it started with a dare (COMPLETED)

25) josh newmann

Zoe's POV:

"No fucking way"

"Hell yes!" 

"Damn, Miller" 

Those were the reactions of Ethan, Ember, & Addalyn when I told them that Luca kissed me in the rain and that I kissed him back.

"Bitch, finally," Ethan says. "About time," Ember says before disappearing somewhere. 

She probably went to make out with some guy. 

"She's been disappearing a bit too much lately," Ethan murmurs. "I know, right?" I wondered. "Let's follow her after school or something," Addy chimes in. "Sure," I shrug and we head to class before the final bell rings. 

Ethan starts passing notes to Addalyn to describe the kiss because she said she saw it. I roll my eyes when Ethan starts passing notes to me because I told them I didn't know how to describe it. I mean it was just a kiss. 

Just a kiss people! 

Bye, Ethan. 

I scribble on the note and make sure it finds its way to him. 

***

"Now can you tell us?" Ethan begged. "Us? Speak for yourself," Ember rolled her eyes and went back to texting on her phone. "Reminds me, where have you been this whole month? You're always sneaking off and going places," Ethan changes the subject, unknowingly and I breathe a sigh of relief. 

I was sure some people who ran the school's gossip account for Instagram overheard Ethan talking about the kiss and I might be the talk of the school. Something I don't need. 

"Nowhere," Ember says quickly. "I don't believe you but ok," Ethan gives Ember a suspicious look and walks off to his next class. 

"Yeah, whatever to you too," Ember rolls her eyes and walks off. 

***

"Hey," I find myself talking to Luca for no reason. "Hey," he replies back not as cheery as I expected. He slams his locker shut and walks away. "Don't you ignore me," I go after him and he makes no effort to slow down. I have to speed walk to catch up to him. 

"What do you want" he sighs and looks down at me. "I- you- Luca- ok fine. You know what? Fuck you, Luca Martinez. You will never change," I glare at him and walk off. 

***

"Luca didn't even try to explain himself. It's like he was expecting it." I finish telling Addalyn what happened between me & Luca. "Boys," she mutters and doesn't even give me one of her sympathetic looks. "Screw him then. Ignore him. He clearly did not want to explain himself. He was probably high as shit or something," she tells me, coldly. 

Oh no. 

She was starting to remember her past. 4 years ago- 8th grade- enter Josh Newmann. He got Addalyn to fall in love with him after one fucking kiss. Crazy huh? Anyways, he left her for another girl and boy, was it a hard time for Addy. She had trust issues after that for a while and a few months she finally forgot about that dick. 

"Addy, he's nothing like Josh," I say, surprised I'm defending Luca. "I know," she sniffed and went back to doing her math homework. 

I figured not to say anything else and continued trying to do my math homework. 

Keyword: trying.