Our Roundabout Love

4

Leo's POV

My first week of school is finally over and I can say that I have adjusted completely to this town. It was lackluster and annoying with a set type of way to do things which is the complete opposite of the big city's so there was not much to adjust to anyways. I'm normally in places where most transfer students are not that significant but here people were talking about me for two days and the other three days were spent with them thinking I was weird for talking to Hope. It kind of all stopped when I just told people that she seemed nice. Which she was. Underneath that first layer she was a silly goofball that didn't want to do much of anything. She was probably the coolest person I have ever met.

"So I heard you got into it with my girlfriend." I looked over at Cooper and rolled my eyes. I was currently at Cooper's house not doing anything really, his mom was out and Hope was upstairs just being in her own world. This is my first time seeing Cooper in a while and it was just like how summer went when we would be sitting here playing video games or watching some movie that we would both barely pay attention to.

"I didn't say anything mean to her I implied she was a stuck up b***h but she was being unnecessarily mean to Hope. Like where does she get off?" Just thinking about those words she said to hope brought those feelings of anger and rage back to me. "Why do you date her anyways?" He looked upset at the question but he didn't bother to say anything about it and just shrugged. This was one of those things I hated about Cooper; he was dismissive and didn't like confrontation to a fault. Like just growing a backbone wouldn’t kill him.

"So do you like my sister?" The popcorn I was eating suddenly got stuck in the back of my throat. It took me a few minutes of coughing to recover. Man what's with him asking me a dumb question like that. I looked over to him and his face threw me off even more, going back to his question I didn't know what to say, well I did but I didn't even know if it was going to be the truth or not.

"Yeah she's cool." I say nonchalantly going back to looking at the tv screen.

"So there's nothing more than that?" I smiled looking at him and almost wanted to laugh at his face. Man, I didn't take him for the over protective brother type. It was kinda cute seeing this side of him.

"Is someone scared that I might like his baby sister?" He rolled his eyes, shoving my shoulder lightly.

"Whatever it's not like I don't care about her it's just that her track record with guys suck and I don't need to be there for that again she's annoying when she's hurting in silence that's all. Oh and f**k off she is my twin not my baby." I wanted to call bullshit but I knew it wasn't the time for that and I didn't want to say anything because I don't want to offend Cooper.

Yes Hope is pretty, smart, witty, stubborn but that's hardly any reason for me to like her more than a friend but I knew that there was more to my feelings than I wanted to let on. Truth is she has captivated me in the best way possible. I have hung on to every rude remark, word, and syllable that has come out of her mouth and just thinking that sentence makes me sound like a stalker, but I don't care. I know, weird. I just met her, but I couldn't stop thinking about it. She was on my mind constantly. When we were together at lunch and our last class of the day or just anywhere I found myself thinking of those hazel eyes and crimson hair. I have theses stupid thoughts just remembering what it looks like. I have boiled down my feelings to a narrow point of just wanting to have s*x with her because if I think to hard about the girl who has a wall up so f*****g high i can't even imagine what the other side looks like I find myself annoyed. I don't know why I felt this way I just knew that whenever I got this stupid feeling in my gut that I don't have a name for yet It was because of her.

Now that I think about it, where do I want this to go? If the opportunity arose to take this anywhere, where would I take it? I know it would be past friends but not all the way. Maybe it's just one of those things where I want to be the hero in her story.

Wait. I'm a shitty person for not realizing it sooner but I'm not horny but I just found someone to fix.

Shit.

"Excuse me." I said getting up to go to his bathroom.

I looked in the mirror and slapped myself a bit, trying to get a grip. I'm such an i***t. Why didn't I realize it sooner. I'm obsessed with her because I see her as this project. I don't want to do this again, that slight satisfaction of so called fixing someone sucks.

I'm not going to meddle in her life. I'm just going to be her friend, that's it. I need to set those boundaries. I will not be getting too close or I will be doing the same thing I always do. I can't be that person anymore. I'm tired of that side of me and I want to just be able to understand someone without getting in the middle of their problems. That I eventually make my own.

"Hey! I need to get in there so can you hurry up." Her voice startled the living crap out of me so much I almost screamed. Glad I didn't though that would of made me look like a total loser.

"Yeah." I open the door and the next thing I know I feel this weight on my chest. It's her, she's on my chest piercing up at me with a shocked expression through the few red strands of hair that were still in her face the rest were tied up back in a ponytail. I stared back letting her lean on me thinking that the weight felt comforting. The shocked expression went away after a few seconds and then there was just us looking at each other. As I looked down at her I saw just how beautiful one person could be. That's the only thing that came to my mind as I looked at her and the thoughts of what she was thinking about crept in as well. She licked her lips while diverting her eye to everywhere but me, taking herself away from me so casually, this made me long just a little bit for the slight pressure that was on me only a few seconds ago.

"You're cute, I've never noticed until now, but yeah." She stepped aside walking past me as if what she said was nothing. Closing the door.

She drives me crazy.