"Are you sure about this?" Des asked me. She is white as a ghost.

"Yes. I am. Today or tomorrow, I have to tell him, some way or other. I can't keep this in any longer." I told her making her even more nervous. By now she is bitting her nails and if this goes any longer she will start chewing her hair.

Something she does when she is nervous.

Thankgoodness I was there when our midterm results came or else she would have been bald by now.

I have decided to tell Hunter about my feelings. I know it can be a stupid step but, I have make it very clear in my mind that whatever will be his reaction, it will not effect our friendship.

"When? And how?" She asked me holding both of my hands and squeezing them.

If I wasn't myself on the verge of fainting, her nails being stabbed in my skin would hurt a lot. But right now, I can not feel anything but nervousness in my stomach.

"I don't know. Ask him on a date or something?" I am not sure. I want to scream.

"Yeah, and pay the bill at the end of the date and don't forget to place your jacket on his shoulders." A really nice time to be sarcastic Des.

"You have a better pl-"

"Oh my god, No?" There was Martha standing on the door of my bedroom with a tray of cookies and milk in her hands, her eyes wide open and her hands are shaking.

Why is she so baffled?

"Wha? Wh?What?" She said choking.

She came inside almost tripping on air. Very carefully putting the tray of cooking and milk on my bed and turned around slowly to look at both me and Des, holding hands. Des took her hands away immediately as soon as her eyes landed on Martha's horror stuck face.

What's going on?

Me and Des both looked at each other in the eye and soon realisation hit us both hard.

"No." Both of us screamed together, getting away from each other.

Our hands fell to our sides. Martha looked at both of us, stiffing her laughter, covering her mouth with her arms.

"So you girls having fu- Hahaha" She was laughing holding her stomach. In a minute all three of us were on the floor laughing. I just wish this laughter remains in our lives forever.

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Remember when I said that I am an awkward anti-social butterfly? And remember when I said, how uneasy it was for me to sit in the middle of the cafeteria on the most centralised table being the topic of attention?

Yeah, I am going to repeat all of that.

I am still an anti-social person, who loves staying home on a Saturday night, reading romantic novels and eating Nutella sandwiches than going to a wild party, talking and dancing with strangers.

I just hate the idea of getting attention of any kind, that is why, now I always put my hand up during history class so Mrs. Davis doesn't call on me.

And last, but not the least, I am still not used to sitting on this table in the very centre of the cafeteria. So even though I am sitting here with my best friends, I am still chilly to my very core and as Hunter is not here, it's getting uncomfortable with every second passing by. He has become my security blanket. I feel safe and comfortable with him.

"You don't do you?" A voice disrupted me from my trauma struck self. I looked up to see Brody staring at me with wide eyes and sitting next to him was Kyle with a smirk on his gorgeous face.

I think I kind a know, what this talk is about.

Soon to my badluck, Ethan and Des came to the table and joined us.

"Hey? What's up?" Ethan asked as he sat down and Des sat beside me.

I picked up the water bottle. This pasta is made up of cardboard or something? Can simply not swallow it without a sip of water with every bite.

"Oh you know, just Danny being a little naughty." As soon as Brody said that the water from my mouth splashed across the table and onto Kyle's face.

I will not say he didn't deserve that.

I was wide eyed looking at Brody and so is Des and Ethan.

"What?" That was Ethan who clearly was confused to the next level.

As I was cleaning my mouth and Kyle took out his handkerchief to wipe his face down, he got up from front of me and sat down beside me in front of Ethan, while giving me a sarcastic look all along.

Ethan picked up his grape juice bottle and started drinking it. Brody was about to drop one of his tooth if he grinned any harder than he is.

He was giving me a sheepish smile.

I hate sheepish smiles.

"Danny you want to tell them? Or I should do the honours." I was too horrified to utter a single word. I was just looking at Brody and begging him to stop with my eyes but it seems he is not very good at the stare language.

"ok then."

Brody, No!

"Our little Danny."

Brody you're my man or what?

