"Psst, Amelia!"

Leo's hissing voice bounced off of my ears amidst the few staggering people around the school parking lot. I turned my head around the area trying to get a glimpse of him to no avail.

"Over here, " he hissed again, and frantically waved his hands above his head, the action that thankfully, caused me to spot him behind his car.

I furrowed my brows in confusion as I took rapid steps to his direction. His frantic waves were beginning to not only get my awareness but the attention of those closest to me as well and frankly speaking, I did not need any of that.

I just wanted to blend behind the scenes for once.

"Leo? What on earth are you doing?" I grabbed him on the cuff of his red T-shirt and pulled him behind his car without giving it any thoughts or looking back to see if anybody was looking at as.

The moment we were behind his car, Leo clasped his fingers around the back of my elbow and started directing me in the opposite direction from where we were supposed to be going. "I need to talk to you."

"What? Where are we going?"

He smirked and looked at me through the side of his eyes. "It seemed you gained quite the popularity these days, huh," he said instead and continued to pull me behind the classrooms.

I didn't answer to that, but wasn't that the truth? I've gone from a normal, teenage girl, minding my own business which generally involved  me, studies, and Suzy, to me being the most known person in school. And not by good stories by the way.

So, I kept quiet and let Leo drag me all the way to the backside of the school where to my surprise, Luke stood there against the wall. One leg perched on the bark of the building foundation by the sole of his black sneakers, and his eyes deep, concentrating on his phone while both his thumbs busy typing away.

In yet another confusion, my brows creased, and I threw a questioning look to Leo who only shrugged and kept on walking. I couldn't understand What the hell was going on.

"Do you really think it's a good idea for us to be seen together right now?" I asked this directly to Luke and yanked my hand out of Leo's grasp before I crossed them over my chest.

"Relax, beautiful, " said Leo before he followed Luke's lead and slumped his back against the wall not far from where I stood. "We just wanna know how you're doing."

"And don't worry." Luke straightened up and slid his phone inside the back pocket of his dark blue jeans. "Nobody can see us here."

"Considering some pretty freaky shit that happened in the last what? twenty-eight hours, or so? I especially would like to know how you're handling things, " Leo straight away added, causing both Luke and I to turn our gazes to him.

I took a deep breath and let it out slowly. Somewhere behind the back of my head, the anxiety of someone seeing us there had already started to make my head pound. Their intentions were sweet, to say the least, but hiding behind the school building was not a good idea. Students were cunning and conniving, and you can never know when they were watching.

Someone was always watching.

"How is Suzy?" I asked instead. I genuinely wanted to know what was going on with her. How she was handling things. If she still hated me.

Instead of answering me straight away, Luke watched me. Closely. Like he was trying hard to see... I don't know what the heck he was trying to see, but his blue eyes gazed at me from my head to my toes before they settled back to my face. Looking at me from behind his leads, I couldn't stop the little squirm of my body that caused me to tighten the hold on myself. 

"How are you, Amelia."

'He always had feelings for you, Amelia.'

Suzy's words came slamming in my mind and I wondered if there was any truth to that.

"I... I'm," I stammered because Suzy's words kept on hammering  deeper and deeper into my mind. I shook my head and put a stop to those kinds of thoughts. Suzy was wrong. Luke loved her. It seemed like they have been together for so long, I couldn't even remember the time they didn't date. How could he have feelings for anybody else with everything they've been through together?

A thought occurred to me just then. The way he looked at me was as if he knew things about me he wasn't supposed to know. Wait, did he? Actually, know something about me? Can anybody just notice the difference? For a moment I entertained the possibilities of people sensing something you've done, and looking at Luke's eyes on me, the thought was rapidly taking momentum. The question was, how much did he know?

Absently, I slowly pulled my right leg and crossed it over my left, resulting in me standing in a weird, almost bizarre attention. Upon realizing what I was doing, I forcefully yanked my mind out of the crazed thought and pulled myself together.

Maybe the guy only wanted to know if I was okay from what happened between him and I yesterday and the aftermath of that, not what happened between my legs. I think. I hoped to God or Logan was so dead.

"I'm okay." I looked away from his eyes just in case he knew more than he should be. "So, how is Suzy? Did you speak to her?"

"Yes. She's okay. Don't worry about her. " I could almost hear his afterthoughts. She still doesn't want to talk to you, Amelia. My heart dropped to the pits of my stomach, and I reluctantly bobbed my head.

"Well, then." I took a deep breath and took a step back. Readying myself to leave. "I should go back. Classes will start soon."

"Wait." Luke shot forward and with his right hand, he grabbed mine, gradually stopping me from taking any more steps.

I didn't expect him to do that. With everything that was going on, I didn't expect him to be that reckless, so the action of him grabbing my arm came as a complete surprise, resulting in me getting startled causing a ball of uncomfortable heat to explode on my chest. I looked down at his hand on mine then at his face before I raised both my eyebrows. Clearly asking him 'What the hell?'

