The next day Wintyr didn't bother me at all, which confirmed the fact that he and Ruby were now a thing
I can't lie, I was a bit bummed cause the idea of Cole getting jealous was a little cool, even though I knew deep down it would never be like that
I sigh focusing on Lyra who waves walking away from me to Samia, who was waiting for her outside school "Bye" I wave squinting my eyes at the blinding sun. It was 2pm but the teacher of our next lessons wasn't in so going home early was definitely something I was looking forward to doing
"Yo" I jump at the sudden voice and look to the side to see Wintyr leaning on one of the pillars just outside school "Jeez" I whisper holding my heart but decide to ignore him looking everywhere but him "What are you doing today?" He asks casually following me
"Why do you care?" I reply even though I still wasn't looking at him "I dunno we can finish our project, I brought my laptop with me so" I see from the corner of my eye that he was standing straight now, I mean he was pretty tall compared to me, I was just a little, kinda, chubby thing. He and Ruby would be a good couple though cause she's 5'7 and he was over 6'2 or something, yeah very tall but so were most boys here
"I thought we were done?" I cough bringing my books closer to my chest still not looking at him
"I deleted some bits cause I didn't like them" This catches my attention and my head snaps to him "You what?! We worked over 3 hours on that" I yell but he just smirks "Honest mistake" He says with a little smile that meant the opposite "Jerk" I whisper under my breath
"So your house then?" He asks walking straight ahead to the car park "You coming?" He stops looking back at me "You can't invite yourself to my own house" "Well if you don't want an F, then hurry, we could go to my house but my mum is holding some book club thing there" He shudders "Nerds" I roll my eyes at his phrase cause Winytr was a smart boy too, I mean yeah there were some areas that needed work but the fact he called every one, that actually cares about having a life, a 'nerd', really bothered me
"I really hate you" I say loud enough for him to hear and don't bother waiting for him to walk to the car park as I already knew what his car looked like
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"When does Ruby get back?" Wintyr asks for the 10th time in the past hour "Wintyr, let's not focus on her for now and actually please open your laptop" Thankfully no one was home when we got to mine but instead of starting right away he had insisted that I make him ramen cause it would help him 'focus' "I'm nearly done wait" Wintyr takes his last bite, sat on the desk in my room whilst I was laying face front at the edge of my bed scrolling through tik tok
"So when is she back?" He turns back and I drop my phone on the bed not even in the mood for the funny videos on my fyp "Is this the only reason you're annoying me? Cause Ruby is my sister?" He looks up in thought, then nods slowly at the revelation "Hmm I guess one of them" We hear the front door open and close then steps coming up the stairs. I bite my lip scared of how my dad would react to such boy being in my room during school hours
"Hey" Ruby opens my door without knocking then smiles wider when she sees Wintyr here too "Hey you" She waves happily as I exhale relived "Yesterday was so fun again, thank you again" She says and Wintyr's smile grows 'Stupid jerk, my sister deserves better' I roll my eyes rolling on my back picking my phone up again
"What are you guys doing?" She makes her way in sitting on the bed beside my head "Our project" She nods when he answers "I thought you guys were done with that" She looks between us "Yeah we were, but this dummy over here deleted it" Wintyr mimics my words rolling his eyes "Oh no! I can help you guys" She offers "Yeah that would be so nice" Wintyr quickly replies and I cringe at the fact that I was about to act as a third wheel to my sister….for Lily, Megan or Lyra I would but Ruby, the popular and a 'nerd' together with Wintyr, this just felt weird....
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"Woah" I wake up in the middle of the night drenched in my sweat "Ewww" I whine silently as my clothes stick to my body. Yesterday Wintyr luckily left before anyone else got home saving me from any sort of explanation even though it wouldn't even be that hard to explain why he was there. Since he apparently lost the whole file, we had to do it again doing it on my laptop this time so we didn't lose it again....
