Michael rolled his eyes as he saw the same group of girls approaching him. He sighed to himself as he got his books out of the locker before closing it himself. Didn’t want a repeat of what happened in the locker room.
“What do you want now?” Three of the girls squinted their eyes at Michael, who didn’t even give them time to say something first.
Olivia looked at how different Andrea looked even when the teenager looked exactly the same.
“Technically nothing. Olivia wants to have a talk with you.”
“Well, I don’t have anything to talk to you about.” Michael spoke as he turned to leave the four girls there but someone went to grab his arm. He felt like he was electrocuted as he took away his arm.
Hannah looked at the girl in front of her with a frown. She had just held her arm.
“Don’t touch me.” Michael didn’t know why he had hissed like that, but he immediately felt guilty as he apologized quickly. “I’m sorry, just don’t touch me.”
Michael knew that Olivia wasn’t such a nice person after what Lisa had told him, so he didn’t expect the girl to address him out of nowhere. “Can we talk, alone?”
Hannah and the other two girls frowned since they had never seen Olivia talk to Andrea directly. It was always through them.
“I don’t know. I’m late for class.” Michael didn’t know how to reject the girl as he looked around the hallway, trying to find an excuse to just leave.
“It’ll only take a minute.” Olivia assured before she began to walk in the specific direction of the football field. Michael was confused as he felt a nudge on his shoulder. “She’s not going to wait for you long. Just go have that talk.” Hannah rolled her eyes when Michael failed to move.
“Do we need to carry you to her now?”
Michael didn’t know what was more annoying, Andrea or these girls. Sure, Andrea had her times but these girls were just getting on his nerves.
Moving on his own, he walked over to the double doors that led to the football field. He still wasn’t sure why Olivia had come to him to talk.
Maybe she wanted something for him – specifically Andrea, but there wasn’t anything Andrea could give to her. She wasn’t even in her own body at the time.
Sighing to himself, Michael got to where Olivia was standing.
Staring at the girl, he found out why his daughter liked her so much. She did have a very serene attractiveness to her. It was calming just looking at the girl somehow.
“What do you want?” Michael asked since he didn’t want to seem like a creep.
Olivia looked up at the sky, ignoring the other girl for a while before she turned towards her with a serious expression. “You’re not Andrea.”
Michael’s eyes widened as he looked at the girl staring at him with serious eyes.
“W—why would you think that?” Olivia shrugged as she walked closer to the other girl. “Because you don’t look at me the same way you did before.”
Michael wanted to laugh but he controlled himself as he shook his head. “Well, people move on.”
Olivia frowned which looked weird as Michael wasn’t used to seeing that girl showing any type of emotion as much as he had seen her around. She always had a straight face with no emotions whatsoever, however, she still managed to look pretty somehow.
“You don’t mean that.” Michael didn’t know why she would think otherwise. It wasn’t like she liked Andrea anyway.
“And what if I do?” Olivia’s frown didn’t leave her face as she looked straight in Andrea’s eyes, scaring Michael due to the intensity.
He had never been so scared by a teenager before.
“Oh look, there’s Andrea!” Michael and Olivia’s attention turned towards the principal and Andrea’s father.
Michael wanted to face-palm himself as he looked at himself walk over to the two.
“Hello, daughter.” Andrea grinned while Michael frowned. “Hey yourself, father.”
“Wow, what’s up with the formalities?” Jessica smiled which grabbed Michael’s attention as he tried to remember where he had seen that smile before. It suddenly clicked as he snapped his fingers.
“You’re Jessica Garfield, right?”
Andrea’s eyes widened as she saw herself talk in such a nonchalant way to the principal. The woman stood a little taken aback as she looked at Andrea before she squinted her eyes.
“That’s Ms. Garfield to you, Ms. Hanning.”
“You were in math class with me back in college.” Andrea slapped her forehead internally as she shook her head at herself. Michael, finally understanding what he had just blurted out widened his eyes in realization.
“I meant, that…you were in dad’s class. Back in college. Yeah.” The principal looked at the teenager with a weird look as she nodded her head. “Yeah, it’s a surprise that you remember that and your dad doesn’t.” Jessica got an apologetic smile from the man as she glanced at him.
“Yeah. Dad told me about it.” Andrea shook her head as she looked at herself. She wanted her father to just stop talking since he wasn’t helping much.
And while this interaction continued on, Olivia watched with confusion as she glanced from Andrea to Mr. Hanning. There was something that she could not understand here. Andrea didn’t just seem like herself to her, and as she looked at Mr. Hanning, she found him resembling her more than Andrea herself.
It was all weird and confusing.
Probably something that would become more confusing as time would go by.
………………………………………….
“Olivia wanted to talk to me today.” Michael spoke up as he bit into his sandwich. Andrea nodded her head unfazed as she looked at herself to explain more.
“Well, I can see why you like her.” It was a rare sight to watch himself blush as Michael laughed. “I… I don’t like her.”
“Oh yeah, and this earth isn’t round.”
