Boy and Girl

A Story by Itz Hayes!

Lauren likes Dean, but Dean hardly notices her, she forces herself to like Matt. She thinks that Matt likes her, but not certain. This story talks about heartbreaks, drugs romance and shii..

PROLOUGE

I stood there at the window looking down at him. He was perfection, nice wavy black hair, his sparkling neon green eyes, perfect set of white teeth and his body... his abs. Oh God! Why wasn’t he mine? I was at the upper building of the school; he was downstairs with his friends playing “their” favourite sport, what else...Football! I sighed. Why didn’t he like me? I mean I might not be one of the hottest girls in school, or prettiest, but I have brains...That should be good enough right?? Nah. My legs were getting a little bit tingly from standing too much looking at him. I decide to take a little walk round the school since its last period and I hate that Ms Lyon and her spitting issues, seriously she needs to go see the doctor, you can be 2 desks away from her but you’ll feel the wetness all over your face like you were directly facing her when she talks to you (hope the principal doesn’t catch me though). Not that I’m a bad student anyways. As I walk through the school halls, I think about that boy, my crush, my dream boy, the one I will always hope he will ask me out one day, but never did. I liked him for a year or so, I confessed my love to him once, but he shrugged it off like it was nothing, I felt heart-broken, no devastated. Infact I didn’t know how I felt. I couldn’t even talk to him face to face anymore and my love for him grew stronger into an obsession. “But he doesn’t like me, why do I still like him?” I thought within me, “Maybe I should like someone else that would definitely get him off my chest”. I proposed to that. I proposed to find someone else and like that person, if not I would get stuck onto the one who broke my heart. Oh mind me for my mistake, I didn’t tell you his name. His name is Dean, ‘Dean McCarthy’.

CHAPTER 1

No one knew my obsession with Dean, they only knew I liked him...except my bestest friend Alicia. She was even tired of hearing me all the time mentioning the name Dean. The worst part of it all is that Dean liked another girl ‘Flora’. I know what you’re thinking, Flora, she must sound like a really pretty, nice shy girl; well she ISN’T, not in any way at all. She is the exact opposite; to top it all the girl hates me for no reason. Why? I don’t know.

Back to me, as I was saying, Dean has to get out of my life away, far from my mind. I just need to get a new crush, sounds weird right? I was so deep in thought I didn’t even know when I tripped and fell. My back hurts a little. Oh man, I forgot I was still in this prison called ‘school’ ugh! I got up, still sitting down and leaned my back on the wall. Rrrrrrinnggg!!! Halleluyah, school was over. I stood up fast before I get trampled on by these monkeys we call students. I seriously hate school. I ran to class not minding the pain at my back, I saw Alicia still packing her books, I signaled her to bring my bag for me. I couldn’t enter because of Ms. Lyon, she’ll ask where I was and start asking all these stupid questions and before you know it detention! If I get that again, my mum will kill me. I already got about three last week. You might be wondering I mentioned earlier I had brains, aren’t people with brains nerdy? ‘Not all of them’ are nerdy, Aren’t you brainy people innocent and holy? ‘Technically I’m different!’

Alicia helped pack my books for me; thank goodness Ms. Lyon was sleeping and ...drooling...ew! Alicia came out “Where have you been? You missed the whole period!” “Well, it’s a long story; I tried to be early but...” I lied “Lemme guess Dean?” she tried to complete my sentence. “Yea...well hand me my bag” We started walking towards the school front door, “ It’s just I need to get my focus away from him and on someone else, I mean you can’t just spend your life focusing on one person, you’ll get bored right? Like you different boys everyday” I turned to look to her, and she was winking at one hot guy. She wasn’t even listening, this girl. I snapped my finger in front of her face. “Hello!! I’m still here” I told her “Oh...Sorry” she whispered, I sighed. We about reaching the door which was closed surprisingly, when a hand from nowhere opened it for us, I looked up to see it was, I’m short kinda, it was our ‘normal’ friend Matt smiling at us. We smiled back “Hey there” he said “Hi” me and Alicia said at the same time, walking out the school building, Matt followed behind and sorta left to meet his friends. I saw Dean at a far corner with a girl, probably flirting, I turned my eyes quickly which was burning with heat, from what I saw. I didn’t want to cry, not in front of everybody.

“Alicia, you can go home without me, I’m making a quick stop at my dad’s office” I lied. “Okay, talk to you on Whatsapp, lates” We hugged each other before she left. I was actually going to take a walk in the park to think about how to get my mind off Dean. Alone, with nobody, I had to be honest with myself.

