He's the boy next door. She's the new girl. He's popular. She's not. He's annoying. She's ignoring him. He sneaks in her window, and she becomes confused with her feelings. Then he disappears. After coming back, he's different and she wonders what h...
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I texted Ariel and asked her about Abi. She texted me back asking where I heard her name and that I shouldn't ask about her ever again. I clicked on her name and waited until she answered my call.
"What are you thinking, Mary?" she asked, clearly annoyed.
I frowned. If she's mad at me for bringing up Abi's name then they should at least tell me what the problem about her was. I wasn't a psychic to figure out the whole situation. If something bad had happened between her and Connor, it wouldn't be that hard to give me the heads up about it. I was being left in the corner here.
"Some girls were talking about her and I don't even know what the deal with her is," I said, starting to get annoyed as well.
She sighed, getting that she had to tell me a little bit of the story they had been trying to keep. "If I tell you about it, will you stop? Like really, really stop with the whole thing you're doing to Connor?"
I paused for a while and thought about it.
"Come on, Mary. I'm not going to tell you unless you promise me."
If I promised to her that I would stop then that would mean it's over for Connor and I. There would be no friendship or anything else between us. If I promised to her, I should hope that my parents would be assigned with another project in another place so we would transfer again.
I took a deep breath and prepared my answer. "Tell me everything then I'll stop," I said.
"Can you come over? I prefer telling you about it personally."
I was on my feet already. "On my way."
This was it—the story of Connor and his sudden disappearance. I was thinking maybe it wasn't that big of a deal but her name's kind of a big mess in his life. What happened between them was something he couldn't get over and once I knew about it, I wouldn't come any closer to him nor should I try any of my schemes.
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Ariel put the drinks on her bedside table. I grabbed one because all the running made me thirsty. When I placed the glass back down, she was looking at me, her arms crossed over her chest.
"Don't look at me like I committed a crime. I'm just a mere bystander in this story," I said with a shrug.
She plopped down in front of me. "Do you really want to know the story of them? I mean, it's not that interesting and you'll be bored with it." She was trying to convince me with that. I wasn't buying it though.
I took her hand and smiled. "If it's a boring story, Connor wouldn't be a bipolar around me. And it's definitely interesting. Knowing that most everyone at school knew about it, it's obviously a big story."
She closed her eyes and pretended to weep.
"Connor won't know about this. I promise," I informed her in case she's worried about it.
