The Only Girl In The World

Chapter Seventeen

Edited

~Kaylee

“That concludes the end of today’s session, see you all next Friday.” the blonde lady, who I recently found out was Helen, announced.

Letting out a sigh of relief, I texted my uncle to come pick me up. Just as I dropped my phone, a familiar ball of excitement jumped over to where I was seated.

“Hey bestie.” She chirped.

“We’re besties now?” I rose my eyebrows.

I wasn’t offended, just amused.

“Well in here anyway, considering you don’t talk to anyone else.” She laughed. “What’s up with you? You weren’t here last week.”

My mind went back to the date Christian and I had last week and my face instantly flushed.

“I-I was bu-busy.” I choked on my words.

“Busy doing what?” she said catching up.

“With homework.” I lied avoiding her gaze.

“Yet you’re blushing, stuttering and looking away? Ok, who’s the boy?” She asked.

“How did you know that?” my eyes widened as I turned to look at her.

“I’m a teenager, I’ve had my fair share of crushes.” she shrugged. “So who is he? And what did you guys do that’s making you go all giddily?”

“Nothing.” I lied again not sure if I was up to telling a stranger about my love life.

Was she a stranger though? She didn’t feel like one.

“OK, I get it. You’re shy. I’ll just tell you about mine.” she said and before I could stop her, she had already started rambling about all her crushes.

“He was the last boy I ever dated.” Five long minutes later, she was almost done.  “I tell myself we were pretty young, I mean I was 14 and he was 15. I tried to justify his actions but the fact that he played with my feelings and made me a laughing stock in front of the whole school keeps on haunting me. Since then, sure I could crush on one or two guys but the idea of dating really scares me.”

“You shouldn’t try to justify his actions, what he did was wrong.” I frowned and she just shrugged.

How did I go from labelling her a stranger to actually giving her dating advice on a topic I had no idea on either?

“I think you’re a really brave, strong and pretty girl and it’s his luck if he couldn’t see that in you. You’ll meet someone who’ll see the real you.” I said smiling at her.

“No one has ever told me that before, thank you.” she said wrapping her arms around me in a hug.

I was a bit shocked at first but I slowly returned the hug before we pulled apart a little while later.

“See, we really are besties.” She teased and I laughed.

“I guess now I have to tell you about mine.” I sighed and she grinned. “I’ve never dated anyone till now I guess.”

“No way!” she gasped dramatically earning a playful glare from me.

“I guess I had been through a lot and with my cancer, I just kind of distanced myself from people.” I said. “I don’t know how he did it and it’s been barely two months since we met but….I don’t know….he’s breaking the walls I spent years to build and somehow that scares me. I know it doesn’t really make any sense.”

“It kind of does or I guess I understand you. It’s okay to be scared, aren’t we all scared?” She asked and I smiled.

“Yeah…” I mumbled.