The Friend of My Future

How It All Started

"Anybody have the answer ?' Dr. DuMart asked my gifted science class. I looked around waiting for anyone to raise their hands and no one did, I finally raise my hand and say "Dicalcium Monobromide".
"Good job!" he says with a laugh and relieved that the awkward silence didn't go on for any longer. I do this often in his class. Answer questions that many people know the answer to but nobody wants to raise their hand and say. Me and one other person that is. Aaron Yards. Only reason I know his name is because he and I are the only people who answer questions, so out names are said out loud the most - you get used to it. This is genuinely my favorite class. Our teacher can take a joke, he tries to make class as bearable as possible, and I sit in the perfect seat to use my phone. Perfection. I turned around and heard muffling from the boy who sits behind me. I can only assume that he's watching another basketball game during class. What was his name again...? Kevin..? Korey ...? Kaleb! His name is Kaleb, I remember seeing him for the first time and noticing how cute he was, but besides that I had never given him a second thought. Chill guys as far as I can tell though, but for the love of God, he needs to learn to turn down his volume so he doesn't hurt him ears. But anyways back to the point its just another Wednesday afternoon and I am ready to go to bio then go home!

                                                 ~- bell rings-~

"All right class!" our teacher says. "You know what that means be sure to study for the compounds test tomorrow - its open note as always so I'd you've been taking notes this should be a breeze." His words gradually yet quickly being drowned out by the sounds of kids packing their bags, meeting up with their friends from across the classroom, and turning on their phones. As I walk out into the hallway I see Kaleb and his friends messing around in the hallways pushing each other around and laughing loudly, but not loud as the entire hallway they just faded in as background noise - the only reason I noticed was because I recently lost my AirPods and had to watch everyone's stories in silence. I would be with my friends, but none of my friends had that class with me and today we just weren't able to meet up in the halls. All of sudden I feel a jolt on my back, and I whip my head back to see that one of Kaleb's friend's, Jordan, bump into me. I turn back and he says "my bad" with a little snicker and turns back to his friends. A few minutes later the friends turn the corner and Kaleb jogs up to me about 3 halls away from my class.
"Hey -" he chuckles to me as I take my attention away from my phone and turn to him realizing once again that he is one of the cuter guys in my science class. "Hey.. umm Kaleb right? I say smiling as he wears a cute smile on his face.
"Yeah" he replies "I'm sorry about Jacob, he can be a little bit... to much sometimes - well told him to be careful but yknow how it goes."
"No yeah of course my friends and I are the exact same way!" I say laughing getting into a conversation with him and my hall comes up for my class"
"Rea—" he starts in response to what I had recently been saying then I realized.
"Shit - I'm sorry I gotta go, this is my hall. I hate being late." I say as we both stop in front of the intersect. "Where's your class?" I ask realizing that I have no idea where he's going.
"Oh yeah I'm going to business" he says cooly as my face slowly turns shocked.
"Dude! That all the way back there! 😂" I exclaim with laughter trying not to be to loud as I realize we are some of the last people in the hallway.
"Yeah well, I was enjoying talking to you" he says without a care in the world " I'll catch you later though, and we will continuing this conversation at a later date.
"Bye.. I say as my voice trails off realizing I have less than a minute to get to class, get my instrument and computer set up, and not get in trouble for barely making it to class. I turn back and see him entire class as he turns back for a half second and realizes I'm looking back and turns to go in the classroom. I run to the classroom and get myself and stuff set up. Only a minute behind schedule .. but class doesn't tend to start until 10 minutes after the bell.

                                                ~-40 minutes after the bell-~

I open my phone to text my friends but they're either in classes that they have to pay attention to or can't pull their phones out, so I hide my phone and tap through people's stories. This was until I realized that I had somehow made my way to the discover page and wasn't really paying attention and was thinking about Kaleb. "I don't get it tho" I start thinking to myself as I look up to the board. "We had one conversation ever."

"Asher? Are you with us!?" My teacher's voice seeps into my ears, and then I realize that both teachers are looking at me along with the entire class. "Can you explain to the class what tone quality is?"
I look back at her seeing everyone's gaze stuck on me as more people look up from whatever they doing to look at me. I finally respond with "oh umm, I'm sorry. It's the...." I look down at my notes to double check my answer before saying it "the beauty of the sound for the pleasure of the audience"
My teacher looks slightly defeated, and says "Yes, now of you will pay attention to the lesson, she says emphasizing the projector. "Just because we are not going to LGPE..." she starts but I drown her out as I plug my earbuds into my laptop and start working on my composition project for the pure reason that there about 20 minutes left in class, and I realize that's what everyone else had started doing.

                                                ~- 20 long minutes later~-

"Okay guys! Your next check on your projects will be next Thursday ! Make sure you have atleast 8 measures. No exceptions." I put together my bag, which was already half packed from my boredom, I headed out and went waited for my bus to pull up. When it did I glanced over and say Jordan walking over to a car with his friends. As I step onto the bus I feel someone from the group's eyes fall on me. I wasn't able to notice who it was on time, but all I knew was the group of people in which it came from. I went home, took care of my homework & bio notes, and shaved my legs. Gotta get a head start on hot girl summer, right?