Don't Believe Everything You Hear

"Selena!" I heard my name being yelled. I turned around to see Kyle running to catch up with me. I laughed as he ran into person after person, almost running into a tree in the process too.

"Are you walking home with me today?" I asked him.

"If you don't mind," he said. "If you do, I'm sure I can keep running and catch up with Jonathan, he walks like a dying snail," he laughed.

"I'm not sure about a dying snail, but I'm pretty sure he got a detention, so he probably hasn't made it too far by now," I laughed.

"What'd he get a detention for? I've never seen Jonathan do anything that was bad enough for a detention," Kyle laughed.

"He was talking in class, and his teacher didn't like that," I laughed. "Does that sound like something he'd do?" I asked.

"Yeah, that's exactly like something he'd do." Kyle laughed. "So…" Kyle started, whistling a bit.

"So…what?" I asked.

"Um, never mind," he laughed.

"What were you gonna ask?" I asked him.

"Nothing important," he laughed.

"Just tell me," I whined.

"You won't like it, so I probably shouldn't say it," he laughed again.

"You're not gonna like it, and you'll just get angry," he said.

"Then why would you say anything about it?" I whined.

"Well, I kind of wanted to aggravate you for awhile, but I figured it'd be in my best interest not to," he said calmly.

"So you aggravate me like this instead?" I asked him, laughing. Just like Kyle.

"Um…yep," he laughed. "So how's lover boy?" I groaned.

"Is that what you were gonna ask before?" I groaned.

"Pretty much, yeah, so how is he?" he repeated his question.

"Who is he?" I asked. "I don't even know."

"I'm not at liberty to discuss this," he said with a straight face. It was slightly strange.

"What are you, a secret agent?" I asked him, laughing.

"Maybe I am. What if I have a secret life that nobody knows about?" he said.

"Yeah, and I helped Abraham Lincoln end the Civil War," I said, sarcastically.

"Wow, you're old," Kyle laughed. I just rolled my eyes.

"Why can't you guys give me a name to this 'lover boy'?" I asked.

"Because, you wouldn't get it, and besides, what fun would Jonathan and I have if we told you that?" I rolled my eyes.

"What about reading a book?" I said.

"Too boring,"

"Playing some video games,"

"I've beaten all of them,"

"Buy some more," I told him.

"I'm broke," he laughed.

"Get a job,"

"I'd rather not," he laughed again.

"Get Jonathan to buy you video games then," I said. "He's already got a job,"

"Yeah, but he has terrible taste in video games," I said.

"You're impossible, you know that?" I said to him.

"So I've been told," he rolled his eyes. "This is my stop," he said and ran into his house.

I sighed and kept walking alone. I ended up taking the long way on accident and it took me about twenty minutes to get home from Kyle's house. When I got home, I didn't expect to see anything out of the ordinary.

That's until I saw Austin sitting on my front porch.

"Dude, what are you doing?" I yelled to him, as I walked up the sidewalk to the porch.

"Um, I'm just sitting here," he said. "Waiting for you," he added. I looked at him weirdly. He stood up from off of the porch.

"Why, may I ask, are you waiting for me?" I asked.

"I don't my math homework," he said, holding up his book. "I was sort of wondering if you'd help me, if you don't mind" he said, kicking a little pebble into the planter. I looked at him skeptically.

"Yeah, sure, I'll help you," I said to him, gesturing for him to go inside.

"What takes you so long to get home?" he asked me.

"Um, I took the long way," I said.

"You mean you got lost?" he asked.

"No, I took an unnecessary detour," I said, laughing nervously.

"Hmm, okay sure," he said, rolling his eyes.

These were the kind of times where I enjoyed Austin's company. When he could just laugh and joke around. He was being himself, not who his jerky friends expect him to be. I liked it.

"So, let's go work on math," I said excitedly. "Wow, that's nerdy," I said.

"Aw, but it's cute," he said.