the only thing I remember doing last night is running into, you know...Hilary my best friend from year 3 and I also thought about calling Lulu and asking her to come out whilst I was drunk. Everything else is pratically a blur."

"Um..well I do know that she went out last night with Casey and Issy. As Issy posted a photo on instagram and tagged them. The photo was also geo-tagged at Blaze, which I assume you were there too?."

"Yeah..we were and?"

"Well, what if she saw you talking to Hilary or something and got a bit jealous. Then you drunk call her and say something inconsiderate." I suggest. 

"I can see the thing about Hilary, but the drunk call really? I'm not that stupid when I'm drunk?" He adds. 

"I don't know." I uttered and looked down at my feet. 

"What should I do?" He asked me. 

"Um..call her and arrange to meet up or something. You can then chat and see why she is upset. The best thing to do in these situations is communciate. You have no way of knowing what she is thinking and she has no way of knowing what you are thinking. Remember though, you don't know what you did so be considerate of anything you might have said or done. Also if it was the thing about Hilary I think you can tell she likes you." I explained. 

"What do you mean I can tell?" He replied. 

"If she did get jealous you then know that she cares about you and doesn't like seeing you get touchy feeling with another girl."

I saw him smile. 

"Go..go call her or go to her house. Do something to fix this, then come home and tell me what happened as I want to know the details and find out if my advice was helpful?"

"Ok, thanks." He calls running down the stairs heading for the door.