- Greg’s POV –
Oh my God, how could I let this happen? I don’t even like Lily anymore. I can’t imagine how bad that must’ve looked to Lauren. I have to go find her and tell her what happened. I thought to myself as Lily came up behind me. “C’mon…you know it wasn’t THAT BAD,” I turned around with my face starting to burn up. “We are NOT together anymore, get that through your head! I’m with Lauren now- I like her…A LOT…so can you just leave me alone!” I screamed at her. She just stood there with a grin on her face.
“What are you looking at me like that for?” She started to walk towards me. “You’re so cute when you’re angry,” she batted her eyes at me. “No,” I backed away. “I’m guessing you didn’t really realize how much you liked her until she saw you kiss another girl and you knew you probably screwed up your relationship…am I right?” she was still smiling. I didn’t answer her. “I’m leaving to go find Lauren, and if you follow me- you won’t be giggling anymore,” I stormed away and practically ran into Claudia. “What the hell is going on?” Claudia was obviously upset with me on account of how upset Laurie was. “I’ll explain later-“ She nodded and brought me to where everyone else was…and I found Laurie sitting on the ground; crying.
- Back to Lauren’s POV -
Everyone parted when they realized that Greg came back. I tried to wipe my tears from my face. “Lauren..” Greg walked over to me. I looked at him as he sat down next to me-Courtney had gotten up when he walked over. “C’mon guys, give them a little time to themselves” Matt demanded. The other 7 turned and stared at him as he was STILL standing there watching me and Greg. “That means you too!” Jesse pulled Matt by his jersey.“He’s right, they’ll come back over to us when they’re ready,” Claudia said as she shuffled everyone away from us. Greg put his arm around me and softly kissed the top of my head. He explained what had happened between them, and explained that he hated her now and that she was holding onto something that would never happen again.
“Look at me,” he said tilting my chin up so that he could look at me. “I’d never let anything like this ruin us okay?” he wiped a tear from my cheek. “Aww,” Sara, Cori, Larissa and Kel tried to whisper. “Can you hear what’s going on?” “No, can you?” Frank and Jesse chimed in. They had all leaned too far, and fell through the bush. I leaned back into him and just felt him with his arms around me. “C’mon…let’s go,” he said as we got up and walked over to where everyone else was. FLASH “Whoa…what was that for?” I asked as Greg and I blinked our eyes. “I had to get a picture of your first fight…that was so cute!” Sara laughed. “Oh God, you idiot,” We all stood there not knowing what else to do.
“Come on everybody,” Louie said walking towards us. “The van’s here to take you to a photo shoot and an interview with TEEN PEOPLE Magazine,” he shuffled all of us into the direction of the bus as he was talking. The seating order: the 1st row- (from window to the door) Frank, Kelly, Matt and Larissa..2nd row- Courtney, Chris, Sara and Jesse..3rd row- Greg and me. There was a lot of talking going on obviously since there was 10 of us including Louie and Claudia. (Everyone else; parents etc was following the van). There was an uncomfortable silence between me and Greg, so he started to talk to Jesse. “Is she okay?” Jesse quickly looked at me and then looked back at Greg. I was just staring out of the window. That’s all I could do to try and stop myself from picturing “her” kissing Greg. “I don’t know..” Greg trailed off. “Didn’t you guys make up or something?” Jesse answered back. “I’m not sure..I told her that I was sorry and that it meant nothing. But she didn’t say anything because that’s when you guys fell out of the bush and when Louie came,” he finished. “Yeah, come to think of it, I think I got a thorn from the bush in my sock or something!” Chris came out of nowhere. “Awe come on! Put your shoe back on! You can find the thorn later!” Courtney and Sara both covered their noses and laughed.
“Okay guys, we’re here! Now in an orderly fashion…GET OFF THE BUS!” Louie joked. All of us got out- - the first stop was the photo shoot. While the guys were busy with that, we decided to go to a Starbucks and get coffee and just chill for a little while. “So Laur, what’s the deal with you and Greg?” Larissa blurted out. Sara nudged her with her elbow. “What?” she looked at Sara with a confused glance while shrugging her shoulders. “What do you want me to say? I saw him kissing another girl…” I trailed off and stared into the whipped cream on my caramel frapp. “He told you that she kissed HIM right?” Courtney tried to reassure me. “Yeah…” I started but then Sara cut me off. “So then he didn’t want to kiss her- - and judging from what his reaction was when he knew that you saw her kiss him, he didn’t like that too much. And trust us Laur, he cares about you A LOT. When you were in the hospital, he was ALWAYS the first one there and the last one to leave,” she started to tear up. “..sorry, I get a little emotional about that kinda stuff,” she laughed as she tilted her head up so that her mascara wouldn’t run down her face. “You dork!” Kelly laughed.
“I really care about him too…but just picturing it. I mean, how do I know that he said that to me because that’s what he figured I’d want to hear? I mean, it’s like if any of you saw them kissing another girl RIGHT in front of you, whether they meant it or not,” I could feel myself tearing up again. “Everything’s going to be fine…we promise,” they all gave me a hug and we started to go back to where the guys were. “I hope so…” I whispered.
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