what if...?

Part 3/?

By the time summer break ended, I convinced myself I was crazy. I mean, who would be head over heels for a girl one day and start stalking some guy the next? 

I got the answer to that on the first day of school.

After I had gotten my locker number and  combination, i knew exactly where it was since it had been Garroth's exact same locker the year before. talk about a coincidence.

But once I got to the third floor, I saw somebody leaning against my locker, on their phone. I figured I got the number wrong so I checked the sticky note Mr. Shaw had given me and sure enough, this was my locker.

I didn't exactly feel like socially interacting with someone this early in the morning so I decided to just empty my backpack after school lets out. Because this guy seemed like he was going to be there for a while.

I had patiently waited for 6 hours and the final bell rang, telling all students that they were finally free. I quickly walked upstairs and turned the corner only to be dissapointed as the same guy was there again, almost like he had never moved.

For some reason, that pissed me off. Even though this guy was probably innocently waiting for his girlfriend or someone else and didn't even know the owner of this locker, I was pissed.

"listen, buddy, can you please just fu-"

The man immediately whipped his his entire body around and met my eyes. the movement startled me, I didn't expect him to move so fast. 

Everything about this encounter so far has been extremely weird. So weird that it took me a minute to realize he was even talking.

"I'm sorry, what? I didn't catch that." 

"i said: Hello, we never properly met last year but i'm friends with Aphmau, she's talked about you a lot and you sounded like a cool person to be friends with so I figured i'd meet you in person."

"oh. well, all good things, i hope." I tried to laugh but all that came out was a sound like a dry cough. I didn't like this guy's vibes. I wanted to get out of there.

"she's mostly said how you've helped her with a lot of issues in the past, and how you're very compassionate."

"oh, that's...good.." I pretended to receive a text on my phone, "oh shoot, I have to go I have.. hockey practice."

I didn't wait for what he had to say next, I walked past him, down the stairs and out the front doors. School was let out only 5 minutes ago, so unfortunately that meant that mom was still waiting for Garroth so she could drop him off at basketball practice.

"Zuzu!! I'm over here!" she started honking her horn, which made about half the students still on campus stare at her, and then me once they saw who she was honking at.

i walked at quickly to the car as I could and climbed into the backseat with Vylad, Garroth sat down in the passenger seat next to mom seconds after i got in, and we drove away.

Only 180 days until summer vacation...