Besotted

CHAPTER TWO

(Dela's outfit for school ^ which will always be up there from now on!)

"So he just sat in silence- the whole way home?" Lila asked.

"Pretty much," Dela said, swivelling around on her desk chair to face her friend. "Weird right?"

Lila was lying on her bed, starfish style, her black hair splayed out across the duvet. "Weird doesn't begin to cover that. And you don't know him?"

"Well, I know him" Dela conceded, "I know his friend at least. But we aren't close. We don't talk at all, and he's just- I don't know, popular. It was weird."

"Maybe he likes you," Lila said, propping herself up on her elbows.

Dela thought about it for a second, before laughing at herself. "No, he doesn't like me. I think he likes annoying me though."

"But you live like a good half an hour away from Prattymore and he didn't bring his car, which means that when he left you at the stop he must have had to get a bus all the way back. That's like an hour and a half of the day wasted." She looked at Dela's face and quickly amended, "not that hanging out with you is a waste of time, Del."

Dela scrunched up her working out paper into a ball and threw it at her friend, who started to juggle it and kick it up with her feet. "Stop calling it Prattymore or I'll accidentally say that to Nina or Mags."

"They seem like the people who would think that's funny," Lila said, before kicking the paper ball into Dela's wastepaper basket.

"So," Dela said, quickly switching the topic, "how's the Annapolis soccer team doing?"

Lila sighed, and slumped back down on the bed. "Beyond terribly. We get beaten by the girls soccer team from Baltimore year after year, and this year our last good striker moved to a private club team."

Dela frowned, "I'm sorry."

Lila smiled, never sad for long. "It's fine, maybe I can find a rich daddy to pay for me to go to Prattymore like you, and we can be like the Parent Trap kids."

Dela shoved her friend ruefully. "One, that was a summer camp the Parent Trap kids went to, Perrymore is more like a constant episode of Gossip Girl than anything. And you know it would make a 1000% more bearable if you were there with me. Mags and Nina would love you too!"

Lila laughed, and the girls chatted about a couple more things before she gave Dela a hug and left. As she watched her best friend kiss her mom on the cheek and run out of their art studio/ apartment, Dela remembered that this is why she really loved Lila. Because she had worked out within five seconds that Dela did not want to talk about Jeremy, and hadn't brought it up. 

Dela's mom on the other hand would totally want to talk about the break-up, and the first day of school. She grimaced, and headed into the kitchen like she was heading for war.

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Alex wasn't on the bus in the morning and she had begun to happily convince herself that the whole creepy stalker following home from school thing was over. He just wanted to keep annoying her after the debate, and the debate was finished and Dela Stone would successfully go back to being invisible. 

She walked into English and took her usual place next to Nick, who unsurprisingly was not yet there. Nick liked to breeze in about 10 minutes late so that all the girls would look up and admire him come in, which was gross- but effective. She watched him with a smile as he did it, and stuck her tongue out when he sat down.

"You're such a show off," she whispered and he chuckled.

"Don't pretend you don't love it." He whispered back, taking out his copy of Romeo and Juliet.