Between I Hate You's.

08📂Bubbling.

08. | Bubbling.

These silence means I'm about to go.

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⏱Previously...

She explodes and spills the tea. She explodes but the truth is, I was the one who exploded and died. Really now? This is gonna be a looooonggg talk.. and please make me invisible. I don't have time for this... well clearly I do... but this is not gonna go anywhere because obviously, they're gonna push this until the end. I know them too well.

As her last sentence came to me, suddenly, I had a flashback of the time where Daniel and I needed to hide at the bathroom because of... Verona... her. See? She made this rumour and angered herself by herself... tsk tsk tsk.. this is all her fault. We were only trying to hide and now she's blowing up again and about to faint from anger? Hayyy...

I got back to reality and met her eyes "Verona.. I-it's not what it looks like.." I stuttered for some reason, explaining and trying to convince her as if there's really something to defend. I mentally slapped myself for not having the courage to tell her how I explained myself here.

"We were... w-we were... we we-"

"Just say it!!!!!" She explodes again.

and in my thoughts "You really don't want to know Verona.. we were hiding from you!"

"We were.. we were only trying to hide... f-from you.."

Then the whole school starts to gossips even more, then I knew exactly why I wanted to keep my mouth shut.

Verona averted her eyes to the students who started gossiping and back to me, then I knew again she was going to spit fire. Is it bad now to speak the truth? Since when?

She scoffs so loudly again I nearly thought I would fly away. Okay maybe that was too exaggerated again..

"Haaa! Seriously? S-so now I'm the bad one? Why would you hide from me? Am I a monster or something? Wow.. don't cover up just to cover up how flirt you are! Take that back." She demands firmly.

"B-but.. but.." I was trying to reason helplessly.

But after a few seconds, I realised what I was doing, and naturally took a deep breath... and I knew at this point Verona would regret pushing it.

My eyes naturally closed as I breathe heavily, "Look Verona.. why do you always do this? Aren't you bored? Or exactly you're bored.. you really have no time for other things than waste your time getting involved with business you really have no idea about? To be honest.. girl what would you get from this? Nothing!! Absolutely nothing.. so please stop.. we all know.. well actually your dogs and I know.. including you.. that you were really about to childishly put me in danger just because of your pathetic jealousy!! What? You want everyone to yourself?? I thought Jordan? And then now even Daniel?!!! Ahhhhh!!!"

I'm just kidding.. obviously I only got to the point where I breathe heavily together with my eyes closing... and the rest was only said to myself... hayyy... why am I like this? That would have been a bomb and a slap on the face if I could actually say it... and I would have shut her up in less than a second. Hayyy...

"Take it back." She demands again with her arms crossed. And everybody was just staring... enjoying the scene of course. Why am I alone in this? I need Daniel... n-no I don't need him.. what I mean is.. he and I are the only ones who can prove that their dirty heads are the ones that needs cleaning up.

"No." I patted myself in the back for saying that.

"And why? So you gonna keep lying and make me look bad just to save yourself?" She was eyeing me with threat.. but no.. I may be a little timid, but I stand for what is the truth.. and that is the truth.

"No Verona.. how could you think that me and Daniel will have something when we all know we hate each other to our guts... at least he hates me... I mean.. I hate him too."

"So you're saying?.. You're really not trying to flirt with him? Then what is this then?"

She shows a picture... a picture of Daniel and I when he was trying to hide me from the person I never got to see due to Daniel covering both of our sight of each other... but I had no idea.. that person even took a picture?!!

"I told you we hate each other!" I exploded.

Verona gets taken aback and so was the whole class. And it seemed like it has sinked in that we indeed do from all the fights we get on, that it's impossible to even picture as ever getting along. Maybe they woke up and remembered that from my explosion.

Verona shuts her eyes tightly in annoyance, "so you made this all up." Her eyes opens just as tightly, as she firmly looks at... at Carlos? Obviously directing the words to him. I knew it.. I was right about the person I thought it would be in the bathroom. Wow.. he really took a picture. This guy likes trouble.

