"Ughh," I groaned, leaning back in my chair and bending my neck backwards to look at the sky beyond the windows. "I've been here for ageessss now Matt, can we go yet?"
I brought my head back up to look to my left, Matt intensely concentrating on his laptop screen. "Mattttt," I drawled, poking him with the pen in my hand. "I've been studying in the library for over," I peeked at the bottom right of his screen, "two hours now and I've completed all my math homework and english homework and two subject notes. Can we go back to the dorms yet? Pleassseeee?"

"Work for another 10 minutes and then we can head back." I groaned again but obeyed, pulling out my math homework again to mark. It's been a week since my apology to the others, and since then things have been improving. With Matt here, i've been at the library after school almost everyday for at least two hours, finishing notes and homework. Matt's been staying in the boy's room since i've been recovering, since he's been the only one I'm truely comfortable with. Things with Nate are good, but they're not as close as they used to be. I guess you could only blame everything that's happened. But it will mend, I think. We just need to keep to ourselves for a little bit.

Things with Melanie and Anabelle are alright too, but it's strange because Melanie is always with Nate. And I feel so guilty around Anabelle because of this whole thing between Cameron and I. And then when it comes to Jace and Cameron, well there are plenty of problems that I'm trying to avoid for the time being, at least till I have enough guts to face them. So that leaves me with just Matt really, because even though I'm comfortable with Lance, he's recently found himself a boyfriend so usually he's out and doing things I don't want to know about.

"Okay, wanna head out now?" Matt asked, closing his laptop and tucking it under his arm.
"Finally!" I beamed, hurridly shoving my loose pages into their correct folders and putting them all into my bag. "Let's go!" I almost dragged him out of the hellish room, eager to breathe the fresh air. I even exaggerated it.

I sucked in a deep breath, blowing it out loudly and relieving a sigh of relief. "Thank god! I thought we were going to die in there." I commented, grinning. "Arn't you glad I saved you?"
His response was to roll his eyes and mutter a 'come on'.

Of course, things with my parents and what not were still bothering me, but with Matt trying to keep me positive, they weren't as bad as they used to be. Like he said, one small step at a time, and I was getting there after a week. As we walked side by side, I glanced at him from the corners of my eyes. His hair took a slightly different style today, probably because he was a little lazy to style it. It had a little bit of a messy thing going on, but it still looked as hot as usual, and his brown eyes were still the warm brown like I remembered. What I found odd was that, even though he was so attractive and nice and kind and everything as he was, I never found myself attracted to him. Sure he was a great guy, but maybe something a little more brotherly, seeing as he's always looking after me.

He noticed me glancing at him and raised an eyebrow. "Checking out my hotness?"
"Psshh," I rolled my eyes, hoping a blush didn't form. "You wish. I was actually just thinking how brotherly you are. More than Nate right now too."
"Seriously?" He asked, stunned. "God I got worried a little bit this week, because you've been so much closer I was wondering if I was by any chance going to get dragged into your little love problems. So glad it's not that way." He mimed swiping sweat off his forehead.
I laughed at him. "Definitely glad about that."

It was silent while we continued our walk, only to be broken when we made it at the door and Matt stopped me. "Hey,"
"Yeah?"
I looked in the direction he pointed to see Cameron under a tree, smiling and waving over to me.
"Shit." I mumbled, walking over to him while Matt chuckled and left.

"Hey Cameron." I waved back, putting on what I hoped to be a genuine smile.
"Hey," His sexy voice spoke back, catching me off guard just a little. Yes, I still liked him, but I don't know if I should act on that.

"Listen, let's go on a date? I talked to Jace before and we figured we're going to play this fairly. I'm taking you out on a date first, and then he will, and then you can choose." He rushed, a faint blush appearing on his cheeks.
"I'm not trying to rush you or anything, but we figured you already had a week, and we were both getting a little jittery, an-"