High school r0m@nç£episode 30

🎸🎼 HIGH SCHOOL r0m@nç£🎼🎸
💝 Can’t love you back 💝
Author Viola
#Episode_30
🎧 ANGELOU 🎧
I couldn’t believe Kelanie chose Lancelot over her dreams and left for Jamaica. I sat glued to my seat while the others discussed of a way to resolve the issue before the competition tomorrow.
“am sorry” Chance said in a whisper. He was sitting beside me in the plane
“it’s nob©dy’s fault”
“She’ll come back I just feel it”
“even if she comes back she alre-ady chose Lancelot”
“she’s just being a good friend”
“he’s her ex Chance she shouldn’t be doing it for him even his girlfriend isn’t concerned”
“I know but…”
“what if it’s a tra-p?” I suddenly asked
“what do you mean?”
“what if Mabel c@m£ up with the idea to st©p Kelanie from singing?”
“what makes you think so?”
“Mabel approached me some days ago with talks of teaming with her if I want to win the competition”
“you should’ve said this we could’ve st©pped Kelanie it might really be a tra-p”
“what do we do now?” I asked “we can’t go to Jamaica”
“We’ll try calling her when we get to New York before ma-king any move”
“Right” I agreed “I just hope she’s alright”
✈ JAMAICA ✈
🎻 KELANIE 🎻
“What’s happening?” I asked worriedly as nurses ran in and out of the theater
“The doctor recommended an emergency liver transplant on Lancelot but his chance of survival isn’t much cause he’s paralyzed” Richa-rd replied
Tears rolled down my cheeks “I can’t believe Lancelot is going throu-gh these he doesn’t deserve it”
Richa-rd pu-ll-ed me into a hvg “it’s not you fault he made the mistake of leaving you at the first place. You’ve done a lot for him alre-ady said if he doesn’t survive this, I know he will be grateful”
“I pray he survives”
“we all pray the same” Richa-rd said and helped me sit down
“am sorry for bringing you here when you should be somewhere else”
“it’s alright I’ll sacrifice anything for Lancelot”
“Thanks”
THIRTY MINUTES LATER 🕕🕠
The theater door flung open and two doctors walked out followed behind by three nurses. Lancelot’s parents ran to the doctors and so did we.
“Surgery was successful” one of the doctors announced beaming
I smiled in relief and hvgged Richa-rd . Lancelot’s parents followed the doctors out and I sat back with Richa-rd .
“am so happy the surgery was a success”
“I wonder when he’s going to wake up” I said
“I hope he wakes up before you leave”
“I won’t leave till he sees me and am sure he’s fine”
“what about NYN? Lancelot would never be happy if you don’t sing”
“I’ll sing but the competition is in the next 38 hours I still have time”
“we all owe you”
“you don’t owe me anything it’s…”
My phone started ringing and I glanced at the caller’s ID and it was Angelou. I practiced a little apology and answered the call.
📱 Hello
📲 Kelanie are you alright?
He sounded so worried and I wondered why
📱am fine
📲 we’ve arrived at New York where are you?
📱Jamaica but I’ll be there before the competition
📲 Kelanie Mabel is here you shouldn’t be there get the fv¢k out of there That was the angry Phoebe
📱 I’ll be there soon
📲 Now, you’ll be here this minute. Are you crazy or something?
📱chill Phoebe I won’t disappoint
📱 I hope you don’t lose inspiration to sing when that b©yfri£ndof yours finally dies
📱don’t say that Phoebe, no one is going to die
📱Really? Wait till Tristan hears of it
I rolled my eyes and Angelou c@m£ back on the line
📲 everyone is mad at you
📱I know and I deserve it. I didn’t even reason with you guys before leaving am very sorry
📲 you’re not forgiven till you get back here and give us that trophy
📱 ayaa captain
He chuckled
📲 How’s he?
📱His liver transplant was successful
📱what about you two? Are you good now?
📱We haven’t really talked but I plan on forgiving him
📲 You aren’t getting back with him right?
