"Why! Why didn't you say something to me, Cali?" The sound of my angry voice echoed off of the walls of the Princess Theatre bathroom. It had been a long time since I had been to the movies and I wasn't surprised to find that the old theater was still as dull and dingy as the last time I was there.

The bathroom was out-dated with different colored tiles on the walls, floors, and ceiling. The mirrors encased in gold frames would have looked beautiful if they weren't falling apart and chipped everywhere. Out of the five bathroom stalls, only two of them still had working locks on them; One didn't even have a door. The actual toilets were bright pink and the toilet paper was too thin. Despite how outdated the bathrooms were, at least they were extremely clean. Everything sparkled and smelled of lemon cleaner. I'm not sure how a place like this exists in a town like Selesity.

"I promise you Delanie I didn't know until we were already on our way here. I'm so sorry." I could tell by the look on Cali's face that she was being sincere.

"It just really fucking sucks that he is here and Josh isn't. Lisa and Bridget better get here soon." I sighed and started digging through my purse for lip gloss. Ever since I rolled out of bed, nothing has really gone right for me.

A group of us all had plans to come see a movie over the weekend and at first it thrilled me. Alex Fret, Amanda's crush of the month, was coming as her date and Cali was obviously going with Jason. Josh was supposed to come but ended up having a basketball tournament in the next town over. So instead of going as a fifth wheel, I invited Bridget and Lisa from my gym class so I wouldn't look like such a loser. Thank God I did otherwise I would have been fifth wheeling it with Jayden.

My phone started vibrating, and I anxiously dug around in my purse for it. I quickly answered it and had a brief conversation with Bridget that left my heart racing. Apparently on their way to the theater they witnessed a horrible accident and had to stick around to tell the police what happened. I acted concerned for them, asking if they were hurt blah blah blah, but in reality I was cursing them for leaving me in this situation. It looked like Jayden and I would be fifth wheeling it together. Great.

I wanted to scream so loudly that I burst the eardrums of every single person's in a ten-mile radius. Why do I have to be so unlucky? Maybe this was fate trying to tell me that no matter what I do, I can never escape Jayden and his good looks. Well, guess what I have to say to you 'fate' Jayden and I will never get along, as long as he is so self centered and full of himself I will never consider him a friend.

"They aren't coming." I said holding back the scream that I so desperately wanted to release. "Let's get this over with." I mumbled to Cali who was still looking apologetic.

Ten minutes later, we were all seated in the old theater waiting for the movie to start. Somehow I ended up sitting between Amanda and Jayden, seriously why do I have such horrible luck. My immediate reaction was to put up a wall to my right and shut him out completely. Considering Cali and Jason were on the other side of Jayden I had to look at him when I turned to talk to them while the previews were running.

I leaned over to laugh with Cali about something and I caught the scent of Jayden's cologne. I hated myself for doing it but I took another deep breath of it, damn it smelt good. My brain put a name to the scent, and I realized that he was wearing Versaci. I loved Versaci. It took all of my willpower not to snatch at his black t-shirt and breath in the sweet scent. Why did I have to sit next to him?

While he was looking over in Cali and Jason's direction I was staring at him thinking about, why. Why did he have to be so good looking? With those emerald green eyes that cut through to your heart like a knife. Why did he have to have his hair sticking up in that way that just made you want to run your hands through it? Why did he have to be wearing the best smelling cologne of all time? Why did he have to be a player? Why do I keep staring at him? Why am I smiling as I'm thinking about how cute he is? Why is he looking at me like that with that totally sexy smirk on his face? Why am I not looking away? Delanie look away! Look away, don't let him see how much you just let your guard down!

"I'm getting a drink!" I practically shouted to the entire theater and bolted from my seat. Whatever just came over me could never ever happen again.

As I stood in line at the concession, I thought to myself about why I had been thinking all of those things. Sure I already knew that Jayden was hot, no more like unbelievably sexy but I had never had thoughts like that about him before. Nor would I ever again, I couldn't allow myself to think that way it was just wrong on so many levels. I liked Josh, a lot. I hated Jayden, a lot. So why was I not sitting there thinking about how much I wanted Josh to be there?

"You know I'm starting to think he might be right about you." I jumped as Jason's familiar voice reached my ears. Wow, I must have been deep in thought because I hadn't even heard him approach me.

"Huh?" I said stupidly.

"Jayden, I think he might be right about you. The way you were looking at him in there... I just don't get it Delanie..." I raised an eyebrow at him because I did not understand where he was going with this. "I know that you're careful about what guys you let your guard down around, you have every right to be that way after what Liam and Scott..."

"Don't mention him Jason." my tone was harsh and threatening. I never wanted to hear that name ever again, Jason should know better than to mention that piece of shit to me. I had long since gotten over what Liam did, that was just a lesson learned but Scott... no I just wanted to keep those feelings shoved deep down inside of me.

"My point is I can see that you like Jayden and I can see why you're trying to ignore those feelings. Trust me when I say that I think he feels differently about you. I've never heard him talk so much about one girl before." Jason stared at me for a moment while I let this information sink in. He talks about me?

"Yeah, he does." Jason replied, oh shit, I must have asked that out loud without even realizing it. "A lot. Lately he mostly talks about how Josh isn't good enough for you. He tries to act like the doesn't care but in the meantime he is making it blatantly obvious that he does."

