Life... Can't even walk!

"So do you fancy anyone now?" Kate asks, impatient again. She finds me boring if I'm not interested in a guy, I think. Thankfully, though, I do.

"Yeah... Oli."

"Really?"

"Yeah. He's so funny and nice and stuff."

"Ask him out!"

"What?"

"Ask him out!"

"Um, no, he'll say no."

"Look, if you ask him out, I'll ask someone out. Okay?"

"Okay, I'll ask him out. But because I like him, not to make you ask someone out."

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"I can't breath. I can't breath. Move out the way, I need to lean on that hedge. I feel like biting off my own head."

I walk towards my friends on the patio. All of the close ones, Ellis, Alexiana, Kate, Elouise, Yvette and Joanna. I do feel like biting off my own head.

"What did he say???" Everyone asks at the same time. I lean completely on the hedge, because my legs have turned to jelly for the first time ever.

"Well, I went in, cornered him as he came out of the canteen. I asked him out, he said 'Wow, this is a surprise. Maybe. I'll think about it. Oh, that's kinda mean, isn't it?'"

"Well at least it's not a no." All of the girls seem interested in talking about whether he'll say yes or not and splitting up the sentences to find hidden meaning. But I'm not listening, and Ellis seems distracted too.

"Get off the hedge! Mr Spice is coming!" He says.

I get off the hedge, but my legs are still jelly and I fall over. Great.