I Need U 💎

Chapter 11

Corbyn's P.o.V

"Corbs, over here", Ashley waved me over as I entered the cafeteria.
I sat down at the table with her and her friends and started eating my lunch. They were gossiping over something so I didn't listen to their conversation in the first place.

Girls and their 'tea' was something I have never understood. Why can't they just live their lives and let others live theirs as well? What's the need of talking about other people? Girls need to mind their own damn business sometimes. I get that for some reason it's in their nature to notice and talk but it gets out of hand sometimes.

"He must be new. I've never seen him before", Tate's voice pulled me out of my thoughts.

"Who are you talking about?", I asked, suddenly curious.

"That guy over there", Christina responded, pointing towards someone.

I looked over to see Daniel, standing in line to get lunch. "Oh, that's Daniel. Miss Jackson actually told me to show him around. Poor guy probably doesn't even know how bad our cafeteria's food tastes."

"Oh em gee! He can be your new bestie," Ashley squealed, her eyes twinkling with excitement.

"No, I barely know him. I've just met him today and we've only exchanged a few words. You know I can't talk to people I don't know well enough", I argued.

She's crazy. Jonah can't be replaced. It's just not possible.

"Why don't you tell him to come sit with us?", Gabbie proposed.

"No!", I shook my head.

"God, you're such a baby", Ashley rolled her eyes at me.

I wanted to say something. That I'm not a baby. But next thing I knew, she was shouting Daniel's name and waving him over like the crazy person she was.

At first he looked confused but then he smiled once he noticed me, sitting at the same table as the weird blonde girl he's never seen before.

He walked over with his tray and sat down next to me.

"Hiii, I'm Ashley. Corbyn's sister", Ash greeted him with a bright smile.

He smiled back at her.
"Daniel", he introduced himself, "nice to meet you."

The other girls told him their names as well and included him in their conversation, asking him questions about himself. They got along pretty well but I couldn't focus on a single word they were saying.

I felt someone's gaze on me and turned my head to see who it was.
Jonah.
He was staring at me.

I counted the seconds our eyes stayed on each others.
One...
Two...
Three...
Four...
Jonah's expression softened.
Five...
Six.
His eyes widened and he suddenly looked away.
Weird.

Not thinking too much about it I started eating my food which I had brought with me from home. Every now and then, Ashley would glance at me and shoot me a worried look. She probably saw the whole 'JonahStaringAtMe-Incident' and thought I would be sad about it, which I wasn't.

For some odd reason I didn't care. I always cared too much about everything and everyone so it was weird for me to be indifferent about something, let alone if it had something to do with Jonah.

What is wrong with me? Am I about to die? Is that the reason why it doesn't matter to me?
Bullshit.
I'm way too young to die. I haven't even had a boyfriend yet... But if I'm not about to die then why do I not care?

'Of course you care, dumbass! You're trying to convince yourself that you don't give a fuck when in reality you give way too many fucks!!', a voice inside of my head yelled back at me.
Huh, that actually makes sense. Great, so I'm not about to die yet...

"Corbyn, would you stop day-dreaming for one second?!", Ash whisper-yelled at me, "Jonah is approaching our table!", she then added.

What? Jonah? What does he want?

After Ashley's words had left her mouth our table instantly went silent.

You're probably wondering what I was doing in that moment. If I mentally prepared myself for a possible conversation with my ex-bestfriend? The answer to that question is 'no'. I didn't. I was shocked and scared and nervous all at the same time.

"Hey, Corbyn... can I... talk to you real quick?", I heard Jonah's voice from behind me.

I turned around to see him already watching me. He looked genuine... and tired. There was something else visible in his eyes but I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Was he... nervous? I had never seen him nervous before. He was usually the confident one of us.

His eyes shifted to the floor. "Nevermind. This was a bad idea", he mumbled before turning to walk away.

'Say something, you jerk', the voice inside of my head yelled at me. That's all the voice ever does. Yell at me.

"Jonah, wait", I called out, "of course we can talk."

His eyes met mine and it looked like they were sparkling... with joy?

"Meet me outside. The usual spot", he told me before leaving the cafeteria.

What the hell. His mood changes quicker than the one of a pregnant woman's.

In the back of the gym's locker room we once found a door behind a big locker we always thought was the coaches. When we asked him about it he said it used to be two lockers who were merged together because someone needed more space. It hadn't been used in years. Obviously, we wanted to change that so we asked the principal to give us the code to open it. He only agreed because he's Jonah's uncle but you don't know that from me. Funny thing is, the 'big locker' was never a BIG locker. It was a secret door, leading to a room with tables, chairs, a sofa and a broken TV. Nobody knew about it except for Jonah and I.

I put in the code and opened the lockers doors to get in. Jonah was already sitting on a table, his phone in his hands.

"Soo... What did you want to talk about?", I asked, sitting down on the table across from him.

"How are you?", he asked.

The fuck.

"Are you serious right now?"

He didn't answer. He just looked at me.

"No, Jonah. I'm not! You wanna know why? Because of YOU! You don't get to act all concerned when you were the one who abandoned ME."

"I'm sorry", he whispered with a painful look in his eyes.

"We were best friends... I just want to know what changed."

"I changed. So much that we can't be friends anymore."

A/N: Back with another chapter :)) and there's more to come so stay tuned
(|||❛︵❛) ⬅️ me rn because I have to start going to school on Monday after 6 weeks of homeschooling (at least I get to see my crush again tho)