𝐘𝐎𝐔 𝐁𝐄𝐋𝐎𝐍𝐆 𝐖𝐈𝐓𝐇 𝐌𝐄 ( 𝐂𝐇𝐑𝐈𝐒 𝐒𝐓𝐔𝐑𝐍𝐈𝐎𝐋𝐎 )

𝐅𝐎𝐔𝐑

- BRIELLE

"romeo, take me somewhere we can be alone. i'll be waiting, all there's left to do is run. you'll be the prince and i'll be the princess. it's a love story, baby, just say, yes"

i was quickly walking through the halls trying to get to my psych class, looking over my shoulder ever so often. why? because i wanted to get to class early.. what a lie. if couldn't convince myself, how could i convince reece?

i love reece, i do. just sometimes i need a break from him. even when we're in school, he always texts me to skip class to go see him or he makes us walk through the halls together. it's overwhelming and i just wasn't in the mood for it on this monday. i wasn't having the best day.

i was whispering to 'love story' by taylor swift to myself as i entered mr. herbs room. i was surprised to see chris sitting at his desk looking over psysch notes while mr. herb typed away on his computer. chris bit his lip and narrowed his eyes as he highlighted a line on the paper. mr. herb took a deep breath before looking up and seeing me at the doorway.

"brielle! hey!" mr. herb exclaimed with a smile. chris' head snapped up and he looked over at me. i took my airpods out of ears and smiled at mr. herb, then chris. chris gave me a small smile back and his eyes lingered on me for a moment before he looked back to his paper. 

"hey mr. herb," i replied as i walked over to my seat. "is it cool if i sit here while we wait for class to start?"

mr. herb nodded but then i could see a light bulb popped up in his head. he looked between chris and i and pointed his pen at chris. "could you two go pick up copies of a packet for me? we're starting a partner project next week but there's some notes i want the class to have for the test thursday and the assignment."

i looked over at chris and he was already stood up. mr. herb handed chris his keycard. "just scan this on the printer screen and the papers will come out."

chris nodded and walked over to my desk. "let's go," i said as i smiled at him. i started to walk towards the door and laugh a little. i gave him a confused look. "what?"

"where are you headed with that heavy backpack of yours?" chris jokingly asked. i suddenly became aware of my very heavy backpack on my back. i grinned as i took it off and put it on my desk.

we walked out of mr. herb's class room and chris began swinging mr. herbs lanyard around. it was a comfortable silence but for some reason i found myself working extra hard to think of something to say. "i go to mr. herb's classroom early often. i've never seen you in there."

"i don't usually go there." chris glanced over at me as if he was contemplating on theater or not to further explain what he was going to say next. i guess he decided to because he spoke again. "i sit in the library with mrs. rose but she is in florida to meet her granddaughter." 

i nodded thoughtfully. i didn't know that chris sat in the library. maybe that's where he was always on his way to when i saw him in the hallway. i thought it was nice that he had a relationship with our librarian. not a lot of people even went in the library

"are you a book nerd?" i teased as i jokingly bumped into his side. chris laughed a light laugh and it made me smile. he had a very contagious life.

chris shook his head and looked over to me. "i wouldn't say that. i don't really like to read. i just read the books mrs. rose tells me to because she has the most wild theories." he laughed to himself as if he was recalling all the memories he had with her. 

i smiled. "so what do you like to do?" chris looked over at me, shocked. he looked like he hadn't expected me to ask that. i hadn't even expected myself to say that. it just slipped out.