🥀💋 From k!ssTo Love 💋🥀
( I Love You )
Written by Authoress Yesha 📒📒📒
Episode 9
EXPECTING FORGIVENESS
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“How is your fake d@t!ngwith Tyler coming along?” Tori asked on Wednesday.
She was lying on her stomach across her be-d, swinging her feet in the air. As soon as we left school we head over to her house and was here talking about random things.
“It’s going okay. Everyone seems to believe we are actually a couple and Logan hasn’t said anything to me in two days, so I guess it’s working.”
I responded. “At least, I hope so.” I added. I was sitting in front of Tori on the be-d, my back against the headboard.
“I wish I’d seen the look on his face when he saw that you were d@t!ngTyler.” She chuckled. “The cheating j£rk deserves it. No me gusta nada.”
I smiled at Tori’s words. Ever since Logan cheated on me, Tori despised him. She never fails to express how much she hates him.
After a while, Tori turned on the be-d and sat up, facing me. “So, what are you going to be for Halloween?”
“Aren’t we too old to dress up for Halloween, Tori?” I asked, raising my eyebrows at her.
“Nons-en-se, it’s fun to dress up. You don’t have to be a kid.” Tori replied.
Of course, it would be cool for Tori. She loves Halloween. It was her favourite time of year. Every year she goes all out thinking of what she was going to be; and every year she’s something different.
She looks forward to this time of year and even though Halloween was two weeks away, she began preparing for it early.
Don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against Halloween. I just don’t love it as much as she does. Personally, Christmas is my favourite time of year.
What I really love about Halloween, however, is the horror shows that comes on the television.
Movies such as; Paranormal Activity, The Quiet Place and The Haunted Mansion and many more nail b!tt!g movies that grace the television on this time of year.
There are other movies that are not scream worthy, but I love them too, like; Hocus Pocus and The Halloween Town series.
Horror movies are my favourite kind of movies, so that’s something I’ll be looking forward to.
“But it’s going to be weird; dressing up and going trick or treating.” I reasoned.
Tori rolled her eyes. “Of course we are not going trick or treating, Emily.
That’s for kids. However, we can still dress up in h0t costumes.”
I sighed. Well, she was right. I guess we could. “Okay, I’ll think about it.”
Tori cl@pped her hands together. “Great! I’ll tell you what I’m going to be this year; a h0t fire fighter or wonder woman.”
I giggled. “They’re both great ideas. I’m sure you will look good in either one. Even in a plastic bag.” I added with a laugh.
It was true though. Tori could rock any look. She had a gorgeous b©dy. Boys are always vying for her attention, but as always, she never gave anyone of them the time of day.
Tori bur-st out laughing too. “Hmm…a plastic bag. Maybe I’ll try that one.”
My eyes wi-den. “Tori, you wouldn’t!”
Tori didn’t respond. She just win-ked at me and grinned tea-singly. I shook my head at her.
Knowing Tori and how impulsive she can be, that’s exactly something she would do.
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Closing my locker at the end of the day, I turned around only to come face to face with Logan.
Why doesn’t he just leave me alone? Seeing him alone makes my once good day now bad. I never knew he could be this annoying.
“What do you want Logan?” I asked, sighing quietly. I really wasn’t in the mood to deal with him today.
“I want you back, Emily. I want to know, why can’t you give me another chance? Why is it so easy for you to throw away what we had?” He asked.
I felt my anger rising at his words. How dare him? How dare him to try and make me look like the bad guy? “I’m not the one who threw away what we had. That’s all on you.
You threw away what we had the second you cheated on me and hid it from me for months!”
“I told you I was sorry. Why can’t you just forgive me? I miss you, Emily.” He said, frustration in his voice.
Why does he think that it’s that easy to forgive him? He can’t expect me to forget what he did.
To trust him again. No. He may have took my pride and dignity by using me and taking me along for a joy ride, but he won’t take my self respect.
“Logan, I’m not going to forgive you. You’ve made your choice and now I’ve made mine.” I said.
“And that choice is Tyler?” He said, his voice getting ha-rd . “He’s going to leave you eventually because you weren’t putting out for me, so why would you do it for him?”
Before I could say anything, someone stepped beside me and put their arms around my w@!st. “What’s going on here, babe?”
Logan shifted his gaze to Tyler, who had spoken and then his gaze fell to his hands around my w@!st. His eyes turned dark with anger.
He looked at Tyler and was about to say something, but deciding against it, he said instead.
“Nothing. Nothing at all.” He looked at me and said. “You are ma-king a very big mistake, Emily. I will get you back.” He then walked away without saying anything else.
When he was gone, Tyler turned to me. “Your ex b©yfri£ndis an as-s. What did you see in him anyway?”
I shook my head. “Believe me, he wasn’t always like that.”
“Right.” He said, before adding. “Well, you know him best.”
I was about to comment, when I sp©tted Tori over his shoulder. “Hold up, I’ll be right back.
I walked over to Tori, who was heading in my direction. “Hey Tori, are you heading home?”
She shook her head. “No. I’m going to the mall to buy my Halloween costume.” She answered.
