True Love

Connecting

1st person
Anthony's p.o.v.

Once me and Mak got into the hospital room, I pulled her to an empty corner, "what's up with you?"

"What do you mean," Mak asked me with innocent, puppy eyes.

"I mean, what are you up to, did you really pay a guy to try and kill Rachel?"

She looked at me with a guilty face, then she put a smile on, "no, I didn't, I'm perfectly fine with you and her being, plus, why would I even be here if I wanted her dead," she said this really loudly, don't think I didn't hear that.

"Let me see your phone."

"Why?"

"It's been buzzing and ringing since we got here," I told her, "let me see your phone."

"No, this is my property, my private life, and you don't have the right to forcefully take it and look at it," I shot her a glare reading, 'give me your phone,' "I could walk out right now, I could leave you here."

"Where are you going to go, I know your parents, they're not going to come pick you up, you don't have your car, and you don't know the way to my house, you can walk out, but you're not going to get find a way home," I told her.

"I know people," she walked out of the room, I chased after her, but she darted out of the doors and waited for whoever she was contacting.

Rachel's p.o.v.

I knew my mouth was gaping wide, I just witnessed Anthony and Mak get in a fight, my mom came over and hugged me, "I'm so glad you're okay, do you really want Anthony and that Mak girl to stay here with you over night, I can't anymore, I just got a text saying that I need to be at the airport asap," she showed me the text, "I have a very important business trip, if you want me to stay here, I will."

I knew my mom had been waiting for something like this since the beginning of her career, she was a photographer, and has been trying to get in contact with agents. I smiled, "mom, I know you've been waiting for this, go, I'm happy for you," and this wasn't a lie, I've been waiting for her career to take off.

She smiled and hugged me again, "thanks, I'll make sure to call the hospital, or I'll email you," I forgot I brought my laptop to school, I got it over the summer, it was a gift.

I got my laptop out, my mom darted out of the room, and Anthony walked in casually, "I can't believe you can actually talk," he said with a joking smile, I saw him and was too shy and scared to talk, he did a thing a noticed he does a lot, put his hand behind his head and scratched his hair, "do you need anything?"

I looked up and barely said, "yeah," what's the stupid wifi password, I needed the internet to do anything on my laptop.

"Ummmm... what do you need," I handed him my laptop, "oh, the wifi is free," he did some clicking and handed me my laptop, I smiled as a thanks. "Why don't you talk at school?"

I shrugged, just because we're the only ones in here and I have a crush on you doesn't mean that I'm not shy around strangers, I opened a tab on my laptop and went to an animation website. Anthony came over to me and pulled a stool over to sit on, "you can do animations, that's pretty cool."

I looked at him, "do you have any made, or did you just create the account," I opened my creations, then handed him the laptop, he chuckled, I looked at him curiously, he apparently saw it because he said, "you act like a little girl, like, your eyes get really big whenever someone talks to you and you don't talk, it's kind of cute," he... just... called... me... cute, I'm pretty sure my heart stopped beating for a quick second, I smiled. He had already finished watching my animations, "woah, these are so good, they could be a legitimate cartoon you see on TV."

"Thanks," I quietly said.

"You talked again," I swung my head on my pillow, I wish he would stop saying that, I then noticed that the slam kind of hurt, "ow."

"Woah," I looked at him weirdly, "that was a regular volume," he stopped and it looked like he had just realized something amazing, "did you do the voices in those cartoons?"

I pointed to my bag, he got the hint and handed it to me, I dug through it and pulled out a headset with a bunch of buttons, I put it on his head and said, "talk and click the buttons," I just talked to him.

He did as I said, "woah, where did you get this," he said, I slightly laughed because his voice was changing.

"I built it with Man-" I stopped myself from continuing, I covered my face, "don't cry, don't cry, don't cry," I muttered to myself. I was surprised when I felt an arm touch my back.

Anthony's p.o.v.

I saw Rachel starting to cry and get teary, she's a lot sweeter than Mak, no, Anthony, stop thinking that, Mak is a good girlfriend... she just gets... upset. I couldn't help myself and I put my arm around Rachel, I was going to get closer, but, "Anthony," I let go quickly when I heard Mak's voice.

"Ummmm, I thought you went away," I said awkwardly.

"Were you, hugging her," she stomped over to me and said, "what were you doing?"

"I, ummmm, I-I-" she cut me off.

"You what," she screamed at me.

"Mak, I," and before I could finish, she came over and just kissed me, I excepted it and thought, what are you doing, she just went off on you.

"Now please stop," she said.

"What?"

"Hanging out with her," she pointed to Rachel, I noticed she was bursting in tears, I was going to run over to her to ask her what was wrong, but Mak held me back.

"Mak, I don't like this new you, she needs a friend," why do I repeatedly have to explain this to you?

She took me in close, "do you want her to live?"