Why was Jason telling me this? Was he trying to make life harder for me? The last thing I wanted to hear was that Jayden cared about me. I had spent the past month trying to pick out all his flaws and all the reasons for me to ignore him and see the worst in him. Was there actually some good inside him? Past the selfishness and conceitedness could there possibly be a real person capable of feeling about somebody besides themselves?

During the movie I was overly aware of where my hands were, if I was hogging the arm rest, if I was leaning too much towards him. Why did Jason have to make me aware of the fact that I could like this person? He said he could read it all over my face when I was looking at him. Was he right?

Did I like Jayden even though all he cared about was himself? But did he just care about himself? Jason seemed to think that he cared about me too. But why in the world would he care about me? Because I am a challenge? No, maybe more than that? Maybe it's because I'm the only girl that has enough respect for herself not to go throwing herself at him? All I knew was I had to re-evaluate the situation and God forgive me for thinking this, give Jayden a chance?

During the next week of school I was extremely confused about how I felt about things. Jason had started this disease in my brain that made me constantly analyze everything that Jayden did and said towards me. I was always thinking 'does he really mean it like that' or 'is he trying to hint at something here'. It was driving me up the wall but I couldn't stop over thinking every little thing he did.

In History class on Tuesday morning, I said good morning to him and flashed him a friendly enough smile and his eyes seemed to brighten up instantly. I dropped my pencil and even though it was right by my feet he dodged out of his desk to pick it up for me. By the end of that class we had our desks pushed together and were doing homework together. I realized that Jason was kind of smart, I never would have guessed. For the rest of that day he was the only thing on my mind. How Jayden said this. How Jayden did that. My brain was just non-stop Jayden, Jayden, Jayden.

Wednesday during lunch hour we were all sitting together in the cafeteria, and by we I mean everyone that went to the movie and Josh, eating the slop that our school considered food. I started choking from laughing so hard at something Alex had said to Amanda and Jayden was instantly patting my back and offering me his water. A look of concern was definitely on his face. When my airways were clear, I thanked him and when I looked in Jason's direction he was giving me that I-told-you-so look. Was this possible? Did Jayden actually care about me?

The worst part about the whole situation was that the more I started to let my guard down around Jayden the more I started to shut Josh out. I still liked him a lot, but he still hadn't asked me to be his girlfriend and I was feeling like he might not ask me at all. Maybe he just wanted to be friends? I didn't know for sure. However, I knew that I would not continue holding his hand and kissing him if he wasn't interested in dating me. I don't really do the whole 'friends with benefits' thing.

The most insane thing about my week full of confusion and realization happened during gym class on Friday afternoon. They merged our gym classes to play a massive game of Doctor Dodgeball, Jayden and I were on the same team. Over the last few days we had grown closer to each other, so it wasn't awkward being on the same team; It was kind of nice.

As the game went on we were laughing and joking around with each other, not even really paying attention to the game and suddenly I got pegged in the face hard with a ball. The force of the hit knocked me to the ground, and I was seeing stars. My head hit the ground hard, and I got a long cut along the side of my head, it was gushing blood. Within seconds of me realizing I was bleeding I was being picked up off the ground and cradled like a baby all the way to the nurses office.

"That jerk. Who hits a girl like that? Are you sure you're okay? I swear to God if our teachers weren't in the room I would have smashed that kid to a bloody pulp. Do you think she needs stitches?" Luckily I didn't need stitches but Jayden rambled on and on as the school nurse patched up my wound. I couldn't help but laugh because he was actually so cute when he was angry. He had been so quick to help me and had blood all over his arms from carrying me across the school, how could I think that he didn't care now?

"Delanie are you okay!" The door to the nurse's office burst open and Josh was standing there looking pale and worried. His expression quickly changed to confusion when he saw Jayden sitting in a chair in the corner, wiping off the blood from his arms with a wet paper towel.

"What the fuck did you do to her, you asshole?" Josh yelled at Jayden who looked amazed that somebody was standing up to him like this. It was quite surprising because Josh was a considerable amount smaller than Jayden was.

"Language!" Mrs Forali, the nurse, scolded Josh.

"I didn't do shit. I helped her." Jayden said coldly while continuing to wipe off his arms.

"Both of you out now before I clean your mouths out with soap!" Mrs. Forali yelled.

"You're a dumbass you know that, right?" Josh said to me as we both waited outside of the nurse's office. I had no idea why he was still there, from what I could tell Delanie and this loser hadn't been hanging out as much, thank God.

"Yeah, I'm a dumbass because I helped Delanie when she got hurt and was gushing blood." I rolled my eyes and fought back the urge to punch this loser in the face.

"No, you're a dumbass because you don't know when to give up. Everyone can see that you're gunning for Delanie, but she will never go for you. Haven't you noticed that girls haven't been bothering with you lately?"

No, I hadn't noticed, I'd been too focused on trying not to piss Delaine off. Ever since we went to that movie, she was being oddly nice and trying to be my friend or something. Obviously I would never be satisfied with just being her friend, but I had to start somewhere right?

"They aren't bothering with you because it's written all over your face that you want Delanie. Your losing out on some of the hottest girls in school because your hung up on the one girl that will never want you. That is why you're a dumbass Jayden. A little advice, get over Delanie because after this weekend she isn't going to be in any state to be dating." Josh rose to his feet and walked away without another word.

What the fuck did he mean by that? Was he going to hurt her? Yeah over my dead body.