Pretend (27 page)

"
Ahhhhhh
!"
Crystal screamed. It was probably the tenth time that she had done that today and I was almost certain that my hearing would be gone by the end of the day, if she carried on.

             
"I think he's coming over! I think he's coming over! Don't look! Don't look," she unsuccessfully, whispered as Ca
meron walked through the cafeteria
doors.

             
"Will you calm down," Jinnie said, throwing her,
a
 
'I'm going to throttle you if you don't shut up' look.

             
"Is he coming? Is he coming?" She squealed, ignoring Jinnie's threatening tone.

             
"I don't know, you just told us not to look, didn't you," Jess mumbled.

             
"Ok, ok.
Ahhhhhhh
! He is coming! Ok play it cool, act natural," Crystal said as she tried t
o act as though she was deep in
conversation.

             
"We are!" We all shouted, giving her a dirty look.

             
"Hey ladies," Cameron said as a huge smile filled his face.

             
As I looked up at Cameron hovering over us with his eyes fixated on Crystal, it was impossible to deny how attractive he
was. Standing at least six foot tall, wit
h a muscular frame, hazel eyes
and short
cut hair and light brown skin, Cameron was what I can only describe as delicious. The only problem was that Crystal had a huge crush on him, which meant that we had to endure hours of her screaming and hyperventilating every time that
 
he walked into a room.

             
"Hi," we all sang in unison. Crystal of course dragged hers out and stuttered half way
through. How anyone can manage
to stutter whilst saying a two letter word was beyond me but somehow she had.

             
"Sorry, she does speak
English
, most days," Jess said gazing up at Cameron's eyes. This of course earned her a nudge in the side from Crystal.

             
"Ouch.”

             
"I just wondered if I could borrow your friend for a second," he said as a flirtatious smile filled his face.

             
"Be our guest," Jess replied before Crystal stood up in a daze and followed Cameron to a quiet corner in the canteen.

             
We all laughed as we watched Crystal twiddling her hair between her fingers, batting her eyelids and giggling every two seconds. I had to admit that
 
I liked this side of
Crystal,
it gave us all a day off from her usual bossy antics.

             
"She is so funny," Erica said as we all let out a giggle as we continued to watch Crystal melt after every sentence that Cameron was saying.

             
We couldn't hear the conversation but I'm very confident that we will know all about it in the next
 
five minutes.

             
"So," Jess said turning to face me.

             
"How's the love triangle?" She continued.

             
I felt my cheeks instantly turn red as I began to stutter.

             
"Triangle?"
I asked.

             
"You know, you, Jake and Kyle," she said as I let out a sigh of relief. I had expected to hear Aiden's name and I'm pretty sure that I would have been passed out in the nurse
’
s room if I had.

             
"Yeah, you're like Janeson High's own little Bella," Jinnie said as they all burst out laughing.

             
"Yeah but the question is, who's skin sparkles, Jake's or Kyle's?" Jess added before they all turned their faces to look at me.

             
"Seriously?
You guys are comparing my life to Twilight? It's hardly the same is it," I said, just glad that they hadn't mentioned Aiden.

             
"Oh, it totally is Bella, I mean April,"
 
Erica said as they all burst out laughing.

             
"Ha ha how mature of you all," I said as I held back my laugh.

             
"Yeah well if this was Twil
ight, I'd be that red head girl
," Jess said whilst pouting her lips.

             
"You do know that she's the villain
, right? She’s the
one
that’s
trying to kill Bella?" Jinnie asked in confusion.

             
"Yeah, I know. I don't mean that I'd want to kill you April," Jess said looking at me.

             
"Thank God for that," I replied
,
sarcastically.

             
"Just that I'd want to be the hot one in the film and the red head's the hot one," she continued.

             
"Yeah, she
also gets killed
in number three," Jinnie sneered.

             
"Yeah, I haven't seen that one yet, thanks for the spoiler," Jess replied, sarcastically.

             
"My pleasure," Jinnie said with a huge smirk on her face.

             
"Whatever. Anyway,
what are you going to do, you know about the whole Jake and Kyle thing?" Jess asked, seriously.

