Should I Tell? / l.h

Chapter 17

Waiting for April to come is nerve wrecking, I've had a shower, Marley's done my hair, I'm dressed and now I'm sitting here waiting for her. It's almost as nerve wrecking as waiting for my date with Luke tonight, which he should be here in about an hour so April should hurry up.

My bedroom door slowly opened and April crept in,

"hey"

"hey" this is going to be awkward, I can tell

"I'll erm, give you some space, to talk things out and stuff" Marley made her sweet escape while she still could, if only I could go with her.

I looked at April who looked at me and her body shifted from left to right, I hope she sits down because she's making me more nervous.

"you can sit down ya know? I have quite a bit to explain so I think you should" she did, she sat down without a word and that petrified me because usually, she has a lot to say.

"I know you have a date with Luke, if that's what you were going to say" I didn't expect the first thing she said to be that

"yeah that's what I wanted to talk to about, wait, how do you know?"

"Luke told me, said he wanted to see how things went with you because, well, he basically didn't like me and he liked you so I told him to go for it" so that's what he was sorting out,

"you told him to go for it?"

"yeah, I knew you liked him so when he told me he liked you, I told him to go for it" she knew?

"you knew I liked him?"

"of course I knew, you're my best friend, I could tell"

"oh" was alls I could say because now I feel embarrassed that she knew, all this time she knew and I was so worried about telling her when I had nothing to worry about

"well, if you knew I liked him, why did you tell me you liked him and go out with him?"

"I wanted to see whether what people said about him was true, I wanted to see whether he was good enough for you" I want to know whether what people say about him is true as well

"and"

"Lex, you wanna know how I know he's good?" I just looked at her willingly, hoping she'd tell me "because he told me he liked you before he let anything happen with me, he's a good guy Lex"

I hope he stays a good guy

"so, you're not mad or anything?" I need clarification

"absolutely not, don't be stupid I never even liked him in the first place, he's all yours" now alls she was doing was laughing, which made me laugh, but, I could get used to 'he's all yours'

Marley popped her head round the door and almost whispered

"err sorry to interrupt things but Lexie, there's someone downstairs waiting for you" there's only person who she could mean

"okay, I'll be down now, April do I look okay?" I'm getting really nervous now

"Lex you look fabulous" compliments were never my strong point, I just turn red

I walked out my room and headed for the stairs, as soon as I got to the top of the stairs I could see him and he could see me. I stood at the stairs for a few seconds before walking down them. Then, as I stood in front of him, staring into his piercing blue eyes, I hoped that nothing ruined my first date with Luke.