"Carlos?" I ask in irritation and disappointment.

"Don't tell me this isn't real?!! You made this all up and wasted my time?!!" Verona says acting like a queen. I mentally rolled my eyes, they're the one wasting my time from this nonsense.. tss, it's not like her time isn't wasted with these stupid rumours that they even bother at on a daily basis.

"It's real!! Don't even lie Cheannee... You know you were there too!"

"You don't know the full story." I say firmly and tired.

"Then this posture doesn't say it all?"

I was irritated and felt like I was fighting with a person who has their ears covered and would never listen. I was about to open my mouth again helplessly trying to end this, when Daniel walks in... unbothered, without a thought and care of what the hell is going on. His hands on his pocket, seemingly tired and bored... and cold.

"D-Daniel.." My boiling blood calms down, as I spoke his name timidly.

"There he is!!" Verona points out. Her posture loosens up, and continued " Daniel.. Daniel was this irritating girl flirting with you too?"

I couldn't read him again, the expression he made... can't I really read? Or I just don't want to explain further what I'm seeing... because I may be wrong, and I may be completely right too. Both hurts... both is complicated. Assumptions are not good. Period. there.. two periods.. isn't that enough?

"Is there no class?" He ignores everything after glancing at me, like he never heard anything.

"The old teacher guy said It's dismissed." And Verona answers as if we weren't just in the middle of fixing a scandal that were all clearly made by them, and wasted by them too.. and now they're trying to involve me.. including all these people that probably are all willing to get involved anyway.

"For the first time I actually showed up in her class.. and now it's dismissed." He says to himself, ignoring everything again.

"W-Wait.. my Daniel you're right.. this is in fact the first time you showed up in her class.. w-why? Is it because of Cheanne?" Verona point out, and I swear I rolled my eyes mentally again, for the one hundredth time already.

He scoffs bored, and replied, hands still on his pocket "I came here because I'm curious about who'll dance and embarrass themselves today.. I heard about the teacher's rule. I was curious."

That's because of me too then.. was all I thought.

"Enough!!!" Carlos steps in which gathered all our attention.

"Don't you even lie Daniel! I saw it my two eyes!! This pictures says it all!! And more actual!! You can't lie that you have feelings for Cheanne!!!"

My face remained in disbelief. Carlos is clearly going over board.. Daniel? Will have feelings for me?? That's the most impossible thing I have ever heard.. well except the fact that I'll never have feelings for him.. that's the first impossible one. This one is second on ranking.

But Daniel's face and posture suddenly woke up, shook? and as if he was about to throw hands at Carlos for saying such a thing. I-I guess... I guess he found that too impossible that he feels like punching anyone who says it.

Daniel who seemingly suddenly part of the situation all of a sudden after the most impossible comment, Daniel calms himself down by take a deep breath, eyes closing naturally.

Everyone quiets down, only all attentively, more attentive than to our classes, all attentively waiting for Daniel's words.

Daniel averted his eyes from Carlos, towards me.. and then our eyes.. finally met again.. for what felt like years.

The way he looked at me.. felt like he was going to say yes for a moment. As if he knew me from the bottom of his heart... the person that knew me so well. Even if I didn't know if those things he knew about me was in order to hurt me... or to save me. It didn't matter at that point... I felt safe for a moment. As if I didn't need to say a single word to once again try to defend myself from this horrible world, because there was someone.. who knew me... and that could tell everyone otherwise.

But then everything was meant to fall apart of course, when Daniel disconnected our eyes, smoothly.. and I can explain you more what was written on his eyes... but I would rather not... as the words he spoke.. says otherwise.

"No."

Then there.... back to reality. It's not that I'm sad and disappointed!!! I just... I just... nothing.

Carlos was starting to grow desperate with his deal, which I still don't get why people would waste their time making things up. Well.. Well not necessarily. We were indeed together in that bathroom... but he wanted to pinpoint something beyond impossible. Us? In a relationship? Then it's a toxic relationship then if we were. We'll announce our breakup right now; they'll have to witness. It's that bad.

