It had been days since I had no news from Jason. No text messages, or a funny meme he would have sent me if he had found one. He didn't even come by my house on Saturday to go ride our bikes up the hill or downtown to the game center. I guess the "almost kiss", the big joke, had revealed too much of me, and Jason saw it all and didn't want it. So maybe, just maybe, almost sure, this is how it was going to be from now on, and it hurt, and it made me angry, but most of all, it made me feel lonely and sad. I needed to talk to him. I needed him not to hate me.
This year Jason and I were in the same class again. These days we had said our hellos with a hand shake and that was about it. I sat in the back of the classroom near the window and he sat in front, near the door. It was so weird seeing him so far away from me that my other friends also noticed and started to ask if we had fought during summer vacation, and I bet they were asking him the same thing to compare stories. Somehow a strange rumor was created. It was said that I had a girlfriend, an older woman, and that Jason snatched her away from me. People's imagination go wild when they don't know about something. Some boys even came to me wanting to see that woman's picture and I showed them Dragon Ball's Bulma picture that I had saved in my cell phone. I got some laughs, slaps on the head and some "oh, man! Selfish prick" told to me.
At the end of classes, I went directly to Jason who was talking with a girl from another class called Meg. Meg is one of the nicest and prettiest girl in our school and for some reason she would hang out with Jason and me sometimes, and only sometimes because popular girls are always busy shining. She once was a cheerleader, but while cheering for our male basketball team she realized that she actually wanted to play, and now she is one of the aces of the female team. Jason and I would always go to her games to cheer for her, and after, we celebrated. She once mentioned she felt very comfortable with Jason and me, that other boys only thought about having sex with her, whom she liked depending on who it was (and giggled while telling this) but she also liked not feeling that tension and just hang out. But I have to confess I had a little platonic crush on her.
"Hey, Jason, are you going home? Let's go together." I said, trying to act natural but my heart was pounding and wondering if he was going to look at me weirdly, but he didn't. "Oh, sorry, Jack. Today I made plans with Meg" he answered, and Meg said "HI, Jack!" with a smile. "Okay. Have fun then, bye" I said while walking out of the classroom, pushing through the others who were blocking the way. I didn't want him to see my face; I didn't want it to reveal my feelings anymore.
Later that day I received a message from Jason that said: "Hey, Jack! Sorry for being out of touch lately (Meg got mad at me for that). Things at home have been a little crazy, I have to tell you about it later... So, the new Avengers movie is out, want to go watch it tomorrow?"
"Sure! I was waiting for that movie!"
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