“Great. I can come with you if you want.” I offered.
“Are you kidding me? So that you can see my outfit? I don’t think so.” She wriggled her eyebrows, her eyes shinning with excitement.
“I want our outfits to be a surprise to each other.”
I laughed. “That’s a great idea. Bye then.”
“Bye.” I turned and walked back to my locker, but Tyler wasn’t there. Where did he go?
Sighing, I began to walk out the school’s building in search of Tyler. When I reach the parking lot, I searched for his car.
His car was there, so at least he wasn’t foolish enough to leave me.
I wish I could just go home, but a lot of students were lounging around school and they would definitely find it weird if I leave school on foot, if Tyler was still here.
Deciding to check the place where he’d most likely be, I head in the direction of the back of the school.
When I turned the corner and was at the back of the school, I saw that I was right. Tyler was at the back of the school with Seth and of course, they were smoking.
I walked in the direction towards them. When I reached them, I fanned the cloud of smoke that was emitting from their cigarettes.
“Are you guys crazy?” I asked, still fanning my hands and coughing a little. “You guys are literally asking for cancer. Don’t you know that smoking is bad for you?”
“Yeah, but it also makes you feel good.” Seth responded, b!owing out a puff of smoke as he did so.
I rolled my eyes. So irresponsible. “You’re both br@inless morons.”
“You want to know what else makes me feel good?” Tyler cut in, wi-nking at me.
“Um…no. I don’t want to hear about your disgusting escapades.” I said, wrinkling up my face in disgust and Tyler laughed. “Now, put those out and let’s go.”
Tyler mock bow. “As you wish, m’lady.”
Suppressing the urge to roll my eyes a second time, I turned away from them and walked away. Why did I have to be stuck with these guys?
Episode 10
CLEARING MISCONCEPTIONS
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The one thing I love about Fridays is that it was the day that students would leave school rather than hang around.
They would either go shopping, to Starbucks or just go somewhere to hang out and celebr@te the fact that it was the weekend.
That fact c@m£ quiet clear as soon as I stepped into the school’s libr@ry. There was only a handful of students in here.
Normally, it would be packed with students doing homework, but they knew that they have the entire week for homework, so not much students stayed over.
The students that were in here were either re-ading a book or a few book worms, studying. I, on the other hand, was coming up here to pas-s time.
Today was the day that Sarah and I were going shopping. I was looking forward to spending time with her and seeing what kind of person she was. I actually felt bad that it took a year for us to do something like this.
Sarah told me that she was going to pick me up from school at 3:30. I had an hour to spare, so I decided to go up to the libr@ry to wait.
I walk over to the re-ading books section and took up a book to re-ad. The book that I chose was Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell.
This was one of my favourite books, so I know it will help me pas-s the time. I took a seat at a table by myself and began to re-ad.
A few minutes later, I was so engaged in the book that I did not notice someone standing in front of me. The person was there for a few minutes, until I heard my name loudly. “Emily!”
I was pu-ll-ed from the book and I looked up instantly. My eyes wi-den in surprise as I saw Tyler standing in front of me with an amused look on his face.
“Wow, you sure do block out when you are re-ading. I’ve been clearing my throat and calling your name for the pas-s two minutes.”
“Tyler, what are you doing here?” I asked after my shock dissipated a little. I didn’t expect to ever see Tyler in a place like this. “How did you know I was up here?”
“I saw your friend Victoria before she left. She told me you were on your way up here.” He sat in the seat in front of me and look around. “So, this is the libr@ry.”
I wasn’t surprise that he hadn’t been up here before. “Yes, Tyler, this is the libr@ry.” I tea-sed, gesturing around me with my hands. “This is where books are kept and also where you do your research.”
“Are you mocking me, Samuels?” Tyler asked, a sm-irk on hisl-ips.
I gave him an innocent look. “Nope.” I took up the book I was re-ading and put a page marker inside before closing it. “Now, how can I help you?”
Tyler shook his head before resting his hands on the table. “I nee-d a favour.”
I looked up at him, raising my eyebrows curiously. “What could you possible nee-d now?” I asked, not sure I would like the answer.
“I nee-d help with my maths homework. Ms. dil-do says that if I don’t do well on this homework, I’ll have to come over in the Christmas holiday for extra lessons.
I’m not really down for that, because I have better things to do with my time.” He said.
I looked at him confused. Who the hell was Ms. dil-do? As soon as I asked myself, it c@m£ to me. “Are you referring to Ms. Delendo?” I asked.
“Yes, yes, her.” He answered and I shook my head. Most student in the school calls her that behind her back.
This is because when her name is pronounced, it sounds a lot like ‘dil-do’ and once students picked up on the un-derlying naughtiness of her name, they started with it. “How did you know that I’m any good at maths?”
“Because you’re in advance maths clas-s.” He said in a voice that says ‘clearly, that’s the obvious answer’.
“And this couldn’t wait until tomorrow, because….?” I asked, hoping he will wait until then, so I could get back to my book.
“I want to get it over with, so I can have the weekend to myself.” He answered.
I sighed. “Okay then. Let me see the homework.”
