Logan's POV:
It has been a full week since I last saw Angélique, the Florida weather has been anything but kind these last few days. I wanted to go to Uncle Ricks since that is luckily inside, but the team has been on my ass, and had meetings the whole week. I stare at my ceiling wondering about how I so quickly became infuriated with this girl: a girl who seems to have no interest in me.
I hear my mom calling me to come downstairs, but I also hear another voice among my family, a very familiar Australian voice; Oscar.
I rush quickly downstairs to see none other than my best friend laughing at something my mom has said. I decided to stop being sour about the whole situation and text him back, he of course understood and said it is fine, and said he would have felt the same way. But I did not expect him to show up at my house. Nonetheless I am extremely glad to see him.
He sees me and his signature smile flashes across his face. We hug and for a moment everything feels like how it was before we joined F1, him spending every second summer at my house while his parents took their annual couples cruise. But we are not those little boys anymore, dreaming of making it some day, and his parents decided to stop the cruise, they rather prefer staying at home now. Nothing is the same, yet in this moment it feels like I was transported back in time, like when his parents dropped him off at our house for the summer.
''Surprise! I thought about spending a week or two here, I talked to your parents and they said it's fine, so ... .Ready to have the best two weeks of your life!''Oscar enthusiastically says, like we both don't know we are just going to lounge around my house and eat anything that remotely has some form of sugar in it.
''Of course man, I am so glad you're here'' I say and give him a pat on his back, and I am not lying, I truly am glad he is here.
Mom ushers me to take his bags to the spare bedroom, while she catches up with him, it's not like me and him are friends and I want to suspend time with him, and he came to see me. But I let my mom have her moment.
The moment I get back downstairs I completely regret leaving him with my mom, "When were you going to tell me you were in love, huh Logan?'' he asks with a smirk on his face, I should have known my mom would tell him.
To be honest I did not want to tell anyone about her, I wanted to keep her all to myself, our park meetups, the butterflies, and mac and cheese, but I guess it's too late.'' I'm not in love yet okay, I am just really interested in her." Oscar gives me a smirk. "Not yet huh?' he says smugly and I pick up the nearest pillow and start chasing him with it, "Shut up! As if you did not basically stalk Lily to get to know stuff about her because she did not use social media!" I yell as I chase him down the hallway.
I hear my mom yelling after us to not break her vase again, "That was one time Mrs. Sergeant!"Oscar yells back defensively. I will never forget how we tried to glue back my moms favorite vase after we broke it accidentally when we were playing tag when we were 10.
After our whole fiasco, me and Oscar make our way towards the park, much to my dismay. I wanted to spend time with Angélique alone, but I guess that is not happening, due to Oscar's ability of constant nagging to getting someone to agree with him. Truth be told I am extremely nervous, I am still a little on edge with everything, and what if she likes Oscar more than me, I mean it has been a recurring theme this year. For once I want to be the one wanted and not second place. So yeah I am nervous.
As we reach closer and closer to the park I see butterflies fluttering around in the sky, causing a smile to take over my face, knowing how happy Angélique probably is to see them again. I see Oscar giving me a questionable look, and I tell him he will see later. I see a blob of chestnut brown hair, moving around looking at the butterflies, she is truly captivated just like how I am with her.
''Don't want to be mean, but you look like a stalker just staring at her mate, maybe you want to introduce me?", Oscar says, snapping me out of my trace. ''Yeah'' is all I say in response and make my way over to her.
She realizes there are people and turns around. I see the corner of her mouth lift a little when she sees me, which gives me a little hope. Then she realizes that someone is with me, and just like that she is back in her shell. I see her hesitantly walk our way, and I immediately feel bad, I know she doesn't like people much, I should have just not let Oscar persuade me into letting him come with me.
Oscar clearly sees how hesitant he is and takes it upon himself to introduce himself, ''Hi, I'm Oscar, Logan's friend, I am sure you have heard loads of me, I mean I am pretty amazing.'' He says in a jokingly tone. I see the wheels in her head turn thinking of how to respond, ''Clearly not that amazing, since all I know of you is that you called him once which made all the butterflies go away.'' I try to hold back a laugh but miserably fail, I definitely did not expect that.
'' Well in my defense, I knew you wouldn't like him, he drives cars just like me yknow.''I say making Oscar look at me confused, but Angélique turns up her face in disgust and mumble ''Eww'' under her breath. I just give her a cheeky grin as she goes to sit down on our bench and me and Oscar just follow her lead. For a moment there is just silence and I can see Oscar does not know what to do or say, I mean I know she isn't the most sociable or well like every other girl that throws themselves at us, but thats what I love most about her.
I look at her studying the way the butterflies move, and I can't help but think about the advice my brother gave me a while back, ''Can you tell me about them? The butterflies I mean.'' Her face lights up and I wish to see that expression more often on her face, she looks absolutely breathtaking.
''Monarch butterflies live in North, Central, and South America as well as Australia, which mean your friend probably sees them as well where he is from, well I guess it sound like that, some Pacific Islands, India, and Western Europe.'' She starts with, and I hang on to every word she says.
'' Their markings include bright orange wings covered with black veins and rimmed with a black border and white dots. Females have thicker veins in their wings. A monarch's brilliant coloring tells predators: "Don't eat me. I'm poisonous." The butterflies get their toxins from a plant called milkweed, which is their only food source in the caterpillar stage. An animal that eats a monarch butterfly usually doesn't die, but it feels sick enough to avoid monarchs in the future. The most amazing thing about monarch butterflies is the enormous migration that North American monarchs undertake each year. Every fall, as cold weather approaches, millions of these delicate insects leave their home range in Canada and the United States and begin flying south. They continue until they reach Southern California or central Mexico, nearly 2,500 miles away!'' She finishes talking, I see she is embarrassed for some reason but I have no idea why the fact that she does just know that is amazing.
'That's incredible.''I say, before I got interrupted by Oscar pointing to one of them sitting on her head and sooner than later there was at least ten of them scattered across her. She lets out a little giggle, causing me to smile even more. Can she get any more perfect?
Just like always though our moment is cut short as she has to go home, and then Oscar does something I have been trying to have the balls for these past weeks, ''Hey, can I get your number because I am sure both me and Logan would love to hang out with you soon.'''He says while giving me a look of 'trust me I got this'. She quickly scribbles her number on a piece of paper and gives it to me, not him even though he asked, no she gave it to me. She looks up as our hand connected and quickly pulls away before starting to walk away, and per tradition I yell "Have a good day Angélique!'
I trun to see Oscar looking at me with a smile, ''Oh you've got it bad mate,''
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