The classroom was buzzing with noise today which isn't unusual, but the girls adjusting their ties and shirt? It looked kind of... strange?
Quietly, I slipped onto my chair and laid my textbooks on my table. Mathematics is our first class today which usually put the other students in a bad mood but surprisingly today, they looked quite eager to attend class. I kept my cool even though I found it strange and kept studying the topic we were going to address today.
Of course, I had gone through it last night, but since there was nothing else I could do to pass time, I still kept doodling random equations in my note. Slowly, my mind drifted off, but I was jolted back to reality when the girl sitting behind me poked me with her pen.
I look back raising my eyebrow enquiringly to which she giggled in response. I automatically label her as a gossipy psycho in my head but regardless listened to the shit she was about to sprout.
"Did you know? Someone posted on the school forum this morning that a big celebrity will be attending our school from today on. The Most important part is? He is also an eleventh grader. The rest of the class are tidying themselves with hopes that he comes to class 3. Isn't it spectacular ?" She rambled and before I could reply to her with a hmm the girl sitting beside her poked her head in our direction replying her with something completely irrelevant.
They both squealed like crazy fangirls and I couldn't help but shake my head before turning back to my work.
On the ring of the bell, our math teacher came in, with the homeroom teacher in tow. Turns out the new student really is coming to our class, I thought before looking back down, completely uninterested in whom this new student is.
I looked up when I heard the whole class gasp. Unexpectedly, I was also shocked by whom I saw.
The new student turned out to be the guy ran into me at the pool. My cheeks turned a whole shade of red when I remembered that incident and I hurriedly looked back down, afraid he would recognize me and maybe make fun of me. This can't be happening.
Unfortunately, I couldn't avoid the fate that awaits me because the next minute, I heard the chair beside me being pulled out and sat down on. I was more than a hundred percent sure that he's the one.
I just hope he doesn't recognize me. Two years is a long time right? Even though I tried to convince myself with that, I still covered the half of my face that was visible to him with my hand as I curse in my mind. He's the one who ran into me and now am the one who's ashamed. How ironical.
Catherine I heard the teacher call and I looked up, then he pointed at the board. " Come and solve this problem
Usually whenever a new topic is introduced, he would ask one of us, to try out our luck first, then he would take his time to explain the topic bits by bits till we finally understood it.
On a normal day, going up to solve the question wouldn't be a problem plus the fact that I had already come across that same equation before, but today when I have someone I have to avoid? It is.
I rack my brain trying to think of ways to avoid the coming embarrassment and a perfect plan formed up in my head. The next moment, I clench my stomach, groaning. I have never tried this type of thing probably because I am always enthusiastic about learning but Shayne, on the other hand has done this multiple times than I can count, and it had always worked. She used to call it The Lucky Grumble. How lame.
Still clutching my stomach, I say "Excuse me Mr Brad. My stomach... Am not really feeling that well. I think I need to use the restroom." and with that I rushed out of the class.
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Still putting on my pretense, I made my way to the school infirmary. Well no math for today then I thought as I opened the door.
When the nurse asked me what was wrong, I complained of menstrual cramps, and she asked me to lie down with my chest facing up for a while before taking my medications. In the middle of that, I had somehow fallen asleep.
I was woken up by the sudden light, feather like touch on my hair and I slowly opened my drooping eyes but was struck dumb by whom I saw. This is a dream. Yes it is. So right now am going to open my eyes to reality. Right? I opened an eye and my heart skipped when I still saw him sitting in front of me. It really isn't a dream.
Silently hoping that he doesn't recognize me, I open my eyes fully to stare at him and this time didn't allow myself to be lost in his beauty. With the little self-control I had, I looked down, playing with the edge of my duvet when I heard him talk.
"Sooo, hi" he drawled, and I replied with a low almost inaudible hi.
"Ooh. Sorry for the incident at the beach, I tried apologizing back then, but I saw that you were quite distracted
DOES HE HAVE TO MAKE IT THAT COMPLICATED!!? I was just staring at him ok? I screamed in my head and drop my head low to hide the blush that was creeping on my face.
"Sorry, I don't remember that happening" I lied through my teeth, and he stared at me for a while as if trying to look for the truth in my eyes taking back his eyes. I silently heaved a sigh of relief.
He extended his hand and introduced " Edward Jones but my friend call me... Ed"
Ed! Ed! Ed! Ed! The name kept ringing in my head as blurred images flashed through my head. I could hear a kid crying, a young girl saying something to her that I couldn't quite catch but soon another image popped up, before I could register what it was another appeared. I held my head, trying to get a hold of myself but nothing was working.
With the loud tears of the little girl as the background, the images kept flashing continously, and I held my head screaming. In my subconscious state, I noticed a hand creep to my back, patting it gently. In an almost maniac manner, I dipped my hand in my pocket for the drugs, but I couldn't find it. I. HAVE. TO. FIND. MY DRUG.
With all hope lost, I started shivering, my lips mumbling things that even I didn't catch when I felt the pat on my back slow down almost soothingly. Just like magic, as my wild mind started calming down, and I looked up, meeting his deep green eyes, for the first time, I found it quite, comforting.