As days were passing, she needed Christmas Break more than anything. She wanted to know that she wasn’t seeing Oliver or Joaquin. After the explosion that happened in science, she just chose to keep her comments to a minimum. She felt like she was cornered into saying it out loud, Joaquin did stop his “flirting” as Oliver used to call it. For every class, Luna felt like she was spiraling out of control but it was worse because she wasn’t seeing her dad this year. She couldn’t tell if it was a good thing that she wasn’t or a bad thing because that meant she couldn’t ask Laurissa for help in this situation. She wished that she could get some advice on the matter but it’s not like she could ask her mom for advice because she’ll tell Luna that boys are a waste of time and that she doesn’t know what true love is like; the thing is she did know what true love was. She had it for Oliver, she couldn’t see herself with anyone else in the world unless it was a celebrity but that would never happen.
“Hey Girlie, are you still mad at me?” Oliver asked her with a scared tone that he didn’t want her to be anymore.
“No, I am just confused about some stuff right now. Also, if you get jealous about another guy again, tell me instead of exposing our 2 hour long relationship. Deal?”
“Deal, but I wasn’t jealous. I felt like he was trying too hard to get to know you and I know you have a little crush on him so I felt like he needed to know if anything got serious between you two.” HE KNEW ABOUT THE CRUSH! How did he know? Luna wanted to grab him and pin him to the wall and question how he knew, but she knew that wouldn’t be smart to do in a classroom.
“Oh, you thought I had a crush on him? Your jealousy confused you, I was just trying to make friends with another guy.” Luna, you are a horrible liar but let’s hope Oliver will take that horrible lie.
“Sorry girlie, but I know when you’re lying officially. It’s okay that you had a crush on him, as long as at the end of it all you are still my girlie.” She felt like an object as he said that, but he probably meant that in an endearing way. Math ended faster than she expected, she ran into Karol on her way to class.
“Hey Karol, when do you have lunch? I was thinking we can talk later.”
“Hey Luna, sure. I think I will have lunch after my 3rd class, what do you want to talk about?”
“I want to talk about boys. Perfect, I also have lunch after my 3rd class. I will see you then, bye.” Luna needed more girl friends to understand how relationships could work, she wasn’t trying to say anything wrong about Karol but Karol was extremely pretty compared to Luna. If anything, she always was jealous of Karol last year because instead of liking Karol, Oliver liked her so what did Luna have that Karol didn’t? That was a common question in her head. Those two other classes went by fast without any issues, she got her “lunch,” which was a bag or two of chips. She sat with her usual group of girls that she ate lunch with, she saw Karol looking around for Luna.
“Hey Karol! Over here!” Karol noticed Luna immediately and sat across from her at the table.
“Everyone, this is Karol. Karol, this is everyone.” Just to make sure no one questioned who she was to Luna.
“So what did you want to talk about?”
“How do you look so pretty? Like I wish I was as pretty as you often.”
“I don’t do much in the morning or anything, this is just my normal look. I thought you wanted to talk about boys.” Some of the other girls tuned into the conversation to chime in.
“I do, the thing is… I have a crush on Joaquin and he is extremely sweet, cute, and we have so much in common but I kind of am in an unspoken relationship with Oliver.”
“Oh my god Luna! How did that come about? I need all the details now!”
“Okay so for Oliver, we kind of agreed to wait to date because we never dated anyone else and we don’t know what boyfriends or girlfriends do, but then I met Joaquin and it got a bit messy because me and Joaquin bonded immediately over everything. Which made Oliver very jealous so he pretty much told Joaquin that we ‘dated’ last year, which wasn’t a lie but it was a 2 hour relationship. How can we count that as us dating when we didn’t do anything but talk about ourselves during the talent show?” Karol looked shocked from all of that information.
“You and Oliver were a mini couple during the night of the talent show, that does count as a relationship because you guys were getting to know each other.”
“What about me and Joaquin? I do like Oliver so much but I don’t know what to do about this crush?” At this point all the girls at my table are listening and are trying to figure out what they should say next to help Luna with this issue.
Mandy, who was sitting next to Luna chimed in, “Do you see yourself dating Joaquin? Like would you want to be kissing him on Valentine’s Day or would you want to be kissing Oliver?” Luna wasn’t expecting to be kissing anyone on Valentine’s Day but it was a good question. Who could she see herself kissing on that day?
“I can see myself kissing Oliver, more than anything.” A mini sea of awws came in after she said that. She didn’t know what she was going to do for Valentine’s Day or maybe she should give him a present saying that she will be his girlfriend. She knew none of this stuff.
“Okay so clearly this crush for Joaquin is going to go away probably when we go on Christmas break, but your feelings for Oliver aren’t.” Karol was right about that, maybe the time away from Joaquin will change my way of seeing him to just friends again.
“Maybe you’re right, but what if my crush for Joaquin isn’t gone after Christmas break?”
“Then it does go back to the question she asked you,” Karol pointed to Mandy because she doesn’t know her name yet. “… who can you see yourself kissing on Valentine’s Day?” There are going to be a lot of questions going through Luna’s head during Christmas break. She had only 2 more days to figure before the break. She didn’t know how it was going to work because Luna and Joaquin had so much in common but her feelings for Oliver weren’t going to change in the span of 2 days.
“When did this get so complicated?” She didn’t mean to say it out loud if anything that was supposed to be my inner thought but Luna said it aloud with no hesitation.
“It got complicated when you chose not to date Oliver immediately because you would be able to just see Joaquin as a true friend and you wouldn’t be dealing with this whole love angle because you would hope that Oliver and Joaquin are friends right? It’s not like they secretly like each other in that way.” Karol wasn’t wrong, it got complicated because Luna was scared of being in a relationship. She watched her dad go through so many relationships and she had to help put his heart back together after every break up. Maybe she was scared of getting her heart broken or maybe she was just scared of the entire idea of being in a relationship.
“Thanks everyone, like I needed different opinions on this problem, so I am going to use that question about the kiss on Valentine’s Day as my way of figuring out who I do see myself with, even though I know it might be Oliver but having a crush is very different from wanting to be in a relationship with.” After Luna said that, lunch was pretty much over. She felt like it was a successful lunch time because she got some answers that would help her out and get a new perspective on it all, she didn’t even think the worse which was, how do they feel on the matter. Does Joaquin look at Luna differently because of all of this? Does Oliver hate her for liking another guy? All these questions started popping into her head.
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