"Ahh! Here come the newlyweds, Raquel and Alan!"
"Shut-up Rex! Were not married we are dating."
Since Rex had heard about Alan and Raquel that is all he could talk about. He felt that it was his doings that made us fall in love.
He thought that because of that one day that he and Stanley had to stay after school was the day we fell in love. Even though that was the day we stopped hating each other that does not mean that we fell in love. It was not until not too long ago did we really start seeing each other in a new light. Even though Rex is being incredibly stupid I guess I do have to give him partial credit. I mean if Rex hadn't asked me to walk to school with them then I would have never gotten to get to know Alan as well. I probably wouldn't have met Jason ever either but that's ok all the pain he put me though was worth it.
When we got to school people were talking about me and Alan. The day sucked but I knew that people were just curious about what happened. All of the girls were asking me what he was really like because Alan was never a very social person. He had always been quiet to girls and not said a whole lot to them. I told them that he was an amazing listener and a great guy. Not all of them believed me but that's ok they asked I answered.
Apparently Alan was getting some crap from the guys. I have always gotten along with boys and a lot of the boys at school I would consider my friends. Even though Alan also had some friends that were guys a lot of them started to resent him because they thought they had a chance with me, even though no one really had a chance but Alan. Sure I went on a few dates but that was nothing. Being a girl you get use to hearing that people say about couples, they say the same thing about everyone, but after talking to Alan I guess that guys aren't use to all of the drama that follows high school relationships.
I met Alan, Rex, and Stanley outside of my car (it was now almost December and it was too cold to walk) and I drove the two boys home. Then me and Alan went over to my house and worked on homework. Even though we had the least amount of homework ever we were taking a very long time to finish it. We were discussing a certain math problem and I could tell something was bothering Alan.
"Alan, what's wrong? Your really tense and it seems like you are angry with me did I do something to make you mad?
"No, I'm sorry I'm not mad it's just do you know what people are saying about us?"
"Yah I know what they say but you can't listen to that. I mean people always surround new couples with drama. Not to mention not everyone is talking about us, probably 75 of the people don't care. It is just the 25 that is talking that makes things suck."
"They said that we had sex and that you were a whore! That didn't happen!"
"Alan, its ok I know it didn't happen and who did you hear that from Mitchell?"
"Yah…how'd you know?"
"First of all Mitchell and I had history remember? And second he is the only one saying that everyone knows that it isn't true. And third Mitchell is now friends with Jason and he is going to say crap about us all the time. That is the reason I dumped him, he was hanging around with Jason and acting like an ass hole."
"Mitchell is hanging out with Jason? Well, that explains it."
"Yah, so trust me don't worry about it. A lot of the guys that were saying things were my guy friends and they tend to want to take care of me. They did this when I went out with Joe too! Alan, you can't take these things seriously people are going to talk, but that doesn't mean you have to listen!"
"Yah I guess your right, it just pisses me off when they call you a whore! You are nothing close to a whore and I don't want people to call you that!"
"Alan, you don't need to get upset if anything I should get upset before you! And I'm not upset its ok trust me things will get better soon. Soon people won't care about us and will be talking about something else."
"You're right. I'm sorry I over reacted."
"It's fine." I pulled him into a big hug and he kissed me, I kissed back soon we were lying on the couch kissing non-stop. (This is how most of our study-sessions would end up.) When we were done I gave him one last peck and we returned to math.
The week went on and as I predicted people had stopped talking about me and Alan and were moving on to other things. (Like Anja the school slut and who she was sleeping with now.) Every night we got together and did homework and studied for exams that were coming up. Even though much of our study sessions were a little more "hands on" then they use to be we still managed to get all of our work done. Alan's cousin's work most of the day so Alan has dinner at my house a lot. Since my mom has to work nights sometimes too we are left home alone to do whatever we want. Even though this would be prime time to do things that parents wouldn't approve of we had just as fun of a time watching movies and playing games and spending time together. (We still did stuff to though.)
Every weekend we would go out. Normally it was the movies, or dinner, or both, but sometimes it was much more fun things like dancing, making forts in our basements and the playing games all day in them, or just going for walks. That was one of the best things we did. We would get all dressed up in warm clothes and go on that walk around the lake where he first asked me out. Talking to him was so much fun. We talked about everything and anything. Every day I saw him I liked him more and every night I told m self I didn't think I could like him anymore than I did today, but the next morning always proved me wrong.
November turned into December and December faded into January which soon melted into February which brought Valentine's Day. It was February 9th and I still didn't have anything for Alan we had been dating almost three months, which isn't too long but I felt that I should get him something special. I asked him what he was no help he said not to get him anything, because getting to spend everyday with me was a present enough. Even though that was sweet I still didn't have anything to get him. I had been saving for a month now to get him something nice but whenever I thought I had found something it never seemed good enough. Then finally I saw it, it was perfect it was a watch I saw him looking at one day when we went shopping. It was right in my price range and it was gorgeous! I was so excited to have finally gotten him something for Valentine's Day!
