Safety in the Friendzone by Elizabeth Stevens

Author:Elizabeth Stevens [Stevens, Elizabeth]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Sleeping Dragon Books
Published: 2019-12-06T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 12: Zane

Something strange was happening. And it had all started with a non-kiss.

If Mum hadn’t walked in when she did, I would have kissed Charley. And Charley hadn’t seemed like she was planning on pulling away. In fact, I was almost certain she’d been leaning in. At least, my possibly unreliable memory was telling me she had been. So, it looked like maybe this whole spark thing hadn’t just been me after all.

I wanted to say I didn’t know what to do with that. I wanted to say things were weird between us now. I wanted to say that it would have been a mistake.

I couldn’t say any of those things. No part of me believed it.

Charley had called me later that night and we’d just talked like we always had. I’d driven her to school the next morning and it was like nothing had changed. Nothing except this air of expectancy that seemed to hang over us. It wasn’t suffocating, it was just interesting. It was like there was this thing hanging over us that we could talk about if we wanted, but we didn’t have to talk about it.

It added a depth to our interactions I’d never noticed before but felt totally normal. Charley smiled at me more, but didn’t seem to want me to see. Even over seemingly nothing. She just smiled at me in the corridor for seemingly no reason. It was like when we were younger and just seeing each other made us happy. And I felt the same. Just the sight of her had my breath catching and a smile growing.

She was busy glaring at Bleeker at Recess, but I couldn’t wipe the smile off my face.

When I saw her talking to Brock, my tune took a hard turn plummet.

I didn’t feel ridiculously, inexplicably happy at the sight of her. I was annoyed and I was jealous. For the first time in my life I was jealous. And even more unfamiliar, I was jealous of Charley talking to a guy. And it was only exacerbated when he said something that made her laugh.

I watched, my fists clenching of their own accord, as I saw her laugh at whatever he’d said. She added insult to injury when she brushed her hair behind her ear and looked down with that cute little smile that rarely came out. My heart thudded and I felt my jaw tighten. I wanted to hit Brock. That was a new feeling for me.

But why now?

Why was I jealous now?

Maybe it didn’t matter. Maybe all that mattered was what I was going to do with this. Only, I didn’t know. I didn’t know what I should do with it. And I didn’t know what I wanted to do with it.

I felt like I wanted to kiss her. I certainly didn’t want anyone else kissing her.

But did I want to kiss her enough to risk our already dysfunctional friendship?

At lunch, I saw her in her usual spot in the Common Room. As though she felt my eyes on her, she looked up and found me.

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