Alexander watches Nolan as he stumbles through picking up his stuff, an occasional wince thrown in every few moments. The blond\u2019s eyes narrow in suspicion while he picks up his own laptop smoothly. Nolan almost trips as he shakily stands. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
What\u2019s he doing?<\/em> Alexander wonders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI still think it\u2019s unrequited love, Alex. It\u2019s like one of those romance novels!\u201d Logan\u2019s cheerful chirp cuts into Alexander\u2019s thoughts and he turns to face his mischievously grinning friend. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cI\u2019m not in love with anyone. He\u2019s a jerk, and I don\u2019t like him.\u201d Alexander\u2019s words only serve to fuel Logan\u2019s smirk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDenial is the first stage.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexander opens his mouth to retort back when Nolan turns his head to look up at the pair still standing in the classroom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cCome on, let\u2019s go,\u201d Alexander says instead. \u201cI\u2019m hungry.\u201d His gaze drifts to Nolan, still looking quizzically towards them. They make eye contact for a moment, and for the first time that Alexander can remember, Nolan isn\u2019t the first to look away. That in itself is stranger than all the rest of his behavior combined. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexander looks back to Logan in time to see his smug face staring directly at him. \u201cSure, sure, lover-boy. You wanna ask your stalkee along with us?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cScrew you, Logan. I\u2019m not a stalker. And no, we\u2019re not asking him to lunch.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Logan sighs loudly and throws a hand over his forehead with flair. \u201cOh, you\u2019re so mean, Alex! Does our friendship mean nothing to you?\u201d Alexander watches Nolan as he stumbles through picking up his stuff, an occasional wince thrown in every few moments. The blond\u2019s eyes narrow in suspicion while he picks up his own laptop smoothly. Nolan almost trips as he shakily stands. What\u2019s he doing? Alexander wonders. \u201cI still think it\u2019s unrequited love, Alex. It\u2019s like one…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[9,10,8,11],"class_list":["post-47","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-friendship","category-romance","tag-alexander-brooks","tag-logan-wilson","tag-nolan-caldwell","tag-sick-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48,"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47\/revisions\/48"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bellesbooknook.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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