“So you said yes to the date?” Kelly says asks staring at me. “You’re going on a date with Oliver.” She states smiling a little.
I still find it weird that she just showed up at my house unannounced. Kelly is not that type of a person. She always says when she wants to meet up. But today is very different, her energy is different too. She’s very open to talking about my relationship drama. A week ago she want having it, she wasn’t interested at all.
I should ask her why she had a change of heart but I need this talk. I need to talk to someone about all this. I need another opinion. I appreciate that she just showed up.
“I might have said yes, I don’t know.” I say and she raises her brows at me. “He said he wants one date with me and if I give it to him he’ll stop asking me out.” I say and she nods like she understands.
“So you don’t want to go out w
“Welcome.” I say to Ryo when I open the backdoor at my job. I smile and she just looks at me sideways. I’ve come t expect that look from her. She went from trusting me to being suspicious of everything I do and say. I know I brought this on myself and I have to live with it. “You look beautiful.” I say and she frowns.I know I have tonight to change her mind about me. I have to show her that she should be with me. I want her to be my girlfriend and the only way to do that is to show her who I am. I have more to me than what she knows.She knows me as this inconsistent, unemotional, unromantic and inconsiderate boy. Tonight I’m going to shock the hell out of her. I want her to think about tonight for the rest of her life. I’m going to use this date to fight for my right to be with her.I won half the battle by having her in front of me. I know it took a lot for her to show up here. I know she had to do a lot of self convi
Two days before Ryo and Oliver’s roof top date.Kelly walks out of Ryo’s house feeling lower than low the conversation they just had is going to change everything and she knows it.“I’m shitty for doing this to her.” I say to the emptiness when I walk down Ryo’s driveway. I feel like I’m betraying her trust. I want to tell her Jameson’s plan so bad. She deserves to know what’s going on. She deserves to know that she’s being played. I know this is for her but I think she should know that things are going on behind her back.I came so close to telling her the truth. I was all over the place with that conversation. I bet she’s wrecking her brain trying to figure out what I was saying to her. I tried to tell her the truth by not really telling her the actual truth. I tried to be cryptic and truthful and I don’t know if she heard me.I wasn’t saying a lot but s
“What are you thinking right now?” Oliver asks looking at me. I sigh and he smiles. He doesn’t want to know what I’m thinking right now. I don’t want to know what I’m thinking and I’m the one having the thoughts.We’re finally done eating and sitting a little too comfortably on the mattress. He’s sitting so close to me his feet are touching mine. I can feel every inch of his skin on my thigh and let me just say that I am not having pure thoughts. The air up here has gotten a little colder but I feel hotter than I have ever been. My whole body is heating up.I keep trying to move away from him but he keeps coming closer. If I move another inch I’ll end up on the concrete. I guess he wants to be near me, I don’t mind having him this close but I’m afraid of what might just happen if he gets even closer.Kelly’s words rush into my head at that thought. I need to maintain the di
“I don’t know Kelly, we had an amazing time. I can’t believe how much fun we had.” I say and Kelly smiles looking at me. We have a free period and we decided to spend the next hour in the school garden. I feel like sitting in the cool breeze and smelling the roses. The garden is like my place of Zen now, I come here a lot.“Did you really? I know you were nervous about the date.” She says looking at me as we walk into the garden. I smile at how serene it is here. It’s silent and comfortable; I always find it odd that no one comes here to chill. This place is amazing there should be more students lazing around here.But it’s empty most of the time, you might find the odd person here or there but today is one of those days no one came to enjoy it’s beauty.“I was nervous, I thought we would fight and have a terrible time.” I say frowning. “But he was just so calm, present and fun. I don&
Text conversation between Ryo and Oliver Come outside for a minute Patient O I look at my phone screen and smile. I get out of bed so fast my brain shakes in my brain. “Whoa!” I say stopping in my tracks. My heart is beating over time and I have to brace on my bed to stop from falling. I need to slow down. I can’t let this boy drive me crazy like this. I saw his text and didn’t even think twice. Here he is making me act like some love sick puppy. I want to take things slow with him but he has so much pull over me I can’t help it. “What’s wrong?” My mother asks from the hallway. I didn’t think she would hear me. “Nothing.” I say standing up right. She pokes her head through the door with a look of concern on her face. “That didn’t sound like nothing.” She says and she raises her brows at me in question. “It’s nothing big I just got up too
“There he is.” My brother Felix exclaims excitedly as I walk through the kitchen backdoor. “I haven’t seen you in a minute. It’s weird because we live in the same house.” He adds opening his arms wide, asking for a hug. I look at him sideways because that’s very weird of him to want to hug me. I can’t remember the last time he and I embraced like that.He’s standing at the stove looking at me like he doesn’t recognize me. It hasn’t really been that long has it? I close the door and walk to the stove. I’m sure I have a stunned look on my face too. I don’t know how to take this behavior. I would ask but I don’t want to make it even more awkward than it already is.“I know you’re barely home these days.” I say going in for a hug. We embrace each other awkwardly. But neither of us pulls away, I don’t know what this is but I’ll go with it.“It
It’s been 24 hours since Oliver showed up at my house and I’m still thinking about him. I saw him at school today but I stayed far away from him. We were doing that awkward thing where we don’t know what to say to each other.I know I should be in the moment, pay attention to Trevor who is sitting in front of me smiling happily. He surprised me with an after school coffee date, I appreciate him being spontaneous and all but Oliver is running circles in my brain. I can’t stop thinking about what he said.I can’t believe he’s jealous of me and Trevor. I never thought him capable of jealousy. I thought his heart was made of steal and black coal. I didn’t imagine he had normal, human emotions. Okay I’m being dramatic but you know what I mean. I didn’t think he thought of me that way.His reaction to me dating other people makes me curious, I wonder if Trevor feels the same way. I want to ask him but I don&r
“You never told me how the dinner with mom went.” I say turning onto my back so I can get more comfortable. I look up at my ceiling listen to Oliver breathing slowly on the other end of the receiver. We’ve been on the phone for the last half an hour. It seems we can talk to each other better when we’re not face to face.“It went alright. They want to meet you.” He says and I choke on my spit and start coughing. Who says something so serious so casually? Meeting someone’s parents is a big deal, he knows how I feel about this.“Are you okay?” I hear him say after a series of agonizing coughs. A lot of spit went down the wrong pipe. I wipe tears from my face and sit up. This boy is trying to be the end of me.“No I’m not okay. How can you say something like that without warning?” I say when my throat finally clears up. I almost died from my own saliva.&ldq