Chapter 28

The next day at school Lizzie was still trying her best to figure out what her next move would be considering the whole operation „Get Miranda her Mister Right" and it proved to be more difficult than she had expected it to be at the beginning. She reached her locker to get her books for the first period of the day and of course one thing was clear to her: No matter how important this thing was, she definitely wouldn't let it distract her from lessons at school and the matter with Ryan and Miranda would have to wait until school was finished. Meanwhile Ryan was determined to ignore Miranda for today, of course this was nothing that he liked to do but right now he didn't know how to act around her.

On one side he still couldn't help but think that she looked kind of cute, but this kind of thing had already happened to him with his ex-girlfriend who had broken his heart in the end and right now he wasn't so sure if he wanted history to repeat itself. I wish I could think that I am wrong this time around, but I've never have been a big risk taker and it doesn't look like that's going to change anytime soon. He thought as he made his way to the classroom, where his first lesson of the day would take place and also just hoped that he would be able to forget Miranda really soon. Or should I still consider to tell someone about the whole thing? He wasn't really sure if he could talk with Lizzie about this, because even if she seemed nice considering the first impression he got from her but he couldn't ignore the negative thing when it came to that option: They barely knew each other. Of course he also didn't want to hurt Miranda's feelings, as she also seemed to be a nice girl and that made it even more difficult to pull through this till the end.

His thoughts were interrupted as he heard an all too familiar voice behind him: „Hey Ryan is everything alright?" Miranda asked him with, after she had seen that thoughtful look on his face and hoped that he wouldn't mind this little private question, even if they barely knew each other. As Ryan didn't want to give her any reason for concern, he tried to fake his best smile and replied:

„Everything is fine, i was just thinking about the homework from Mister Sanders gave us in the Biology Class, as I was little worried if I had done it correctly."

She smiled back at him in return, knowing very well how much she had struggled with doing the Biology Homework at the beginning as the text of the excercises hadn't always been that easy to understand. Miranda kind of hoped that she would be able to spent some more time with Ryan in the future, because she wanted to make that bad first impression forgotten, as she had embarrased herself pretty much as they met for the first time.

„I struggled with the excercises a lot too and I'm not sure if I've done it all correctly." As the bell for first period of the day rang, the two went inside the classroom together with their classmates and Ryan was thankful for the distraction from his current „problem". Meanwhile Lizzie and Gordo sat in seperate classrooms for their first periods of today, of course they always missed each other very much during that time.

Later that day Ryan, Miranda, Lizzie and Gordo sat together at lunch time, as Ryan had decided to at least try and be friends with Miranda for now because he definitely didn't have the guts to just completely ignore her from now on. Just thinking about doing that was a stupid idea, if i'm being honest to myself and just because I got my feelings hurt by some other girl a long time ago, I shouldn't do the same to a nice girl like her. Maybe it's time that I look at that part of my past a little bit closer with some help from another person.

Of course it still kind of was easier said than done, as he still didn't really know who he should choose to speak about his problems with love. He had a couple of people that he considered good friends and maybe making a pros and cons list for them would make this decision a little bit easier in the end.

He didn't realize that he had been spacing out for a couple of minutes before Lizzie waved a hand in front of his face and said with a little smirk on her face: „Hey, earth to Ryan are you still in there?" In response Ryan's face started to get a little bit red like a tomato for a few seconds before he replied with a little embarrased laugh: „Yes of course, what was your question again?"

„Me, Miranda and Gordo are going to the mall this afternoon and I wanted to ask if you would like to tag along?" Ryan had to think about that question for a few minutes, hoping that his hesitation wouldn't be cause of any concern but he wasn't so sure if he maybe would want some space between him and Miranda after the school day.

„Sounds good to me, so yes I would to tag along with you three this afternoon." Miranda couldn't help but smile, forgetting the fact for now that he had hesitated for a couple of minutes because it mattered more to her now that they could spent some more time with each other after school. As he concentrated back on his lunch, Ryan made a mental note to himself: I should call Pete about this when I get home, maybe he can help me solving this mess.

Pete had been Ryan's best friend since pre-school and they had helped each other out a lot over the past years. Of course Pete had been one of the first people to dig him out of his emotional hole, which he had fallen into when he did have his heart broken: It's safe to say that he will be happy to hear that I'm ready to move on with my life.

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