Mute Love

Chapter 3- Rose.

Enjoy. <3

XxxxxxXxxxxxX 

Chapter 3

Ryder's POV

As I walk to my locker to get my books for my third period class, I noticed my best friend Rikki standing next to my locker. "Hey lover!" He says really loudly when he sees me coming.

Rikki is a really awesome friend but the guy is embarrassing sometimes, but he's my best friend and I wouldn't trade him for the world. He was there for me when no one else was.

"Hey," I say through sign language. (I'm sorry but I honestly don't feel like describing the signs and stuff so I'm just going to write what it means for now on, but just remember that he's talking through sign language whenever he talks) Rikki has been my best friend for so long that he decided to learn sign language so he can communicate with me. Even though I can understand what he's saying perfectly, he wanted to be able to understand it. So he was nice enough to take sign language classes for me.

"So guess what, I overheard a couple of guys on the football team during practice this morning, which you didn't show up for by the way, and they were talking about a new girl they saw walking up to the school this morning." He says as he wiggles his eyebrows.

This wouldn't be the same girl I saw in first period was it? Well, it had to be, I mean how many new kids can a school get on the same day? But wait, why is Rikki talking about her, I mean the dude is gay, and before you say it, yes my best friend is gay. He has flirted with me a few times over the years but even then he was only joking around. But seriously though, what could have interested him into talking about her. I wonder what my idiot team mates said about her to get Rikki to even think of her. 

"What did they say?" I ask through sign language. 

"Well, they were saying how hot she was, and how they were 'totally' going to get with her by the end of the day and all that garbage; like they were actually going to have a chance with that girl." He says chuckling.

"So why are you telling me this?" I ask. (S.L = Sign Language) 

"Well, mainly because earlier I saw you starring at her in the hallway after first period, when she was practically running out of the class" he says as he raises his eyebrow teasingly at me.  

"You saw that," I asked (S.L) looking embarrassed. 

"Yeah, I was on my way to my second period when I saw her zoom down the hallway and you staring after her like a lovesick puppy." He laughs. 

I slam my locker shut just as the bell rings for third period, and I walk off down the hallway. 

"Hey! Don't get mad at me because you were daydreaming in the middle of the hallway. But I just want to tell you that you may have some competition with this girl. "Rikki says, "I'm only looking out for you buddy," he pats me on the back. 

I smile slightly at him in reply.   

So not only is this girl the number one topic playing in my mind at every second of the day since this morning, but more guys are after what is going to be mine. The day I let any of them have her would be over my dead body. This may sound a little possessive, but no one touches what's mine, well even though she isn't exactly mine yet. But she will be, and that's all that matters. 

As we walk into our third period science class, my eyes again immediately fall upon the red haired girl from first period. Only this time she was sitting in my seat. Rikki noticed me staring and he smiles at me. Suddenly he starts making kissing noises at me like a little kid. I slap him on the back off the head to make him stop, and nod my head in the direction of the girl. Rikki immediately knows that I'm asking for help getting the girl out of my chair. Normally I would let her sit there, but I really need my window seat today. It feels like torture in this class without a view of the outside world. 

Rikki and I walk over to the girl; I didn't even know what was being said between the two until she suddenly looks over at me and a light shade of pink wash over her face. I slightly smile to myself at how adorable she looked all flushed and nervous around me. She quickly gets up out of the seat and goes to the seat right next to it, which is Rikki's seat. He was about to say something to her about it until I hit him on his arm, when she wasn't looking. 

"Never mind" he says to her. I take my usual seat, which is now right next to the tiny redhead, and Rikki right next to her on the other side. She looked nervous sitting in between us. She looked so small, fragile, and innocent.  

The teacher then walks into the room and starts taking attendance. Good maybe then I could finally learn her name; I wait excitedly for the teacher to call her name. 

"Ryder Winters," the teachers says. I raise my hand to show that I was there, as she turns and looks at me. I guess she was waiting to learn my name as well. That thought put a little smile on my face. 

"Rose Locke," the teacher calls. 

The beautiful girl next to me, who has been running through my head all day, raises her hand shyly.  

Rose, so that's her name. Her name fits her perfectly. I take out my notebook I was drawing pictures of her in, from first period and neatly wrote her name in cursive across the bottom of the drawing. Hmm...Now that I think about it, it does seem like I'm stalking her a little bit. Maybe I should stop drawing her so much. Hmm...No, I'll just stop drawing naked pictures of her. Mainly cause if anyone found them I could get expelled. (A/N: Oh gosh..My idiot boyfriend wrote this chapter cx...) 

The teacher than asked her to stand up and introduce herself to the class. She looked like she really didn't want to do it, but she got up anyway. 

"My name is Rose Locke and I moved here from Texas cause of my mom's job." She says to the class with a slight lisp and barely noticeable southern accent. 

The teacher tells her to sit back down as he turns and starts the lesson. She sits down nervously and from the sight of her I couldn't help but smile. 

XxxxxxXxxxxxX 

For the rest of the class, I did nothing but think about how good it was going to be when me and Rose finally get together for the project the biology teacher assigned to us, and how she would feel about me not being able to talk. That's probably my biggest fear. What if she loses interest in me because I don't talk? What if she finds me weird? Well, I guess we'll cross that road when we get there, hopefully we never get there. 

When the bell rang signaling that third period was over, I got up out of my seat and walk over to Rikki.  

"That's a whole hour of my life I'll never get back," Rikki say sarcastically.  

As we laugh together, Rose suddenly appears in front of use and talks in a small innocent voice, "Excuse me, can you help me find my next class? Um with Ms. Torres?" She asked. 

I stared at her as she talked to Rikki, well more like Rikki talking to her as she laughed and smiled. Rikki grabbed her arm and dragged her out the room as I walked behind her, just mostly staring at her perfect behind watching it sway. I smirked.  

I looked up at her before I got caught staring just as she looked behind her and smiled at me showing the dimple on her right cheek and as her light brown eyes stare at my gray eyes.

XxxxxxXxxxxxX 

<3