I set out for the park; it was a bit lonely, very few people. I saw a shop nearby; I walked up to it and bought one iced cherry flavoured drink. I went to a bench near a big tree and sat down. I set my backpack next to me and crossed my legs. The pain at my back had died down. Then someone touched my shoulders, I turned immediately with a little scream escaping my mouth, I saw Matt, relieved, I sighed. “Sorry I scared you, I was walking by when I saw you and was wondering why you were here alone” “Oh nothing, I thought I’ll just have some time to myself, that’s all” I told him. He sat beside me and dropped his bag on the floor and brought out a chicken sandwich and cut it I half and gave me, “Oh no thanks, I don’t feel hungry” “No no take it even if you don’t want to eat it, give it to a dog or something, I can’t just let you stay there like that” I giggled and collected it from him “Thanks” “No problem, uh.. I hope nothing is wrong with you, I just wanted to check if you were okay” Matt said “I’m fine, I’m good” I replied with him bits of my chicken sandwich in my mouth. “Hey Matt how old are you?” I asked trying to start a convo “Why you ask?” he replied me with his mouth full of chicken sandwich. “Don’t talk to me with your mouth full” “Hey, but you asked a question” “Yes, I know but I didn’t say you should answer me with your mouth looking like a sea of green monsters” I replied referring to the lettuce in the sandwich. He chuckled “Sorry sorry but why you asking?” he said calmly “Just trying to start a conversation” “Okay, I’m 16” he said with a smirk on his face” “Hmm okay” Then I noticed he wasn’t looking at me directly like there was something behind me, I turned around and saw a huge tree like 10 yards away from us with its big roots above the surface of the ground. “What?” I asked sipping my iced drink “Betcha 10 dollars you can’t beat me to that tree” “What?!” I shrieked a little causing me to choke on my drink “Oh My God, are you okay?” He asked with a concerned look on his face and one of his hand on my back. After regaining stability “Yea, I’m fine” clearing my throat and sipping some of my drink again “I was just surprised, that you’ll challenge me to such a small race”

“A small race huh?” He asked with an eyebrow raised. I swear to God I would have melted on the spot, that one eyebrow up move is just irrestible on every guy I see do that “Yeah, no big deal, just lemme finish my drink first...do you want some?” stretching the cup towards him, I guess my voice sounded a little shaky but I didn’t mind since Matt didn’t notice “Nope. I’m good. Okay let’s begin” he said after I finished my drink and tossing the cup into the waste bin nearby. “On your marks” I began “Get set” He continued “GO!” We both said at the same time, I ran with all my might because you know Matt’s a dude which gives him a better chance at winning. But in the end, he still won, after I caught my breath, I looked at him sulkily. “Aww little you is upset” He came towards me like he was gonna tickle me in my stomach, so I backed away smiling “Stop it Matt, it’s not funny” I tried as much as possible to look serious, but with the goofy look on his face it wasn’t possible. He didn’t listen but instead came closer and try to tickle me in my belly (sorry I love that word) but everything went wrong and we ended up falling with me on my back and him on top of me. I had my mouth open a little, I hope I don’t have mouth odour, I could see his beautiful eyes, they were ocean blue. So beautiful! He tucked a piece of strand of my hair behind my ear and then pulled him and myself up. “Uhh...Sorry about that” he looked ashamed, I thought he was blushing. “Aw no problem” we then talked as we walked back to the bench we were formerly at. There was an awkward silence for about 10 seconds then he spoke up.

“Okay, I’ve to get going now, see you tomorrow” he hugged me and I felt warm inside. I don’t know why. “Bye” he winked at me. “Bye” I replied and smiled. I watched him leave until he was out of sight, I couldn’t stop smiling. My ten dollars is gone.

Chapter 3

Matt’s POV

‘Creep’

That was the last thing she sent me, I’m guessing she thought I was stalker, because I didn’t ask for her phone number, I asked Alicia, I was too shy to ask her. Not that Lauren, ah...Lauren I love her name, not that she is a mean nasty b***h or anything, every time I’m with her I get nervous and sweaty but all at the same time I’m calm like my whole world is at rest. I hear when you feel that towards somebody, it means you like the person; I’m not so sure cause…..… well I don’t have any reason. Maybe it’s true because I can’t stop thinking about what happened in the park today, especially when we fell and I was on top of her, I would have kissed there and then because she looked so beautiful when I tucked a strand of her hair behind her ear with her big pretty brown eyes looking at me. She must have been surprised because she had her mouth open, which smelled like iced cherry, no baked cherry pie. Weird as it sounds. I drifted off to sleep soon enough thinking about her. I had nothing going on up there, t’was just black wallpaper and I guess with a sprinkle of stars. I have a feeling tomorrow’s gonna be great!