I guess for the afternoon, I was the third wheel which was mostly filled with Wintyr flirting with Ruby and her giggling at his jokes that weren't even funny. To be honest they did do the most work as they were only talking to each other, what even was the point of me being there? I don't even know. The PowerPoint wasn't as good as the first one so I wasn't as excited anymore to see my grade so I just went to sleep and woke up from the weirdest dream now
"Yuck" I was disgusted at how hot I was right now so I get up and open a window "Should I?" I think about having a shower but I was too sleepy so I decided to go back to sleep in my wet patch again
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morning
"Honey?" My dad shakes me and I slowly open my eyes "Yeah?" I smile then wince as I touch my forehead "Ah my head hurts dad" I close my eyes quickly "I think you're sick honey" "Oh no" I hear Ruby say to herself when my dad speaks "Ruby?" I say her name even though I heard her in my room "Hey" She cheers up and I open my eyes again "You sleep and get well okay" She tucks me in but that makes me more hotter
"Honey, I'll try to be back from work early to take care of you okay?" My dad reassures me, worry painted all over his face so I nod to let him know I was fine "I'm okay" I try to get up but feel myself getting dizzy instantly "Rest up" He pats me helping lay back down "I will dad" I nod my head, feeling light-headed again
*doorbell*
I wake up groggily at the constant sound of the doorbell "No no" I cry "Please why does the delivery man come on the wrong days" I whine forcing myself up "I'm coming" I wear my robe then slowly make my way down the stairs
"Pabo" I open the door but look up at the last thing I expected "What are you doing here?!?" I yell at him then remember the state I was in right now "No, you can't see me like this" I attempt to close the door but his strong hand catches it and pushes it back open "I heard you were sick" He steps inside sliding past me as I try to cover my face "Okay thanks, bye" I open the door wider "I got worried so I went home and made soup for you" He holds out a container with a spoon attached on top
"You what?" I ask not really getting what he was saying, my head was pounding so much "Fine my appa made this" He says as if he didn't care at all which confused me cause why was he here then "Your dad or-" "Yes, he did, here, take it" He shoves into my hands and takes his school bag off his back
"Thanks but no thanks" I shut the door giving up on sending him out, why do I need to let him out, he can go whenever he pleases "What do you mean no thanks?" He says from behind me following me up the stairs "I haven't even brushed my teeth Wintyr" I groan walking into my room "Well that's what I'm here for" He places the container down on the table then faces me
"I'll take care of you for my Ruby" He nicknames my sister making me gag "Yup I'm defo feeling more sick" I say trying to fix my bedsheets neatly while Wintyr just stood there watching me
"I'm going to shower don't mess my-" He jumps on my bed making himself comfortable in my sickness sweat "-room up" I sigh not even bothered anymore "Why do I even try?" I turn walking out of my room to the bathroom "Take your shoes off" I whine remembering his expensive Balenciaga's touching my rug
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"You're gonna catch my illness at this point" I sigh when my hour-long episode of Love Alarm on Netflix finishes "Better for me, no school" Wintyr stretches his arms up "I still don't understand why you watched that with me" I say noting the fact I was on season 2 episode 3 and he clearly had not watched one episode "No I liked it, maybe I'll start it when I have time" He says casually closing my laptop and helping take the soup out my hands "Plus it's easy for me to understand since it's in Korean, it's pretty basic but interesting" I didn't even catch the last bit he had said as my head goes in and out of the world
"Hey you good?" Wintyr snaps me back and I look at him trying to focus on him. He really was acting like a good friend which I appreciated no matter how much it annoyed me to say. As soon as I was out the shower he made me exercise, which I HATED. Then he told me he coincidentally found our better project on his laptop so we reviewed it and compromised the new and the old one together.
Then after he helped me into bed, he gave me the soup he had brought over to have which was a 10/10, I wanted more but I didn't want him to say 'told you so' so I just suffered craving more as it was delicious
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"You should get to know Cole a bit more" He lays back down after putting my food away "What do you mean?" I check my phone to see several messages in the group chat with Lily talking about how her crush Joel who had most classes with her, he seemed to flirt a lot with another Megan in their class which was now the groups discussion
"Cole" He says his name taking my phone out my hands to focus "What about him?" I ask calmly even though the sound of his name brought butterflies to my stomach "I know everything about him" He states "Sooooo?" I emphasise not getting his point "So if you're gonna make him jealous, you're gonna need to know him a bit more" My brows narrow "You're still on that? I thought you and Ruby already hit it off?" He shakes his head rubbing his eyes "Sadly no" He turns his head to look at me "But that's where you come in to help, right?" "Still a no" He rolls his eyes as I kill his joy
"Okay tell me about Cole then" I sigh pretending not to care even though I really wanted to know "Okay so I've known Cole for long-" "I don't care" I cut him off but he just pauses then continues anyways "I've known him for long, so trust me, he's a guy that dates more blondes and well..." He looks at my hair "Okay I get it, move on" I kick his legs "Ow fine, so he's only had 3 proper girlfriends his entire life, one in which he broke up with a year ago cause he got 'bored'"
"So you calling me boring?" He holds his hand up confused "When did I ever say that?" He rubs his forehead "Girls are so hard to understand, always jumping to conclusions" He says to himself as if I weren't there
"Okay carry on" I wave allowing him to continue "He also likes quiet girls" I smile to myself "Girls that are very reserved" Then he zones back into me "Not violent girls" My jaw drops "I'm not violent" "Sure" He blinks still not believing me "Also he likes girls who just know how to vibe, make him laugh, smile" He sighs "So you're pretty much his type" He concludes but I wasn't sure if he was just saying that to make me feel better, though it definitely did the job "So I'm funny?" Wintyr rolls his eyes giving up "That's really all you got out of that?"
"Oh I didn't know we had guests, sorry, I thought you were asleep" Michelle, Ruby's mother enters my room without knocking the door "No" I smile tightly shaking head, confused as I hadn't even heard her enter the house "Oh" I remember that Wintyr was in fact a boy and we were laid in my bed together, even though I was supposedly sick....shxt
'This is bad'