Chapter 25:

Bank's POV:

Weeks went by that turned into months and I gradually began to move past the whole Lily thing. It helped that she was in another country so I didn't have to see her hanging out with other guys or just being around. It was almost summer break and that was something to look forward to. I had been mainly hanging out with the Ducks and I began to spend some alone time with Julie. It was stupid things like just sitting around in the library together talking; I wasn't ready to date anyone yet and I think she finally understood that. Also I was not sure about how I felt about her, she was a good friend I didn't know if it would progress to anything more.

In physics class it had become somewhat awkward, with Lily's absence I had been partnered with Katie—Lily's best friend—and Julie had been assigned to work with two other students. Katie hardly ever talked to me besides the average science stuff.

"Hey" I said one day trying to talk to her. "Can I ask you a question?" I asked

"I guess" she said taking her eyes off her paper to look at me.

"So how is Lily?" I curiously asked. It had been a question I had wanted to ask her since Lily disappeared.

"You know I was waiting for you to ask me that? It took you a really long time." She said laughing.

"Well some people say I am shy so maybe that had something to do with my delay" I shrugged.

"Oh you shouldn't be. I thought you were afraid of me or something, after everything." She reasoned.

"Maybe a little bit of that too." I agreed.

"That's okay, I was mad at you too after all. Any way I guess I should answer your question since that is what you wanted from me." She answered thankfully dropping the previous subject.

"She is good; she is actually coming back in a few weeks for the summer. I forget the date though maybe it is sooner or later, I will probably talk to her later anyway." She answered.

"Oh" I said surprised.

"You didn't think she was gone forever or something did you?" Katie laughed.

"No of course not" I replied, and she kept laughing.

"Yeah you did. I can tell by your face. "I have a question for you" she continued.

"Okay so ask me the question." I stated as I wrote down data.

"Do you still like her?" she said. I could feel my face turning red at the question.

"What do you mean?" I said staling seeing that the class was almost over. She obviously understood what I was trying to do because she rolled her eyes at me.

"I am not going to tell everyone I am not even going to tell Lily. I just want to know, because you know I like you, you're a nice guy. I think your perfect with Lily you like compliment each other well or whatever. So I just want to know do you still like her." She explained.

"I don't know anymore. It's been too long." I responded not really knowing how to explain what I meant any better.

"Okay I guess that's good than, because she has a boyfriend." She stated.

"Why are you telling me this?" I asked stunned at her statement after her previous statements. I didn't really know her and she had never seemed like the nicest girl so I didn't know if she was teasing me, just being mean or she had some other motives.

"I just wanted to let you know. Well I thought you should know" she shrugged.

"Thanks I guess" I replied.

"Were done right?" she said mentioning the lab as the bell rung signally the end of the school day.

"Yeah" I responded closing my notebook.

"Great. See you Adam" she said grabbing her bag and hurrying out of the classroom.

I grabbed my stuff and started to leave the classroom. Katie was somewhat right, for some reason I had not thought that I would see Lily again even though I knew she would eventually be back. It would defiantly be interesting to see her again.

"Hey, Banksie." I heard Julie saying from behind me.

"Oh hey Jules" I replied.

"You know I have been calling you all the way down the hall and you just ignored me" She said.

"Sorry I didn't hear you" I said.

"I could tell. What's up with you? You are very distracted, and are kind of out of it." She explained.

"Yeah I was just thinking about some stuff" I stated quietly.

"Anything good?" she asked.

"No nothing really, it's not really important anyway. It's just stuff from the past." I told her.

"Do you want to talk about it? I mean I have nothing to do right now." She offered.

"Not really." I said, "But we could hang out and talk about something else or watch a movie or something" I added.

"Okay, sounds like a plan." She said.

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