If he understood my silent question, he didn't care about it.

He didn't let go as I hoped he would.

"Listen, if you need anything. Absolutely anything. I'm here for you. Just let me know. Okay?"

I didn't answer. I swallowed and proceeded to stare at him.

"I mean it, Amelia."

'Don't tell me you never noticed that he has feelings for you, Amelia.'

My best friend's words rung in my mind again. Panic started to creep on my bones and I started to breathe a little harder.

"Luke, I..."

What the hell was happening? How could I have been that blind? I acted like a blind fool with Ethan whom I still needed to talk to, by the way, but Luke was my friend. My best friend's boyfriend and my boyfriend's best friend. Or maybe I was just reading too much into things and I hoped to God Suzy was still wrong and that her boyfriend was just being a friendly guy he always was, and just wanted to help with whatever he could.

If that was the case, then I didn't think even that was a good idea. It wasn't a good idea for us to be seen together, to be talking, and especially not me voluntarily going to him for anything. At least not until everything was resolved and clarified to our friends about what happened between us. But still, just so I could get out of there, I took a deep breath and bobbed my head.

"Leo, could you please escort me back?"

"Sure, " Leo said and pushed his back off the wall. "See you later, man."

With that, Leo and I walked away, back to the path we were supposed to be in the first place.

My mind was a sea of twirling questions that brought me deeper and deeper to feeling depressed. So many questions, too many they seemed to be buzzing on my ears. Luke, Suzy, Luke, Suzy. Those were the names that kept repeating in my mind the loudest and they almost threatened to swallow me whole. If everything was just pure speculation, why did Luke feel the need to talk to me? He must have known it was a bad idea which is why he involved Leo and away from anybody else but still, as far as I was concerned, he didn't need to talk to me and most importantly, what the heck was he thinking?

"So... You two...kissed." Leo's voice forced me back from the pits of my thoughts. I turned my head around to glare at him.

Really, Leo?

"That must have been quite a..." He creased his brows in a frown as he searched for the right words he wanted to use. "...damn, how was it?"

"Are you serious right now?" I threw my hand up in the air. "It wasn't a kiss, goddammit. You can call it... CPR."

"I know, I know." He chuckled and raised his hands in surrender. "Calm down, beautiful. I was just fucking with you."

"Well, it's not funny. He and I should not even be seen together. Who knows what students will cook up this time?"

"Hey." He grabbed my shoulder and halted me before he turned me towards him. "It will be okay, I promise. And don't worry about Suzy. You two are great friends, and I'm sure everything will clamp back to where they were in no time."

I hoped so. So far, it seemed everybody else was okay. She was the only one left that I didn't know how things were going. She was the next person I needed to talk to.

You know that ancient proverb that goes like, 'When you wish for something so much sometimes it happens' hold up, that didn't sound right. Was it 'be careful what you wish for?' Maybe. Whatever. Just bear with me.

My point is, I was amidst thinking about Suzy being the next person I wanted to see and you know what? My wish came true. Only at the worst of the time ever.

As Leo and I stood there talking, on the corner of my left eye I could see a silhouette of a person. Slowly, I turned my head around only to be met with the eyes of my best friend about... Maybe ten feet away from us.

At first glance, I expected to see anger, maybe hate in her eyes, but surprisingly, that's not what I saw. Hurt and betrayal were a much visible trait. Her eyes were almost glassy in despair.

Her Auburn hair down her shoulders slowly fluttered away from her ears as the small wind brushed against her face. Her standing stance was almost rigid and for a moment, I wanted to run to her. To embrace her in a tight hug. To tell her how sorry I was and how everything was going to be just fine.

I wanted to tell her I loved her, and she was one of the most important people in my life, and how I couldn't bear to lose her as a friend. A sister and most importantly, how I've missed her. But, her visibly curled in a tight fist hands ground me to the position I was in.

"Shit, this can't be good, " I heard Leo saying.

For a second, I thought he was talking about the fact that Suzy was there, but I understood how wrong I was to think that when I turned my head around to look at him only to find him looking back to the direction we came from.

From how stiff he had gotten; I knew exactly what I would see. Luke stood there about the same feet away from us as Suzy was, except he seemed a lot calmer than her. Or maybe he was just too good at masking his feelings. I didn't know.

His eyes didn't betray anything. He looked like he was just simply watching all of us. Both his hands shoved deep inside within his front pockets and his lips in a perfect, relaxed thin line.

Everything else seemed to have stood at a standstill as I turned my head from him to Leo and back to Suzy who looked like she was about to lose her marbles.

Fuck my luck.

Wait, since when did I start cursing in my thoughts?

Ugh, fuck it, the situation certainly called for it and I didn't know which action to take first.

*****

Well damn, I can't believe she's at it again. The predicament, the confusion I really hope it's going to ease up. Can't wait to find out.

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