The Odd Ever After

Chapter 10: Just like in the movies... maybe...

Everything seemed to be passing in a blur. Once I finished the 3 concert performances for the compition I tried out for, the first month and a half of school was already over. The good part was that I was too strung out with school work, during school practice,  and after school practice that I had no time to worry about Samuel.

But with the good comes the bad, and the downside was that now I had finished any type of practice for the next 2 weeks, I had nothing to keep me distracted from the lack of attention I was getting from the boy who seemed full of attention to give. I just had to remember Ms. Hale's advice when it came to him.

With that thought and a sigh I headed over to my 3rd period. Hopefully Nickol was here today, I've been meaning to talk to her,  but sadly I've been so busy to even sit around and talk without a care.

On the way there me and Samuel bumped into each other, which was no surprise to me since we had done that a lot the past month and a half. The only difference from then and now was I didn't have to run off before he even spoke, and his eyes didn't seem like stone. I could hear his headphones playing loudly, and since he had the cord wrapped behind his neck, the buds dangled on his chest.

Before I could rethink the decision I made, I reached out and grabbed one of the buds putting it in my ear. He watched my every move as I asked the question he always asked me last year.

"Watcha listening to?" I asked as if it wasn't obvious. Some new school rap blasted through the rattling bud, and I quickly pulled it out my ear. He had said the name of who ever it was, but since it  wasn't my genre of music I paid no mind.

"Eh not my cup of tea." I joked as I dropped the headphones back into their resting position. It was then as he was looking down at me that I had noticed how close we actually were in the crowded hallway. He let out a low chuckle and before I could take a step back he did something I never expected.

Slowly his arms wrapped around me pulling me closer to him. My stomach was swarming with butterflies as his scent and warmth invaded my senses, making me feel comforted through my nerves. And as soon as it happened it was over, or at least I thought it was till he wrapped his arm around my shoulder to guide to class. I could feel my stomach doing flips and my heart pounding rapidly as he guided me through the now dispersing crowd with ease.

When we got to my classroom door he smiled down at me again.

"I'll see you later." He said with a big smile. I felt my heart flutter as I walked into the room. Maybe everything was back to normal and we were going to go back to the way it was before. I took my seat with a smile as Nickol came in 2 seconds later. She did a little jog to her seat when she spotted me, her smile a mile wide.

"What was that?" She asked with a laugh.

"I don't even know Nicky, but it was...wow. " I replied saying the first word that came to mind.

"Details now." She said snapping her fingers trying to rush me.

"Well what did you see?" I asked trying to figure out where to start and how much she had seen.

"Oh you know, everything important,  but I still want details." She said with a shrug. So I told her everything from the beginning, and I gave her all the details of what I was thinking, and what I was feeling, and how I couldn't believe it since he was ignoring me. She had a smile till the very end.

"Aww it's just like in the movies. Where the girl has so many feelings and everything's perfect." She said with a dreamy sigh.

"I guess you can say that, but there's only 2 problems,  this isn't the movies,  and not everything is perfect." I mumbled. And it was kinda hard to admit those things, as much as I wished it was true and it was like in the movies where the girl gets the boy and they live happily ever after,  I knew it wasn't like that.

There was something in the pit of my stomach that kept nagging.  It was as if I knew every moment that just happened was too good to be true, and I knew something bad was coming, but I didn't know what it was, or when it was gonna happen. All I knew from gut instinct was I wasn't going to like it, and it was probably going to hurt me more than I could imagine. But I shoved those thoughts away.

All I wanted to think about was Samuel. How he hugged me for the first time, and how I felt, and the fact that everything seemed okay.

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A/N: I know its short, but I felt like updating today. Hopefully ill have the next update up by next week, and I'm going to try and make that one so much better and a little longer than this chapter.

-Jovy♡