don't delete the kisses

Confidence is Comical

As they walk back to the car, Alexander puts on his playlist on the AUX, surprising Nova with his music taste. The drive isn't long, eight minutes, tops. He drops her back at home, smiling sadly as she walks into her house. He hadn't gotten any information about her home life but he did see that for once in weeks, Nova looked happy. Alex waits until she has closed the door to drive away.

Nova walks up to her room, as quietly as possible. Opening her phone she just posts a picture of Alex sitting drinking his coffee, with a text saying, "late night pancakes". She smiles slightly before shutting off her phone. This is the first time in two weeks she has felt genuinely happy. Before going to sleep she texts Alexander.

__Alexander⚽️_____

Thank you for tonight

No worries star girl
*reply to story*
What a handsome man 😉
*nova liked the message*

~~~

As Nova walks into school on Monday, she feels a lot more of looks on her than usual. Girls from sophomore and freshman year just giving her looks that don't look positive or negative, just weird. She tries to ignore it to the best of her possibility. As she walks into her math class she sees the soccer guys around her usual table talking to Alex. Nova sits down onto her usual seat and the guys softly smirk at her, she can hear low wolf whistles from a couple of the guys. Trying to ignore them she pulls out her AirPods, putting on a playlist. Mr. Jacobs walks in and breaks the group appart, scolding them for disrupting the class. As the teacher gives them their assignments, Nova sees how the guys still act weird from the corner of her eye, smirking at her and Alex. She ignores them best to her ability doing her school work.

The school day continues the same way, she gets glares from fourteen year olds every time she is in the hallway. When lunch time rolls around she goes to sit down at the usual table, Alice and Anna just sit there smirking at her. She sits down facing her best friends with a questioning look on her face, sipping her Diet Coke.

"So. You and Alex?" Alice asks smirking lightly at her.

"What about me and Alex?" Nova takes a fry from her plate eating it.

"Late night pancakes? Every single girl below the age of 17 is jealous of you right now!" Gianna looks at her best friend who just stares at her, dropping her fry back onto her plate.

"So that's what it is about?!"

"What what's about?" Kyle and Alex ask as they come to sit down.
"Your and Novas date on Saturday" Alice says smirking at them both. Alexanders heart skips a beat.

"That was not a date!" she yells out so everyone hears. "Alex just came over because I wasn't replying and I hadn't had dinner, so we had pancakes" as Nova explains, Alex just nods along.

"Whatever you say." Gianna says with a slight smirk on her face.

The lunch continues with Gianna and Alice smirking at the both of them, Alex and Nova aren't acting out of the usual thought. He pulls out his math assignment, making Nova help him by giving him the answers. Nova gets mad at him for not thinking. The usual.

When the lunch bell rings everyone stands up, grabbing their trays to go and leave them. The group leaves the cafeteria with Alexander walking behind Nova. Even after denying the date, they get looks, especially because they are walking so close together. Most of the looks are the freshman girls who have a crush on the most popular guy in school and want to achieve their high school dream. Nova walks to her locker and Alex stands next to her, scratching his neck slightly. Nova just smiles at him as she closes her locker and walks to her social science class. Alexander stays stood leaning onto her locker. He sighs and groans dropping his head. He mutters a quiet "fuck" and walks away in defeat.

Alexander walks to his soccer practice still visibly upset. As he starts undressing himself and putting on his practice kit one of his friends sneaks up on him, throwing him with one of the soccer balls that is in the locker room. It hits Alex in the head, as he turns around he grabs the ball and throws it back at him.

"What the fuck is wrong with you!" Alex says, marching out of the locker room, starting to run laps around the field as a warm up. He gets to his third lap, when Kyle catches up to him, slightly panting.

"Alex what's wrong with you?" his best friend asks.
"Nothing" Alexander mutters, spitting onto the grass and grabbing his water bottle from the bench they are passing.
"You didn't come to English class." Kyle states. Stopping by Alex.

"Wasn't in the mood to se mrs.Kingston" he mutters again, taking another sip. Kyle just nods. Their coach walks onto the field and the practice starts. They go over game techinque for their next game. Alexander stays in a mood for the whole practice, barely uttering a word. When it comes to the actual practice part he is a lot more aggressive and usual, after half an hour he gets a red card and just leaves, grabbing his bag and not changing.

He walks to the car absolutely furious, a tear passing his eye. As Alex sits into the car, he grips the steering wheel so hard his knuckles turn white. He sees Kyle running out of the school towards his friends car. While approaching the car Alexander hears him yell "What the fuck bro!" Kyle opens the passenger seat and sits down glaring at his best friend.

"What the fuck is wrong with you today!" Kyle practically yells.
"Nova" he groans, his fury growing.
"What about her? You guys are friends?" he looks at the golden haired boy confused. Alex groans and takes a deep breath.

"Yeah, but I've also liked her since I was 15." Alex looks at his friend a tear dripping down his cheek. Kyle just stays quiet saying a couple of "uhm"'s and "so..."'s every couple seconds. Alex takes another deep breath, wiping his cheek.

"I know I haven't put the best moves on her but she acts too casual after Saturday. I thought of it as a date but she just doesn't seem to like me." Alex explains.

"What do you mean? Why wouldn't she like the most popular guy in school? No homo, but you're hot." Kyle says.

"Invite her to our party on Friday! or I can invite them and then, you can, uhm, you know dance and put your Alex Dawson moves on her!" Kyle speaks up after a couple of minutes. Alex nods and takes out his phone. Kyle smiles at his best friend. "Im a genius!" he says and Alexander bursts out laughing.

__Alexander⚽️_____

Me and Kyle have a party on Friday
You, Alice and Anna are invited
Wear something pretty will you?

HA! Sure star player

Alex smiles at the nickname and starts driving home. He has some moves to think off and a party to plan.