Unseen Love: 2

And this is a pic of Elliot, I'm still trying to find one that suits Iris...

(: Oh, and sorry that the page is set up all weird...I don't know how to fix it unless I shrink Elliot's picture...which I also don't know how to do...hehe sorry for my technical-challenged-ness
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Chapter 2

"Iris..Irriiisss, get up fool"

I groaned and opened my eyes.

"Nikki, what are you doing?"

"Mom said to get you up because you won't be able to sleep later, it's like, 6:50 chick."

She turned around and headed out. I got up and checked my phone. There were 3 missed alerts. Two texts from Elliot and a text from my best girlfriend, Voya.
Elliot: "Ok, so I'm talkin 2 her now..."
Elliot: "she's party cool, I'm gonna go 4 it...
Watchu think?"
Voya: "Hey chicadee, I gotta tell u somtin!!!"

I wasn't in the mood to talk about this Cassandra chick, so I replied to Voya first.
"Heyy, so wassup? :D"
"I found out somethin today...it's about R.."

My heart skipped a beat. "R" is a nickname for my crush, Roy. Ok, ok. This could either be good news, or bad news...
"Oh, like wat?"
"I was tlkin 2 him n I got him 2 tell me who he like....xD"
"Yeah I kno, not me rite? Lol "

I tend to put myself down sometimes, but not because of low self-esteem, I guess as a jinx really...

"Nah foo! YOU, he lykes YOU"
"Daaang... Wha shuld I do..?? :O"
"Talk 2 him chic!! Tmrw, @ skool"
"Aaaww thx V!! I owe u miha :D ily!!"
"Uh huh, dnt gotta tell me twice, ha (: "

I put my phone down and giggled. Oh my. Roy was hot. FOR SURE. He is kinda bad-boyish, which I can dig. I was kind of excited for tomorrow now. If what Voya tells me is true, then it's definitely safe to turn on my flirt. Oy, I've liked Roy for sometime now, and I couldn't believe that I got a chance now...
I looked back down and looked at my phone. Then I remembered Elliot's text..all of a sudden I felt really stupid and guilty. I can't believe the way I was acting earlier...I feel really, really dumb right now. I decided to reply.
"good. U need a girl ;D"
"not really, I got U ;)"
Ha no, u kno wat I mean lol"
"Haha ok, well she gos 2 McKinley high..."

I stopped to think..McKinley high? So he's going for a slightly distanced relationship, with someone he hardly even knows? That's kind of silly...
"Uum, so how u gonna work dat out? Is she worth it?"
"Yeah, I mean, she could always come ovr..u gotta meet hr Iris :D "
"Aight, well I gotta go Elli, mom wants me 2 help her wit stuff" , I lied.
"K bye xoxo"
"Xoxo"

Why would I want to meet her anyway? Ugh, what is wrong with me? I'm such a grumpy bitch all of a sudden! Ok, I'm tired of this. I sat there and thought about it for a bit. Ok, I'll invite her to mine and Xavier's birthday party. Perfect.

The next day I got up and began getting ready. I was washing my face when I remembered today was the day I was supposed play it up with Roy. I got a surge of excitement and ran to my closet to pick out something cute.
In the end I went with a pink and gray plaid pair of flats with some black jeans and a fusia tee with a black and white scarf. I didn't wanna look like I spent all morning getting ready, so I went with cute n' casual. When j got to the kitchen, I grabbed a chocolate muffin(my favorite) and a glass of milk.
"Your day", I heard Xavier say as be entered the kitchen.

Oh, that's right! I'm driving today. Me, Xavier, Elliot, Voya, and Nikki usually took turns car pooling to school so that we could be a little more green. Today was my day.
"Aight, thanks for reminding me"
"No prob, hey we should get goin though Iris, hurry up"
"Ok ok!" I said shoving the last bite of chocolate muffin into my mouth. I got up and grabbed my tote and searched for my keys.
"Nikki let's go!"
There was the sound of her running down the hall. Next thing we knew she was running down the stairs. She grabbed a banana and opened the door.
"Let's roll" she said, slightly put of breath.
"Haha took you long enough" Xavier said.
"Whatever"

We headed over to my 2010 Nissan Silvia. I loved my car, it's gorgeous. I really just love Nissan in general. I don't know why but I do. I started my engine and we were off to get Elliot and Voya.