Tyler got up from the seat. A few seconds later he returned with a book in his hand. He opened the book to a page and place it in front of me.
I glanced at the homework, before looking back at him. “This is what you are having problems with?” I asked, baffled by the simple math problem.
He grinned sheepishly. “I’m really bad a math.”
“You mean you don’t go to clas-ses.” I gave him a look. I brou-ght the book closer to me and looked at the problems again. “So, what do you un-derstand?”
“Nothing.” I looked up at him, so he added. “I skip her clas-ses. Maths just doesn’t make any s-en-se to me.” He answered.
I rolled my eyes. “You’re such a delinquent.”
“Hey! I’m good at other subjects. Maths is the only one I have problems with.” He defended.
“And which subjects are those?” I asked curiously.
“Chemistry, physics, biology and English sometimes.” He replied.
“Right.” I said, not believing him. There is no way a boy like him was good at chemistry and biology.
I took out a paper and began to help Tyler with the problems. I knew all the formula for math solutions out of my head, so I wrote the ones for these problems on the paper, to help him solve the problems.
Helping Tyler with the simple math problems would’ve been easy, if he wasn’t on his phone most of the time.
“Are you even hearing a word I’m saying?” I asked, after his phone ping for the fifth time and he took it up.
“Of course.” He replied, not taking his eyes from the phone.
“Well, would you mind putting the phone down.
I thought you nee-ded my help.” I reply, glaring at him as he text away. “What are you doing over there, that is so important?” I asked.
He finally looked at me and grinned. “I’m S-xting.”
“Really? I’m trying to help you and you’re busy over there doing your own thing.” I asked, crossing my arms on the table.
“I’m a guy. I couldn’t just ignore the messages.” He said, sm-irking.
“You’re unbelievable!” I said, then my eyes wi-den as a thought hit me. “Wait a minute, you’re not texting a girl at this school are you?”
“Of course not. I’m not stupid. She goes to a different school from us.” He replied. Then wriggling his eyebrows, he added. “I met her at a p@rty last night.”
“I don’t care where you’ve met her, Tyler, as long as she doesn’t go to our school.
I wouldn’t want to lose my reputation at this school if people found out that we are fake d@t!ng.”
I replied, sitting back in my seat. “Now, if you don’t mind, I’m going back to my book.”
“Wait, aren’t you helping me again?” Tyler asked.
“I’ve alre-ady told you everything you nee-d to know. You are on your own now, buddy. All you nee-d to do now is follow the formula and solve the problems.” I took up the book from the table and continued re-ading.
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My stepmother and I had a great time shopping. She spoke to me and I spoke to her and surprisingly it wasn’t awkward. I wish that I’d done this a long time ago
. She helped me pick out a costume for Halloween and a few more clothes and when we were finished, I was tired and hungry.
Sarah decided that we get something to eat at the food court on the mall. So now we were sharing a table with hamburgers and fries in front of us.
“I’m so glad we went shopping together, Sarah.” I said to Sarah when we were finished eating.
She turned to me and smiled. “Me too. It was great getting to know you more.”
“Yeah,” I laughed. “I wish we had done this a long time ago.”
Sarah’s smile left her face and she looked down guiltily.
“The reason I hadn’t tried spoken to you before was because I thought you hated me. I thought you didn’t like the idea of your dad marrying again.”
I looked at her, my eyes wi-den with surprise. “What? No way. I thought you hated me.”
“Really?” She asked.
“Yeah.” I said. “I’m glad my dad married again and I’m glad it’s you. You are a great person and he is much happier since he have met you.”
Sarah’s smile returned as she looked at me. “Your dad was right. You are smart and you are a wonderful person as well.”
I chuckled. “It’s funny how we both got it wrong, huh?”
“Yes it is.” She replied, then added. “I’m really glad I did this with you, Emily.”
“Me too.” I said, happy that everything was cleared up.
“And I want you to know that there is no way I can take the place of your mother, but I’ll always be there for you and you can talk to me about anything. Okay?” She asked.
I nodded. “Okay.” My eyes then caught a familiar person standing at the far corner of the food court. It was Logan. He didn’t see me because he was busy checking his watch as if waiting for someone.
I really didn’t want him to see me, because I really didn’t want to deal with him today.
What was he doing here anyway? It didn’t seem like Logan’s style to come to the mall. Well, not that I knew of.
He wasn’t really interested in going to the mall when we d@t£d. He used to say that he hated the crowd.
Sarah, realizing that my attention was focused somewhere else and also the change in my mood, turned to look at me. “What is it?” She asked. She then followed the direction of my gaze.
“Isn’t that your b©yfri£nd?” She questioned, when she saw who I was looking at.
“He’s not my b©yfri£ndanymore.” I said and she turned to look at me.
She knew Logan, because he would come over to my house a few times when we were d@t!ng. “He cheated on me.” I added, answering her unasked question.
“Oh,” she looked in his direction, before looking back to me. “You want to leave?”
“Yes.” I said, giving her a grateful smile. She nodded her head and stood up.
I stood up too as Sarah gathered our trays and went to throw away our garbage. She c@m£ back and we left the mall.
TBC 💢💢💢💢💢