Denial

Chapter 16

Wednesday goes by very fast. It has been a boring day so far, well, school is always boring. I turn in all the work from yesterday, and I’m thankful that my literature teacher still lets me do my oral presentation.  Today seems very normal, but it isn’t. For a strange reason, people are avoiding me today. 

First of all, Niall didn’t eat lunch with me and Naomi as always, instead, he went with his friends. Of course, I don’t mind, because he has other friends and he can hang out with them, even if I don’t like them. The thing is, I can tell something is up. Even Naomi said so. I don’t know what is wrong with him, but he didn’t even say hi to me today, and he hasn’t texted me since Monday. I haven’t talk to him either, and I really want to know what is wrong.

The other person who has been avoiding me is Harry, which is weird, considering we had such a good time yesterday. He has been ignoring my existence the whole day, he doesn’t even turn to look at me. His friends do, sometimes, and they bother me, but every time they’re going to talk to me, he leaves. When I presented in front of the class, he didn’t even look at me, he kept looking at his computer. I don’t know why he is acting this way, I thought things between us were fine, but I guess not. But what was I thinking anyways? It is not like we’re suddenly friends. 

But we did kiss though.

Ugh, forget the kiss! I need to forget the kiss, because it meant nothing. It was just a friendly kiss, or a pity kiss since I was crying and Harry fell bad for me. But that is not the point. The point is, why the hell is he avoiding me? He isn’t even acting like an asshole around me. Is he embarrassed or something? He probably is, there is no other explanation. He is always nice with me when we’re alone, sometimes, but whenever his friends are around, he acts like I don’t exist or he bothers me. 

Why are guys so complicated? And they say we’re complicated, how ironic.

Sighing, I close my locker’s door and I head out of the school’s building. I should send Niall a text, we really need to talk because there is obviously something going on. 

I take out my phone and I unlock it. I search for Niall in my whatsapp recent conversations, and I send him a text:

Hey Niall, wanna meet at the coffee shop? 

Once the text is send, I make my way there. We always meet in this coffee shop just around the corner of the school, with Naomi of course. It has been our place ever since junior high. Sometimes even Liam joins us too. Today Naomi is not coming, so it is probably only going to be me and Niall, if he even shows up.

I enter to the small coffee shop, and I sit on the first empty table I see. I like this place, because it is not very crowded, and there are only a few people from school. I ask for a cappuccino as I wait for Niall, and some doughnuts too.

I start to tap on the table with my hands, impatiently. I hope he comes.

After about 5 minutes go by, and there is still no reply. That is until my phone buzzes, and I notice it is a text from him. 

From Niall:

Ok 

Ok? Just ok? What the hell is wrong with him.