\ \ ♡ Kristen Lore ♡ / /

~a/n, before you start, this isn't a really big part to the story, so go ahead and just.. not read if you'd like ^ ^~

I'd been a few days—almost a week since the incident with Hop. Of course, he stopped coming for early visits in the morning which made my mom suspicious. "Krissy, dear, why don't you tell me what happened with you and Hop?" I simply bit my inner lip, shaking me head. She'd always rub my back gently. "Its. . . okay. Talk to me whenever you're ready." Her voice was very soft, it filled me with a familiar feeling of comfort, but I could always tell something else hid behind her sweet smile. Despite the fact that I didn't tell my mom, I told Bede me and Hip had gotten into a fight(obviously not the part where we kissed—he kissed me though. . And I didn't stop it). Bede was really nice. Even though Hop definitely wasn't one of his favorite people, he still tried helping me get through it. And. . . He did help, he tried comforting me with hugs, forehead kisses, cute dates, talking, but for those past dates all I could think about was him. Hop. Why wouldn't I? Hop was the person who I just lost. How could he not be on my mind. At first I thought it was normal for me to think of him, but after a day or two, not so much. I couldn't get the image of that kiss out of my mind, the look of heartache he gave me after we kissed. Only now realizing I had always questioned my feelings for him, but brushed the questions off to the side, completely forgetting about them in the end.

Currently, I sat on a chic dark colored couch, wrapped around in Bede's arm. I stared at the t.v with a blank expression. I was dozing off, when I felt Bede's grip on me tightened. I looked up at him, "I asked you a question. . You okay?" I faked a short laugh, nodding. "Are you still on that Hop kid?" He asked with a roll of his eyes.

"He's my best friend! Of course I am." I argued, furrowing my brows together. It was easy to tell Bede was annoyed of how much we were talking about Hop. As I said, I've been pretty bummed about and did I mention he disliked Hop?

"You haven't even told me what happened, so mind telling me?" I could come up with a lie, but truth be told, I am a terrible liar. It isn't exactly my specialty, nor do I have a good poker face. Not only that, I couldn't tell him that Hop liked me. My silence answered his question. "Guess that's a yes." I felt his grip on my waist loosen drastically. It was as if he just had his hand resting there now. I kind of just wanted to slip away completely and run home. Normally if I were on a date with Bede I'd get all kinds of butterflies. . but it is wasn't like that this time.

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The date ended, not horribly, but it definitely could've been better. Though, I have to admit that I was rather happy to leave. I felt a buzz come from my phone that lured me out of my thoughts. I opened it, revealing a text message from Sonia who was updating me on the new discovery of mega evolution(wish it was actually a thing in pokemon sw/sh). It was a daily thing now. The thing was. . .that only made me think of Hop even more. Sometimes I would be laying in bed, or waiting for a gym challenger in the locker and I just hoped that I'd look at my phone and see a text message from him(obviously I didn't show any texts between them). It was so terrible to always be waiting for one. Made me so anxious, not only that, but that would cross my mind a lot. 'Bing' "is that from hop?", "I hope it's from Hop", "Its just Sonia", or "it's just Piers." I get why he wouldn't text. If I were him I wouldn't want to text me neither(either??). Yet I always hoped for one. I missed all of our text convos.

♪♪•Hey guys, it's been a while since I updated '>n< . It's mostly because school started again, but also because I kind of just lost my muse..? I know people shouldn't write when they lose their muse because that could lead to a crappy story part.. more crappy than usual(in my case), but y'know. Yes. I'll try updating more often!!•♪♪

P.S - didn't reread, so there's no doubt I had some oopsies.