Ellis was sitting on one of the benches in the garden behind lie school, it was under school's property. Jess gave me a confused look and then went to him. I followed.
"Hey, what are you doing here? Are you done with your football practice?"
Jess asked him while he was sitting with a stick on his hand ,drawing figures on the ground with it.
"No. I took rest as I was tired."
He replied without looking at us.
"I need to talk to you Ellis."
I said and I really can't wait to talk to him about everything that's going weird, now. I wanted my answers, Ellis is being super weird.
He glanced my way and after reading my expressions,said
"What is it?"
I gestured Jess and she understood and said,
"I'll be searching for some thin sticks near those plants."
Jess left and I sat next to Ellis, putting a hand on his shoulder to make him feel comfortable, I asked,
"What's wrong?"
He gestured as if I asked a totally wrong question and I was being weird. Come on can he not pretend now?
"You are being so weird since tomorrow, when you left my house. You didn't even asked me to drop you, I took you from school to my house then how did you go back, when there are no taxis services from near my neighborhood and in evening it's even difficult to get a lift from there as mostly the streets remain vacant in that part. How did you manage to go back?"
I asked and his shoulders tensed under my palm. He was not answer making me anxious. But he's he finally spoke.
"I walked to my home."
"You can't be that mad. Where do you live?"
I asked because the other residential area from my house take at least 30 minutes of drive and Ellis wasn't from my locality and if he decided to walk so long, no one could be crazier than him.
"I can take to my home some other day. I have practice to attend now, so bye for now."
He said and left. I remained silent and let him go. I went and joined Jess who has collected a lot of thin sticks to begin our work with.
"How did it go?"
She asked.
"Huh... ?"
I was a bit confused about what was she asking.
"You talked to Ellis, what is he upset about?"
She said.
"He is not ready to tell. I can't figure out what is upsetting him."
I admitted and felt bad for his friends. I am his friend as well but it seems like Jess and Ellis have known each other since a long time.
"I hope he gets normal soon."
She sighed.
"Let's go, the others members must be waiting for us."
She said and we went back to the auditorium.
"Where have you two been? It took you so long to collect those."
Mason commented. And Jess began with her work ignoring him. He gave a 'what the fuck' reaction and started beading the threads.
Most of our time was passed beading and twisting and turning the colorful threads to get the exact shape of our arts club logo and I regretted to suggest something this monotonous. It wasn't fun at all and we were all sleepy when we decided to pause our work there itself and head back to our classes. Don't know how much have we spent in the auditorium. I went to my locker to check which period was it and luckily it's physical education period now so I don't have to get bored because as Jess said our PE classes will be together everyday. This made me happy and sad as well because now I will have to face Ellis as well and the way he is acting is just beyond pissing for me.
"Let's go and change into track pants before the coach comes and drags us to the tracks."
Jess giggled and I followed her to changing room. After changing into some sports cloth that were a track pants and a T-shirt with School's logo and a sports bra underneath, we left and now I have to do the thing, I hate the most, running 2000 metres. It's all my fault I shouldn't have opted for PE but my mom wanted me to pursue it as she believes it will keep me on shape. I was already OK the way I was,don't why she bothers so much about how I look.
We took our positions on our tracks and with the coach's whistle we started running, I was more energetic than yesterday, today because I wanted to show everyone that I wasn't as bad as they think. Well, I am but I could do better. This time I wasn't the last girl to finish the race two girls were behind me. I felt a bit confident 'cause I believe in improving slowly.
I was panting heavily after running and was completely soaked in sweat, I noticed two guys talking at the corner of the bleacher seats, barely visible to anyone but as I was standing and intently looking there I saw Ellis and Shane having a chat with each other. They weren't fighting but we're discussing something, their expressions were serious. I can't believe.. Those two can sit and talk to each other? I thought the only thing they did was to just fight but why are they talking? And about what? If it was something serious then why hide from others and talk at the corner?
God! I don't know why but all these things were bothering me to hell. I have known them both just for a day and still their being together felt weird to me. It's not like I them so personally but something goofy was going on for sure. Something was not right and I had to figure out what. The only way is to keep an eye on both. I couldn't stop myself from engaging in this matter anymore. They both surely had someting they wanted to hide. But what? And did they both knew about each others secret?