Anne felt panic rise inside of her, so it was out of pure impulse that she ran out of the schoolhouse after Gilbert. The class looked after her in astonishment.
"What is with those two!" Josie scoffed.
"Oh put a sock in it Josie." Diana said. She had had enough of Josie Pye. Not only was she a Pye (which made her disliked from the start), but she had an obvious and equally pathetic infatuation with Gilbert. (Not to mention a distaste for her bosom friend.)
"Oh but it's not lady like to run out after a boy. No one wants to associate with girls like that. Don't you agree Charlie?" Josie rebuked as she fluttered her eye lashes at Charlie.
"Not really. I actually want to associate with her more than you." He answered honestly.
"Humph." Josie put her nose in the air. "Apparently your all too dim witted to realize I'm right." She said haughtily.
"Josie Pye! I will not tolerate your insults in my classroom. You will stay after school and write me a essay on what it means to be polite." Mrs. Stacey said sternly. With that the class fell silent.
"Gilbert!" Anne said as she ran down the red path towards him. He didn't stop he just kept walking. "Gil, please listen to me." She had stopped a few feet in front of him.
To her surprise he stopped and said "I think you said what you needed to back there. Why add anything else?" His voice cutting with anger, sadness, and dejection.
"Because I didn't mean any of it. Not a word. You know I say thing I don't mean sometimes. I wanted to forget what happened before. Part of that meant trying to make things the way they were before." She tried to explain.
"Forget? Make things the way they were before? Anne, you know that can never happen. Either what happened can change everything for the better or the worse. Take your pick." He said anger tinging his voice.
"I just don't know what to do around you anymore. We could go on with our rivalry, but you don't want that. We could be friends, but we can't do that because you kissed me and I kissed back. We could be like a couple or something, but I'm stubborn and hot tempered. It wouldn't last because of it. We both have our ambitions... What if we got in each others' way? I couldn't bare it if I got in your way." She said sadly.
"Got in my way? Anne! You could never do that. You are the only one I've only ever dreamt of you being with me for so long... As a friend and a beau." He said, his anger melting into understanding. "Really?" Anne said in disbelief. "Really." He said with a smile on his lips. A sigh of relief escaped Anne.
"Why don't we get back to class?" Anne suggested. "Sure. One more thing though..." He leaned forward and kissed her. Little did they know Matthew Cuthbert happened to be on his way to Lawson's Store. "Another secret to take to my grave." Mathew thought. He didn't need to keep it a secret though because thier class was watching from the window...