I'm Counting Every Lie

30: yeet it

Wednesday

After school my mum pics me up and we drive downtown. Yesterday the drugstore was closed so finally we are going to get my painkillers right now. I haven't been in agony or anything because I've been on over the counter stuff but this stuff is actually prescribed to me so it will be better.

When we get to the store I walk with my crutches alongside my mum. She opens the door for me and I awkwardly almost trip as I go inside. It's a very small store with two aisle, everything else is behind the counter. My mum goes to the worker and I go to go into an aisle but who I see looking at a therapy magazine makes me freeze.

Josh quiet literally throws the magazine over the aisle as soon as he sees me. I imagine his brain said 'having this magazine could make it seem like I need therapy' and his hands said 'yeet'. Guys are so weird, therapy doesn't make you less manly. "What?" He says startled. I smile and put my crutches in front of me and rest my hands on it. I'm judt balancing on one leg and the other is just barely touching the ground.

"What? Um.. you threw that magazine? Nothing else has happened yet," I laugh and his face goes red.

"Oh that? I saw a bug on it so I quickly got rid of it," he says nodding along to his lie. I smile and nod too but I'm not that stupid.

"Uh huh, so what brings you here? Bugs?" I say and he continues to nod. His eyes dart around for a moment.

"Yeah, definitely. Um. Termites. I'm just scoping out the place for my boss," he says and proceeds to get out his phone and take pictures of the walls. I watch him with an amusement smirk as he tries hard to go along with his lie.

"Welp, that's it. Bye," he say and tries to leave.

"Franceschi? You're prescription is ready," a lady behind the counter calls out and josh looks at me and frowns. He snatches it from the lady and then stomps to the door and to leave. On the door it says pull but josh is being to much of a grumpy pants and tries to push it.

"Josh? You are already caught. How about you come talk to me before you stomp away," I say and he mumbles things under his breath and puts the prescription in his pocket. I'm curious as to what that is for but it's a hundred percent obvious that he doesn't want me to know.

"What the fuck do you want?" He hisses at me.

"To talk to my friend. Plus I need you to hold this," I say and hand him my crutches. He stays quiet and watches as I put my hair in a bun. Not all of my hair can actually be put up but the majority of it goes in.

Josh looks very hot, it's not new news but it's very true news. He always dresses so badboy-ly I wonder what he would look like in pastel. Probably to adorable for this world. "Yesterday I got kellin to meet Vic and now he's obsessing over him so you might be safe from him soon," I say and josh looks uncomfortable.

"Thanks, can we just never speak of him?" He says and I nod incredibly. If he feels uncomfortable with talking about kellin we dont have to even acknowledge that he exists. Okay that's very rude of me but it's not like I'm ignoring him. I'm just not talking about him to josh.

He gives me back my crutches and I put them under my arms and use them as support. Me and josh haven't really talked since he drove me to school but if nobody is looking we smile or wave at each other in school. I want to text him but I don't know what about. I'm so awkward.

"Do you want to come over?" I ask and he looks at his phone.

"How about you come to my house instead?" He says. His house is better I just wasn't going to invite myself to his house.

"Sure, I'm going to wait with my mum to get my medicine and I'll meet you at yours?" I say and he seems relieved.

"Yeah, I'll see you in a little," he says backing away.

"Buh bye," I say and then he turns leaves the building. Josh is strange. I wonder if he really does have anger issues? Or maybe it's not even for him. How he acted makes me think it is for him but what? It could be anything so I give up thinking about it and use my crunches to get to my mum.

"Can we stop at the house and then you drive me to Josh's house?" I asks and she agrees.

Josh is so awkward

Skksk

Thought?