I didn't go to school. I didn't think I could face her right then. I'd just realized that I liked my best friend and that was just weird. Wrong, almost. But it didn't really feel so….. wrong.
I lazed around the house the whole day. I tried to do homework and stopped trying after three minutes. Then I tried to read that book I was supposed to do a book report on. But then I felt like there was this incessant buzzing in my head and I couldn't really concentrate. So again, I resorted to sketching her face. Her perfect face.
And then she came bursting through my bedroom door.
'Ian!' she almost screamed. She didn't sound angry. Happy, I think. I looked at her face knowing it would hurt just to look. And it did. Yep she was definitely happy. That's a big difference from the mood she showed me in the cafeteria yesterday.
I quickly flapped shut my sketchbook. Ofcourse I didn't want her to see my drawings of her. That would be very awkward.
'Hello to you too.' I said dryly.
'Okay I'm so sorry about the way I acted yesterday. But how can you not have noticed? Anyway, since we've now established that I like Jared can we move on to what happened today?!' she said in a rush.
Wow, she sounded so happy about something that happened with Jared- king of playerness. I couldn't wait to hear what happened.
I patted the bed to tell her to sit beside me. She practically jumped onto the bed. I really hoped it wasn't one of those things only girls share.
'Jared kissed me!' she squealed.
I didn't reply. I didn't know what to think. I felt almost..Numb. Some small part of my mind decided that it was definitely one of those things only girls should share.
'What?' I managed to say. I didn't hear right, I was sure.
'I said Jared kissed me! Right before algebra class!'
No. No. and then I realized somewhere deep inside my head that Melanie was somehow included in all this.
'Melanie?' I asked weakly.
Her face slowly turned from utter happiness into a horrified expression.
'Ohmygod!' she squealed again. 'I didn't even think about that! She's going to hate me! No, no she'll understand right? I mean I bet he already broke up with her. Because he asked me to go out with him tomorrow.' She went on and on.
'Wanda stop!' I yelled. She flinched. 'Don't you know what kind of a person he is? He doesn't like you! He just wants to add you to his long list of girls he's fooled around with! Stay the hell away from him!' I continued to shout at her.
Her eyes were already brimmed with tears. I instantly felt bad. I reached out towards to her instinctively. She drew back and the tears fell.
'No, Wanda don't cr-'
'Why do you think that?' she screamed at me. ' Why do you always try to talk me out of dating out other guys? Jared's not like that! What's your problem? I think I can decide for myself, who I can date and cant.'
'Wan-' I tried to say but she was already running, sobbing out the door.
