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Chapter Nine: Jealous
Toby's POV
I can't think of anything besides Spencer's smile that day. I mean, what the hell does it mean? Is she…. like you know, crazy? I'm her mortal enemy; I just threw her some slushy last week, for Pete's sake! I want to ask her though but I'm afraid I made myself a fool. I just…. CAN'T! It'll be awkward. I'll be doomed for life.
The cheap Motorola phone vibrated inside my pocket. I get it and see that I received an anonymous text from god-knows-who. I opened it and read the message.
Thanks for doing what you did. I really appreciate it.
- Emily F. x
I can't believe my eyes! Did Emily Fields just texted me? The F4 member Emily Fields?
I immediately saved her number and think of a nice message to reply.
Unfortunately though, I don't know what to say. Or the better to put it is that I don't know what kinds of words are right to say.
Should I go with 'its fine. You don't have to say thanks'? Nah, that would be too formal.
DELETE! DELETE! DELETE!
Why can't I say anything? It's just a text.
On my way to English class, I accidentally bumped into someone. Because you know…I'm still trying to compose a message for Emily.
"Toby!" chimed in the voice I could be mistaken of.
I looked up from my phone and looked at whose talking. Positive! It is non-other than Spencer Hastings. "Hi Spencer." I pause, trying to think of what kind of words to say to her. Then it hits me, I'm actually having a conversation with my enemy. "Glad to see that you're okay." I smiled a little, I don't really know how to act around her.
To my surprise, she smiled widely "I wasn't able to say thank you for what you did… But here I am so, thank you."
I don't know what she is talking about. Still I said, "Your welcome." Whatever. I went back on composing a message for Emily, while entering the classroom. I can see that… well, she wasn't here at moment. It's just me, Spencer and some student body around so I went asking, "Where is your posse?" I turned towards Spencer who is walking not a little behind me.
"You mean the F4?"
I narrowed my eyes on her, was the two different? "Yeah."
"They all went to the pool. Em's practicing for the week's meet." Wait? Emily swims? "Who were you texting?" she snatched the phone from my hand before I even got a chance to answer. Her face fell a little when her eyes landed on the screen. She's quick to posture herself, thinking I didn't saw it. "You're texting Emily?"
I don't know how to answer that so I just nod.
She just give my phone back and proceed on walking to her seat.
What is her damn problem?
One minute she is talking to me, and then she just ignores me like I wasn't even there.
No One's POV
It was about ten minutes before the bell when the girls walked in.
The girls went and say hi to Spencer before talking their usual seats, besides Emily for that matter, she took the seat beside Toby.
"I never got a reply." She talked to Toby silently, wishing that Mr. Fitz wouldn't come sooner than the bell. "I'm starting to get the idea that maybe Han got the wrong number from Caleb's phone."
Toby smiles before he answers, "I got your text. I just don't know what to reply." By the last sentence, Toby's voice got a little gentler. "Anyways, what is Hanna doing with Caleb's phone?"
Emily flushed. "I don't know."
The two giggled, loud enough for Spencer to hear that'd made her head turned to their direction to see what was actually happening.
A slight fanged of jealousy shot through her system.
Jealous? She thought.
You can't be jealous with your best friend over a boy. Especially if the boy was named Toby, the lousy new boy who is fearless and defies the F4, Toby. She practically screamed to herself (in her head).
She turned her focus on the blackboard in front of her thinking that Mr. Fitz will be here sooner rather than later.
Toby's POV
English with Mr. Fitz became my favorite class.
Well, there's a three reason to give:
1) Emily's sitting beside me.
2) Emily is talking to me.
3) Emily….. Just Emily.
I can't brush the smile off my face, so when I walked in to the class, my eyes totally went wide when I see who is sitting in my chair.
"Oh Toby, you're already here!" Spencer say it with too much enthusiasm, my heart goes AWE.
"You're sitting in my chair." I said as I walked towards them.
"I have known that." She says.
Emily who is talking to her before I even got there, smile and break in to our heat conversation. "Don't worry Toby, she's sitting beside you." she gesture her hand on the left side, trying to explain. "It'll be like: Me on the right side, You in the middle and Spencer in the left side, isn't that wonderful?"
"Oh, it is fantastic! Right Toby?" Spencer smiles widely.
"Yeah." I know what's she's doing. "Can I now take my seat?"
Spencer stands up and gesture to the chair, "It's all yours."
No One's POV
It was in the middle of the class when Spencer got a real chance to stare at Toby.
Not the stare-to-death that Spencer give to everyone. No, she is actually examining the features of this Toby guy that Emily was so thrilled about.
She remembered the other day:
"Have any of you happened to see Toby's eyes. They were like, ocean blue." They were in the cafeteria, eating when Emily brought out the subject.
"Like my eyes?" Hanna asked while eating her yogurt.
"No. Yours were like blue gray. As I told you before, Toby's were ocean blue. Like really deep ocean blue."
"You're exaggerating!" Spencer interjected. "It was like so normal to me."
"So now you finally admit that you were also looking at Toby." Aria teased, it was this kind of conversation that they teased her with any guy that falls out with her mouth.
"No you idiot. I was just stating the fact. Beside I can see that our little Em here is having a little crush on a certain 'deep ocean blue eyes'." Spencer mimicked Emily's voice that just makes her blushed a little more. The others didn't seem to notice it though, hail to her tan color.
"What about Chace?" Hanna asked, not so thrilled about the fact that her cousin was being forgotten.
Chace and Emily were in Mutual Understanding stage of relationship. The one in which they both knew that they were in love with each but doesn't make it official to everyone. Unfortunately, Chace needs to leave for college. He is now in France studying Architecture. He promise though, that he will visit every year, every time he got a lousy schedule, so he can still be in Emily's life and….well in the F4's life. He's like the Big Brother to the girls that Hanna sometimes forgot that he is her cousin.
"I still love Chace." Emily stated just a little lower than her usual tone of voice.
Emily wasn't really fond of telling the girls about her relationships, especially not with Chace. She thinks it'll be awkward knowing that they all used to treat him like a Big Brother. Well maybe not her, but you get the point. She also doesn't talk about him in the group, ever since his departure in the airport in which they saw her cry. It was one of those rear moments that they saw her cry. They have only saw her cry twice; the departure of Chace and the other is when her sister die. She was like the sweetest girl in the group and the tough one actually, you wouldn't imagine seeing her in those rear moments.
Spencer's train of thoughts was cut by the bell.
"Spence, you're coming right?" Hanna asked from her behind. She looked at her.
"Yeah..." She stops for a moment. "Yours were Blue Gray."
"What?" Hanna asked, puzzled.
"Nothing." She stands up, and gathers her things.
They walked in the hallways toward the gym, linked in each other's arms, but Spencer couldn't shake the deep ocean blue eyes from her mind.
