Chapter 3: Secrets Revealed

I take it back when I said that no one knew my secret. One of my good friends, Derek, knew. He only figured it out after he snooped in my room! I made him swear not to tell a soul. Who knew that one of my friends was gonna blab my secret?

It all started on the first day of junior year. I was in my usual shorts and tank top with my skateboard in tow. I had my new schedule scoping out for Damon. We always compare schedules on the first day. I find my locker with Derek leaning on it.

"Get out of the way asshole," I tell him with my signature smirk.

"Jesus Gabs! Watch your tongue," Derek tells me with sarcasm dripping from his voice.

"Oh shut up! Have you seen Damon?" I ask him.

"Why? So you can kiss him?" Derek has a smug smirk on his face.

"No! And keep your voice down idiot! He doesn't know and never will. Now have you seen him?" Now I'm just getting impatient.

"Yeah. He's in the library. You outta tell him Gabby. He's your best friend." And there is the sweet Derek.

"Thanks! And I'll think about it." And with that I'm rolling down the hallway on my skateboard.

Now that I'm in the library, I look through the rows of books looking for that familiar dark brown hair. I find him in the comic book section, no surprise there.

"Damon! Hey, where's your schedule?" I try to act normal but my voice has a hint of girlyness in it.

"Oh hey Gabs! I bet ya we have the same classes again. Why look?" He's got that beautiful smile I love so much.

"Cause dimwit! We might now this year. Now let me see it." And now I'm back to normal.

"Uh Gabs, why do you have your skateboard? Isn't it supposed to be in your LOCKER?" And there is Damon's "I'm in control so don't lie to me" attitude.

"I rode it down the hallway. And this is not gonna fit in my locker." I put on my innocent face.

"Gabby? Seriously? Are you trying to get banned from prom already?" Why did he have to bring up prom? It's just another way to remind me that I am not with Damon, even though I really want to be.

"Just let me see the schedule. Now look, we have the same classes!" I pull his arm and rush to homeroom before the bell rings.

We make it in time. All of our teachers go through the usual first day of school stuff. As I'm walking to lunch, I notice a lot of people looking at me weird. Being friends with a bunch of guys, I'm used to weird looks. These looks were stranger. Derek might know what's going on.

"Hey Derek! What's going on?" I had no clue what was about to happen.

"Gabby! I'm so sorry!" His face looks sorry.

"What did you do? Wait. No! You didn't!" I couldn't believe my friend betrayed me.

"I'm so sorry! It slipped. And now everyone knows. I never meant for this to happen." Now I know why I got the weird looks in the hallway.

"Where's Damon? I have to talk to him." Oh I hope he didn't hear about it!

"Right behind you." That smooth silky voice could only belong to one person. Damon.

"Hey Damon. So uh, how much did you hear from everyone?" Maybe he doesn't know.

"Enough to know that you like me." He's got that smirk of his. This isn't good.

"Haha. About that… Yeah I do like you. But let's not let it affect our friendship." Please don't shut me out.

"Of course Gabs. But I bet you are a little curious about my feelings, right?" Is this a trap?

"Yes." All I can do is nod. I never expected what happened next.

"Then I guess you'll have to wait." He had that smirk again and winked at me. Oh, this can't be good!