Lento

Chapter 15.

"Okay...."

"Y/n?"

"First off, i wanna say sorry for avoiding you for so long. I just needed a little time to gather my thoughts up."

"It's okay."

"It's not. I've literally spent like a month avoiding you. Just so i could gather up some thoughts that were already there?"

"What do you mean?"

"I mean that i like you back. Which sounds weird now that i think of it. Purely because i hid from you for like a month because you like me. In all honesty, you have as much freedom to ignore me. If that's what you need to do. I honestly wouldn't blame you."

"I'm not gunna ignore you Y/n."

"I would. I would ignore me."

"You know why i wont ignore you?"

"Why?"

"Cos I'm not mad at you. If anything, i understand."

"Why aren't you mad at me? It doesn't make sense."

"It would be pointless to be mad at you. It wouldn't last long." Lauren admits.

You smile a tiny bit.

"So now what do we do?" You ask.

"There's two options."

"Two?"

Lauren nods.

"Option 1, we ignore this and pretend we never had this conversation." Lauren says.

"And option number 2?"

Lauren shakes her head.

"You thinking exactly what I'm thinking?"

"Depending on what you're thinking." Lauren says.

You walk up to her and stop just in front of her. You can sense by her breathing she knows exactly what you're thinking.

"Can i?"

She nods. You kiss her. Since you're smaller, you have to stand on your tip toes. She does kiss back. After the initial shock. You both stand there and kiss for about 10 minutes.

She's the first to pull out. You both stand, a tiny but shocked, for a good few minutes.

"Did we just?"

"Yeah. I think we did." You say.

Lauren smiles a little causing you to smile.

"We just kissed." You say, smiling a little.

"That's one sentence i had never imagined coming from you aimed at us two." Lauren says.

"Honestly, same." You say.

Your phone buzzes. You pull it from your pocket and see Dinah's number.

"Finah Dinah." You say, answering the call.

"Lauren with you?"

"Uh yeah. Why?"

"Cos she's been out a lot longer then she said."

"She's okay so dont worry."

"Good. See ya."

The call ends.

"Finah Dinah worrying about me?"

"Yep."

Your phone rings. Again.

"Popular much?"

It's Callie.

"Hi."

"You needa go to school tomorrow."

"Why?"

"Cos you do."

"Fine."

You end the call.

"Well, back to school for me." You say.

"That doesn't make sense cos you got a music thing going on."

"Well, it's what mom wants and i gotta respect that."

"Yeah." Lauren says.

The next morning, when you get to school, people instantly crowd around you.

"Woah woah. I need space to breath. Just a little space at least." You say.

They clear a path and follow you while you're walking. When you lose them, you bump into someone. The girl who used to bully you.