I made Roland.

I DID IT! He's like totally a guy I'd date. Nate, too, but he's a bit uptight for me.

Anyways, enjoy!

Gwen POV

I walked quickly, trying to avoid Nate at all costs. i was wearing Iris's clothes, so I was less noticable. I was walking down the corridor, thinking on how I could take a shortcut to Science when I bumped into somebody.

"Argh, sorry." I looked up at the face that I bumped into. The first thing I noticed were his cool eyes.

'It's okay, I'm Roland." He holds out his hand and I shake it.

"Cool eyes, dude." Was the first thing that came out of my mouth. How many times can I be a stupid creeper in one day? I'm not sure. He looks taken aback. He puts his hands under my chin and lifts my face up.

"That's the first thing you noticed about me?"

"Stop putting your hands on my face, you creep!" I grab his hand and pull it off my face. Suddenly, he starts laughing. Like, really hard. "Is there something wrong with you...?" I put my face near his belly-clutching form.

"No, you just remind me of someone. It's not important though." Roland backs up a bit. "Let's start over, okay? Hi, I'm Roland." He holds out his hand again. I shake it again.

"Hi, my name's Gwen."

"Okay, Gwen, what is your next class?"

"Science in Room 234." He holds his arm out.

"Walk me there, Gwen?" I happily hook my arm with him.

"Gladly!" We talk the whole way and I find out, he has 2 rats. Batman and Joker. He collects skulls and his favorite color is orange. When we reach the room he unhooks his arm from mine and opens the door.

APRIL
I've been avoiding Nate for a month now. I can't say that I don't miss him, there's an emptiness in my chest that only he could fill. But it's for his own good. Roland and I have become good friends over this past month. But whenever Nate see Roland and I together his lips become a tight frown. Roland and I are supposed to meet after school today for a picnic. I invited Castiel, but he said picnics are for sissies. Roland and Castiel get along fairly well, though. I walk down the hall for the last class of the day. Roland only has Science with me.

"Hey, Gwen!" Nate's voice follows me and I walk a bit faster. Nate's always trying to talk to me and I always have to pretend I don't hear him. I can tell it hurts him, but again, it's for his own good. I keep the objective in my head. Don't get close to anyone.

The last period passes pretty quickly and I find myself waiting outside for Roland.

"Hey, Gwen!" Roland says, waving his arms at me. I wave back at him and smile. Even though he looks really buff, he's really adorable like a little kid. Roland runs up to me.

"So, where's the food?" Roland asks.

"C'mon, follow me!" I point this way and he follows me. We reach Auntie's house and she answers sleepily.

"What? I'm taking a nap." Auntie rubs her eyelids. "Another boy? How many boyfriends do you have?"

My eyes widen, "He isn't my boyfriend. You know Castiel wasn't and there is no way-"

"Haha, I'm just messin' with ya." Auntie holds out her hand. Roland goes to shake it when she puts her hands on his face.

Auntie's face contorts into a look of confusion and then smiles. "Childish, kind to everybody. Not the jealous type. Er... oh got it. Kind of stalkerish."

"Umm." Roland looks confused when Auntie explains it to him. "Oh, cool. Wait...stalkerish?"

"Here's your picnic basket! Bye!" Auntie throws me the basket and closes the door. I shrug and we head out to the park.

When we reach the park, I lay down the blanket and flop down on it. He does the same and says,

"Look it's a turtle riding a bicycle!" I look at the cloud.

"No way. That's a bunny in a hat!"

"Liar, Liar! Pants on fire!" He sticks his tongue out at me. I giggle. Auntie was right, he really was a child.

I sit up and get out the food for the picnic. I stare up at the sky and the emptiness comes back to me again. I shake it off and turn to Roland.

"Hey, Roland?"

"Yeah?"

"Have you ever like somebody, but you know you shouldn't?"

He sighs, "Yes."

The conversation dies off as we eat.

Nathaniel POV

Why will she not talk to me? The question circles around my mind while filling in forms. It's not only that. Roland replaced me so easily. I sighed, beaten by my own friend. I know that if I try harder, I could get through to her. Melody walked in and sat down.

"Isn't he dreamy, Nathaniel?" Melody propped her head up on her elbows. I looked at the lovesick puppy in front of me and scowled.

"Who cares?" I snorted and she looked up at me.

"Looks like you got the case of love grumps."

"What is heck is that?" I asked, still filling out forms.

"Studies show when a person likes someone, and they don't like them back, the person hates anything to do with love."

"That's stupid, Mel."

"Yooou're in deniiiall." Melody sang, her voice cracking.

"Shut up, and get out please." I pointed to the door and Melody walked out. I worked on the forms some more with 'denial' bouncing through my head. Roland walked in and greeted me.

"Hey, Nate." Roland sat down in a chair. I scowled at him, he's the reason I can't talk to Gwen.

"Hello."

"So, Sir-Scowls-A-Lot, what's the deal?" Roland leaned forward.

"It's nothing." I say and turn around.I shuffle through some more papers and pick a file to rummage through.

"Liar."

"Shut up, Roland." Roland puts his palms up and looks hurt.

"Okay, Okay! Anyway I need some advice." I turn to face him.

"What kind of advice...?"

"Well, since you're my best friend," I roll my eyes at Roland's carefree use of the word 'Bestfriend' "I want to ask someone out." My face hardens as I narrow my eyes at him.

"What does it matter? You could get any girl."

"She's-she's different." His eyes darken a bit.

"Who is she?"

"Her name is Gwen, sh-" I stood up. My face twists up in anger a bit, though I try to keep calm.

"Don't." My voice was harsh.

"I want to."

"No." Roland stands up.

"I am going to, so if-"

"I will NOT let her go out with y-you-" My face slumps a bit. What did it matter? She didn't like me and that was that. I wasn't going to deny that I still had feelings for her. But, she seemed happier with Roland. I sat back down in my chair and sulked. I had been pushing her feelings about me away. I was so consumed with mine for her, I didn't even think about hers. I was pushing her harsh rejection away, saying it was all a misunderstanding.

"Um, N-Nate?" Roland looked at me.

"Go out with her." I sighed.

"W-what?"

"Just go." Roland walked out the door.

She rejected me. She didn't love me, and never had. The kiss was just another way to toy with another that she had broke my heart, she moved on. I held back tears. I wouldn't cry over a player. She just wanted to break my heart, didn't she?

I didn't know. But I know I did love Gwen. I wanted to be with her and she didn't want to be with me. The tears I was holding back were breaking the barrier. I sighed.

I let the tears flow.