"Our socially awkward, weirdly cute Danny."

Brody for the love of Dave!

"Likes Hunter."

Just imagine me, like someone pinched a hole in me and, like a balloon, I floated along the whole cafeteria, with whistling sound and air coming out of me as I floated outside and into a bin or something.

That's what I wanted to do at that particular moment.

Nathan who was chugging on his grape juice, spilled it all over on Kyle's face.

Again.

Well, now I feel bad for the cream shirt he wore today.

But he deserved it.

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"Is is true??." That was Nathan.

"You like him? As in like, like him?"

Ethan screamed making half of the cafeteria to look at us. Des slapped her hand on his mouth as quickly as possible.

"Oh my god. Do you want the whole school to know?" Des whispered.

"ummmh hmmmm?"

"What?" Ethan removed Des's hand.

"Once these guys will start dating, the whole school will know anyway."

And what makes him think we will start dating? I don't even know if he likes me back or not.

"Who's dating who?" Well there surely was a new voice who startled everyone. It was like we were some shitty drug addicts, inhaling whitener in an alley and the police just breathed in our necks.

We all looked at each other to come up with something, everyone is looking at each other asking, each other through eye contact what to say next.

"Just Danny dating ..ohmp"

Yup. Kyle was about to tell Hunter that we are going to date in future.

Oh dreamland.

And

Yup. I jumped on him.

Yup. We are both in a very awkward situation.

Me being on the top of Kyle. The whole cafeteria is looking at us.

As if we were not creating enough of a scene.

Kyle decided he didn't want to shut his mouth any time soon.

But I am not going to die of embarrassment. Before Kyle could utter a word. I put my hand on his mouth.

Which he licked.

"ewwwwww, Kyle I will kill you."

"Danny? Why do you taste like Nutella? I am seriously going to spread you on a bread and eat-"

"Woahhh" Suddenly I am in air and standing on the ground with a big warm hand on my waist.

I looked beside and saw a really intense looking Hunter, staring down at Kyle.

He stared at him and at last gave Kyle a hand to get up.

His hand is still on my waist which is probably burnt by now from the heat radiating from his hand and I am pretty sure that, I am going to have a mark there.

Kyle got up and Hunter is still looking at him in a disbelieving way. His grip on my waist tightened and I am more closer to his chest now.

Why does he smell so good?

All of a sudden he removed his arm from my waist and grabbed my fingers.

Hunter dragged me out of the cafeteria while everyone was looking at us and we passed by them.

So much for not loving attention.

Finally we were welcomed by the cold silent winds of our corridors and I was just placed before a wall and Hunter stood right in front of me.

One of his hand is beside my head and other grabbed my hand. Our fingers interlocked together.

My heart was about to jump out of my mouth and into his hands.

I looked up to see Hunter's face. He looked pretty serious. A hint of sadness and anger was evident in his eyes.

"Hun-" " Do you like Kyle?" Hunter asked me before I could say anything.

"Of course I like Kyle." Well that came way too happy. Or nervous. I am confused.

Who won't get nervous when a model looking guy, Who you are totally in love with, is standing right in front of you holding your hand?

Hunter's expression changed frequently, he started from shocked and went to sad then finally settled on anger.

The next moment Hunter was gone. Like thin air he was out of the building and probably out of the school premises.

What did I say?

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"You told Hunter you like me? Oh he is going to kill me." Kyle exclaimed as soon as I told him about this afternoon in school.

I haven't seen Hunter since then.

Kyle sat on my bed with his hands drastically on his forehead. I was too confused of what I said that upset Hunter that much? But, my slow mind finally moved and realised what the problem was.

So I told Hunter I like Kyle as a friend, but he thought I like Kyle romantically, more then a friend.

I am not even shocked on my stupidity anymore. So I panicked and called Kyle and Des, Des couldn't make it because she had boxing practise for the annual sports meet, which reminded me, I need like 10 new uniforms for the football game and one white tiger costume for the mascot.

