Chapter 4: Feeling's Mutual

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Hailey's POV

"What happened to always protecting me, huh?" I asked him, as tears trickle down my cheeks."You promised! This is all your fault! You're the reason why I'm in this mess and you're just going to leave me?"  I yelled.

"It wasn't my fault that he wanted you!" He yelled back.

I wake up from my nightmare and sit up with my arms on my knees and massage my temples with my hands as I trying to calm myself down.

It was just a dream.

A memory.

Pushing away my thought to the back of my mind, I get up and make my way towards the bathroom, and I turn on the hot water and my muscles instantly relax as the hot water comes in contact with my body. I finish showering and put on a pair of black jeans and a grey hoodie. I check myself in the mirror and I french braid my hair and apply lip gloss. I check the time and see that still have an hour to get to school.

I make my way downstairs and start making myself pancakes for breakfast, and after, I take a seat on the couch and start paging through the TV channels while munching on my pancakes.

"You're early today," I turn to see the embodied but familiar voice.

"Yep," I say to my dad. "Didn't have any sleep left."

He nods."I have two tickets for a football game on Friday," he says. "Wanna come?" He asks. My dad and I love football and our favourite team is the White Whales and we never missed any of their games.

"Sorry Dad," I say as I remember that Friday I'm not available.

Great.

"I'll be busy," I finish.

"With friends?" He raises an eyebrow.

"Sure," I lie and my dad gives me a suspicious look clearly seeing that I'm hiding something.

Finishing my breakfast, I say bye to my dad and check that I still have thirty minutes to get school. I take my bag and car keys and go to the garage, and I throw myself on the driver's seat and put the key in the ignition and the car roars to life.

I arrive at school five minutes later and park my car. I make my way towards the building and I meet Peyton as I enter the hallway.

"So, party. This Friday," she squeals. "Can't make it. I'll be busy," I say sincerely.

"With," she raises her eyebrow and crosses her arms.

"Stuff. Look, after I'm done with what I'll be doing, I promise I'll try to make it to the party," I assure her.

"You better," she warns playfully and I laugh.

"Hailey!" I turn to see Chase and Jordan walking in my direction. Peyton gives me a questioning look and I give her a look that says I'll tell her later.

"Hi Chase, Jordan," I greet them. By this time, everyone's eye is turned towards us, looking confused as the one of the two most popular guys come to me.

There goes my goal of being unnoticed.

"You good?" Chase asks.

"Yeah," I answer.

"And who must you be?" Jordan flirtatiously asks Peyton.

"Someone who's definitely not interested in you," Peyton says, causing me and Chase to laugh.

"Ouch, hurt right there," Jordan playfully points to his heart.

"Her name's Peyton and we have to go," I say to Jordan and pull Peyton away from those guys.

"What just happened?" She asks. I explain everything that happened yesterday and she just stares at me with wide eyes.

"You mean you hung out with the three most popular guys in school?"

"Yep, but it's not a big deal," I shrug.

"It is--"

"Nope, it's not," I cut her off.

"Whatever." She mutters.

We reach our lockers and we retrieve our necessary books. We walk to class as we talk about random things and Luke joins us as we walk to Chemistry.

"So ladies, party? Friday?" He winks and puts his arm on Peyton's shoulder and I give her a suspicious look but she doesn't notice.

"Yes," Peyton squeals as we enter the classroom.

We sit at our assigned seats and wait for the teacher to begin with the lesson. Tristan and Jordan are the last people to enter the classroom and they saunter as they go to their seats. Tristan, unfortunately, takes a seat next to me, with Jordan behind him. 

"Okay guys," Mrs Nell begins, "take a good look at the person next to you, because they will be your partner for the rest of the year," she finishes.

Seriously?  Me and Tristan partners?

Me and Tristan are like oil and water, they simply don't mix. I thought this is chemistry, you're supposed to know that oil and water doesn't mix.

"Great," I mutter sarcastically. "Feeling's mutual," Tristan whispers beside me.

This is gonna be a long year.

.........

"Peyton, I'll see you tomorrow, I have to go to the library before heading home," I say to Peyton.

"Okay," she says and walks away as I make my way to the library.

I enter the library and spot Tristan at a desk with a few books out, but he is staring at his phone. With him oblivious to my presence, I walk up to him and look over his shoulder only to find him playing Candy Crush.

"What level are you on?" I ask him so that he can acknowledge my presence.

"173," he replies as him shoves his phone into his pocket and I sit on the table across him.

"Found any books yet?" I ask. Tristan and I have a chemistry project and we decided to meet up in the library to do it.

"Didn't look," he says in an agitated manner.

"Why do look you annoyed?" I ask him.

"'Cause I am in the library," he says as if it's obvious.

"Okay, this is going to take longer than I expected," I mutter.

After two hours of working on our project, we finished. Surprisingly, Tristan did most of the work saying that he wanted to finish quickly.

"I didn't know you were smart," I say as we pack up.

"What makes you think that?" He asks.

"Not anyone can finish a hard project like that in a matter of hours," I state. 

"Well it wasn't hard," he shrugs.

"That's because you're smart," I smirked.

"Don't say that," he says sternly.
I laugh and say, "No need to hide your inner nerd."

He glares at me before saying, "Tell anyone and I'll hurt you," he gets up from his seat and walks away.

Tristan plus nerd is equal to: never thought it's possible.

I get up from my seat and walked in the same direction that Tristan stormed of, and I exit the school. I see only my car and Tristan's in the parking lot and I walk towards my car, but I stop in my tracks as I hear Tristan yell on the phone. He seems angry. He drops the calls and violently gets in his car, slams the door and drives off.

Weird.

I get inside my car and I drive home.
........

"I made the biggest mistake of my life," Peyton groans as she covers her face with one of my pillows, lying on my bed. She came to my house a few minutes ago saying that she needs some advice, but didn't tell me what.

"What happened?" I enquire.

"I kissed Luke," she grunts.

I am taken aback by her words, not that I wasn't expecting it, but because I thought they didn't want to be more than friends.

"What? I thought...you guys..." I stutter.

"Didn't want to be more than friends?" She sits up and crosses her leg. "We've liked each other since we were young, but we didn't want to ruin anything. But today when we were doing our chemistry project, things got heated up and we ended up kissing," she says looking down to the pillow that is seated on her lap.

"Did you finish your project?" I try to enlighten her mood.

"What? That's all you got out of what I just said? That we were working on our project?" She stares at me with wide eyes.

"I'm just kidding," I laugh and she laughs well.

"Do you regret it though?" I ask her.

"Yes...maybe...no," she mumbles. She sighs and gets up from the bed and starts to pace up and down. "I don't regret it. I just don't want to ruin our friendship."

"I understand. But you don't mind dating him do you?" I ask.
"No."

"Then why don't you?"

"It's not simple."

"Then make it simple."

She sighs and sits on the edge of the bed. "How?" She asks.
"Talk to him," I advice her. "You're right, I'll do it. Thanks, I knew you'll make me feel better," she says as she hugs me.

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