Something About Him

Chapter 20: Restless

Cynthia POV

"My girl..." Bethany squealed as she saw me walking into the hallway of school.

"Hey Beth..." I said as she pulled me into a bear hug.

"God! I missed you so much!" She said dramatically.

"Beth, you literally saw me yesterday morning" I replied pulling away.

"Yeah I did but it was only like for a minute or two and we didn't even get to talk properly about the night you got stuck in the library, because you didn't attend class and just left" She explained.

"So was I supposed to attend class after sleeping on cold, hard floor for the entire night?" I asked sarcastically but the minute I said that I realized how bitchy I just sounded, which was absolutely not my intention.

I guess I'm just a little upset about the conversation I had with my dad, this morning at the breakfast table.

"Oh. What has got you so edgy girl?" Bethany asked curiously.

"Nothing...I'm sorry Beth, I shouldn't have talked like that" I replied with a sigh.

"Cynthia..." She paused pulling me away from the crowded hallway.

"We have been friends since we were in diapers, you can literally tell me anything, you know that right?" She continued as I sighed yet again, of course I trust her and can tell her anything that's going on in my head.

"It's just my dad..." I trailed off recalling our conversation from earlier this morning.

Well, thank God! Chase wasn't present there when Dad demanded me to stay away from Damien or else he would have understood that I bluntly lied on his face about Damien being just a fictional character.

"What about him?" Bethany asked, snapping me out of my thoughts.

"Though I don't understand why, but he has asked me to stay the hell away from Damien" I replied.

"Well...that shouldn't be hard, right? You aren't even friends with him and he doesn't even looks your way so..." She stopped in the middle of her sentence, probably realizing what she just said was not exactly that I needed to hear, sure it was true, but that doesn't mean that I needed to hear that from the entire fucking universe.

"I'm sorry, I didn't mean it like that, I just meant that there's no reason for Ed to be so worried" She continued.

"I just don't know..." I trailed off with a shrug.

"Honesty I don't get that why he's so worried about this" I added.

"Maybe he thinks that Damien might have a bad influence on you" She replied with a shrug.

"Whatever! Let's just get inside before the class begins" I suggested as she just nodded and we headed towards our class.

"Looking for the very guy, your father asked you to stay away from?" Bethany asked teasingly as she caught me looking around as if I was searching for someone.

"No. Absolutely not" I lied confidently, waving my hand as if it was nothing at all.

I feel like I have been lying a bit too much these day. If I keep up lying at this rate, I'll surely get good at it.

"Oh yeah? Are you sure?" She asked teasingly.

But then again, she's my best friend, she can obviously catch me on my lies, or maybe I'm just a terrible lier after all.

"Beth! You are really not helping with that teasing tone" I replied, irritated while glaring at her.

"Alright. Alright. I'll just pretend that I don't know what's going on in your heart" She said raising her hands up in surrender.