Friends Forever or More? (Wayhaught)

CH 13

POV Nicole

I walk into school the next day with Waverly and I give her a sympathetic look and she looks at me before making her way towards Champ. I really hope she finds a way to tell everyone sooner than later so she can get away from that douchebag.

As I approach my locker, I already see Claudia standing there. She has a big smile on her face as she says, "Hey baby!"

Shit did she just call me baby. I think us kissing in the locker room might have confused her as to what we are.

"Uh, hey Claudia. I actually have been meaning to talk to you." The smile on her face dissipated as I assume, she had an idea of what I was going to say due to my tone.

"Look Claudia, I think we should just be friends. Don't get me wrong, making out with you is incredible, but I don't like you more than a friend and I'm sorry if I lead you on and hurt you in any way."

"Oh, shit I'm sorry I just thought..."

"No, it's ok Claudia, it is my fault too, like I said it probably felt like I was leading you on at times. I really hope we can still stay friends without it being too weird."

"Yeah it might take me a bit to sort this all out in my head, but I do want to be friends. I'm sorry about this whole situation and how I misread it, but I'm glad we can talk about it."

"Thank God. You're like the only close friend I have here other than Waverly and I really didn't want to lose you."

"I feel the same way." Claudia smiles.

I happen to glance over Claudia's shoulder and see Champ alone at his locker. Weird, I wonder where Waverly is.

"Sorry Claudia, but I have to go. I'll talk to you in class today."

Before she can even answer I close my locker and walk over to Champ.

I stand next to his locker until he closes it and notices me starring at him.

"What do you want?"

"I know Champ, I know everything."

"What the fuck are you talking about?"

"I'm talking about how you are blackmailing Waverly into dating you."

His facial expression instantly changes to anger. "You don't know what you're talking about."

"Don't even try to pretend like you don't know, Waverly told me everything."

"That little fucking bitch."

"Don't you dare call her that."

"I'll call her whatever the fuck I want and now that she broke our agreement and told someone I don't need to uphold my end of the agreement."

"Wait, what do you mean?"

"I mean I'm going to tell the whole damn school that she likes girls." He then turns with a smirk on his face and walks away.

Fuck, what did I just do? He's going to out Waverly to the school and if I would've just kept my mouth shut and let Waverly handle it like she wanted too...fuck. Why do I have to let my anger get the best of me? I have to find Waverly and tell her before he gets the chance.

It's now nearing the end of the day and I found out that the annual fall pep rally is being held this afternoon and I still haven't found Waverly. I just hope Champ has miraculously forgotten about our exchange this morning.

We begin filing into the pep rally and I am scanning the crowd frantically looking for Waverly and I spot her on the other side of the gym, but I'm forced to go sit down. I try to get up and walk to her, but a teacher stops me and tells me to go back to my seat.

I sit down and just keep looking over at Waverly hoping she'll make eye contact with me. I see Champ sit next to her and his eyes meet mine, he smiles and winks at me. I don't think I have ever wanted to throw up more than in this moment.