The Jock, The Nerd and The Geek

25

"Yeah, I— I had a hard time taking it off,"

Alia remembered something else again.

After that day, Alex had returned with her face bruised and raw, like she had scrubbed her face so hard by doing it... Except she was bleeding as well. And of course, there was a hand bruise around her neck.

She coughed, flipping again before taking up the last book, them going through it, laughing and chuckling at certain places before they saw the last one.

Alia hurriedly tried to close it but Alex stopped her, her eyes staring at it.

It was a picture she had taken of Alex when she wasn't aware, actually, after the first day she has managed to convince her to sleep over.

In it, her full fluffy hair was spread all over her face, her body in an awkward angle, in a onesie that Alia made her wear, the female who was kissing her forehead with a loving look in her eyes.

Under it was the word: 'Don't forget it's a video! You forget too much if Alex doesn't tell you. Silly girl,'

Alex turned to her. "Where's the video?"

Alia kept her head down, voice low. "I deleted it,"

"Alia."

She flinched at the voice and then gave her her phone.

Alex took it, and unfortunately, she didn't have a password, and as she opened it, she went to her gallery, searching through it before stopping at the locked section and saying, "Open it,"

She didn't want to, but she did.

The video was the only thing there.

Alex stared at it for a few seconds before opening it.

The first thing that came up was Alia videoing her as she walked to the bed, cooing, then sat on it, cuddling next to her and saying into the camera, "Don't tell anyone, but I love this girl so much. I— I never thought anyone would make me feel as... Myself, if it weren't for her. Honestly, she's so perfect," Then she turned to Alex, placing the kiss on her forehead, before she pulled away, petting her hair. "So— So after a lot of thought, I'm going to celebrate our birthday together. I've made this albums I'm sure she'd love and when she reaches the last one, she'd see the picture telling her to come this video and then..."

Alia on the phone smiled and turned to the screen. "I'd ask her to be my girlfriend." Then back to sleeping Alex. "Because I'm not sure what I'd do without her."

And the video ended.

Alia had tears in her eyes as she stared at her phone, Alex staring at it for a while before turning to her. Her eyes were twitching but she didn't let any fall. "You— You were serious,"

She nodded, sniffing as she let out a nervous laugh. "Yeah. I really was going to, but then you went away for a week and when you returned, things weren't the same—"

"I was in not in a right state."

"In school, Alex, everyone was finally noticing me. If I dated you, you'd be their sole focus again and I— I wasn't going to out myself looking like your toy,"

"Alia," Alex breathed out, like it hurt her to even say her name.

"I knew you wouldn't let that happen but I was scared," She said, shaking her head now as she looked down. "I was so scared that—"

"Alia."

She looked up at Alex now. The female had her face twisted, like she was about to explode as she said under her breath, "I never lied to you. How I felt, I never lied."