Don't Wanna Come Down ( L.A Blue Series #1)

Chapter 1: December

Chapter 1

Joey's Pov

December 24th- Christmas Eve

The air in Boston was rippling slightly, almost if magically creating movements around people passing by as they walked through the evening in downtown. Storefronts were getting ready to close for the night as last minute shoppers were rushing in to buy gifts.

It was the final moments before Santa was going to make his appearance to leave presents under everyone's brightly lit christmas trees, that had so many decorations on hanging on it.

But before we get to what I got for christmas, I probably should go backwards just a little bit like to right before final exams, when we took the annual school's winter break trip.

So let's rewind and find out why and how we got to christmas in the first place.

December 15th- Winter break Starts.

Every year right before finals, Catholic Memorial Highschool had organized a winter break trip for the students. Permission slips were signed and the money paid to take them on a ski trip where the students could ski and or snowboard.

I walked down the hall to stop by my locker, which was actually next to my best friend's locker. She, yes I said she, was standing there dressed in the school uniform and putting things into her locker. I carefully set my bag down in front of my locker, dressed in my own school uniform I came up behind Anabella, my Ana.

She was distracted looking for something in her bag," Where is that stupid Biology book," she grumbled as she was pushing things aside in her bag that hung over her shoulder, it was pink and had a zillion pockets or something it was cute like her.

I reached up silently placing my hands over her eyes, " Shhh don't breathe," I whispered.

Her body instantly froze at the contact and her breathe stilled in her chest almost as if were caught between her throat and her chest cavity.

"I'm only going to remove my hands if you tell me that you're going on this winter break trip with me," I said to her.

She sighed, her breathe escaping her sweet body slowly in a semi rush at the same speed her words were about to hit me," Joey, you know that I can't go with you. My parents won't let me," she whispered it so softly I was almost afraid I heard it wrong, except the fact that I knew what her surrogate parents were like.

"Those permission slips and the money are due tommorrow. We leave on the 18th and are back on the 20th, we take finals on the 21st, 22nd, and 23rd and than we are out of school from the 24th til the 4th," I said to her softly, my hands still covering her eyes.

"Will you move your hands if I ask again today after school?" she asked me quietly.

My heart was pounding in my chest, literally unstoppable as it was trying to beat its way out of my chest. This was it...this was going to be my chance to tell her. I had been wrestling with the idea of telling her how I felt since we were twelve years old.

I had fallen in love with her from day one, but that was a different story altogether because the one I'm beginning to tell you is the one where I fall in love, so hard, so fast like the speed of light, so inescapably in love with the one girl who had seen it all when it came to me. The good, the bad, the ugly, the other girls that came and went all of last year. I had made some stupid choices when it came to finding a girlfriend and trying to fall in love, but it hadn't been love with those other girls.

It had been everything from lust to infatuation to considering having sex, but anytime I had tried to her beautiful blue eyes had popped into my head. Hers were an ocean blue, mine were also blue and it seemed so unbalanced to put two blue eyed people together but maybe that's what God had wanted right? People claimed opposites attracted but Anabella and I , we were like birds of a feather that flocked together.

Ever so hesitantly I lowered my hands from her eyes because she had promised to ask one more time if she could go on the trip, it was going to be chaperoned by one of the teachers and it looked like so far only seven of us were going on the trip, it would be eight if Ana went.

"You can share my Biology book we every class together anyways," I reminded her with a smile.

"You know you really should be in Chemistry mister smarty pants," she said as she finally closed her locker leaving in the binder and book for second period.

We had Homeroom first together and I always sat behind her so that I could watch her. I dropped things at my locker, putting them in quickly and grabbed that Biology book for first period. Together the two of us walked down the hallway towards homeroom.

The only Chemistry that I wanted in my life was the kind that I could make with her. Sparks of fire and desire burning a hole right through the core of my soul. We were soulmates by birth, and I was going to see to it that no one else got to her. She was already mine and I planned to keep it that way.

XoXo

Miss Smith's homeroom always looked like a tornado had ripped through it, the rucus was loud of students carrying on, there was always some kid who was throwing paper airplanes around the room, there was a girl doing her nails at her desk and her friend commenting on it. Life in 10th grade homeroom was simply insane.

Anabella was seated in her seat in front of mine and I slid into my seat, and leaned forwards slightly.

"Ana Banana," I whispered.

She let out a soft groan of protest," I HATE that nickname Joseph ," she stressed the word hate.

"But you're as pretty as the yellow sunshine outside my window," I replied instead.

I spent my free time playing piano, writing music and had grown up taking part in theater productions. Drama was my favorite class of the day ever, I got to be myself, a performer.

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Joey and Ana. Yay! I love this book :).