AURELIA
Waving to Cass as she drives off, I turn to look at the school, groaning as I walk through the gates. The guards hearing me, chuckled and one of them said, "That bad was the first day huh."
I laughed at that and replied, "You have no idea," they smiled at me.
As I'm almost to the doors, I hear my name being called, turning around I see Dora running towards me. Instantly my mood lifted, a laugh sputtered out as she pulled me into a hug and we swung around.
She laughed with me as we slowly came to a stop, "Are you okay?" she asked.
Knowing she must have been talking about yesterday, I give a sad smile, "Yeah, I'll be okay," she returned my sad smile.
"If only," she muttered.
Furrowing my brows at her I ask, "What do you mean by that?"
Looking up at me, she says, "Well Cyra did promise war, and I tried talking him out of it but he won't listen, I'm sorry but I really tried."
Remembering his words from yesterday, "Oh yeah, I was worried about that," I muttered to her.
"Don't worry too much, let's just hope it's not that bad," She assured me. I loved her for that, she was trying to have me not worry much even though that's exactly what we should have been doing.
"What class do you have now?" I asked her, she gave me a rundown of her schedule. After she did, I realized we had Biology at fourth period too, I know we had math at the last period. We both rejoiced at that, we got to meet three times per day, In fourth, last and lunch period. Telling her I had English now with Mrs. Quincy and Astrid, she smiled at me saying I had someone I knew and that I shouldn't worry much.
"Oh, stop it, you're too nice," I say to her.
She laughed, "I know," after that, we both laughed.
We talked so much I didn't even realize I was already at my class until she told me. Peeking into the class, she waved at Astrid who came by the door and we all hugged and said a good bye to her then went to our seats as class started.
By the time the third period came around, things were going smoothly, too smoothly for my anxiety to be dealing with. It felt like the calm before the storm, and what a storm it would turn out to be by the end of this period, I would find out.
I met Esme in second period, we hugged and sat next to each other, laughing throughout the class, we had Gym too we both found out, so there was that, I also had someone I knew in this period. Now I knew, I had a friend in every class now so I wouldn't be too alone or feel like the odd one out.
He and I walked to the gym and went in our respective locker rooms, him the male one and I the female one. I was assigned a locker in the gym and one where I could put my bags and books I wouldn't need, out on the corridors. I changed into my gym clothes and sneakers and went out, I found Esme sitting in the bleachers on the bottom half, last stair.
I went next to him and found Saph, we hugged, sitting down, folding my feet to the left behind me as I faced them both, we started talking for about twenty minutes until the teacher took everyone's attendance.
Mr. Alspach told us that we would be doing push-ups today, and if we could do one to ten with no breaks in between, we would be graded with full marks for the day and if we couldn't then we would have to continue until we were able.
All the boys hooted and pumped their fists up in the air, Esme included, but the girls? Almost every one of them rolled their eyes and groaned out loud, me obviously a part of this, to which all the boys burst out laughing, Mr. Alspach included.
As everyone got up, I did too. Standing up, I started to move forward, except my feet didn't move one in front of the other like they were supposed to, no they both moved at the same time, looking down I see that both my shoe laces were tied to each other.
"Shoot," My eyes went wide, knees buckling underneath me as I let out the following series of words; "Oh chocolate covered fudge icicles!"
My hands flailing to the front as I tried to lessen the impact my front was about to take as I fell face first onto the gym floor. "oomph," I fell with a thud, my hands indeed preventing any serious damage but I didn't really feel any pain, the floor was smooth so I guess that helped more than anything.
A series of gasps, whispers, and laughs were heard around me, and it's only then that I realize I fell down in front of probably over a hundred students. Face turning red with embarrassment, I wished I could disappear and take away everyone's memory of what they just witnessed. But of course, that would never happen.
I stayed put until suddenly a pair of sneakers stood in front of me, the person bent down holding out their hands to me. I looked up and was met with the darkest blue pair of eyes, jaw set in a hard line and dark blonde hair falling over his forehead, my breath hitched, it was Cyra, I knew this was because of him. But god, his eyes were so beautiful, almost as beautiful as his face, if only his personality wasn't so nasty, making him a hoodlum.
And just then he corrected my earlier thought of him being responsible for doing this to me, because his pink tongue peeked out the corner of his mouth as it curved up and I knew this was just the beginning of what he had planned, he had something else in mind too, and I knew I wasn't going to like it. Grabbing my hands himself, he pulled me up towards him.
Putting one of his hands on my waist and the other on my shoulders, he steadied me, then laughing, he raised his voice, loud enough for everyone to hear, "Little tigress so wild, she just couldn't wait to start doing the push-ups, huh?" He looked at me as he said this as if expecting me to answer him.
If everyone wasn't laughing when I fell, then they surely were now, and he joined in with them. I pursed my lips, and then I shoved him back as hard as I could, he barely moved back, laughing harder as I did this, "Oh, I've made her angry, better watch out guys, be careful before she bites," he taunted mockingly.
I can't even believe myself that I was going to apologize to him, he didn't even deserve it. "Enough Cyra, that's enough you've done," Esme came to in front of me.
"For now," Cyra continued from Esme's latter response, making sure to look behind him at me, winking, I scowled at him.
"Cute" he muttered then began to walk away from us.
Esme turned around, "are you okay," he asked.
Looking up at him, I pouted then trying to lighten the mood, I shrug my shoulders and say, "And humpty dumpty had a great fall, but she's very embarrassed now."
He burst out laughing and I joined him, shaking his head at me, he asked, "do you want to get out of here."
Feeling thankful at him for recommending that, I say, "Yes please."
We both walked out, while I still felt eyes burning holes into my back. As we're exiting the gym doors, I spotted Cyra and he was already staring at me, folding my hands, holding my index and middle fingers to my eyes, then to his, I lip synced the words, "You better watch out, it's payback time." This guy, smiled and doing the same with his fingers to my eyes, then his, I read the words he mouthed to me, "Game on,"
What the hell did I just start? I thought this would be over today, not only did that not happen, I entertained not only him but everyone presented in the gym, I was the laughing stock of today's show, and it was all Cyra's fault. I would not let him win, or have the last laugh.
I accept that this is all my fault this whole thing started in the first place and what I did was wrong, but he called for war, and I would make sure, it ends with me, and I would come out the winner.
As Esme and I were strolling around, all I could think was what could I do to Cyra as payback. It couldn't be something that would harm him of course. But it had to be something that would embarrass the hell out of him so he would think twice about doing back anything to me and would hopefully end this little rivalry before it really starts and expands into something, we both can't handle anymore.
I would hate to have to get our parents or friends involved in whatever war we had going on. I didn't want this to hurt them in any way.
I felt a shake to my shoulders, jolting me out of my thoughts. I turned to Esme with a questioning look, laughing he said "I asked you about three times if you wanted to go get snacks before the period is over and we have to get to our next one."
Smiling sheepishly at him, I say, "Sorry, I was a little preoccupied with my thoughts, but yay! Let's go stuff our tummy with nonsense."
I rubbed my hands together in a sneaky way, as he laughed at me, ruffling my hair. I smiled as we made our way to food. That would take away all the stress I was feeling right now, and I needed that more than anything. And most of all I needed a break from my thoughts and certain beautiful blue-eyed boy.