Only You

Chapter 19: My Favorite Things

"That was weird." Jasmine tells me as we both get up from our seats.

"I know right?" I say and grab my backpack from the floor, it feels really heavy even though I don't have that many books in it.

"Hey." She tells me and I look at her, "My mom is inaugurating this new place today at the mall, it's called House of Flavors, it's an ice cream and yoghurt type of place."

"That sounds cool." I say smiling.

"Yeah, it kind of is." She says and giggles, "Would you like to come?" She asks, "I mean, if you don't have anything else to do." That's so sweet of her, I didn't know she saw me as a friend. I know for a fact that Stella and Scarlett don't want to see me right now and I don't want either, so I guess this alright. Make up, clothes, Zac Efron, puppies and ice cream stores/restaurants are my favorite things in life. I don't see anything wrong on going and having a good time.

"Sure. I'll go, it sounds fun." I say and she smiles.

"Thanks, you'll make my mom happy." Jasmine tells me with excitement. "Do you want me to give you a ride there?" She asks.

"No, thanks though. I have my car parked here." I answer.

"Okay. I'll see you there in a while then." She says and waves to me as she leaves the room.

I finish talking with Jasmine and wait for everyone to get out of the room before I do, I don't like walking through the door while being crashed by tons of people.

I see my two friends walking pass the door and none of them look at me. I want to go and talk to them but there's a voice inside me that is telling me to wait, to not go because I'm not the one who acted wrong, they are. And I don't even know what the deal is, Stella doesn't really like Caleb, not that I know of. Maybe there's more going on that I'm not aware of.

After everyone is out, I walk myself through the door and go directly to my locker before going to the parking lot. I put a couple of books in my locker and one of my notebooks falls to the ground. I grab it and see some of the pages fold up, I try to make them straight again, but let's be real, that never works.

One of the rough sheets is the one that contains my 'letter', the one I wrote earlier, that has written my thoughts about Liam, and I take quick look at it. I read two sentences and then I feel someone standing in front of me and I instantly close it.

"Hey." Zach says to me. I jump at the sound of his voice. It's something I do when I get scared. "Sorry, I didn't mean to scare you." He adds and makes a soft laugh.

"Sorry, it wasn't you, I was just-" I put my orange notebook in the air and try to find some words to say, "I was just thinking." I finally say.

"Thinking about me, right?" He says, joking.

"Are you a mind reader?" I joke back and laugh.

"Liam, maybe?" He asks, trying to guess what's going on.

"What?" I confusedly ask.

"Liam, your perfect man." He says with a poker face. It doesn't seem like he's making fun of me or judging me, he's just speaking what he's thinking.

"He's not perfect." I say with a serious tone in my voice.

"Come on, I saw how you and Karly were drawing him in art class the other day." Zach informs me. Yeah I remember that drawing, I was talking to Karly and she asked me if I knew Liam. From there we started talking more and more about him. Then we made a drawing of him, with blue neon eyes and shirtless, with a six pack and with both of us on his side, it was pretty funny. We ripped the paper and threw it on the trashcan at the end of the class so nobody could see it. The thing is that I never knew that Zach was watching or hearing us, he was in front of Karly but he never turned around to see what we were doing, well that's what I remember, I guess I'm wrong.