BFF over BF?

Chapter 1

Jay

I’m Jay Johnson and my BFF since, Forever is Sophie Smith. Everytime Sophie gets her heart broken, I’m there for her, with a tissue and support. When your best friend gets their heart broken, and you see how it leaves them, you’d want to try your best to go down a completely different path. If you followed the same path, your heart would never be in it, knowing you’d only end up broken. So for the entirety of my 17 years of life, I’ve been single, not ready to mingle. I know to some people it’s sad to be single for your whole life, but I’m perfectly happy. The only time when I feel lonely is when I see Sophie with another guy. As long as she’s happy, I leave it be.

The fact that I’d never dated was always fine with me but not so much with Sophie. She never failed to realize that I’d never dated anyone, and she’d always try to make me give it a try.

“I can’t do it,” I say. “I can’t date someone I have no feelings for”. Sophie never ceased in trying to get me to go on a blind date. I would say no evertime and she’d walk away, muttering, “Doesn’t wanna date”.

We went to the same school, Alcatraz High. I find our school name kinda funny, considering school’s just like a prison, but Sophie always rolls her eyes and walks away, when I make fun of it, and I follow after her, chuckling.

After Sophie's most recent break up with a jerk named Bobby and several nights of bawling her eyes out, Sophie, like a lot of other girls at school, started getting googly eyes for Luke. Puberty hit him like a Double Decker bus. You probably think I’m over exaggeration, but trust me, if you see the before and after, you’d think I’m under exaggerating.

No one was more shocked than me, by the fact that Luke was suddenly beloved by everyone. Luke is in Junior year with me and Sophie, so we’d known him since his Very Awkward phase. Surely for the fast approaching prom, newly Mr. Popular would get voted prom king. I normally don’t really care about that kinda stuff, so I don’t know why him being voted king leaves such a bad taste in my mouth. “-ay. Jay” Sophie shakes me violently, “EARTH TO JAY,” she says loudly. “Lunch time”. I hurry to stand in the lunch line, surprised that I hadn’t heard the bell.

When I have my food, I go to sit with Sophie, who’s eyeing Mr. Popular. I slam my tray loudly on the table and Sophie looks up at me in annoyance. Even though she knows I can tell she’s staring at him, she’s not gonna try to deny that she likes him, she knows I know.

She continues looking at Luke, so I stare at her while she stares at him. I love her light brown wavy hair and the way it goes just to the end of her back. I love her light blue eyes and the way they light up when she sees me. I love the way she laughs when I make a stupid joke and the way her brows furrow when she can’t figure something out. I love her gentle voice and perfect lips, I love her soft touch. I love everything about her, even her flaws. I love the way she looks past me, at the person she likes. I just wish she would look at me like that. I want her to love me, like I love her.

Sophie shakes me. “Only 10 minutes left for lunch, you should eat. Why are you looking at me like you just found out I murdered your family?, and why is your face cherry red?”. Instead of answering, I shove food into my mouth, so she won’t ask me anything else.

Sophie

Jay shovels all of his food down and runs out of the cafeteria, as if running from someone hot on his heels. I know there’s no point in chasing him. He’s much faster than me and is on the track team. Jay has longer legs than me, I’m 5’7 and he’s 6’2. He has blond hair and green eyes, he’s funny, wears glasses sometimes, but mostly contacts because he says glasses fog up too easily.

Why did he run off? Did he have to use the bathroom? Did he want to get to class early?. I decided the latter must be it. When the bell rings, I hop up, clean my lunch up and dash to class.

In geometry, I can’t stop thinking of all the reasons why Jay would leave like that. Though me and Jay had been best friends all our lives, I’d never seen him act like that. Did he like someone?. The new girl, Lilly had walked in just before he’d started acting weird. The clues clicked into place. It’s obvious he likes her, but doesn’t know how to approach her.

I knew Jay wouldn’t tell me if he liked someone because he knew I’d make fun of him, granted, if he had told me I would’ve, but that’s not the point. I would have to help him get her, without letting him know I know. I would have to be the captain of the ship (Jillian) until they took control of the helm themselves. Until then, I would have to build the ship and keep it from crashing (like a certain ship we all know about) and burning. I have to make sure they notice the iceberg, before it’s too late…phie!...ophie!...SOPHIE!. I look up to everyone staring at me. “Can you tell me the answer,” the teacher asks, as I stare, dumbfounded. My face flushes, as I realize we’re supposed to find the area of the triangle with the information provided. Lily answers the question for me, before I get in trouble for not paying attention, giving me the perfect opportunity