Kevin and Mindy

I looked at myself in the mirror, tilting my head to get a different angle. I tugged the cotton-pink sweater away from my body and criticised it ever so slightly. Should I change it? I still have a bit of time before my students' council meeting. I turned to my closet and ran my hands across the different colours, patterns and materials. I took out a predominantly white tee with sunflowers scattered all across the front. I held it up against my body. My face scrunched up, I wasn't in a sunflower mood so, I decided to stick with the fuzzy pink sweater beside it really complimented my skin tone.

''Are you decent?'' Zack asked, sticking his head in my room.

''What do you think?'' I asked him not taking my eyes from the mirror.

''You look cute. I like it,'' he said and walked into my room.

He flopped face-first into my unmade bed and then snuggled with my pillow. That statement was good enough for me. I turned to him and, said I was ready. Zack was on the student council with me so, he gave me a ride to school on the days we have early meetings, which is every Monday.

As we walked down the stairs, he started to talk.

''I'm sorry about yesterday. I know I'm being a terrible friend, but I really like Moya,''

''Mindy,''

''Oh yeah, Mindy right. So am I forgiven?'' he asked, looking at me with those beautiful blue-green eyes of his. Curse his model-like genes.

''Yeah, whatever." I locked the door behind us, "Besides if you hadn't ditched me I probably wouldn't have met Kevin,'' 

I haphazardly put my keys in my bag as Zack asked in a very low monotone,'' Who's Kevin?''

I turned towards him confused by the sudden mood change, ''Kevin is a new friend of mine. I met him yesterday in the car park.''

''New friend, huh?''

''Yes, Zackary I can make friends. People can like me you know,'' I said with a bit of sass.

''I know, relax dude geez. I was just saying,'' he held his hands up in surrender.

I rolled my eyes and flipped my hair behind me as I passed him. I wasn't upset because he insinuated that I have no friends, but my anger was more geared towards him missing my play. Guess I still wasn't over that.

''This is about your play isn't it?'' he asked.

He took hold of my hand and turned me to look at him. He could read me like a book or maybe I didn't know how to hide my emotions. Either way, it was difficult to hide things from him. 

Except that.

''No,'' I lied straight through my teeth.

''If it means that much to you, I'll come to your play. I love you and, I want to support you,'' he said, looking me dead in the eye.

''Do you promise for real this time?'' I mumbled and, he pulled me into a tight hug. He smelled nice like mint and waffles. Though that could have just been my imagination. 

''Yeah, I pr-''

''Hey Kiara,'' Kevin's voice said and, I removed myself from Zack's bear hug to wave at him.

''Hey Kevin, why are you walking to school so early?''

''I love the mornings, so I get time to enjoy it when I leave at the crack of dawn. Do you wanna join me? I got some more jokes'' he asked in a singsong tone.

''No, she's riding with me so bye now,'' Zack cut in before I could say anything.

I lightly slapped him on the chest. It was my way of reprimanding him for being so rude.

''Thanks but, Zack would be so lonely without me,'' I joked.

''Oh, no problem. You look really cute today by the way. I guess it's in your jeans,'' He said while looking at my blue jeans. ''A skirt would have been nice too, maybe a black one,''

I giggled at his pun. I contemplated his suggestion of wearing a skirt. That was a pretty good idea.

''Thanks. Hey, how about we go shopping today? You could join us for lunch and, we'll finalise details,'' I suggested.

''No Kay, I'm sure he's busy,'' Zack softly answered for him.

''Nah, I'm not doing anything after school. I would love to join you guys for lunch,''

I didn't miss how Zack narrowed his eyes at Kevin. It was possible that he was just being his unnecessarily protective self. He knew people tended to use me so, he was probably being cautious. Should I be cautious? Kevin didn't look like he wanted anything from me, then again I was never a good judge of character.

I smiled at him, super excited for today. Sure Kevin might be dangerous but I'd enjoy it while it lasted.

Before I could ask if he wanted a ride, Zack butt in yet again'' It's getting late so let's go, Kay,''

''Oh alright. Bye Kevin,'' I said as I got in Zack's car with a goodbye wave.

''That's Kevin by the way. Do you like him?'' I asked as left Kevin behind.

''I don't know him so no,'' Zack's answer was very aloof.

''What do you see in him anyway? He dresses weird and, he approaches girls in car parks, I don't want you talking to him anymore,''

What? ''What?''

Sure, I trusted Zack's intuition but he couldn't just tell me what to do.

''I'm just looking out for you Kay. He could be a serial killer or something. Maybe his friends made a bet to see if he could get with you,''

''What?''

''It's only the thing that's logical Kay. Think about it,'' he tried to reason with me.

''So you're saying that I'm such a horrible and hideous person that the only reason someone would talk to me is that a)they have to be mentally challenged or b) made a bet with someone. Glad to know you think that way,'' I said. 

Thank gosh we arrived so that I could storm out all dramatic like.

''You're a real a-hole Zack,'' I told him and slammed his car door and marched to the school doors, keeping my head high. To be honest, I wasn't entirely upset. What he said sucked but I like to believe it was his way of trying to protect me.

''Kay, I'm sorry that's not what I meant. Kay wait, please''

''Zacky. Hey, come here,'' that was Mindy.

Was he going to follow me?

Yeah, right.

I paused and waited to see what he would do. I turned and saw him looking between the two of us. I didn't need to see when he chose her over me. I turned back and around trying hard to keep the tears at bay. I wasn't even going to go to the student council's meeting anymore, the vice president is allowed to be absent sometimes.