Eunomia

Chapter 23 "The starry ceiling of his room"

~Bryony~

Sebastian and I were walking out of Astronomy, I didn't know why, but he has started to walk me to my classes, to places in general. I knew Sebastian was right next to me but my mind was somewhere else, if Sebastian was talking I wasn't paying attention to him, I could only think about our last class, we had an exam next Monday and I have to admit astronomy was harder than I thought. I thought it would be an easy subject... but it turns out there are millions and millions of stars.

"I'm going to fail astronomy..." I thought aloud, without being fully aware I stopped walking and Sebastian stopped with me, in the middle of the corridors, hearing the thoughts I shared with him.

"You are kidding, right?" He said after laughing. I didn't find it funny, astronomy wasn't an easy subject.

"No, I'm not." I faced him. "Stars aren't just my thing, I don't know how to look at the starry sky and say where are the constellations... All stars are the same."

Sebastian laughed again and this time I half understood the reason, I realized late I sounded like a little girl with a tantrum.

"Then why did you signed up to Astronomy?" He reproached me after letting out a loud laugh. But he shut up soon. "Sorry, I will help you. We meet today to study." He offered himself to help me with his best face, even though it sounded like something he had already decided.

I, opposite to him, gave him a doubtful face. My mind was instinctively thinking about excuses I could give him, the 'we are hanging in my house to study' never sounded good. My face seemed to make an effect on him because he seemed to notice I wasn't very happy with that idea.

"We can meet in the library after class... No need to see each other's faces out of a working space." Sebastian cut out the gravity of the matter with the last joke. I laughed with this one.

We don't have to but it wouldn't be the first time we do it, I thought.

"Fine..." I rolled my eyes. "At half past seven in the library. I'm free after Olive finishes her practices, I have to go home with her so I can't sooner." I explained my hour choice. Sebastian didn't complain and just when I thought we were going to start walking again we were interrupted.

"Hey Sebastian..." Sandy put herself on our way making us stop. "There's a party on Saturday... we are spending the whole day at the beach for saying goodbye to the summer... The party is at my beach house." Sandy invited shyly Sebastian to a party giving him one of the papers she carried in her hands.

I looked at Sandy, the writer of that section in the school newspaper Sebastian has become addicted to, she was wearing a back short denim skirt that matched her dark eyes together with a beige spotless v-neck sweater that would have camouflaged itself with her pale skin if it were white. Then I looked at her eyes again, so dark... so mysterious, I felt a shiver going through the balls of my feet and I looked back at Sebastian. He was lost reading the paper and when an evil smile crossed his lips I knew nothing good would come out from that invitation.

Sebastian looked at Sandy, I was sure he was going to RSVP and probably mine too but Sandy talked first.

"Bring who you want... I thought maybe you could mentioned it to your blonde friend." Sandy looked at the floor clutching the papers to her chest with one hand while nervously playing with her hair with the remaining hand.