I Dare You

Chapter 12

"Cole, I want you to meet someone." His dad poked him and took him away. I was so relieved that he's not around anymore. I took a really deep breath and let it out slowly.

"You talked to him." Cherice whispered as I got back to my seat and I nodded.

"What did he say?" She asked curiously.

"We introduced ourselves and that's it." I said. She suddenly got up and walked away.

"Cherice, wher-"

"Katherina, sorry about earlier. How old are you?" Great, just great. I want to avoid him and here he is.

"You don't know me?" I asked in a very careful tone. I tried to lower my voice a little.

"I know you, I saw you a lot in billboards but don't really know about you." He chuckled nervously.

"Oh I see. I'm 18 years old." I said as I grabbed the small glass of pudding looking at it.

"We're the same age then." He said and I turned to him nodding.

"You're reminding me of someone." I froze when he said that.

"I'm sorry?"

"I said you reminded me of someone, she likes to look at her food just like you before she eats it." Great.

"Oh.. I see."

"Sorry, if that might sound a little rude. I didn't mean to of-"

"It's okay. Is she your friend?" I asked without looking at him.

"Uhmm something like that." What?!

"Oh."

"I rarely see her eat, she always looks at it and uhmm.. sorry." He chuckled.

"What an interesting girl." I said and he nodded.

"She is. All she do was studying, playing games and disappears." He said and I swear I wanted to laugh so bad.

"Wow." Apprently he settled on the seat next to me since his food came at the same time as mine. When I saw his food has onions in it, he looked at it completelt confused.

"Can I have that?" I said and he turned to me.

"I'm sorry, what did you say?"

"I said can I have that onion?" I asked and he looked at me like I grow another head. I sighed and found myself so stupid.

"I'm going to get something." I said and walked away. I wanted to disappear now.

"Why are you here?" Cherice asked as she stopped me from going out.

"I'm such an idiot." I said.

"What?! What happened?"

"I knew he doesn't like onion and I stupidly asked.. ugh!" I wanted to smack my head and Cherice laughed.

"You like him, don't you?!" She teased and I glared at her.

"He was taking about me, he said that I reminded me of someone. I swear to god that-"

"He likes you, wait! He likes Cassie, isn't he?" Cherice's eyes widen.

"You and Jake.. you both said the same thing."

"Jake? Jake Evans?" She raised her eyebrows.

"Yeah, he's back and he said he can't wait to see you." I teased her and she blushed.

"Looks who's blushing.." I smirked.

"Stop!" She smacked my arm playfully. My phone vibrated and I took it out from my bag.

Cole Harrison: What are you doing, girlfriend?

I'm still not used to him calling me his girlfriend. When he told me that he's making me as his girlfriend for real, I was damn speechless. I can't even say no.

Cassie Edwards: Reading books.

I lied obviously. Cherice took a peek wnd she smirked. She pointed at Cole who is busy looking at his phone smiling. Cherice kept looking at my phone and she chuckled.

Cole Harrison: Such a nerd.

Cassie Edwards: Such a jerk.

I turned to Cole and he was busy typing. He has no clue that he's actually in the same room as me.

Cole Harrison: That's not a nice word to describe your boyfriend, Cassie.

"Pretend to go there and ask him why is he staring at his phone.." Cherice said and she pushes me towards my table. She gestured me to go and I walked to him. He's still on his phone.

"What are you doing?" I asked and he turned to me.

"Waiting for a text." He said and got back to his phone. He's waiting for me to text him bsck?

"Your girlfriend?" I asked.

"Yeah." He said without looking at me.

"Is she a model? An actress?" I asked.

"None of that." He said and again without looking at me. I don't even know if I should be happy that he likes Cassie or felt ignored.

I'm his girlfriend, yet he doesn't even recognize me.

I took out my phone and typed secretly.

Cassie Edwards: You're not my boyfriend.

When he got the text, he smiled. He then chuckled.

"Why don't you date an actress or a model?" I asked.

"I don't care about looks anymore and I found being around them is pretty uncomfortable. They never care about me and always in it for my money or for fame. Looks will change anyway as we get older." He said still has his eyes to his phone.

"I want to be with someone that I'm comfortable with. I want to be with someone who can accept me for who I am." God damn it, Cole.

"So she's not pretty?" I asked carefully.

"She's cute. She wears big glasses, messy black hair and braces." With that I decided to go to the toilet, I'm not feeling the food anymore. I took out my phone.

Cole Harrison: You're my girlfriend and I'm your boyfriend. What kind of girl are you if you don't want the hottest guy in your school to be your boyfriend?

Cassie Edwards: Goodnight, Cole.