The Shane Game
Chapter 41
Once
Savannah left that night, Mrs. Palmer started asking Shane a
million questions about her. He answered them truthfully, and
told her that he missed Savannah and still liked her.
Savannah took a picture with
Shane on his computer and uploaded it to Facebook from his name.
A bunch of texts immediately followed from his friends asking
about it, and Shane told them the truth. If Aaron could hook up
with her and get away with it then Shane could tell them he liked
her, right?
Wrong.
They didn’t understand
how he could be so mean to her and now like her. They made fun of
him a lot, and not in a friendly way. Shane was nervous to go to
school today, unaware of how many people knew that he liked
her.
He walked into the school and
to his surprise, Nick Bassett came up and talked to him.
“Sorry for what I said last night, I was just really
shocked. It’s just weird that you like her after everything
you’ve said about her,” he said. “How long have
you liked her for?”
“I don’t know if I
ever stopped,” Shane said. Nick widened his eyes, laughed,
and walked away.
So many people asked Savannah
if she knew Shane liked her, and she said of course she did. No
one understood if this was a joke or not, and in a way, Shane
wished it was. He’d never had people make fun of him before
and talk about him in a bad way. He’d always been the
person who was doing the bullying, and now he wished he never
did.
Nothing had changed the next
few days. He asked Ava if she wanted to come over and hang out
after the game that Friday, because he noticed she seemed kind of
upset too, and no one had seen her and Savannah together. Only
Shane understood why though.
The game was awful because
barely anyone talked to Shane. They kept making comments about
Shane liking Savannah and how Aaron got with her, and Shane had
enough.
“Did you invite Savannah
to the game, Shane?” Nick laughed.
“No,” Shane filled
up a cup of water from the cooler.
“But you love her, I
don’t understand,” he laughed some more.
“Stop,” Shane
said.
“Stop,” Nick
mimicked him. “Where’s Savannah to defend you,
Shane?”
“Bro, shut the f..ck up!
You don’t even know her! None of you do! She’s not as
bad as you think and maybe if you guys would stop being such
a..sholes and get to know her, you wouldn’t make fun of me
for liking her. Stop talking sh..t about her, stop making fun of
me for it, stop being a d.ck!” Shane yelled at them.
“Palmer, calm down,
we’re just joking,” Eli said. “You’re the
one who always made fun of her. None of us had a problem with
her. We all thought she was hot and that’s when you started
being a d.ck to her.”
“Because I still liked
her. I didn’t want you guys to have her,” Shane said
under his breath.
“You should have told us
that then,” Nick said. “We would’ve
understood.”
“Sorry I got with your
girl, bro,” Aaron said. “If I knew, I wouldn’t
have.”
“It’s fine,”
Shane lied. “But you guys ignored me all week because you
found out I like her. You don’t understand. This is why I
didn’t tell you.”
“Because you lied to us.
You said you hated her but you didn’t. That’s not
cool,” Aaron said. “If you told us from the beginning
that you liked her we would’ve backed off.” Shane
wondered if that was true though, because they ripped on him so
much just for breaking up with someone like Savannah.
“So basically, you guys
never would have cared if I told you I liked her?” Shane
asked.
“Not at all,” Nick
said
Note: so basically shane was mean
for nothing
Teaser: "I've really missed you, Ava," Shane
said.
