Opposites Attract(Matthew Espinosa)

Ch.2

The next day, I woke up and put on my favorite pair of jeans with my floral printed top. My hair was in beachy waves and I braided my bangs back. I put on my basic makeup and I slipped on my light pink Keds and walked out the door.

When I walked into first period, I saw Nicole sitting there with Dylan. He was talking about the project. She looked very uninterested. I sat down and saw Matthew walk in.

"Hey." He told me and sat down.

"Good Morning." I responded to him with a smile.

"How are you so happy?" He asked me.

"Oh I don't know, I guess I'm just usually in a good mood. I'm kind of a morning person!"

Matthew rubbed his eyes.
"Well, it's very obnoxious to the ones who only got 3 hours of sleep last night."

"Why did you only sleep that long?" I asked him.

"I was busy on my phone. Twitter, Vine, Instagram, YouTube."

"Well, it's not my fault your tired." I answered him and smiled.

Towards the end of class, Matthew asked me a question.
"Do you want to come over today for that project?"

"Uh, I haven't got any of the supplies for it yet."

"We can pick them up on your way over to my place? Sound good?" He asked me.

"Sure." I guess I had to get the project done.

When the bell rang, Nicole ran up to me.
"Could you hang out tonight?"

"Sorry, I already have plans to work on this stupid project with Matthew." I told her while I shoved my books in my locker.

"WHAT!" She screamed.
"You're going to his house?"

"Sadly." I answered her.

"More like awesome! You have to tell me how it goes!" She said to me and walked into class.

-

When it reached the end of the day, Matthew told me he would meet me at my locker. When he walked up, he still looked tired.
"Are you sure you don't want to work on this another time? You look super tired."

"Uh, no it's fine." He answered trying to open his eyes.

"Let's just go to Target to pick up the supplies." He told me. I nodded my head as I got into his car.

On the way over there, Matthew turned on some obnoxious, loud rap music. It was really giving me a headache, so I changed the channel and Ed Sherran Thinking Out Loud was on. Matthew looked at me.

"Really? This song is making me even more tired!"

"Well, your rap music was giving me a headache." I answered him.

Matthew shook his head and kept driving. When we reached Target, Matthew and I walked towards the craft section.

Matthew picked out a white poster board and I picked out some markers and glue. I also picked out some random accessories that might look good on the board and we left.

-

When we got to his house, it was pretty big. It didn't shock me. Matthew always had the look of rich, prep boy. When we walked in, his mom greeted us.

"Hi Matt, who's this?" She asked pointing to me.

"Oh that is Ava. We have a school project to work on."

"Nice to meet you Mrs.Espinosa." I told her and shook her hand.

"You too Ava!" She said and Matthew and I walked upstairs.

"Do you want a snack?" He asked me.

"No thanks, I'm fine." I answered. I didn't want to stay here for long.

"Okay, do you want to look up some facts on the computer?" I asked him. Matthew was face planted on his bed.

"Matthew?" I asked him.
He didn't answer.

"Matthew, come on! Get up!" I told him. He still didn't move. I then grabbed a pillow from his bed and smacked him in the head.

He then turned around.
"Ow!" He said while laughing.

"Get up! We need to finish this and I will need your help for that." I told him and sat back down.

"Ugh, we just got here do we have to start right away!" He asked me.

"Matthew, I want to get a good grade on this and pass high school unlike you."

"You're too uptight. Loosen up!" He told me.

Don't get mad.

"Matthew, please." I told him. He grabbed his laptop and started looking up facts about the history of Africa.

About an hour later, we had found all of the fact that we needed.

"Now we can start making the poster look good." I told him. I wrote the title as Matthew began glueing things on.

It was a little quiet so Matthew turned on some music. As Long As You Love Me By Justin Bieber started playing. I really loved that song. Without even noticing, I began singing forgetting Matthew was there.

"Wow. Ava your voice is beautiful." He told me with a smile.

"Oh my gosh, I'm sorry I didn't even realize I was singing I'm sorry." I told him. Man that's embarrassing.

"No, don't apologize, your amazing." He told me.

"Well thanks, but I'm really not." I started to blush.

"You're too humble." He said with a smile. His smile was contagious.

About another hour later, we had finished the project.
"Not bad Matthew. It looks good."

"You can call me Matt. Matthew is so formal."

I laughed a little.
"Okay then, Matt."

He smile a little then ran his fingers through his hair.

"I guess I better get going. It's getting pretty late." I told him as I grabbed my stuff.

"Oh I will take you home!" He said grabbing his keys.

"You don't have to. My house is just a few neighborhoods away." I told him.

"No, I don't mind." He told me with a smile.

When we got into his car, the stars were amazing.
"Look at the sky." I told him.

"Yeah." He told me. He sounded a little confused on why I was amazed by it.

"Don't you think it's beautiful?" I asked him.

"I guess. I just never really pay attention to the little things."

"How about this." I started.
"You teach me how to live on the wild side sometime, and I will teach you to appreciate the little things in life."

"Sounds like a good deal." He said smiling.

When we got to my house, he pulled next to my mailbox.
"Thanks Matt, I guess I will see you tomorrow? You know, unless you ditch or something." He laughed a little.

"I'll see you then." He said and winked.
Oh my, his wink was so cute. Wait, what am I saying? This is Matthew Espinosa. The bad boy. I couldn't like him. He was too different from me.

I got out of the car and went into my house. I put on my pajamas and got ready for sleep. Right when I closed my eyes, all I could see was Matt's face. Knock out of it! I can't like him! What if I do? Did I like Matthew?