“Well, I have read a lot of theories questioning that so it probably isn’t.” Michael rolled his eyes with a smile as he became serious.
“She said that I wasn’t you.” Now this was something that asked for attention as Andrea raised a questioning eyebrow. “And what did you tell her?”
“I said I was the same person. She didn’t believe me though, said that I didn’t look at her the same way I did.” Andrea smiled slightly as she nodded her head, while Michael continued. “I told her that people move on.”
“Yeah, I guess they do.”
Michael sighed as he touched his own shoulder.
“It’s okay, honey.”
Andrea nodded her head before she went to grab the juice box from Michael’s lunch. “Hey, that’s mine!”
Andrea smirked before she stabbed the opening with the straw after unwrapping it from the plastic. “It’s mine now.”
Michael frowned as Andrea smirked. “Well, there’s one good news though.”
“And what’s that?” Michael bit into his sandwich after asking.
“The principal likes you a lot.” It was probably a day for both of them to see themselves blushing since Andrea was seeing herself with blushing cheeks.
“Oh my god, do you like her too?” Michael shushed himself as he looked around the bleachers where the two were before he explained. “Well, I did have a crush on her before I met your mom.”
Andrea smirked. “She remembered that you were in the football team. She even flirted with me. Oh, you should’ve seen the way I could make her blush. It was so cute.”
Michael stared at his daughter with disbelief before he slapped his own arm. “That’s weird. Don’t do anything weird.”
Andrea smirked before shrugging, “I don’t know about that. She seems a little eager to me. You a lucky dawg.”
Michael gave his daughter a glare.
“I’m your father, not a dawg, and don’t try to do anything weird. I don’t want to give her false hope.” Andrea looked at herself with a shake of the head. She really didn’t believe him since she knew he liked her somewhat too.
“That’s debatable.”
Michael glared at himself again before silence fell over them as Michael ate the sandwich in his feminine hands, while Andrea sipped from the juice box.
Unknown to them, Olivia and her friends were staring at them from the cafeteria window with suspicious looks.
“I never knew Andrea was so close to her father.” Olivia just silently listened to her friends talk as she kept staring at the two people in the distance. They sure looked close to her.
“Yeah, and did you see how weird Andrea has been acting lately. She doesn’t even curse anymore, and that’s, like, her signature action or something.” Hannah frowned as she heard Freda talk.
“Well, I heard she aced a math test.” There were gasps all around the table as Olivia even managed to look at her friend with a raised eyebrow.
It wasn’t such a secret about Andrea hating numbers and maths. She would always get average scores on the subject, sometimes even fail in it, but this was surely something no one had expected.
“You’re kidding, right, Kim?” Freda questioned as she looked at Kim with widened eyes. Kim shook her head as she smirked, “Nope, the math teacher, Mr. Henderson, was also surprised. He thought she cheated.”
Hannah frowned as Freda and Kim shared a laugh.
While the two were taking things a little more light-heartedly, Olivia and Hannah were seriously judging the whole situation.
Since those two were closer to Andrea in a way. They knew of her intense dislikes, and of her crude behaviors. They even knew she had bad relations with her father, but this was a major turn of events.
“Do you think this is because of that accident?” Hannah narrowed her eyes at Kim, since she didn’t know what she was talking about. “What accident?”
Olivia glanced from Hannah to Kim, as she listened attentively.
“Oh, you guys didn’t know?” Freda shook her head as Kim frowned. “Wow, practically everyone knows about this. This happened probably a few weeks ago. Andrea’s dad called the assistant principal about how they got into an accident and Andrea was going to take a leave.”
Olivia frowned as Kim continued. “Andrea didn’t come to school for like more than a week.”
“Yeah, we did notice that but I didn’t know it was because of an accident. I thought she just didn’t feel like coming.” Hannah nodded her head, agreeing with Freda, since they all knew how spontaneous Andrea could be.
“Yeah, so maybe that’s why she’s so close to her dad now.”
“I doubt it. They almost seem like each other.” Freda pointed out as she looked out the window again.
It was as if Olivia had somehow understood something as she nodded her head. “I sensed something like that too when I met Mr. Hanning in the morning.”
The three girls turned to look at Olivia with a frown since she rarely talked to them about Andrea. “I mean, the principal was giving Mr. Hanning a tour of the school when Andrea and I were having a talk.”
Hannah nodded her head with a smirk before she turned her attention away from the topic they were discussing. “I have P.E after this.”
Freda and Kim groaned as they nodded their heads. “We have it to.”
Olivia went back to looking out the window as the three girls began to discuss about watching the boys football team practice, and how much they hated P.E. She tried to convince her heart that Andrea was still the same her, the one that Olivia had fallen for, but when she looked at the girl now, there were so many differences.
It was as if she was a whole new person.
And as she worried about the changes, she feared that this whole new person was someone that didn’t feel anything remotely close to what she felt for her before.
This was the second time in her life that she was so scared of something.
And this time her fear didn’t leave so easily.
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