Our Roundabout Love

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Hope's POV

"What do you want, Jess?" I clipped at her. I'm so annoyed with this situation so much that I couldn't even stand to be next to her for more than five seconds without wanting to hit her. And it's only the first day of school. Scratch that the first four hours of school.

"Well, I want you to be miserable and unhappy for the rest of high school so I thought I would follow through on that." I cracked a smile at this pathetic piece of trash in front of me. At least she sets goals for herself is all I could think.

I snapped my head over to Leo when I heard him clear his throat. I had completely forgotten he was sitting next to me until he did that throat thing quite aggressively, might I add.

"Why is the hot new kid sitting with you? It's probably to get into her pants right?” She says smiling at Leo’s direction. “Everyone knows she is a slut." I opened my mouth to say something but Leo cut me off.

"Actually, I wanted a place to sit without being bothered and you are kind of ruining that right now." The look of her fragile shell cracked a bit and it was just a priceless sight to see. I might let him be my friend after all.

"No ones going to bother you cutie if you sit with us." She said pretending to be as nice as possible. I almost wanted to yell at her for even pretending to flirt. Doesn’t she know she’s still dating my brother?

“No really it's fine I would rather sit with a 'slut' than a stuck up b***h anyways." He finished his little burn with a gorgeous smile that made me question whether he insulted her or was just genuinely being as nice as possible. I looked over to Jess and she went threw the seven stages of grief within a matter of two seconds. Aww I love that look.

The next thing I knew was I was dying of laughter after looking at her. She probably doesn't even know she's the stuck up b***h in that equation. I on the other hand didn't take the slut thing personally because I knew he was trying to make a point and it paid off big time. As I kept laughing I came to remember that Leo just stuck up for me and he doesn't even know me so why.

When I finally manage to stop laughing to the point of almost pissing myself, I looked up and Jess had stormed off to Niall's lap and started making out with him. It's gross seeing your enemy with your brother but This is nothing new by the way, Jess is like this all the time. She says this stuff whenever she gets the chance and it wouldn't even bother me if she was just some girl but she's not. She the girl with an god complex and the fact that she is dating my brother pisses me off even more.

I finally set my eyes on Leo and he stared at me like I was some rare jewel that just happened to fall in his lap. "What, Is there something on my face?"

"Just your beauty." I made a gagging noise to deflect what I was actually feeling. The way he looked into my eyes and said something that bold. I soon felt the heat slowly rising to my cheeks. Hopefully I'm not blushing. But besides that I felt something in my heart. No, on second thought I'm just imagining things. It really just couldn't be. I don't feel things like that. Only one other person makes me feel like that when they say cheesy s**t to me, but he is in military school.

"Shut up you cheeky dork." Really Hope? That's the best you can do. Why does he have me acting like a flustered i***t?

"I'm sorry for the wonderful compliment I gave you." Sarcasm was laced every word he spoke.

"I accept your half ass apology, but I still don't think we can be friends." He smiled but that was shortly followed by a ten out of ten eye roll. It was almost comical how good it was.

"Well you're my friend so it doesn't really matter and you’ll call me the same one day." The lopsided smirk that followed his acclimation was cut so cute I felt the urge to smile so I could match him but kept it to myself. I didn't need him knowing that he was charming too.

"Maybe, but the chances of us having a conversation after this is pretty slim so you would have better luck thinking about what I won't be calling you in the future.”

"Man, if I would've known, trying to be friends with you gets me the cold shoulder. I would have tried to be your enemy. Probably would have made more progress." I tried my best not to laugh at what he was saying but it was hard considering that stupidly attractive smirk never leaves his lips. As I stared at Leo It became evident to me that I'm starting to enjoy his company and that terrifies me a lot. From what I know about myself so far is that I like being alone, but he is starting to make me a little indifferent on the matter and I just met him today. The scary thing is though is that I have changed enough since New York and I don't need anymore f*****g change.

"Keep dreaming-" I stopped probing for his last name even though I knew it. I was just trying to irritate him.

"Fretz" I snapped my fingers making a look of remembrance in my face like I had forgotten and I had gotten another eye roll. "No need to act like you forgot me baby."

"Never call me baby." I look at him with a grim expression while pointing at him getting up from the table. Lunch was almost over anyway.

"Okay" he paused but had the most devilish look on his face so I knew it was coming a mile away "Baby" I got up and started walking away from him with the biggest smile on my face like I was some dork. He's going to literally ruin my life. Actually not possible, it's already shitty enough.