The Library of Romance

Chapter 18: A week of ignorance

Mateo's POV:

I messed up.

I seriously messed up big time.

"Your effort wont mater anyway.."

"As if a piece of paper will affect your future.."

Those words just came out of my mouth.

I instantly regretted saying those to her... What the heck was I thinking?! Those words hurt her and where did those words come from?

Me.

The look of pain on her face is a sight that I surely wouldnt wanna see. I wanna make sure to make her happy, but what did I do? The opposite.

I feel like such an idiot right now, and its a good thing that I do feel like one right now because..

I.

Hurt.

Snowflake.

And my intention in the first place was to tell her that im worried that she might stress out because of the project. Well all things went south. Snowflake seemed embaressed and she quickly grabbed her bag as I saw Brody coming his way here.

I better explain things to Brody.

"Kuya! T-tara uwi na tayo!" Snowflake said in a different language that I dont understand. Its probably filipino since she and Brody are half filipino.

(Translation: "Brody! L-lets go home!")

Brody looked at snowflake and then at me and he seemed to realized something's up.

Dang does he seriously have brother instinct powers or what?- I dont even seem to have that myself...

Brody went to me and he look on his face just says "explain."

"Long story short, we fought then I accidentally something really bad to Bella, I didnt mean it, I promise." I said and Brody looked at me, seeing if I really do regret whatever just happened. After looking at me, he just sighed in relief. "I'll call you later ok? We'll talk things out." He said and I nod my head, snowflake went to Brody and gave him his bag.

They both went home and I just stood there a little longer. What should I do?!

Okay, compose yourself.. maybe I should go talk to the librarian since.. she seemed kinda upset of me these past few days.. I drank water then grabbed my things and head to the library. When I went in the library there was still 2 or 3 more students inside and I see Mrs. Grace on the desk doing nothing.

Perfect.

I placed my things on the cubby hole and went to the librian's desk.

"Oh good afternoon Mateo, what brings you here today?" Mrs. Grace greeted me with a warm smile.

Hm, I guess snowflake has been talking about me to Mrs. Grace. That thought alone makes my heart happy but I need to focus on the problem at hand.

"Good afternoon too, Mrs. Grace... um if its okay to ask but.. was snowflake upset about my behavior these past few days?.." I asked, scratching the back of my neck. "Oh well she actually talked about it a while ago.  May I ask why you were acting to her like that? She was worried about you.." Mrs. Grace asked.

Dang, snowflake was worried?.. I really need to fix this.

"Well the reason was because.. I was worried about her and she might overwork herself by doing the project. I was getting a bit upset because I thought she did overwork herself.." I said. "Awww you two were worried for each other~ anyways, I told Bella to talk to you and im assuming that it didnt end well?" Mrs. Grace said as if it was the most predictable thing in the world.