"you want you fit in

Do it the right way and just be yourself"

Zach's POV

"Sam can you go and seat?, I will be right there in a few minutes" i say to my best friend who smirks like he knows something which he doesn't, but I allow him to think to think he does.

"You keep on stalking that girl yet you're not telling me anything" Sam states well it is not stalking when she is aware right...plus i consider her as a friend, she's not that bad ,Just very sarcastic and her words always tends to burn you just like fire!

She can retaliate and that amuses and entertains me to no end but i won't give my best friend the satisfaction of telling him anything, he already has an active imagination so I would leave him to use it trust me, i'm not a bad friend. I'm not just the type to tell another person's business to somebody else and he knows this yet he still tries anyway.

"Hm" I say in reply

"You still won't tell me anything right?" he asks with a sigh

"Hm" I reply with a smirk I can feel him giving up

"Fine" he mutters

"Be right back" I say with a grin before I started to make my way over to the back where she always sits, I plopped down on the seat making her head snap up as soon as her eyes met mine, her eyes narrowed at me.

She clenched unto her lunch bag making me let out a stray of chuckles, she just rolled her eyes and went back to pressing her phone basically ignoring me but she wasn't going to win.

"Hey i"m Zachary but only my friends calls me Zach so I guess you can" I say resting my head on top of my hands while staring up at making her freeze she looks back up at me in confusion.

"Um hi?" she says it sounds more like a question than a statement

"Your name?" I ask with a polite smile

"What?" she asks obviously confused

"you didn't say your name after you said hi" I say making her frown deepen she stared at me as if she wanted nothing than for me for disappear, I was convinced she wasn't going to answer me but then she surprises me just like she always does.

"Amal Abnan" she mutters

"Well that's different" i mutter making her stare at me as if she was confused of that was a compliment or an insult in disguise

"Hm" she decides to say in reply

"But I like it" I say with a grin she looks at me again before looking away she looks taken back by my words

"Oh-Okay" she says before opening her lunch bag taking out a familiar long wrapped snack

"Take it and leave" she states rudely ouch that hurt!

"Have anyone ever told you that you are rude?" I reply not missing a beat

"Well did you expect me to act nice sorry, I'm not a good actor unlike You are" she states making me frown

"What do you mean by acting?, i have always been nice!,no acting!" i reply wow when did she become so harsh?, maybe she has always been harsh or maybe i'm just noticing it now.

"Then where were you on that day?" Amal mutters to herself

"Which day?" a confused version of myself asks

"Never mind, take it and leave, you don't have to talk to me If you don't want to" she mutters making him frown okay so she has officially succeeded in pissing me off.

"What do you mean?, I want to talk to you that is why am here but you know what?, forget it!" i state standing up angrily but then i remembered something.

"I don't know what made you change, I don't know what hurt you so much that it made you So cold, I don't know who hurt you and taught you how to abandon the world before it abandons you, I don't know what hurt you so much that you now have trust issues, I don't know why you are trying so hard to impress people that their opinions shouldn't matter to you but I certainly do know one thing, that you were not like this back in kindergarten,middle school and even freshman year" I State angrily but my voice was not high but low that was how my therapist taught me to deal with issues calmly not brashly, whenever i'm angry I try to tame my anger into a cage or else I become a beast that was why I was even talking to a therapist in the first place.

I walked away with so much anger in my veins, I hate it when someone accuses me of something. It turns out she wanted to be liked so bad that right now she was behaving just like the rest.

"Hey where you going?" I can hear a voice call after me making my brows furrow as i halt my footsteps, i turned around only to see her just a few feet away from me, her eyes were looking down at her hands.

"Home obviously"I reply

"You can't just leave the school premises that's ...illegal" she starts to rant making me roll my eyes doesn't she ever know when to stop.

"oh please I don't want to receive any lecture if I wanted to,it wouldn't be from you" I cut her off

"What is your problem?" she asks as if she was innocent in this case ha!

"My problem?, you are my problem" I confessed making her frown

"Excuse me?" she replies

"You have been excused" i State making her glare intensify

"How in the freaking fudgeball am I your problem?" Amal yells her eyes wide and i almost laughed at her cute words she substituted for the curse word but then I didn't because she needed to know how serious I am.

"Because you are trying to hard" I states coldly

"Trying to hard?, what are you even saying?" She asked obviously confused

"It turns out she wanted to be like the rest so bad that right now she is behaving just like the rest" I say the words on my mind i'm not poet but damn I be going deep.

"who is she? and what does she have to with this argument?" she screams

"You call this an argument meanwhile I see this as you trying to apologize" I say making her look down and smile sheepishly

"Maybe I was trying to" she confesses

"Go ahead" I say

"What?" she asks

"Go ahead and apologise, am waiting" I say

"What no!" she yells making me roll my eyes

"You see what am talking about?" I states making her frown

"Actually no not at all" She replies urgh she is a smart mouth too!, might as well light a match on my butt because i'm a ticking time bomb right now.

"The Amal I knew was strong and brave also very hopeful and not a coward you are acting like right now, She wasn't afraid to be herself but like I had said earlier on, turns out she wanted to be like so bad that right now she is behaving just like the rest" I say to her watching as her mouth fell open in shock, I was waiting for her to say I remember you and am sorry but what she did pissed me off more.

"Wait, you knew me before?" she asks I just sent her a disappointed look

"Really, that's all you actually picked up from all that i said, wow just wow aren't you the smartest?" I say sarcastically before turning back around and walking away as soon as the begun to ring making students flood the hallway it was time for class but I wasn't ready for class, I wanted to go home because after taming the animal in me for several years, then out of nowhere she has managed to free it now, I don't want to cause any more damage.

I walked out the school's exit with the question 'why do I care so much?' stuck in my head I knew this was her life and not mine I just don't want her to change in the name of fitting in.

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