Chapter 13: 07|I heart you-2

"Aiden and Bree" I laughed at Aiden's pain contorted face as he slowly stood up and made his way to awestruck Bree. She was smart, I will give her that but she was a total bitch. The typical ones with scissor instead of tongue and vagina that's used more than Google. "Avril and Riley" "Astrid and Rose." I froze. Rose beamed as she made her way towards me. Honestly, I had nothing to hate her for. She was sweet to me but she didn't even knew that I was insecure because of her. I felt fear around Alex and her. They always arose the alarm of losing someone in me and I have no idea why. "Hey." "Hi." I forced a smile. She noticed. "If you don't like me or anything, I can try requesting-" "No, no, no. It's not that." I frantically reassured. "You can be honest with me, Astrid. I want to be your friend." Bam! I love her. I have never seen someone so straightforward about their feelings, especially to me. I smiled. "Will you mind if I'll be honest?" I asked hopefully, she shook her head. "I get a little jealous seeing you close to Asher. I mean, you know- drifting away from your best friend kind of jealous. Ugh! It sounded less stupid in my brain." Rose laughed. "No, I get it. I too get jealous when Alex hangs out with Ian." "Ian?" Her smile dropped. "Oh, he is just one of Alex's friend." "Okay." "So, bottom line is that you don't need to feel insecure. He is my friend but he is your best friend and big brother first. I have seen him with you and I know that he loves you too much to leave you behind." Maybe, it was too girly for me but I couldn't help. I hugged her. I finally felt like I found a girl-friend and for some strange reason, I believed her when she said that my brothers won't betray me. But boy, was I wrong! ~~~~ Journalism has always been one of my very favourite subjects apart from maths (very, as all subjects are my favourite) but today, I am using this class to recall every instant where I pissed my teachers off. As today, practically every teacher entered the class with an agenda. Agenda to piss me off. You must be wondering what happened, right? Hold your breath and tighten the grip on your handkerchiefs as this is one hell of sob story. Firstly, Ms Walker gave me a 15 minutes lecture for 'gracing the class with my presence', 2 minutes late (I may or may not have taken a pit stop with Asher after our gym class to slip a chameleon in Ms Walker's LV purse). Then, deficiency of seats forced me to sit next to surprisingly my classmate- Liam, who oh-so politely greeted me with his death glare. And as if this wasn't enough, Ms Walker assigned us a group project where we had to read and make a report on 'The demise of Kovorelle' Kovorelle was a small but powerful island in south east of India that was ruled by Law Clan. The kingdom went in a spiral of downfall due to betrayal of Knight Clan. Knights turned against the Law and conspired an assassination with the enemies- Hunter and Cross Clans, a week before Prince's coronation. Royal family died in the attack. But the death of prince Cedric, the royal baby was always a mystery as he was missing for 5 years along with his 2 friends before he was certified officially dead in a massive house fire. Kovorelle is under judicatory rule for 11 years, as people refuse to let Cross's rule over them without gaining access to the treasure of iris. (A/N- this is an imaginary island with an imaginary story that I cooked up for the hell of it. Don't feel lost.) Interesting. And guess what group I am in. Hint- if there are 3 members in a group and I am one of the three, then rest two are boys. Now, one of the two, hates my guts and other is a flirt. Yes, you guessed it right. Group number 5, is a recipe of disaster with proud members- Liam, Neal and Astrid. FML. When did all my stars shift to unlucky spectrum? I let out a frustrated breathe as I couldn't concentrate on the snippets of the Law clan's fall from throne of Kovorelle. Neal turned in his chair and faced me. "Astrid? Will you do me a favour?" "No." "Please?" "Go fuck yourself, Wyatt." I gritted out in frustration and gave him a glare that made him gulp. Oh god, is Liam rubbing on me? "It's just a math question that I can't solve. Please?" he gave me his puppy dog look. I narrowed my eyes. "You don't even take maths." He looked taken aback for a second but then smirked. "Stalker much?" "Look who is talking." I muttered. He shoved his notebook in my hands and pouted. "Please?" Liam was observing the whole scene despite having his nose buried in the reports. I straightened the notebook and saw an equation an equation written in barely legible scrawl. 1= x^2 + (y-(x^2) ^3) ^2 I sighed in frustration. "You've to draw its graph. And please sketch it here." he handed me a red paged notepad with 2 white stripes on either side of the page. I raised an eyebrow at his weirdness. He shrugged and smiled adorably. I hate to admit but my heart skipped a beat. Feeling dazed by his smile, I immediately turned my attention in solving the problem. "This isn't even a math class." I heard Liam mutter under his breath. He was clearly getting annoyed and that boosted me up to get into depth of the equation and rub it into his face. But by the looks of it, he already knew the answer to the problem. I solved it. And I was awestruck. It was a heart. "Remove the white stripes." I looked up at Neal in daze and nodded like a lost puppy. Gingerly, I peeled the white stripes from both sides. I--*Heart*--You. I smiled. I freaking smiled! This was the cheesiest thing, someone did for me and even though I am not a big fan of cheesy, my heart fluttered. Being a math nerd didn't help either. "Neal- I- what-?" "Uh- you don't have to say anything, you know. I-I just thought you will smile again and stop being so worked up. Damn, I knew this was stupid! But I swear Astrid, I genuinely like you. As a person of course and I want to know you. I want to be your friend and- I should stop talking now, shouldn't I? Ugh! It sounded less stupid in my brain." I laughed at his flustered expression and without even taking notice of my actions, I pecked him on cheek. Holy fudge! I pecked him! He froze. I froze. We both blushed. Awkwardness settled over us like wet woollen blanket but a groan broke it. "Oh god, the amount of sexual tension here, is frustrating. Get a room already!" Trust Liam to say something like that. Did you like the fake story? My little cousin made me tell her a story and I made this Kovorelle thing for her but I liked it so much that I added it here. XD