📱 I don’t know
📲 If he ever wants you back what’s going to be your reply?
📱 why are you asking?
📲 cause am scared you’re going to get back with him
📱You shouldn’t be worried about that
📲 I just care about you and I don’t want you getting hurt
I swallowed ha-rd and glanced at Richa-rd then excused myself
📱I won’t be getting hurt. Am old enough to take care of myself
📲 let’s say you grew a month ago after your heart break
📱 maybe
📲 sure you know what you’re doing?
📱I do, you don’t have to worry
📲 alright take care of yourself then
He hung up and I suddenly wished he didn’t. I clenched my phone to my che-st and it started ringing again. I took a glance at it and wished it was Angelou but to my disappointment it was Chance.
📱I agree I was wrong and am sorry
I said immediately I answered the phone
📲 I’m not going to scold you I plan on sp@ñking you when you return
📱am really sorry
📲 that wasn’t why I called
📱 is anything wrong?
📲 everything is wrong
📱 what’s wrong?
📲 my friend is in love with you and you chose your ex who doesn’t care about you
📱 what are you talking about?
📲 You really don’t know that Angelou loves you or you’re trying to pretend
📱 I… I don’t know what you’re talking about
📲 I hope you never know
He ended the call and he sounded really furious. I was confused at what Chance said. This was the first time he was speaking to me angrily but what does he mean by Angelou loving me?
I tried calming my racing heart and make out a little s-en-se in what Chance told me but I still wasn’t un-derstanding.
“Are you alright?”
I whirled around to see Richa-rd staring at me “am fine”
“sure? You look tensed”
“am fine”
“is it about NYN?”
“am really fine let’s go in”
we sat on a chair in the waiting room in Lancelot’s ward. His parents weren’t there so it was just I and Richa-rd . Richa-rd was talking randomly but I wasn’t listening as I thought of what Chance said. I would’ve been happy about Angelou loving me if I hadn’t been throu-gh a lot of heart breaks but now, I can’t appreciate anyone’s feelings for me cause am not re-ady to love again.
Angelou is nice and a guy I secretly admire but I can’t love again and even if I do, what about Tristan?
“… You’re not listening”
I j£rked with a start and stared at Richa-rd who was staring at me angrily
“am sorry”
“I’ve been talking to myself all these while. What were you even thinking of?”
“The competition”
“seriously? Did the competition really get all your attention?”
“am sorry what were you saying?”
He sighed and rolled his eyes then opened his mouth to talk when a his mum walked him smiling excitedly.
“Lancelot is awake”
“that’s quic-k” I said
“We know but it’s a miracle”
We entered his room and he was really awake though he looked weak and
pitiful.
“We shouldn’t be here cause he just had surgery” Richa-rd said
“I know the doctor said we can’t see him till the next twenty four hours but I wanted Kelanie to see him before she leaves”
I glanced at Lance’s mum and she gave me a warm smile.
“thanks a lot”
I smiled back and turned to Lancelot. He wasn’t fully awake but he was fighting to live. I tried suppressing my tears but they betrayed me and I sobbe-d softly.
“He’ll be fine” Lancelot’s mum pacified and I nodded tearily
“let’s leave before someone sees us” Richa-rd said
I couldn’t t©uçh Lancelot cause of his condition, I feared he might die from my t©uçh cause he was too weak.
“When he wakes up fully, I want to be the first to know”
“you’ll certainly be the first to know, Lancelot would be so grateful”
I nodded then we walked out of the room. The family’s jet was prepared to take me to New York that day at 7. I had lunch with them before leaving at exactly 7pm.
✈ NEW YORK ✈
Time to face my doom.
I did a silent prayer before alighting from the car that drove me to the suite that was rented for us. Derek was the first to see me from where he was sitting with the others but he acted like he didn’t see me.
Signs that am doomed.
I took myl-ips into my mouth as I walked slowly to them, saying my last prayer as I went.
