The Final Kiss

Chapter eleven (Part One)

Tamera's p.o.v

It has been two weeks since the tragedy of a date, and Ross would not leave me alone.

He'd been following me around school like a lost puppy and he'd spam my phone with apology text and calls. I eventually blocked him but he found some other mean to contact me and it was really annoying.

Wendy was no help at all. She'd always spend her time with Tommy now, and while I was happy for her, I'd miss hanging out with her. Yes we still talked on the phone, but all she'd talk about is Tommy this, Tommy that.

So for the past two weeks I've been hanging out with Matteo and Charlie.
I am not complaining though, they are really fun to be around.

Charlie would always tease Matteo about something and Matteo would turn this bright shade of red. It was adorable.

Currently I was in English class, trying to ignore Ross as he'd poke me with his pen or anything other stupid actions he'd do to get my attention.

"I will be giving you guy your first and only assignment for this semester." Mr. Jacob said.

I was thrilled to hear that because I had a tone of homework and assignments for my other classes and this was such a relief, until Mr. Jacobs opend his mouth and said "It'll be a group assignment, with group of two and I'll be picking your partner."

I internally group and rolled my eyes. Of course he'd say that nothing is ever easy with these teachers. Mr. Jacob's started partnering people up and I hoped that he didn't pair me with Ross.
I was already dreading this assignment and being paired with Ross would make it much worse.

"Tamera and Matteo." The teacher called.

Okay first I thanked God for my partner. And second i didn't know Matteo was in this class.

I started scanning the room for him then I saw him sitting at the back of the class staring right back at me. I gave him a little smile and he smiled back with a nod.

How did I not notice that he was sitting there for a whole month. I turned my attention back to the teacher as he started to explain the project.

Apparently it was a "get to know your peers" sorts of project. So we had to ask your partner questions about themselves and then write it into an essay.

It was easy. Or so I hoped

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It was now the end of the day and Matteo and I decided to go to Dennys to start the project.

I suggested that we go to my or his house but he insisted on going to the place he works.

It took twenty minutes to get there. When we got there we sat down and ordered something to drink and started the project.

I took out my phone and pressed the record button "So what's your name?" I asked Matteo.

"Are you being serious right?" He asked with a chuckle.

I nodded "I'm recording this because I won't be able to remember it all tomorrow."

"You wouldn't be able to remember my name?" He asked squinting his eyes.

"Just answer the question." I said rolling my eyes playfully.

Matteo let out a low chuckle "My full name is Matteo Ortega."

"Awesome. Where were you born?"

"In Venezuela but my family moved to America when I was very young." He answered taking a sip from his milk shake.

I nodded "What's your favorite color?"

"Green."

"Favorite food?"

"Pizza."

"Any siblings?"

"I have three sisters."

And the question when on like that for about another two minutes until I asked "What are you most afraid of ?"

It seemed like this question caught him off guard. It took him a while to answer, it seemed like he was contemplating on whether to say what he was thinking.

Then he finally answered "Dying."

I was not expecting him to say this. I was expecting something like cockroaches or spiders, he just seemed like that type of guy.

"Why?" I asked.

"Well one reason because its dying, no living person knows what happens after you die. And another reason is, i can't imagine being away from my family permanently. Instead of being in your home full of love and laughter you'll be in the cold, hard ground with your body decaying and gross animals like maggots eating your flesh or whatever they do, and you'll wonder what your future would have been. Its all just so scary." He answered in one breath.

The whole time he was talking he didn't look at me he was just staring at his half full glass.

"I never thought about it that way?" I said.

When the words left my mouth he looked at me and then asked " Then how do you think of it?"

" Well I think of it as rest after a hard, painful, sometimes happy life."

"That's one way to think of it." He mumbled "But what about dying young? What is the point in life if you die young? It sounds all meaningless to me."

"You do make a point but if one thing my mom thought me is that life is only meaningless if you make it out to be that way." I said taking the last sips from my milkshake.

Matteo looked at me as if I was talking in a different language

"Huh?"

I chuckled at him "Take it like this, you see this notebook" I said holding up my note book for him to see "if I didn't write in this book it would just be well a book, filled with blank pages and no content. It would be meaningless to me, but now that I have wrote down notes and other stuff in it, it now has meaning. Do you understand?"

He nodded and said "Kinda. So you're trying to say that I should fill my life?" He asked with a confused look on his face.

"If you want to put it like that yes. It could be a passion that you have, like reading, music. And if not the get a dog, a whole ass zoo, or a girlfriend." I smiled

He turned a familiar bright shade of red when I mentioned that. I brust out in laughter at his reaction.

Just then Ross and his clique entered the diner and his eyes found me immediately, it was like a reflex or something, I stopped laughing.

His eyes then drifted to the person sitting in front of me and something changed in them when he saw Matteo. Once filled with joy and brightness was now filled with hatred and jealously.

I sense trouble.

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