The Quarterback & Me [BXB]

Chapter 7 - The Unexpected

Bethany's P.O.V

It was a normal day, well at least I thought it would be. I never dreamed that my dreams would become shattered into a million pieces by one simple question, a question that was asked to the wrong person and a question that should have been asked to me.

Callum. He was the one guy I had been obsessing over since freshmen year, and my goals had been set from the very beginning in order to try and win his attention, I thought that being a cheerleader, and the head of the team, would finally get him to notice me after all, he had dated many girls but not me. His question made me ask the question, it slipping out my mouth before I could stop it when I saw him the next day in the corridor.

"So you're gay," I ask, a snide tone in my voice, hoping he can catch onto my resentment. 

"Bisexual actually." He says, smiling, clearly trying to be friendly but I just scoff and roll my eyes.

"And you like my brother?" My voice comes out jealous, but he doesn't seem to catch on, his smile just widening at the mention of my brother.

"Yeah, I do." His sigh shows me he is in a state of love, a state I had been dreaming he would be in with me for all these years to then only find out he didn't want me at all, but the one person that he did want was my brother. I wouldn't care as much if it was my best friend, but my sibling is a different story because if I see them together it will just make me sick with jealousy, knowing that their relationship is going to be a constant interference and a certain closure on any chance that me and Callum had to be in a relationship together.

"Well, I hope you'll be happy together." I plaster on one of the fakest smiles, my words being poisonous on my lips, full of lies that he doesn't seem to be able to see through. "I hope my brother dies in a ditch" I, however, mutter under my breath, thankful that Callum doesn't seem to hear it in his dream-like state. Disgusting.

I slip away from Callum, thankful that he doesn't seem to notice my disappearance, but also a tiny bit hurt that he also doesn't notice my disappearance. 

"Bethany!" A voice shouts in the distance, I shift my body around, my mood instantly fading as I see who it is. Mandy. She got my hopes up, driving me on with the possibility that Callum had come to ask me out, but really he had come to ask my brother out.

"Mandy," I reply, my tone flat, but her smile doesn't seem to fade but is instead replaced with a sympathetic smile. "I'm so sorry hun, I knew how much you liked Callum." She says, throwing her arms around me into a hug. I just freeze up, standing still even though her arms are wrapped around me. 

She seems to get the memo, that I am clearly not in the mood for a hug, and releases her grip from around me, her eyes flashing with a sense of disappointment that I didn't return her hug. A tug of guilt pulls at my heart, but I push it away. I don't care at this point, I already feel like my heart was shattered into a million pieces by Callum's earlier actions.

"I'll leave you alone, but I hope you feel better." All I can do is throw a week smile in her direction, my gaze following her as she sulkily walks down the corridor, my mood dampening even more. My body seems to have a mind of its own, turning away from Mandy and walking to the girl's bathroom, as a chocked sob seems to make its way up my throat, and escape from my lips.

The tears seem to trail down my cheek, my body pushing myself into the stall so that my tears can finally be released with nobody else to hear me because thankfully the other stalls seem to be empty. Fitting really, that a time like this I'm all alone. That seems to be the way that I am destined to be at the moment, alone.

"Bethany." Trisha's voice echoes through the bathroom, her sweet voice full of concern that makes me want to instantly run into her arms, but I fight my interest and try to hold my sobs in.

"Bethany, I know you're in here." Another sob escapes my lips, knowing it is no use in hiding from her. She pushes the door open, which I mistakenly had left unlocked, her hazel eyes raking over me with sympathy. She doesn't say anything but just wraps me in her arms.

I breathe in her scent, it instantly relaxing me, as my sobs just become weaker, her strokes on my back providing me with a sense of comfort but also leaving a strange tingling sensation on my back.

"He's not worth your tears Bethany, you are a beautiful, smart girl that could have anyone she wants and has pretty much everyone wrapped around their fingers." She puts her finger under my chin, lifting my head up to face her, her warm hand wiping away my tears. I gaze into her eyes, once again taking in her beauty, mistakenly hearing the words 'Including me' as she mutters to the floor.

"You could have anybody you want, don't waste your feelings on somebody who doesn't want you." Her reassuring words send my heart a flutter, and I don't know whether or not it is the swarm of emotions that seems to be fluttering through my brain, or the spark that she seems to ignite in me with her kind words, but I do something that I could have never predicted myself to do.

I kiss her.

Her lips feel warms against my own, her body freezing against my lips and I pull back realising what I've done, instantly jerking myself up off the toilet seat and rushing out the doors, my mind fussed and unable to sort through the collection of emotions that is raking through my head, but she didn't kiss me back and for some reason I felt disappointed, her 'wait', as I rushed out of the doors, landing on deaf ears as I run away and push myself to not look back, but I remain hopeful that my stupid actions haven't possibly recked my friendship with Trisha.