baby - alejandro rosario

chapter 5

I still don't understand why Alejandro went through all that trouble just to get me to go to some party. And Josh, why would he give my address to Alejandro when he KNOWS I don't do parties. I mean look, parties they are not terrible. I just rather not stick around, especially because I do not know when to stop with the alcohol. I wonder who else he invited so I know what kind of crowd I would be dealing with if I did decide to go. This is all too much and all I wanted to do was shower. I shook my head and went into the bathroom and turned on the shower.
I sit down in my bathroom for a second and I just start to zone out more and more because of the situation that just happened. I need to stop overthinking this because it's probably Alejandro trying to be a good friend. What am I thinking? We aren't even friends.
For the next couple of days, school was an absolute drag. It is the same thing over and over again and I just cannot take any more of this stress. First, I have to deal with the amount of homework that my teachers assign which to be completely fair, I am over exaggerating but it is still a good amount. Then, I have to see Kairi and Alejandro's faces all the time and they probably don't have anything against me but oh my god does my mind want me to believe otherwise. I try my best to avoid any form of communication with them because I cannot physically take that STRESS. And my only friend has been off to vacation with his mother and his step father's family.  Life is so good when you are all alone and are left with you and your thoughts. Anyways, Alejandro's party is on Friday night. He still hasn't texted me the details of the party so I don't think he really wanted me to go. Unless he did, or maybe he just forgot to send me it. This is literally a teenage nightmare. I walk out of my physics class and into the hallway. The hallway to this school is pretty narrow. Not much room to walk in, and it doesn't help when you have couples eating each others faces with no disregard for anyone of us. I once saw little freshmen scream in horror at the sight of two seniors getting at it. It was too funny but it was understandable. He probably had NO idea of what "PH" means. I smile at the thought of the kid running away in fear and then I hear someone call my name.
"AIYANA! AIYANA!". I zone out of my thoughts and I turn around and I see Kairi running towards me? Wait, HES NOT STOPPING IN TIME. "KAIRI STOP RUNNING UR GOING TO BUMP-". Then I feel a huge push,  Kairi and I make contact with the grimey school floor.  I open my eyes and I am face to face with him and I push him off. I get up and start to pat of the dirt from my clothes.
"Aiyana, why do you look so annoyed," he says and then laughs.
I stared at him. How does one still be the same amount of stupid as they were in middle school? I rolled my eyes and picked up my backpack from the ground and give Kairi a hand. He didn't take it at first. Instead, he made eye contact with me and his smile disappeared. I furrowed my eyebrows at the confusion and then he grabbed my hand. When our hands touched, I felt this spark in my chest. I quickly helped him back up and immediately retreated my hand back and away from his hold. I start to blush at the thought of what I just felt and I turn my head away and started to walk towards the direction of my last class. He catches up to me and touches my shoulder and I felt that feeling again. I turned around and looked at him.
"Kairi, I'm going to be late to class." I looked at him and told him. His body language changed. He's more nervous and fidgeting with his hands. I tilt my head and continued to look at his hands. He stopped and then put his hands in his pocket.
"Are you going to Alejandro's?" He looks into my eyes and I couldn't speak. I cannot think. What is happening right now? I nod my head and I still cannot seem to make any form of noise to come out of my mouth.
"Why do you want to know?" i look at  kairi staring at his every move. The way he starts to fix his hair as he tries to think about what to say next, the way his eyes kept looking at my lips. I smirk at the idea of Kairi finally giving me some kind of attention. I zone out and immediately start thinking about what I told myself after the middle school situation. I am not going to let myself fall for Kairi Cosentino.
"I don't know, i was just thinking maybe you and i can use it as an opportunity to catch up and become best friends again! Just like we were in middle school and perhaps talk about what happened?" His eyes widen when he was talking about reconciling together and he starts to slightly smile. I can tell he really wants to become friends again. Does he still care about what happened then? I just wouldn't think that he wanted to talk about it after all this time. Should i play it off and make it seem as if i didn't care or don't care now? I don't want him to think that I'm as obsessed with him as I was in middle school. I do miss him though. He was one of my best friends and i don't think it would hurt to just have a good time with an old friend.
I smile, "Sure Kairi! Pick me up?" He smiles from ear to ear and his eyes start to sparkle and his face lighten up with immense joy. I have never seen him react this way.
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For the rest of the day, I had not been able to stop thinking about my interaction with my former best friend. With Joshua not here in person, it makes this ten times more impossible to figure out my own emotions. That boy literally knows me like I'm the back of his own hand. It's after school right now, the bell rang a couple of seconds ago and the wave of students that were first outside of school grounds disappeared into their cars and left. It was just me now sitting down on a concrete bench. I don't normally like to go home right after school. No one is there. My mother works a lot, and she tends to get home much later than I do. Her and Joshua  not being here this weekend simply reminds me of how much I dislike being alone. I pass time on my phone and listen to the music that is blasting through my wired earbuds. I personally love wired earbuds more than the wireless, makes me feel better in some way. I felt a light tap on my right shoulder and I jumped up at the thought of a stranger touching me. I turn around quickly and see that it's simply just Alejandro bothering me again.
I lied. He's not a bother. He's a convenient bother. I like having him mysteriously show up and making my day better. I looked up at him and there he is. Tan, doe eyed, and beautiful dimpled Alejandro. I do not blame Joshua for believing that Ale is cute. He's definitely not ugly. "Hey whats up?" I remove an earbud out of my ear and signal for him to sit right next to me. He walks around and sits next to me and takes my earbud and puts it in his ear. He makes a sour face. I squinted my eyes and look at him as if he was crazy. "Ale buddy, what's your problem?" I snatched the earbud back and paused my music. "Girl, Your taste in music is T E R R I B L E". I roll my eyes and laugh, "I didn't ask you to take the bud, but maybe you're the one with the bad music taste." He whips out his phone and unlocks it. The first thing that pops up is his instagram and my instagram page. I blush at the sight of my page on his phone and thought about him stalking me on his free time. He notices i was looking and turns his phone off and looks at me with panic. "uh.. Aiyana it's not what it looks like i'm not a weirdo I PROMISE". I hysterically laugh and shake my head "Um it looks like you were stalking me." I'm laughing so hard that there's tears in my eyes and he joins me. "Is it bad that I was?" he responds back to my previous remark. I stopped laughing and looked at him with laughing tears streaming down my eyes. "No everyone stalks others on instagram. My question to you is why would you stalk my page out of everyones?"
He then stops laughing also and his face turns serious. "Aiyana. I don't know if you have noticed, but i've had a crush on you for a while now. This isn't how I wanted to tell you." I blankly stared at him. "Why?" I ask. He obviously wasn't expecting this question as it caught him by surprise. He shrugs his shoulders and provides me with the simple answer of "Just found you really interesting."
"You don't even know a thing about me, how would you find me interesting? It doesn't make sense." He starts to smile again and shows off his big deep and very cute dimples and I start to smile. "Baby, do you think that i know? I just got a feeling." my eyes widen when he called me baby. I don't know what that word did to me but it made me feel warm and hot. He puts his hand the side of my face and strokes my cheek with his thumb. "I'll see you at the party, right?" I nodded still breath taken by the recent nickname Ale gave me. He smirks and walks away.
What? Just? Happened?

-authors note: uh idk wtf this chapter was. More juicy shit coming next tho ;). Sorry it took me so god damn long to update. It wasn't even a good update but trust me i won't let y'all down!!!
last updated : oct 28
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