Camila

I turned around and there he was.

His dark brown eyes looking down at me. With one hand, he was trying to push back his long hair that was all over the place. His hair was long in the front and shorter in the back, so his hair was sometimes in the way. His hair was messy, maybe because he just woke up or from the wind but either way it made him look even more attractive. He was wearing a blue short sleeve shirt and I could see his tan skin, and his tan went well with his dark brown hair.

"Hey, Camila. You look pretty today." he said still looking at me with those almond shaped eyes.

"Hey, Alexander! Th… thanks so much." I said while blushing but trying to hide it. I turned around so that he would see me and then just stood there.

"Are you going to sit down or are you just going to stand there." He came to stand right beside me. He was much taller than me, around ten inches taller.

"Yeah," is all I could say to him. I don't know why I can't think or speak normally when I'm around him. Without another word I sat down at the table and I tried to act like everything was okay. But he made that even more difficult when he sat down beside me. I could feel the heat that was coming from his body and the scent of pine and hints of vanilla.

"Why do you keep calling me, Alexander? You know you don't have to be so formal with me, we are friends." He whispered in my ear, as if he didn't want the rest of our friends to hear him. I felt his breath on my neck and it sent shivers all over my body. Why was he so close to me? Not that I was complaining.

I just shrugged at his question. I didn't have an answer for him. It could be because I'm still getting to know him and everyone already knows him. Everyone knew each other from middle school and I was the "new friend" that everyone is getting to know. However, I had seen him around school my freshman year but then I didn't see him for a while. I heard, he moved in with his dad and didn't like it there so he moved back with his mother.

"Everyone is going with me after school to get food, right?' asked Nora, while she was trying to figure out what restaurant we would be going to that afternoon.

"I think that I am going to the mall later today, right after school. Does anyone want to go?" I heard Lily say. Lily was that one "friend" that no one likes but has to deal with because one of the guys liked her but she acted like she didn't know that he did. I turned to look at her, like she was crazy, she knew about the plan to go out to eat after school but she wanted to change it to benefit her. I wasn't surprised. "Alex, you should come with me. If Noah is the only one that goes with me, people might get the wrong idea." She said and then looked at me with an ugly look on her face, as if she was saying that he would say yes to her. But Alexander didn't even look up from his phone.

"Why are you trying to change my plans? Everyone has known about hanging out after school today, since last week. If you don't want to go then don't go." Nora said, getting upset. This was a late birthday get-together because most of us couldn't go to Nora's birthday party.

"What? Are you going to cry? I just thought they everyone might want to go somewhere more fun and not everything is about you, you know?" Lily said in a mean tone. Why was she getting so mad, all of a sudden?

"Okay, okay. I think that EVERYONE needs to calm down. Lily, you have known about this and why we are doing it. We can go to the mall tomorrow, right?" Liam was trying to calm everyone down. He turned to Nora and patted her on the head, which made her smile. I thought they would be a cute couple but they were just best friends, well that's what they told everyone.

"Alex, are you just going to let them talk to me like that and just brush my ideas away like nothing? Would you...:" Lily began to say.

"Don't get me involved. I already told Nora that I would go with her because I didn't go to her birthday party. And like Liam said, we can tomorrow." Alexander cut her off.

Lily's face got all red from anger or embarrassment and it was so funny to see her like that. She didn't expect him to say that to her Lily then looked over to Noah and started talking to him. Noah was a nice, funny, smart guy. He was the first of my new friends that I met. He was best friends with Alexander and he was the one that liked Lily. And that's when the bell rang for class. I got up from the table and grabbed my bags, everyone was doing the same thing. I walked to class alone.

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After School, I met up with Nora, Liam, Alex and Noah at the table that we usually sit at. Some of our other friends were going to meet us at the restaurant because they drove their own cars or had to ride with siblings. Liam was our driver because we couldn't drive to school yet. From the table to the car, we talked about how the day went and what we should do after we are done eating.

'Well Liam is going to drive and I can shotgun! So Camila, Noah, and Alex you'll have to sit in the back sit, okay?" Nora said all happy. She always liked sitting up front when we rode with Liam.

"Okay sound fine with me." I said shrugging and trying to act normal. Just the thought of sitting with Alex made my heart race. Liam's car was small and with stuff in the back seat, I was squashed between Alex and Noah. I tried to lead more on Noah, who didn't seem to care , than on Alex; because I didn't want to make him feel uncomfortable and I didn't want to seem like one of those girls that used her body to get the attention of a guy.

Nora wanted to go to Pizza Hut to eat, she liked pizza, while I on the other don't like it that much. When we walked into Pizza Hut and saw Lily sitting there waiting for us.

"I thought that y'all would never get here. I was about to call Noah to see where y'all where." She said.

"I thought that you were going to go to the mall after school," Nora really didn't like Lily and could care less if she was here or not.

Lily didn't say anything to Nora and looked over to Noah and Alex, who were still on either side of me, and said "You two can come and sit next to me, if you want." I just rolled my eyes and sat down two seats away, across from her. Noah sat on the left of Lily, Nora sat across from me and Liam sat beside her. And to my surprise Alexander sat beside me. Nora grinded about me, as if saying "look at you" and I did the same thing and looked at Liam. She was someone that I could trust but I haven't told her that I liked Alexander; because I didn't know how she would react or say.

I pulled out my phone to check what time it was, 3:40 pm, we had been here for ten minutes and still didn't know what to get. I was about to put it down, when Alex reached over and took it out of my hand. "What are you doing?" I said confused. He never took my phone or my thing, like Liam or Noah (who always played around).

"What's your password?" is all he said. I just reached over and unlocked it with my fingerprint. It was much easier and faster than saying my password. I looked up at him with a confused look on my face. I saw that he went to my contacts and snapchat, and added himself to both of them. I had his Instagram account already but I was too nervous to get any other social media information. I didn't know what to say to him and lucky the waiters came up to take our order.

Everyone decided to get a supreme pizza and a cheese with pepperoni pizza, while I got the chicken alfredo pasta. Alexander ordered some chicken wings and split them with Liam. I was so nervous sitting beside Alexander and also creeped out because Lily wouldn't stop staring at me, that I couldn't finish my food.

I didn't realize that Alexander still had my phone in front of him, until it started flashing from a notification. I reached for my phone and Alexander did too, his fingers were warm and I little shock was sent up my arm. I jerked my hand back and just looked at his hand, what should I do? I looked up at him and saw him smiling. His smile made my heart tug tighter then it was. Then he handed me my phone. I looked at my phone and saw that Nora had texted the group chat with her, Liam, Noah, Alexander, and me in it. She wanted for just us to go somewhere when we finished eating. Lola and Daniel had to go back home after this and Nora didn't want Lily to go with us. Yes, she could be childish sometime but I, too, didn't like to hang around Lily and wouldn't be sad if she didn't hang out with us.

"How about we go to the park?" Liam texted.

"What do you think? The park or the movies" Nora asked in her text.

"What movies are out right now?" I kinda wanted to go to, both the park and the movies but I hadn't heard of any good movies that were out at the moment.

"I think that the movies would be better, it still looks like it's going to rain." Alexander pointed out in his text.

"THE MOVIES IT IS, THEN!!!" Nora said way too excited in her message.

"Okay," "Sounds good," "ok," Liam, Noah, and I texted back.