My alarm woke me up at exactly 8:00, I yawned and stretched, everywhere felt so cold, I stood up from my bed and opened the curtains, I saw droplets of water on the window, it must have rained. After doing some exercises I went to the mirror and looked at myself and smiled. “Now I know why girls fall at my feet” I said to myself though I’m not boasting. I went to have a shower and brush my teeth. I came out with a towel tied at my waist, you never know when your family would just come barging into your room (the most annoying thing ever). I went to my closet and brought out a red t-shirt and my grey hoody with my blue jeans and multi-coloured Vans. I quickly locked my door and got dressed. After I was done, I rubbed gel in my hair and combed it. I looked good to admit. I came out of my room and went downstairs and saw my mom starting to make breakfast but immediately told her not to make for me. I didn’t want any. I didn’t see my dad that means he might gone to work, I only see my dad twice a week because he goes very early in the morning, before I wake and comes back late in the night after I might have slept. I kissed my mom on the cheek and bade her bye before leaving. I brought out my BlackBerry and started playing “Turn Up The Music” by Chris Brown with my headphones in my ear, while walking I saw a beautiful brunette walking hurriedly at the other side of the road and her bag swinging left and right but she didn’t mind, then a car came splashing water over her. I stopped for a while and watched when she turned to look at me, it was Lauren!

Lauren’s POV

Trrrring! Trrrring! My alarm woke me up from my beautiful dream. No! He was about to ask me something. “Oh shoot! Why can’t today just be Saturday but noo it just had to be Tuesday” I thought. I jumped outta bed and slammed my alarm clock that was still ringing, it was 8:01, I opened my curtains to let some light in. I headed for the bathroom, only to find it locked; my little sister, Thelma beat me to it. Ugh!

Instead of wasting my time waiting, I went back to my room and went straight to my closet and thought on what to wear. I finally decided; I had a white tank top, purple skinnies and yellow short blazer or jacket, I don’t know the difference. Then I brought out my Louis Vuitton 4 inches high heeled shoe with a single purple stripe over it, “Hmm...I don’t wanna go over the top” I thought, so I returned it back and brought out my low-heeled boots that had yellow stripes on the heel. I looked at my outfit again; I’m so gonna rock it! I went back to the bathroom, my sister had finished, I had only 40 more minutes to get ready for school, so I brushed my teeth and had a quick shower, scratch that I meant quick cold shower and it rained last night (L) Thelma used up all the hot water, how so? By the time I came out I had 30 more minutes, so I got dressed, tied my brown highlighted hair into a bun and had my hair plaited in the front, then applied light makeup; I had little brown powder that I rubbed with my hands so it won’t be much, a little mascara, black eyeliner above my eyelashes and colourless lip-gloss. I went downstairs to have my breakfast; pancakes and watermelon juice. I greeted my parents “Morning dad, morning mom” “Hey Lauren how did you like your shower today” my little sister said laughing as if she was being forced to. I ignored her, sitting down to have my breakfast and ate it up in a matter of seconds. I hurriedly drank my juice, picked up my bag and shouted “BYE” to my family as I walked out the front door. I walked quickly in order not to be late when a car slowed down by my side. I stopped for a second to see who it was because the windows were wound up, without warning the car just sped off splashing water all over me. I was soaking wet, great just

Great! For a moment I thought someone watched across the road as that happened, I turned to see who it was, surprisingly it was Matt, he seemed also surprised that it was me, and ran to where I was. “Oh God, are you okay?” he said with almost a rush as he removed his grey hoody and wrapped around me “Sorry, you have to manage that” “No problem, at least its giving me a little warmth” “C’mon lets go my house to get you dried, it isn’t far it’s just 2 blocks away from here” I didn’t refuse since my house was a bit far from where I was and his house was about 2 blocks away. He put his arm around me as we walked to his house. On the outside I seemed really non chalant about it but on the inside I was smiling like an idiot and doing a crazy dance. “Aren’t we gonna be late for school?” as I looked at my watch, it was 8:53. “So, you gonna go to school looking like this?” he replied. He was right, I looked down at myself, my outfit was ruined, my blazer or jacket whatever had little brown stains on it and my purple skinnies looked like I pee-ed all over it, only my white tank top was safe. I frowned. By the time we reached his house, my jaw went low unconsciously. His house was nothing compared to mine though.

It was a modern house, you know with glass and everything, t’was Huge and looked preetty expensive. “This is your house?” I said without thinking. “Ya umm, I wouldn’t bring you here if it wasn’t my house” I totally felt like an idiot. As we walked through his front door, the smell of lavender just swished past our noses and every single thing looked so…so fragile, even the floor. I was afraid I would scratch it with my boots. “I guess you should walk with your whole feet on the ground or else you’ll fall” he looked at me, I looked at him back, then smiled shaking my head shyly. His parents must have gone to work because everywhere seemed so quiet. Crash! hold that thought for a second.