"O what're you gonna do?", Voya said in an excited voice when we got to school.
"I dunno, I'm just gonna see how it all plays along today. See if I can read any signs."
"Oooohh! I'm so excited for you!!" she said, and we both giggled.

I breezed into 1st period and immediately saw Roy. I looked away quickly so he wouldn't catch me. I could see his face turn out of the corner of my eye. His eyes were practically boring into me. I looked up and caught his eye, trying to play it off like I didn't know the whole time. I flashed a smile that was hopefully dazzling enough. He smiled back and kept looking at me.
"Ahem, hey Iris"
I was caught off guard. For a split second I thought Roy said hey, but it was actually Elliot. He was looking at me, only he kept glancing at Roy too. I went and sat in front of him and he seemed to have just snapped out of deep thought. He leaned in close to my ear.
"Looks like I'm not the only one"
I giggled.

"Beautiful smile by the way, I think that one really hooked him", Elliot said.
"You really think so?"
"Yeah, you should play it up a bit", he whispered, giving me a wink. I laughed.
"Whaddya mean?", I said, trying to cover up the fact that I really do like Roy. I haven't quite told Elliot yet.
"Oh come on Iris. Don't even try to hide it", he said chuckling and sliding back in his seat. I blushed, maybe I should go for it...
After class I walked out and felt a hand lightly touch my elbow. I turned around and it was Roy.
"Uh, R-Roy..", I didn't know what else to say, because at the moment I was severely stutter brained.

"Hey Iris, I just wanted to say that, that color really looks great on you", he said looking me up and down. I blushed at this.
"Thanks, I've been told it goes well with my eyes in some ways", I said, in some ways trying to make him notice that, which it worked, because he started looking directly into my eyes.
"I was thinking, why don' you and me get some Starbucks after school?"
"That's be cool", I said smiling. He stepped a little closer,
"Well it's a date then, Angel-Face", he flashed me a flirtatious smile, and I gave him one back as he began to back away, and turned to go to his next class. My heart was beating kind of fast. I was actually quite proud of myself, I played it off ok. I must've been really distracted because I didn't even hear Elliot walking up behind me.
"Nice", he said, in an almost blank voice. I spun around,

"Hey!", I said, super bubbly all of a sudden, then I remembered my little plan from before.
"Oh, listen, I was thinking, and maybe you should bring this Cassandra chick to my party", I said almost not wanting to.
"That'd be cool...", he said raising an eyebrow. Uh-oh, he was onto me. Dang it, he know me too well...
"...but I have this vibe from you.." he said, but luckily I am a pretty darn good actress.
"No, no! Bring her!", I said with a fake smile. He smiled back, and linked my arm with his as he walked me to my next class.
"I kinda can't wait for you to meet her"
"Yeah, me too", I lied. When we got to my next class, he turned around to face me as he said bye.

"Have fun in your next class", he said teasingly because he knew I hated this teacher.
"Shut-Up" I laughed, and rolled my eyes. He leaned in and gave me a light kiss on the cheek. I was kind of surprised, even though we always do stuff like this, but only because we usually don't at school or people will start to think there's something up between us. I didn't really care right now though, so I quickly gave him a kiss on the cheek back, and hurried into my class so I wouldn't be late.

As I sat there watching the presentation of the local Botanical Gardens, I was thinking about how I couldn't help but notice that Elliot had looked kind of surprised, and had blushed. I mean, he usually kind of does blush (and so do I), whenever we play-flirt around like that, but he looked like he was really taken-back at the fact that I kissed him back, and he had blushed, like, blushed-blushed if you know what I mean. Silly Elliot, I quickly thought and shook my head, thinking about it was starting to make me almost blush.