𝐏𝐑𝐎𝐉𝐄𝐂𝐓 𝐁𝐀𝐁𝐘

Airdrop

| Emma's POV |

"Ever since Monday all anyone's been talking about is that video Ethan and you made in health class" Hannah smirks nudging my arm constantly to try and get me to say something back

"We didn't make it together, it was all Ethan" I state putting my final books in my locker for the end of school thank god it's Friday.

"Which makes it cuterrrrr!!!!!" Squeals Ellie and a small smile appears upon my lips

"You haven't even seen it" I roll my eyes and they both tell me that they'll get their hands on it some way or another. I say goodbye to them and begin my walk out the school gates.

My car had damn broke again so my mom was currently getting it fixed in the repair shop so I started my trek home.

Suddenly I'm picked up off of the ground and spun round

"Need a lift, princess?" Ethan asks setting me down on the floor allowing his burning red cheeks to fade themselves out. I look at him with sparkling eyes he knows I'll put up a fight because I hate people doing things for me "I'll get you coffee" he offers with an eyebrow raise

I growl at him because he knows it's my weakness.

When we pull up to the drive thru he doesn't even need to ask for my order he just rolls it off the tongue perfectly like he had been practicing it in the mirror repeatedly.

He passes me the cup and pulls up round the corner on a bare plot of land

"Ethan" I say timidly sipping my iced latte "we haven't spoken since Monday and I just wanted to thank you for the video"

"No problem, I enjoyed doing it actually" he says sipping on his smoothie, glancing at me only for a few seconds

"You should do it more. Maybe start uploading something on your socials" I state and he looks at me completely shocked

"You think it was that good?" He asks like he seriously doesn't believe that it was visual art at its finest. He had seriously created something beautiful with the clips he had hold of and that was a talent he was obviously oblivious to.

I nod and he shakes his head.

"No one would watch it anyway and what would I do? Film me playing fortnite because that's all I do in my spare time?" He laughs sucking his smoothie aggressively and I knock my head back to try and think about what he could do

"There's all sorts of prank videos online currently, you could video you pranking Gray or something"

He shrugs and puts his drink in the middle console and begins to drive towards my house.

It's weird as soon as Luna stopped being in our lives he kind of backed away from me and now it has been a week and we were only just now talking about the video.

He pulls up outside my house and turns to look at me,

"Seriously Ethan thank you for the video it really meant a lot to me"

I was serious, I couldn't explain to him how much it filled my heart. I want to kiss him but he looks reserved and he pulls further away from me when he speaks.

I knew I hadn't done anything wrong and that this was probably just natural.

"It meant a lot to me too"

"Really?" I ask like an excited child and he nods with a straight face and my hyperness fades away

"Yeah... I guess"

There's an awkward silence so I decide it's time to leave. I reach out to open the car door but I pause and turn back in my seat

"Can I have it?" I ask and he scowls like he doesn't know what I'm on about "the video, can I have it?"

"Uh yeah?" He mumbles pulling his phone out his pocket and taking a second while he stares at his thumb. He doesn't press send for a while because it looks like he's contemplating something which confuses me.

What was so debatable?

My airdrop notification pings and I happily accept it and send him a thankful smile

"Thank you for the ride" I smile stepping out of the car feeling so incredibly awkward, we've never been this cardboard-like

"No problem" he barely mutters.

I bring my hand up to give him a small wave and he does a peace sign through the window before speeding off.

For some reason my heart begins to ache.