Step Eight: Fade away.

Christmas break was about to start, and as my parents knew, Matthew and I were dating. So, during the last week of school before the break, my mom told me to ask Matthew to eat dinner with us at Christmas Eve.

I was a bit nervous to ask him, because I didn't know if he was going to be able to go or not.

"Hey, Matthew," I called out as I saw him near his locker—surprisingly, he was speaking with one of his friend and Nicole Jackson.

He looked back and saw me standing there, he blushed—cute.

"Hi, Elodie, uhm," he started saying, scratching the back of his neck, "W-what's up?"

"Nothing much, I just wanted to ask you something," I explained.

He looked at his friend—Charlie. "All right, we better go, see you around, bud," Charlie said and made a weird handshake with Matthew.

Nicole and Matthew smiled to each other and then she looked at me with a small grin.

"So what did you want to ask me?" Matthew said, grabbing my hand, once they left.

"Well, my parents were wondering if you were able to have dinner with us on Christmas Eve," I said.

He dropped the hold on my hand once we sat down on our desks in Art class.

He looked down, that gave me the answer.

"I can't go," he started, "Christmas is really important for my mom."

I pouted my lips and them smiled.

"It's all right," I lied, "My parents will understand."

He sighed, relieved. Then the class started. I looked up from my notebook to Matthew's face, he seemed really relieved to my sudden lie.

I focused back on what the teacher was saying and did what I had to do. When the bell rang, Matthew got up so quickly, I did not even have the time to say goodbye.

As I was walking out in the hallway, I heard someone call out for me.

"Ellie, wait up!" I heard, the only person that called me Ellie was Evangeline, but that was not her voice, so I turned around to see a running Nicole.

"Oh, thank God I caught you before you left," she said, smiling, I was a bit confused by her sudden need to find me.

"Uhm, not to be rude, but, did you need anything?" I asked.

"Not really, I just wanted to tell you something really important," she started to say—she was looking at the floor and then she looked up and smiled.

"I now have a boyfriend."

"Really? Well, that's amazing, for you!" I said, smiling weirdly because I did not know why she was telling me all of this.

She nodded and smiled so wildly that it made me think she was the actress for the Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland.

"I did what you told me, I looked for those weird quizzes, I wasn't sure about them though, so I went and asked him," she said, moving her hands and all, "He said he had a girlfriend, but things were not as they used to be before they got together."

"Wait, so you're dating a guy who already has a girlfriend?"

"Not really, he told me he was going to break up with her over Christmas break," she said, shrugging as if it was a simple thing to do, "But, he clarified it wasn't because of me, mostly it was because he was not really that happy with her."

I nodded, feeling bad for the poor girl, not Nicole, but the unknown one who was about to get her heart broken.

"Anyway, that was all, I have to go, but thanks again for the advices," she said, hugging me and waving goodbye as she went out the school's doors and into the parking lot.

"Poor girl, he probably got bored of her," I said to myself in a low voice as I went home, "Nobody deserves that, though."

He got bored of you.

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I never liked him either way... Lol, ew.

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