It was dark so they didn’t notice my pres£nce, I could only see them because of the lights.
“Hey!” I said in a small voice when I got to them. Everyone but Angelou glared daggers at me. He wasn’t angry but he was really sad and it suddenly reminded me of what Chance said.
“Welcome back” Blue said sarcastically
“look guys am really sorry but… ”
They started walking out not wanting to hear whatever it is I wanted to say. I felt alone, abandoned, and tears welled up in my eyes.
“You don’t have to cry” Angelou said and I realized he didn’t leave “their anger won’t last”
I smiled throu-gh my tears then he gave me a handkerchief.
Not so ro-mantic.
In movies the guys does the wiping.
“Thanks” I wiped my tears
“it’s a good thing you c@m£ back”
I suddenly remembered what Chance told me and I got nervous and shy.
He wasn’t saying anything and I couldn’t come up with any conversation. The atmosphere got really ti-ght and I just wanted some distraction at that moment.
“any news about the girl or should I say missing princess?” I found myself asking finding a better way to lighten the atmosphere
“I don’t know her and I don’t want to talk about her”
Then what should I say?
I took in a de-ep breath and our eyes met. That was the first time I saw the color of his iris. They were green, so beautiful and bright.
“Angelou!” a familiar voice called and we turned to see Fiona standing behind us. As expected she walked out when she saw he was with me.
“Are they that angry at me?”
“everyone is even Ms Chantel”
“wait! You guys like told her?”
“Mr Justin did and you can’t blame him”
“am in a big mess”
“yea and you should start with Mr Justin. The man is going gaga thinking we’ve lost alre-ady”
“Lancelot isn’t there to sing with The Flames but they’re still competing. There’s no big deal if I decide to back out”
“Lancelot didn’t back out quite un-derstandable but you just backing out…. ”
“I get it and am not backing out”
Just when I thought we’ve finally had a distraction, he st©pped talking and started staring.
“am not comfortable with the silence” I blurted out
“I wanted you to say that” he chuckled and took a long stride to me ma-king us stand too close to be comfortable
“Angelou…. ”
“I don’t bite”
“Am not….” I trailed off “I un-derstand what your silence is trying to say but… ”
“am not trying to say anything” he cut in
“Chance told me”
He frowned “what did Chance tell you?”
“N-thing”
He smiled “let’s go talk to Mr Justin”
“I can’t face him now”
“what did Chance tell you?”
“he told me you were re-ady to sing”
He laughed slightly “he told you I love you right?”
I got shocked at the way he stated it lightly. He used to be shy how did he manage to say that?
“I know your reply alre-ady that’s why I didn’t want to talk about it”
I swallowed an invisible lump in my throat and tried talking but I couldn’t come up with anything to say.
“I don’t want to be a pest just apologize to the girls and join them” he said and walked out
“You couldn’t even tell him you love him too” a familiar voice said from behind and I whirled around to see Selene coming out from the flowers
“have you been hiding in there?”
“of course. I’ve been waiting for you both to show me love”
“you’re crazy” I chuckled “what are you doing here?”
“Chance snuck me in”
“where would you be slee-ping? In the flowers?”
She laughed “in his room”
“You can’t sleep in his room”
“but why?”
“jeez… You just started d@t!ngyesterday”
“am just going to spend the night nothing is going to happen”
“I’ve been looking for you” Chance said walking up to us then dragged Selene “I brou-ght her here”
I laughed at the way he dragged her out and I was left alone again.
Angelou loves me.
Quite unbelievable and sad at the way he’s letting go.
“it’s cold out here” Angelou said from behind
“thought you left”
“I can’t leave you out here”
I stared at him and the look in his eyes spelt hurt.
“Let’s go in dinner is served”
“am sorry” I said
“about what?”
“I don’t want to keep you on the fence, I don’t want to keep your hopes high or… ”
“what are you trying to say?”
“I can’t love… ”
“don’t say it plea-se” he cut in and shut me with a k!ss
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TBC