"Crazy, bipolar manager man." I mumbled, sitting on the grass in our bigger-than-it-needs-to-be backyard.
Nick sat down next to me and ruffled my hair. "Were you really upset, or was that all just to make Mr.Family Time happy?" I laughed.
"Of course I was angry. School was horrible!" I complained.
"What's so horrible about school?" Nick asked jokingly. I stared at him. What wasn't horrible about school!?
"Well..." I started. I wanted to make this good. I was prepared to do a LOT of truth stretching. Then I realized, I didn't need to. The truth was terrible enough. I continued, "Reporters followed me. Girls bombarded me. I became "best friends" " I did the air quotations, "with a snobby, preppy, word I'm not going to say. I fell head over heels into a huge crush over this guy that the bad word is dating. I had to run in gym. Did you know I can't sing? And my history teacher made me introduce myself. Understand why I was angry now?"
Nick stiffled a laugh.
"It's not funny!" I hit him playfully on the arm. His cheeks were turning red because he was holding his breath, trying not to laugh. I sighed. "Go ahead."
"I'm...not going to laugh...at you." He said, still trying to hold it in. A small laugh escaped but he disguised it as a cough. Then he took a few deep breaths while I just sat, staring at him.
"Are you done?" I asked.
"I think so. Did anything good happen today?" He wondered out loud.
"Well, yes." I admitted, "Do you remember Daniel Jones?"
"Daniel Jones......" He thought for a second," OH! Your little boyfriend!"
I blushed. "He wasn't and isn't my boyfriend."
"But you want him to be." Nick said teasing me.
"No I do NOT. May I continue?"
"Yes, I'm sorry. And what did you mean by 'isn't'? You haven't seen him since third grade."
I was shocked that he remembered. "Yeah, that's what I'm trying to tell you. He actually moved here. And he goes to my school. He came over today, but you guys were too busy to notice."
I noticed that Nick had been smiling until I said my last sentence. "You brought a boy in the house!?"
Thank goodness everyone had gone inside. "Ugh! Nick,you're turning into Dad. Yes, I brought Danny in the house! Do you not feel how cold it is out here? Plus, he's just my friend, and I'm only twelve. What could happen?"
"I don't know." Nick admitted. "And I also don't believe he's JUST your friend. He's....." Nick stopped, noticing that I was glaring at him. "umm...Just friends....got it." He walked inside and I followed.
I sat down on the couch, my head filled with confused thoughts. What had Nick said earlier? "Just friends..." I went through the lyrics to that song in my mind....
"There she goes again the girl I'm in love with, Its cool we're just friends. We walk the halls at school, we know its casual."
So far this was applying to me. I skipped ahead in my mind.
"I don't want to lead you on
No
But the truth is I've grown fond
Yeah" Did Danny feel that way about me? I didn't know and I didn't plan on finding out. If he did, I didn't want to hurt his feelings. Because whether he knew it or not, I liked Jared. Not Danny. And that's just the way things were. I didn't feel that way about Danny. I hoped he felt the same way. We were just friends.
Right?
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MegJonasCullen 3 years ago