Overlooked Love

Chapter 39: Misunderstood

To make up for skipping yesterday, I did a longer chapter!! Enjoy!

Chemistry and the rest of Sophie's morning classes had passed by in a blur. She couldn't focus because all she thought about was Nick and what she would tell her friends about him later. At lunch, Nick surprisingly came over to sit at Sophie's lunch table. Several girls had glared at Sophie as if it was her fault that Nick came to sit with her.

Nick had talked to Sophie the whole time and cracked many jokes, which made Keefe a bit irritated since he was the one who was usually the jokester. Biana and Marella tried to flirt with Nick, but he didn't really pay them much attention. Sophie wondered why. Sophie also felt a bit bad for not paying as much attention to her friends, but she couldn't help it when Nick was so fun to talk to.

When there was about twenty minutes of lunch left, Keefe, who was sitting right next to her, whispered in her ear, "hey um, can we talk later? Like when we gets to Fitz's house?"

Sophie was curious as what he had to talk to her about as she nodded. Keefe was always there for her, so she needed to be there for him when he needed it, even though she had no clue as to what he needed to talk to her about.

Sophie suddenly noticed that Stina was not sitting with them even though Nick was here. Sophie looked around the lunchroom and couldn't spot Stina anywhere. Sophie wondered where she could be. Not that Sophie really cared...

"Hey Nick," Sophie started.

"Yeah?" Nick said as he flicked some fallen hairs.

So cute!

"Um, where is Stina? Wasn't she with you all day?" Sophie asked.

"Oh, yeah she was, but when we were walking in the halls during one of the passing periods, there were a lot of people around me and once they left, I couldn't find Stina. The bell was about to ring, so I decided to just get to class without her," Nick explained.

"And you haven't seen her since?" Sophie asked.

"No..." Nick then furrowed his eyebrows as if in thought.

It looked so cute when he did that!

Omg Sophie, stop saying that everything he does is cute!

Sophie suddenly had to use the bathroom, so she excused herself as she left to find a bathroom.

Sophie wandered in the halls to find the nearest bathroom, thinking about the other times she had been alone in these halls.

Once she found one, she went inside and was about to go into a stall when she heard a sniffle.

Sophie bent down a little to see feet inside a stall. "Um hello?" Sophie called.

"Go away," Stina's voice mumbled, cracking.

Was Stina crying? But...Stina isn't the type to cry. She's the one that makes people cry...

"Um, it is a public bathroom and I need to use it," Sophie said. There was silence and out of nowhere Sophie blurted, "why are you crying?"

"Oh, why are you so surprised? Or is it some known fact that the mean girl is never supposed to cry?" Stina grumbled from in the stall.

"Well, hate to break it to you, but that's the impression you make," Sophie defended, crossing her arms.

Sophie heard some shuffling and then Stina got out of the stall and walked towards the sinks with her arms crossed. Her eyes were red and puffy and her hair was a mess. She sniffled again.

"What impression do I make now?" Stina asked.

The question surprised Sophie. "I don't know, I never expected you to ever cry. I never knew anything could even make you cry," Sophie admitted.