"Are you even listening to me?" Kyle exclaimed from my bed as my phone beeped. It was a text from Des. I opened the text to have my eyes wide open. A picture of me and Kyle from this afternoon popped, when I fell on him.

It was a screenshot from Peeker Parker's facebook page. Under the photo it was written 'Looks like, even Kyle has a soft spot for someone' I looked further down with horror, 206 likes and 1079 comments.

Oh my god.

I slumped on my chair. Shocked for me and scared for Hunter.

What will he think now?

No. What do I do?

"I am going to kill Parker." That was Kyle from behind. Looks like Des sent him the same screenshot.

I rotated to look at Kyle with sad eyes. He looked at me with the same expression.

He came forward and sat in front of me. He was on the floor and I was on the chair. Everything was wrong. I don't know how to make it right anymore.

"Don't worry Danny, I will make sure that this gets deleted by tonight. Okay?" I nodded and looked down at my hands.

He put his finger under my chin to make me look at him "It's time you tell Hunter about your feelings." I pouted and nodded.

He seems right, If I hid this from Hunter any longer, the turn of events can let it go into a mother of downfall and I am pretty sure with the amount of changes that are happening in my life right now.

I won't be able to handle the downfall.

But I guess my bad luck was much faster than I thought.

"What feelings?" I knew who that sound belongs to.

Kyle knew, it's time for him to leave but he was just staring at the person near my window. His hands are still holding my hand.

He should remove them, with the things going so wrong lately who knows what Hunter would thing of the present scenario?

Wrong scenarios.

1) I just told Kyle that I love him and He loves me back. And we were about to kiss.

2) I am going to run away with Kyle and we need Hunter's blessings.

3) I am pregnant with Kyle's baby.

Wtf?

None of these scenarios will end nicely.

"Are you guys?" "No!" I screamed and got up from the chair as soon as I realised how wrong this all looks.

Hunter is clearly getting the wrong idea and it's time that I make everything clear to him.

I need to tell him that I am falling for him. That I have feelings for him. That I can shit my pants any minute now. That I am going to faint. That it's getting all black.

All black.

....................................................

So I fainted.

Again!

Did I eat this time?

I don't remember.

I didn't eat any breakfast because I was getting late for school. I couldn't eat lunch because I was strangling Kyle and after getting home, I found out about how the whole school thinks I am fooling around with Kyle.

The thing which I learnt from last time is that Hunter can be pretty intimidating when he wants too.

See, if it was only about Hunter, I would have handled it but as Martha, being the sweetest person on this earth that she is, came in with the plate full of chicken noodles, she brought my dad with her.

Don't even make me describe my father's expression when he saw two guys in my room.

Moral of the story. I am in my bed munching on some freshly made chicken noodles while Hunter and Kyle are giving me the worst glares. My Dad with a horrid expression on his face and Martha sitting next to me enjoying every moment of this awkward misery.

I am too scared to speak so I am just going to put my head down and finish the plate.

"I can't believe you are so careless Danny. How can you just forget to eat? And for the second time? I was so scared." Hunter came forward and sat next to me on my bed, while he took his hand in mine. The sparks I had.

You could easily tell he was scared.

Another thing you could tell was my father getting totally paranoid with wide eyes and open mouth.

My father was about to ask some questions as he raised his finger but Martha beat him to it. "Honey, let's go downstairs." She hurried up and took my father by his arms and out of the room.

Note: Give Martha a hug for this.

"I'll go too." Kyle said from behind as I was trying to calm the butterflies in my stomach, born from Hunter's intense glare and warm hand.

He came forward and kissed my cheek and whispered lightly, to tell Hunter everything before he kills him. I smiled a little at that but my smile soon faded when Hunter's once caring look changed to serious angry look.

Oh.

Kyle.

Kiss.

Cheek.

Wrong scenario.

Shit!

I don't know if it was the long kept secret or the look Hunter was giving me but the words that came out of my mouth were not planned at all.

"Hunter, I love you."

Long time I know. But I am back with full force.

Love you guys😘

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