The nerd and I

Untangled...

I am walking unsteadily to my classroom, I try to play with my hair but I remember I can't, I walk past a couple besides my locker... How can I move them?

"Ummmm... Could you-?" I whisper and it doesn't work... shocking "Excuse me" I say a little bit louder and smile after making eye contact with the girl while I point at my locker, they finally move and I am free to take the books for the 3 classes I have today, Thank god.

"Oh My God Mila!" I hear behind me, as I turn around a surprised Valerie in a flower dress analyzing me from top to bottom.

"Hey girls could you tell me if-?" Christina stops and looks at me with open eyes "your hair, I- Oh my!" I think its safe to say that she is speechless. After opening and closing her mouth for a minute or two she finally speaks "I can't even, bloody hell, You are untangled!" she talks, no actually erase that, she screams while writing really fast on her phone.

"What?" Valerie, who just snapped out of her stunned phase about my new haircut and nows looks totally confused towards a now impatient Christina who mutters a few curses to the internet. And I just can't help but wait for Christina to explain herself and hopefully, it will be a reasonable one.

"Look! Look! She is un-tangled... see?" she explains, or at least tries to explain while pointing a photo on her phone, as Valerie and I get closer we can see a Part of the movie Tangled.

"Oh my god! yes! I see it!" Valerie exclaims while turning to me, I guess my face was pretty expressive since she starts to explain "You are Rapunzel! you see, she had a really long and blonde hair, and when she cuts it it becomes brown..." she looks at me as if explaining something really obvious.

"You see, your hair was bellow your waist and it was really blonde, now is barely below your chin and it seems a little darker... You ARE Rapunzel" Christina finishes.

We look at each other and we all burst laughing, after we all get calmed we start walking to our classrooms, if I can recall, I have the entire day with Christina, and Valerie always goes to our last class, so the golden trio (that's how we call ourselves, if you care to know, I would be Harry, Valerie would be Ron and obviously Christina is Hermione)

We were walking towards the stairs when we were suddenly intercepted by Paolo Fortelli, one of our best friends, I can see his hazel eyes sparkling with anticipation as he makes his way silently towards Valerie, his dark thick brows make a funny move as he positions behind her, in a fast move he scares Valerie who makes a weird combination of jumping, screaming and moving her arms wildly. Christina starts laughing and only stops after greeting someone behind me, I turn and see Luke Rodriguez, one of our first friends in the school, he is smiling and moving his hand energetically; You can see little wrinkles in his eyes even though he's wearing glasses, he is holding a book on his left hand but I can't read the tittle yet.

I greet him with a smile, his thick accent have a soothing effect, I would like to visit Costa Rica, he describes it beautifully. We make chit-chat until I realize we have three minutes to get to the third floor for our class.

"Christina we have to go! we have three minutes for the class to begin!" I say as I pick her arm and pull her softly up the stairs.

"Ouch!" she whimps as she looks at me with puppy eyes until I let her go well, maybe I didnn't grabbed her that softly. She tries to keep up with my pace so I slow down a little, she looks at me gratefully, and I smile as a response.

We are on the third floor and we are breathing heavily, both trying to hide it but failing majestically; It's funny how we get tired easily, but I am working on improving that. Christina swipes back her hair while exhaling harshly. I try to grab my hair back in order to get it out of my slightly red face but my hair is too short to put it in a ponytail.

"Here" Christina says in a sweet voice, I look down at her and she is holding a bobby pin, I grab it an take the whole thing and tuck it back, but it falls almost immediately after I let go of it. Christina giggles while looking down at the floor, ashamed that I caught her looking at my failed attempt of basic up do.

"Let me help you" she says, raising her arms to reach the side of my hair, she grabs a small piece of a side and braids it quickly, she does something to it and then grabs the bobby pin that I have in my hand. She arranges some hairs and then takes a photo, I don't know how it looks but it is completing its basic function very good.

She shows me the photo, my hair looks like a complicated Celtic knot that looks fluffy yet neat, the end is behind some pieces of hair. I softly touch my hair, as if its a dark golden butterfly that could be destroyed, but I know it wont, Christina always manages to hold them still all the day.

"Its beautiful, I love it, Thanks" I say as we walk inside the class, the teacher is nowhere to be seen and all my classmates are already sitting on their chairs that were once on lines. I grab rapidly the first orange one I see, because orange is my favorite colour, I see Christina grabbing a red one because of the same reason I grabbed mine. She sits and drags herself and the chair with her until she's beside me.

"Wow! Mila, I love your new haircut!" I try to touch my hair AGAIN but I can barely touch it, I just smile and look at the floor, and then I mutter a thank you.

After a couple of classes I walk towards the cafeteria, in a quick pace looking at my feet. Can I have a break from this stairs? I think I just did my cardio, I should skip gym... Right?