"Don't try to deny it Daniel. I saw it with my own two eyes. You really think you-"

Daniel cuts his words off, with hands still on his pocket. And I was just watching there, also devastated from the sudden new drama that included me. But I had hope because of course, only Daniel and I could prove what happened. There's two of us... and he was the only one.

But my world fell apart when Daniel spoke.

"Who said I'm denying things?"

"T-then what?!" Carlos looked like a paranoid kid, who's afraid that everyone would look at him in a weird way because of his stupid news that was about to be proven fraud.

Daniel's eyes averted from him, then finally to mine. My eyes wrote confusion everywhere. While his wrote blank, and as I was about to uncover what his eyes held, his eyes left mine and went back to Carlos.

"Who knows? Me? And Cheanne? That's impossible."

I looked down. As in not only did my head looked down. As in I looked down on myself. Is it... really that impossible?

"We met eyes yes.. but in no way would I be together with someone like her... Who knows? Maybe she followed me there. Just like every stupid human being in this school. Don't hurt my pride like that." He continued, and I hoped I could cover my ears. But obviously that would make me look pathetic and affected.

"Jerk." I spoke without warning, even myself wasn't warned.

Everybody turned to look at me, including the Jerk himself.

"Wow Daniel. You're the one who hurt my pride you know? You're really so high on yourself don't you think? While you're looking so high up on yourself.. In the process, will you please not look down on other people? I know you hate me, and I know you think I'm nothing compared to someone like you. But I thought we already had it clear that I'm completely aware of that. Why do you have to make up stories that you were never there to wipe my tears?!"

He didn't answer, but instead averted his eyes away from me, and still right hand on his pocket. And for only God knows what the hell is he thinking now. Is this another way of making fun of me? Well I've got to say, he got me there. Now I wonder, which one was making fun of me. This one? Or when he wiped my tears... and told me he cared about me. Wow... I'm really such a fool to believe that.

"See? I told you! I told you guys I was right! They were together! Do you believe me now? I was right.. the only thing is that they were together but Cheanne followed him there... so desperate. Anyway, but they were together! I was still right!" Carlos spoke with eagerness, almost insane looking. While everyone around us, I no longer cared, because I could only think of Daniel.

Tss. Followed him there? He was the one who lead me there tsk.

My eyes that was on the ground, looked at Daniel who I couldn't read the expression on his face. Blank? Unhappy with what the hell he just said, but I'm not going to be stupid again, and confirm right now that he doesn't care at all. I guess I'm not good at reading people... rather I make up stories.. only to hurt myself. Or maybe I need glasses to get a better view of people around me.. but are glasses with thick lenses enough to see through a person's heart?

His eyes left mine and averted somewhere else. Not guilty, but maybe rather he totally knows what he just did there, but he wasn't absolutely satisfied either. Which I was absolutely thankful, as I'd hate to confirm that he was pure evil. Maybe not, just a little bit, but he was still no matter what.

My fist clenched into a solid ball. And I didn't know why, but tears finally streamed down with anger written one every stream. If I'm being completely honest, there were two things that could be making me angry right now. The usual of course, he was playing with me. But the tears that seemed to be very unfamiliar to how I rally cried from all his jokes lead me to the second reason, that I was maybe hurt that he made me hope. I never learn I know.

His eyes never met mine again, and that time... I knew I'm going to distance myself from now on. I shouldn't have never wasted my time thinking of such impossible.. just like he said.. of such impossible things. Why am I such a fool?

Who is Daniel to break all my walls? Only to build them back in, himself and leave me all alone? I was a fool for getting lost in the moment not realising that I was slowly tearing my walls down, myself.. nearly letting him in.. but he built it back on.. and I was only left trying to push aside the blocks... while he effortlessly puts it back. But maybe it's time... to put it back all myself again.