Life Moves On • Zach Herron

forty one

"now spill the tea on corbyn" i say to tate and she sits up and begins talking

"i've known corbyn for as long as i can remember but i've never really liked him, he was just the kid who you were forced to be friends with because our moms were friends but i never let him be friends with me" me and christina nodded before tate carried on

"once we got to high school he changed, he went from being the weird kid to being popular and kinda hot but then he also started with the hookups and the party's, i started to hate him even more than i already did" we once again nod

"now this is the part you won't believe, there was this girl who transferred to our high school, she was quiet, quite shy and incredibly smart, nobody really noticed her so i reached out to her and became her friend however it was all too good to be true, the devil himself came and fell for her"

"you mean corbyn right?" christina asks and tate nods

"he tried everything he knew to make her be one of the girls he hooked up with on a saturday night, though he knew he wouldn't be able to leave her afterwards and he also knew she would never agree to it so he came to me. he asked me everything he wanted to know about her including what her phone number was but i refused to give him it. i knew he wouldn't give up there, him and his mom came to my house while she was there with me and then he waited until i left the room" she paused and thought for a second

"sorry i don't know how to say the next part" she says with a laugh "it's fine take your time" i say

"to put it gently, he charmed her used his boyish charms to win her over, she then gave him her number. she told me about it later that night once he had gone and just before she went home too, she left me confused and also worried in case he was just going to play her. about a week later he asked her on a date which she accepted but her family found out that they had to move states again so she left 3 days later. the date never took place"

i looked over at christina and started to think how similar this sounded to when she gave corbyn her number but i push that thought aside and carry on listening to tate

"a few months later, corbyn came back to my house and made me talk to him, i refused because i hated him even more for hooking up with girls again even after what he said to my friend, he carried on coming back for a whole week and it wasn't until the 8th day when i finally let him talk, only, i could've never prepared myself for what he said. he asked me on a date, i rejected him but he proceeded to tell me he had the perfect place in mind, a cute little picnic beside a lake"

i gasped and looked between christina and tate who were both looking at me

"so the date corbyn suggested to zach was the date he wanted to take you on?" i ask and tate nods

"so not only is corbyn not the fuckboy we thought he was but he also set zach up on his dream date" christina said and we all just sat in silence

zach's pov

as the door closed behind jas i looked towards jonah and waited for him to begin talking

"so i just wanted to make sure that whenever you and jas start dating that you know how i feel" jonah says and i nod

"i just want to say don't break her heart again, don't lie to her and treat her like a princess because if you don't i doubt you'll ever get this chance again and i won't be here to help you get her back, i'll be helping jas get over you" jonah says

"don't worry, i won't do any of that bad stuff to her and i will treat her like a princess every minute of the day because ever since i saw her again i realised how special she is" i say smiling, jonah nods

"i hope you do because i can tell she likes you way more than she tells us she does" i smile and plan to tell him something i've never told anyone else before

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oh corbyn.

what do you think zach is gonna tell jonah?