Do You Believe Me Now?

By angellwings


Do you remember,
The day I turned to you and said I didn't like the way he was looking at you?
How he made you laugh?
You just couldn't get what I was saying.
It was my imagination.
So do you believe me now?
I guess I really wasn't that crazy,
and I knew what I was talking about.

-"Do You Believe Me Now?" by Jimmy Wayne


Jason glanced over at Ryan and Kelsi as they danced, and couldn't stop the bitter grin that formed on his face.

He'd seen it long before Kelsi. Long before they'd broken up. He'd really started to see it last summer at Lava Springs. The way Ryan looked at Kelsi when she wasn't looking, and then when they had begun working on "Everyday" together Jason noticed those looks multiply and intensify. He'd known then that Ryan had feelings for Kelsi. Everyone else had whispered about him and Gabriella, but Jason knew better. He'd voiced this fear to Kelsi toward the end of the summer. She'd laughed it off and told him he was simply being jealous. Yes, he had been jealous, but he'd had a genuine reason to be. He knew Kelsi and Ryan had more in common than himself and Kelsi. He saw that too. They'd broken up not too long into fall semester. Kelsi had been frustrated with his constant worries about the male Evans twin. She'd said she thought they would be better off as friends.

Now as he sat at prom and watched her laugh and spin into Ryan he wondered…

Did she believe him now?