             
"I'd choose Jake if it was me, he's hot with a capital H," Jinnie added.

             
"Oh
,
you can spell," Erica sniggered.

             
"Shut up!"

             
"Well, I'm definitely over Kyle, I know that much," I quickly replied to prevent Jinnie and Erica from having one of their petty arguments.

             
"And Jake?"
Jess asked.

             
"I'm not sure, I guess I'll just have to see," I said, more to myself than to them.

             
"I'm back!" Crystal said with a big smile on her face as she slipped back into her seat at the table.

             
This was
one time where I was extremely
thankful for Crystal's interruptions.
 
It wasn't really Jake or Kyle that I wanted to talk about and the pressure of all of the questions was making me want to just tell them everything about Aiden. Stupid, I know.

             
"So, what happened?" I asked in an attempt to take the attention off of me.

             
"Well, he asked me out!" She squealed as the rest of us slowly joined her one by one.

             
We got all kinds of funny looks from the other tables but we didn't care, when one of us got a date with a hot guy, it was something to scream about.

             
"Ok
,
so when are you seeing him?" Jess asked in excitement as we all kept our eyes on Crystal.

             
"Tomorrow!"

             
Again we all screamed and got more funny looks. Oh well.

             
"Where is he taking you?" Erica asked.

             
"To see a movie but I'm not sure which one. He is so dreamy!" She said as she placed her hand on her forehead and pretended to faint from his 'hotness'.

             
We all burst out laughing.

             
Suddenly my attention was taken away when I spotted Kyle walking through the doors.

             
"Hey guys, I'll be back in a sec," I said as I leapt from the table and headed towards Kyle.

             
They were far too engrossed in their conversation about Cameron to take much notice of what I had just said and I was thankful, the less attention my life
gets,
the better.

             
"Hey," I said as I approached Kyle.

             
His nose looked completely fine, which I was glad of, since I felt so guilty about it. He also seemed kind of nervous which I knew was probably a result of last night's text.

             
"Hey," he said as he shifted his eyes from the ground to me and back again.

             
"I just wanted to know if there was
any more
news on
Mimi?
" I asked.

             
"Yeah, she'll be out tomorrow," he replied.

             
"That's great," I said as I smiled at him.

             
"Yeah," he said as a faint smile, touched his lips.

             
"So, you
’
r
e
still
ok with me coming to see her when she gets out?" I asked.

             
"Yeah, she'll want that," he said in
a
sad voice.

             
I felt bad but I had made up my mind and I was sticking to it.

             
"Ok, well I'll give you a call tomorrow so that I can sort out about visiting her, if that's ok?" I asked.

             
"Yeah cool," he replied a little happier for some reason.

             
"Ok, great. Well, I'm going to go," I said awkwardly as I began to head back to where Crystal and the others were sat.

             
"Ok, bye," he said in a voice that almost broke my heart.

             
My life was such a mess.

             
As I headed back over to the table, I knew that they were still talking about Cameron or another hot guy from the expressions on their faces.

             
"I know
that
he's your brother but he is hot!" I heard Jess say as a look of disgust filled Crystal's face.
Great!

             
"Oh good, April will you please tell Crystal how freaking hot her brother is?" She asked as I sat back down, hoping that nobody would see my cheeks changing colour.

             
"Who, Aiden?"
I asked, dumbly.

             
"Well, how ma
ny other
 
brothers does she have?
Of course Aiden," she answered impatiently.

             
"Look, we are so not having this conversation. You finding my brother hot
is
just weird," she said to Jess.

             
"It's not like I'm saying
that
I would date him, obviously that is like an ult
imate friendship no
no
. Brother
s are off limits but it doesn't hurt to do a little window shopping," Jess said as Jinnie and Erica nodded in agreement.

             
Of course my stomach dropped. This was definitely the time for a subject change!

             
"
Eww
," Crystal said as she shook her body in disgust.

             
"You're wi
th us on this aren't you, April?” S
he said, looking directly at me.

             
Oh great! How can I answer this without looking guil
ty?
I can either l
ie and say no or be honest and
 
look guilty, my options are seriously limited.