The Odd Ever After

Chapter 6: In which she wonders

After I heard Samuel was dating I decided I wasn't going to talk to him.  I was getting my hopes up, and they seemed to come crashing down over and over, so in order to stop getting disappointed I decided to ignore him.

Only problem was he wouldn't have it.  Whenever he saw me he'd do anything to get my attention and wouldn't stop till he had it. Once he knew he had my attention he'd give this smile that would make my heart beat loudly in my chest and had my stomach doing somersaults.

Finals were wrapping up,  which meant 2 weeks and school was over. I sighed and looked over at my choir teacher Ms.Hale. She was in her late 20's and was absolutely beautiful. She was mixed with black and Hispanic, and had this very motherly type vibe to her. She was my favorite teacher in the whole school, and was the first person I ran to when I was in trouble.... which was why I was in her office now.

"Milly, why do you like him?" She asked eating her lunch.

"I don't know. I mean this sounds ridiculous, but it kind of just happened." I sighed. She nodded and wiped her mouth.

"Well I guess I kind of understand. Look at me and Matt, it was love at first sight, and now we're engaged to get married." She said smiling.

"See but it's strange cause I didn't like him when I first saw him,  or even talked to him. I didn't want to like him,  because unfortunately a lot of other girls like him too." I mumbled trying to wrap my own head around it.

"Maybe you're only crushing on him because you don't want to like him. Like your mind is playing a reverse psychology game on your emotions." She took another bite of her lunch and looked over at me.  Hmmm maybe she's right. I nodded,  it made sense,  I didn't want to like him because he was the bad boy and I was the nerd. Then to top it off almost every girl in my freshmen class wanted him,  and I didn't want to be part of the pack. Only question was how can I fix it?

"Is there some magical way I can stop liking him?" I asked throwing my head in my hands and leaning back in her bean bag.

"No,  but you're more than welcome to sing if it would get your frustration out." She said with a smile. I nodded and got out of the chair. She seemed to enjoy my singing,  and even more when I let my emotions out,  so I let loose singing anything and everything that came to mind.

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By the end of the day my head was pounding as I thought of everyway possible to stop liking Samuel. I went through crushing on someone else, but the only people coming to mind were boys who were famous and knew nothing of my existence. Then I thought about tricking my mind to think I didn't like him, but I knew it wouldn't work, so I just gave up on that. Then there was the moving on stage that I had been hoping would come, but I had been waiting for 5 months for that one already. Sighing I raised my hand waiting for my Japanese teacher to acknowledge me, and when she did I asked if I could use the restroom.  I let my chair scrape across the floor and walked out the door.

I didn't need to use the restroom,  but I couldn't even pretend to pay attention with the throbbing going on in my skull. I walked into the restroom and washed my face before loosening my hair and pulling it into a loose braid resting on my left shoulder. It helped ease the pain a little, but since there wasn't much more I could do I headed out. As soon as I did I saw Samuel and his girlfriend, Mary, or was is Maya? I couldn't remember her name, all I knew was it started with an m, and I wasn't about to make my head hurt more by thinking about it, I had no use for it.

"Hey." He said with a smile causing me to smile as well. The butterflies started is as he got closer to me. His girlfriend kept walking, but not before making a face.

"Hey." I mumbled back.

"You know that's messed up." He said with a bigger smile.

"What is?" I asked worried. Had I said or did something wrong? Should I have acknowleded what's her name?

"You always make me say hi first." He mumbled before letting out a chuckle.

"Not true." I joked back as I looked over at his girlfriend leaning against the door of the vice principal which, lucky me,  was across from the class I was supposed to be in.  She looked me over before making a face of what seemed to be a mix of annoyance, anger, and disgust.

"I don't think she likes me." I said dragging my eyes to his. He looked over at her before looking back at me with his amazing smile.

"I don't care. You shouldn't care either." He said.  I wanted to hear him say he liked me and that would be all that matters, but that was too much wishful thinking.

"I don't,  but you know, I assumed it matter cause she's your girlfriend and if she says you have to stop talking to me you might do it." I said embarrassed.  That shouldn't bother me so much, it should almost have me rejoicing since I could get over him,  but the thought of us not had my stomach in knots.

"I wouldn't stop talking to you cause she wanted me to." He stated confidently.  I was about to respond when an administrator approached us.

"Where are we supposed to be?" She asked.

"Japanese class." I mumbled feeling my cheeks heat up from being caught, not that I was in trouble....yet.

"I'm gonna go talk to Mr. Vince." I could feel his eyes on me as he spoke, but I couldn't bring myself to look up.

"Well let's get where we're going thank you." She said squeezing between us and continuing her walk down the hall. It was only then I noticed how close together we got. I laughed and headed to my class. As soon as my hand was on the door handle I turned to look at him.

"I'll see you later." He said with a wide smile. He's girlfriend sneered at that comment before knocking (kinda roughly might I add) on the vice principal's door.

"Okay." I said smiling letting the knob turn before slipping into my class.

So yeah, liking him was never really in my plans, but me getting over him and soon wasn't in there either.

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A/N: sorry this chapter is so short,  I wanted to have it done as soon as possible,  and I didn't realize how short it was till I was done writing it.

-Jovy♡