heartcrossed

5.

The door of the principal's office opens and someone gets out of there. I recognize his perfectly shaped face. Oh my god. Why in the world does he have to be in the same room as me in this whole goddamn school? Maybe he hasn't seen me yet. Maybe if I escape fast enough he won't recognize me. I start to walk towards the door faster. I raise my hand to grab the doorknob and just when I'm about to finally open the door,

''Miss Woods! I forgot to hand you your Science book.'', the same lady says.

CRAP.

I slowly turn around trying not to face him as he's getting closer followed by the principal right behind him.

''You must be our new student Candy, am I right?'', the principal says as I grab my book.

Seems like I can't escape this time...

I turn to face them.

''Um, it's Kendall. But yeah, it's me.'', I say with a forced smile.

''Hey, I remember you! Your'e the girl with the longboard!''

DAMMIT.

I simply glance at him and put my attention back on the principal who, thankfully, interrupts the awkwardness of the moment.

''Well, welcome to our school. I hope you have a fantastic year here and great success.'' He says smiling.

''Thank you very much.'' I say as we shake hands.

''Mr. Dolan would you help Candy find her locker, please?'' He adds.

Are you seriously kidding me. Like this wasn't embarrassing enough.

''Oh no, it's okay! I can fin-''

''Yeah sure!'' I get cut short by him.

I awkwardly smile clearly annoyed.

We then get out of the room and walk in the hallway towards the lockers.

''So how's your arm?'' He says chuckling.

''Better.'' I respond making sure to avoid any eye contact and hoping to find my locker as fast as possible.

''Great. So what are your classes today?'' He says before sucking onto his bottom lip.

I pull out my schedule and check which day we are.

''Arts & Science in the morning and History & free period in the afternoon.'' I respond.

A huge smile grow upon is face. He tilts his head my way, gives me a quick look and brings his attention back to the floor.

''Well seems like were gonna see each other quite often. We have Arts and free period together.'' He says still smiling.

I can't help but smile too.

"Oh, and I think you're with Ethan in History."

"That's great. I won't be completely alone."

We finally find my locker. I put all my stuff inside of it and grab my Arts supplies as the bell rings. Grayson already has his things. I follow him in the hallways full of people rushing to their classes since I don't know where the classroom is and he does obviously. We enter a very colorful room. There are sculptures, drawings, painted canvas and all kinds of masterpiece displayed on some shelves and on the walls. The ceiling is painted in a bold abstract pattern. There are just a few people in the classroom yet. We sit at a table at the back and wait for the class to begin as some more people are entering and finding a place to sit. I pull out a random piece of paper and start drawing eyes. I always randomly doodle eyes because I find them so fascinating somehow. I zone out and keep drawing without paying attention to what is going on around until a hand weirdly waves in front of my face. I look to who belongs the hand. Grayson. I realize that two other guys are now sitting just in front of us. They are turned around and starring at me.

''This is Kendall, guys. She's new here. Kendall, this is Sam and you already know this bitch.'' Grayson says pointing at the guy and Ethan.

''Hey!'' We all say in sync and start laughing.

The second bell rings and the teacher stand in front.

''Hello everyone. Today we are starting a very fun and interesting project! We are going to do some kind of sculpture with old fake heads used by hairstylists for practice, in teams of two. In this hat, there's a bunch of pieces of paper and on each is written a really weird theme. Each team is going to randomly pick one paper and do their sculpture on that theme. Now find your partner, come get a paper and let your creativity flow.''

I look around trying to find somebody to pair with, but obviously everyone is already paired up. I look down at the table. I am used to being alone anyway. Grayson stands up walk to the teacher's desk, gets a paper and then comes back. He is staring right at me like he is waiting for me to say something.

''What?'' I whisper.

''We got the theme salt! '' He exclaims really sarcastically.

I look at him surprised that he decided to work with me without even asking or letting me know and that he didn't pair with one of his friends.

I then smile. We both start laughing.

''Any ideas?'' He says hopelessly, still laughing.

I look around trying to find inspiration.

''Salt...... What is salty?'' I mumble.

Grayson looks at me confused.

''Ethan's sweat.'' He says licking his lips.

And then it hits me. I turn around to face him.

''OCEAN! THE OCEAN IS SALTY'' I almost yell making everyone turn.

''You're a genius you know?'' He says.

We both crack up.

''Hey what did you guys get?'' Ethan asks as he turns around to face us followed by Sam.

''Well, we got salt but since that girl is a genius, we're going to do something about the ocean.'' Gray says smirking.

Ugh that smirk.

''Wow.. We got muscles so we are basically screwed.'' Sam says and we all laugh.

''Well... Snakes move with their muscles so maybe you guys could do something about snakes? Or reptiles or whatever.'' I say.

They both look at me amazed.

''Wow! You really are a genius'' Sam whispers still amazed.

We then start drawing a rough draft of our ''sculpture'' while talking about random things.

The bell rings and everyone storms out. Grayson follows me to my locker and then leaves for his next class.