Only You

Chapter 33: Nobody Knows

I'm so glad all my classes have finished, I feel so tired and hungry, I want to get home and eat everything my mom has cooked.

Damn, maybe I'm not that hungry. I can wait a long time before returning home, to be honest I'm pretty scared, I don't know what to expect anymore.

I take some books I don't need out from my backpack and put them into my locker.

"Allie!" I hear a girl's voice calling. I turn around and it's Stella. Her cheeks are flushed and her messy bun is falling apart, she looks cute.

"Hey." I say. I suppose she wants to explain herself. I've been trying to avoid her all day long, I really don't want to tell her what I think, and I already know she won't like what I have to say.

"Do you have a minute?" She asks. Liam wanted to talk to me but I don't see him around so I guess I have time for Stella.

"Sure." I say and follow her to the front door of the school. We sit down on the nearest bench, I place my backpack on the floor and she hangs her bag on the corner of the bench.

"So..." I say in her absence of words, "How are you?"

"Good." She simply responds. She lets go a big breath and redoes her bun before speaking. "I know you don't want to talk about Randy but-"

"It's your life Stella, you don't have to take my advice or anyone's advice." I honestly say. I care about her, a lot, but at the end of the day it's her life and I'm no one to tell her what to do.

"Thank you." She says, looking into my eyes, "I'm sorry you can't understand what I'm feeling." She tells me, breaking the eye contact.

"Me too." I respond. I've tried my best to comprehend her but I just can't, it doesn't make sense to me, I know it never will.

I feel my phone vibrating from my front pocket, I take it out and Liam's name appears on the screen 'Still available to talk?'

I quickly text him back before Stella continues talking. 'Meet me at the front door in 10 minutes.'

"Do your parents know?" I ask her. I don't know why I think I already know the answer.

"No." She says looking down. Damn it Stella, why are you doing this to yourself? "And they don't need to find out." She warns me.

"I'm not saying anything if that's what you're thinking." I tell her. Telling her parents it's not of my business, she must know by now I would never do that.

"I don't want our friendship to change, we've been through so much." She says, facing me again.

"I feel the same way." I sincerely say, "Can I ask you something?" I say. I've been wanting to ask her for a long time now.

"Go ahead." She answers, resting her back completely on the bench.

"Why do you always tell everything to Scarlett first?" I ask, "It's not that I'm jealous, she's my friend too, but she always seems to know everything about you before I do." I finally said it, now I want a straight logical answer.

Stella keeps looking at me but no words come out of her mouth, "I don't know." That wasn't the answer I was hoping to hear.

Her phone rings and she brings it up to her eyes, "It's just a second." she tells me and answers the call.

"Hey, baby." She says with an excited voice. I roll my eyes to one side, I know in advance its Randy, who else could it be? "Yeah, I'll be there in five." She informs him. Well, this is the end of our conversation I believe.