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Chapter 5 - What Now?

I was eating lunch with Jackson again. It felt like old times and I half expected him to call out to me with a "Hey babe!" Alas...false hope. "Hello..." he said with an awkward smile. "Hey," I replied with the same smile. After we were done eating, he brought up the post. "So....who knew about us in the first place?" he said. "Well, the only people who knew were Sana, Zee, Anna, and Niki. Though I don't think they would write that," I replied. "Still we gotta look at everyone whether they are close to us or not," he added sympathetically. "Well from the girls, Anna found out about it later, Zee was way too pumped to reveal it to anyone and Sana didn't believe it for a long time," I said thinking. He hummed in response and said, "what about Niki?" I looked at Jackson with a "are you kidding" look. "Come on Jackson you know Niki has been my friend since I joined. He is my closest guy friend." Jackson thought for a bit. "Is there any possibility that Niki liked you? I paused for a second and then burst out laughing. "And Im the prime minister" I added sarcastically. "Wow it feels good to finally see you smile again nowadays your always gloomy." I stopped laughing and looked into his dark brown eyes. His shaggy hair was blowing in the midday breeze. For some reason it felt like our faces were inches apart. "Mina" I heard someone say from behind me. It was Adrian. "come on were gonna be late to class." I sighed. "Don't we have a few minutes before it starts?" He replied "Yea but the teacher came early today come on," he grabbed my wrist which caught me by surprise but before i got time to process that I felt someone grab my other wrist. "She will come in a few minutes you go on ahead," Jackson said glaring at Adrian. I turned into stone as they both glared eachother and I was stuck in the middle. I shrugged my wrists off both of them and told Jackson I'll talk to him later. I felt bad leaving him there but what was i doing? It's over now. We are just friends.