When Sophomores Collide (BoyxBoy) ?

Chapter 8: Lightheaded Boy

Athena rolled her eyes. "Theo, Hunter is your friend now, and it seems like he really cares about you a lot. Can't you just accept that?" She said.

I frowned. "It can't hurt to be cautious." I refrained myself from saying more as I tried to focus on the movie.

"...You don't want to hope because you want more." Cielo said out of the blue.

I sighed frustratingly. "You guys didn't come here just to aggravate me, didn't you?" I said, my eyes still on the TV.

"You're expecting a 'more than friends' relationship. Just admit it." Wei provoked.

"OKAY! Fine! I do want more! But I know I'm not getting it. So what's the point of being friends with him?!" I said, ruffling my hair roughly as I glared at nothing.

"I... We're so sorry, Theo. We didn't mean to make you feel bad." Cielo apologized.

My glare dropped and I look down at my feet. "It's fine. I know you guys are just trying to help, I appreciate that. But this whole situation have me feeling happy and at the same time, awfully confused. In just a span of how many days, everything I've ever wished of my high school story just came true with no context at all." I explained. 

My friends listened as I ranted everything I had on my mind.

We eventually continued watching the movie and then they had to go home.

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The Next Morning

Simplify = 6y²xz⁶/4²y⁷xz⁸. I realized something while looking at the equation. It's: why do we spend four years of learning complicated math when we never use it in life. We're gonna graduate knowing how to get the volume of a sphere, how to get the missing number but not survival tips, managing with limited sources or managing life in general!

I didn't even calculate it in a paper, only in my mind. Because I'm capable of that. Not caring if it's wrong, I wrote down my answer. It's not like it's gonna affect my life.

Even though I was always at the top of my class, I never let it get in my head too much. I mean, sure, the satisfaction of getting straight A's and never getting a B was good. But at the end of the day, grades are just not important. It gets erased, it can be changed, it can be faked. But the lessons and knowledge you learn in your everyday life is the most important. I believe that grades doesn't define one's intelligence. It's what we think, not what we know. Anyway, enough with this sentimental shit. I focused on the diagnostic exam.

I rubbed my aching head again. And now it's because of math. It's like knocking against my head 'can I explode now?' I heard my head say. I'm literally crazy. I'm talking to my brain.

I looked out the window and in the hallway. When suddenly, the most beautiful man was walking down it, he looked at me and smiled. I swear, I heard a good fifteen swoons in my class. He trudged down the hall, out of my sight, unfortunately. I suddenly had the inspiration to finish this exam. I answered every question in less than seven minutes. I brought out my phone and messed around. Taking pictures once in a while.

A text from Hunter flashed at the top of my screen and I double tapped it. 

'hey'

'hi, what's up?' I texted back and waited for his reply. 

'can u meet me outside? if ur finished with ur exam?' 

I furrowed my brows and replied a 'yes'. I excused myself out. As soon as I passed the door, Hunter appeared before me which scared the shit out of me. Almost literally. But then, how could a pretty face scare me. He laughed lightly and apologized. 

"So, why did you want to meet up?" I asked with a furrowed brow. By the way, we were at the last exam for today. Around 2 pm.

"I know you need a break. And I do too. So I just wanted to treat us both." He said as we walked. 

"W-what? But you could've gone off with Masha, or Luke, or your girlfriend? But me? Why?" I asked him, sounding kind of ungrateful. 

He sighed and looked at me. "We could know more about each other. You know? Well, if it's okay with you." He looked at me with a hopeful look. 

I nodded vigorously. He might take back what he was planning. He smiled again as I followed him to our destination. He took me to the rooftop, fortunately it had roofs, so the heat wouldn't be a bitch.

"Why'd you take me here?" I asked.

"It's always windy here, and look at the view!" He gestured. He was right, it was beautiful.

You could see the whole town, lots of buildings but trees still scattered all over. My head was aching and with the temperature of the day, my head was spinning, did you ever get that feeling when you're laying down and you stood up and your vision goes black and you get dizzy?

"Hey, you okay?" His voice asked and I nodded. My head be knocking like the FBI. 

"Hey Hunter?" I called to him, he turned around to look at me. "Can I know why you were so eager to be my friend?" I asked.

He scratched his chin and brushed his hand through his hair. "Well... The second I saw you, you just radiated positive energy. You get me? Like seeing a person for the first time and feeling like you've seen that person before, or you know their whole life, vice versa." 

I nodded in confusion but I do get what he's saying. "So that's what you feel about me?"

He averted his gaze from the view to me. His eyes meaningful, like it holds something, it's keeping something. "Yes." 

He gazed at my face, like scanning it, almost... memorizing it. He suddenly squinted his eyes, furrowing his brows in the process.

"I feel like it's not only the sense behind what I said is what I meant."

I was confused, until I processed what he just said. My eyes widened a bit. "W-what?" I asked, even though I know what he was trying to say, I just needed clarification.

"I feel like I've seen you before, not just around school... Like we've interacted before."

Well... When, where, how and why?