Xena
It’s currently Monday. I haven’t told anyone about what Archer did. Just because I don’t want to believe he actually kissed her. Maybe I was wrong about this whole thing, I don’t want Brie to rip his head off just because I’m not one hundred percent sure if he meant to kiss her. I don’t want to jump into conclusions, but honestly part of me already has.
I’ve been keeping my distance from him. I don’t want to be the one bringing it up. I want to see if he actually talks to me about it. I want to see if I can trust him or not. I’ve made sure to keep my distance from him and I didn’t text him during the weekend. Call me childish how ever many times you want to, I want to see if he’s loyal.
If he doesn’t bring it up after some time I’ll confront him about it, but right now? right now I want to see if he talks to me about.
I got out of my car and walked into the school buildings. I saw all my friends talking among each other in a circle.
“Hey” Everyone chimes, when they see me.
“Hey baby” Archer smiles and goes to rest his arm around my shoulder, but I casually scoot a bit away from him. I raise my eyebrow and smile at him while I look back at everyone. I catch a glimpse of Owen and he was just look at me weirdly. I turn to everyone and tell them I was heading to class. I had history right now… yay.
“Wait, I’ll come with you.” Archer says while he rests his hand on the small of my back.
I walk a bit faster so that his hand automatically falls from where it was on my back.
Owen was walking with us as well and he turned and looked at me.
“Are you feeling okay? You’re acting a bit weird” Owen said.
“Yup, I’m fine” I nod my head not looking at Archer or Owen at all, I was just looking straight ahead. I walk into class and I didn’t miss the questioning look Owen and Archer gave each other.
I took my seat at the back in the corner and like usual I put my head down and drifted off to sleep. I haven’t really been getting that much sleep because I couldn’t stop thinking about Archer and Vera.
What if Vera actually is pregnant with Archer’s baby? What if he actually did cheat on me?
But he isn’t that type of person, Archer has been someone every girl dreams to be with since freshman year. And I have never in my life seen him ever disrespect a girl before. He’s caring and sweet. He can be a bit cocky but he has a big heart that’s made of gold.
But people change… Maybe Archer changed.
I was currently having a debate in my head. Before I knew it, I drifted off to sleep.
“Baby? Wake up” I felt someone tap my shoulder. I grunt and look up. I was still in history class but everyone had left the class heading for their next class. I look at Archer and couldn’t help but think about the kiss he had with Vera.
What’s wrong with me.
I nod my head and pick up my bag from the floor beside my desk.
I start to walk to my next class and I heard Archer call out my name, but I pretended that I didn’t hear him and continued walking.
Call me childish all you want but my thoughts were getting to me now and the slowly but surely I’ve started to believe that maybe he did cheat on me.
I kind of expected it from the start. Why would Archer Howell out of all people in my school want to date me.
I felt someone grab onto my hand and pull me into the janitors closet. The person turns on the light and it was Archer.
“Xena” Archer says and he looked a bit frustrated and annoyed. His eyebrows were furrowed and he was looking at me as if he was trying to read me.
“I have to get to my next class, what are you doing?” I ask him while I lightly push on his chest.
“I’m not doing anything. The real question is what are you doing? You’re acting a bit weird. You haven’t even been answering my text after the party on Friday. Are you okay?” Archer asks and tucks a strand of hair behind my ear.
No i’m not okay and I wonder why…
Note the sarcasm.
“I’m fine, please move. I need to get to my next class” I say and turn my face away from him.
Archer looks at my face for a few seconds before he leans away from me and removes his hands from the wall that were trapping me from moving away.
“I bet you’ll feel better in Vera’s company anyways” I mumble to myself quietly before I walk out of the janitors closet.
I heard Archer ask what I meant by that but I ignored it and walked away.
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School was over and I was heading to my car when I saw Cam and Brie walk up to me.
“Hey boo, are you okay? you seemed a bit off today” Cam asked.
“Yeah I’m fine” I nod my head
“Are you sure—” Brie was cut off by Archer calling out my name.
“Xena, can I please talk to you for a second?” Archer asks, He had a pleading look in his eyes.
“I need to go home–” I was cut off once again by Archer.
“Baby please, I need to talk to you about something” Archer pleads.
Xena, here’ s the part that he says he’s going to dump you and you’re going to stay lonely without a soulmate while he starts a family with Vera.
“Uh, okay. Bye guys, see you tomorrow” I smile at Cam and Brie.
Brie and Cam say bye before they walk to their car. Archer just took my hand and dragged me to the empty hallways of school.
“Xena, I now know why you’re acting different and I just want to tell you that—” Archer starts.
“You want to break up with me? Yeah, I saw that coming.” I nod my head looking at the floor. My eyes were pooling with water. I didn’t want to cry, I never ever want to cry over a boy. I’m stronger than that.
“No! Why would you think that? I would never break up with you Xena. You’re an angel and I love—um—I don’t ever want you to see your cry. You’re the best thing that’s happened to me. I love how you care for me and how you support everything that I do. You have my back and you always make sure that I’m happy and okay. I try to do the same. After all, it is my first time actually dating someone. I’m thankful to have you as my soulmate and I don’t want to see you cry, especially because of me.” Archer says and cups my face with his hands. He kisses my nose then wipes a tear that managed to escape from my eyes.
“You really don’t have to pretend anymore Archer, I saw you kissing Vera during the party and just tell me now if you want to break up with me, I rather have you not play with my feelings like that—”
“Xena. Do you hear yourself? I would never break up with you, you mean the world to me. You misunderstood the whole scenario during the party, I went to get water for you and while I was coming back I saw a guy harassing Vera, she was drunk too. I know that she’s a bitch and I honestly hate her. But if I see a guy harassing a girl, I would help, even if it’s my enemy. No one deserves to be forced into something they don’t want to do. Once the guy left, Vera kissed me. I pushed her off me completely. I didn’t kiss her back baby. I promise. I would never do that to you. It hurts me to see you think of me as someone who would actually cheat on you” Archer shakes his head as he held onto my hand, drawing circles on the back of my hand.
“Oh.. I’m so so sorry, I shouldn’t have jumped into conclusions like that. But why didn’t you tell me about it?” I question as I rest my head on his shoulder. I started crying a long time ago but I was calming down now.
“I was going to tell you during lunch but you didn’t end up coming for lunch. Were did you go? we were all worried” Archer says as he plays with my hair.
“My thoughts got the best of me, I ended up sitting on the bleachers for lunch” I shrug as I laugh through my tears.
Archer pulls me away from his shoulder and looks at me before frowning. “Please don’y cry. I don’t like to see you cry” Archer says before he wipes my tears away.
I honestly am not going to lie, I love him. I love him with my whole heart, I could never ask for a better soulmate. He’s a gentleman, and that’s what I love about him. He’s caring, he cares for the people around him, he doesn’t let his popularity get to him, he has a pure heart and he doesn’t have a big ego. He cares for the people around him, even if it’s his worst enemy. I love everything about this man standing in front of me.
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