Team Captains

Chapter 14

~Chapter 14~

Day Ten

"So last night was fun," Chrissy said as we continued walking to class.

"Yeah I guess," I said still deep in thought about what happened last night.

Suddenly Chrissy stopped walking and turned to face me, "What's wrong?"

I furrowed my eyebrows and feigned confusion. "What do you mean?"

"You've been dazing off all day," she told me.

"It's just that Daniel gave me his hoodie last night and he was actually nice to me. I just don't know what to think right now," I confined in her.

A smirk appeared on her face as she gave me a knowing look. "Someone has a crush!" She sang.

I threw her a dirty look. "Shut up and I don't have a crush on Daniel. We're enemies remember?"

Chrissy gave me a look that said that she didn't believe me. "Whatever you say."

"And I'm feeling much better now," I lied. "I've realized why I was so confused was because I hated him and I was so disgusted by the fact that he would actually be nice to me and offer me something."

Chrissy had a worried look on her face and she pointed a subtle finger behind me.

I slowly turned around to realize that Daniel was right behind me.

I gave him a nervous smile. "How many of that did you hear?"

"Enough," he said with an impassive tone. "I just came to tell you that you could keep the hoodie but now I've realized that's the last thing you would want to do."

I hesitantly reached into my backpack and pulled out his hoodie. I handed it to him and as he reached for it, I felt guilty.

He was just trying to be nice to me last night and here I am dissing him all because I wanted Chrissy to stop saying that I had a crush on Daniel.

After leaving Chrissy and me speechless by his death glare before he left, we finally snapped out of our daze and resumed our way to our class.

Who knew a walk to class could feel so long. This wasn't going to be a good day.

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"Omigosh you're so cute Daniel!" I heard a high pitched, screechy voice coo as it followed by a giggle.

I raised my eyebrow in curiosity as I hid behind the wall that could cover me enough to not be noticed.

Daniel smirked as he leaned against the lockers like he had no worries in the world and as if our argument had never happened.

I watched as the girl who I now recognized as the head cheerleader, Casey, reached for Daniel's arm. "Wow you're so muscly," she smiled.

Daniel smirked, "It's no big deal. You should see how I'd look like if I actually worked out more."

I rolled my eyes at his arrogance. Typical Daniel.

Even after laughing at the girl's desperate attempts in flirting with Daniel, I couldn't help but feel something weird in my stomach.

I had a unsettling feeling about the girl actually being successful in winning Daniel over and them starting to date.

If they did start to date, they would be the school's "golden couple" or "power couple" because after all, you've heard the cliche stories about the star quarterback football player and the head cheerleader.

In those stories, the two characters were perfect for each other. There was nothing that could come between them especially not a girl from a volleyball team.

Why was I worried and thinking this way? I should be happy for them that they finally found each other but I couldn't help but not.

It was very confusing.

Why was I feeling this way?

I decided to stop watching and leave before I did something to reveal that I had been watching the whole time.

After much contemplating, I decided to go outside to get a breath of fresh air. I needed to breathe and figure out what and why I was feeling the way I was.

I smiled as I saw the shady spot beneath the trees were empty. I started walking over to the area.

I sat now and rested my back against the stump and look up at the blue sky without a cloud in sight.

I smiled and closed my eyes as I took a deep breath.

Everything was much easier before this bonding thing started. I didn't feel the way I did right now and Daniel and I could argue without it turning out to be like this.

We could make fun of each other names without taking it personally.

Although the bonding thing has, in my opinion, worked. I didn't like it. I didn't like the way I was feeling towards Daniel.

The feeling, I've figured, was not hatred but something else that I wasn't familiar with.

I've never felt this way and I didn't even know what it was but I was determined to find out what it was. Maybe that way I would stop thinking so hard and I'd be more focused.

"Hey," the familiar voice of Chrissy said as she plopped down next to me with a. volleyball in her hand. "How are you doing? You only come here when you want to think."

"I saw Daniel flirting with the head cheerleader," I told her. "I don't like him."

She sighed and nodded. "Wanna pepper?" She asked, holding out the volleyball in my face.

I smiled, "Of course!"

Chrissy stood up and offered her and to help me up. I accepted the help and thanked her.

"Thanks Chrissy for everything," I told her. "You always find a way to cheer me up."

Chrissy threw me a small smile and shrugged. "What are friends for?"

As we started peppering, I thought to myself. What were friends for?

I sure haven't been much of a good friend to Chrissy lately. I don't even know how Chrissy and Troy were doing or if they were still together. I never bothered to ask about her relationship. That just shows how a terrible friend I was.

In that moment I made a promise to myself. I promised myself that from now on I'd be a better friend to Chrissy as she was to me. She was there when I needed her and I'd be there when she need me now. I'd be the friend she'd want me to be. I'd be the friend she needed.

And I made another promise to myself. I promised myself that I'd find out what these feelings toward Daniel were. I would find out truly what I felt about him. I was terrified to say the least. I was terrified on what I'd find out. I was especially terrified on what I'd do after I find out what they really meant.

But a promise was a promise. They weren't meant to be broken. As many promises that I had broken in the past. These would not be one of them.

I promise.

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