Different sides

Chapter 9 Wunshine salking

The morning was a terrible, horrible, no good morning.

1: Caitlin was in the grumpiest mood in history of grumpy moods.
2: Dad had dashed away without telling us where, leaving mum in a downright panic.
3: Mum found out about Caitlin, quote unquote: 'seeing this jerky boy behind her back' and won't let Caitlin out of the house without her, which does not help her sour mood improve at all.

I stood at the open door, patiently, ( in my mind I was conducting a plan to leave and get to school actually on time ) with my school bag slung over my shoulder, watching Caitlin trying to brush her hair and text at the same time. It's actually quite amusing waiting for her while Mum, was frantically going from room to room, barking orders, and attempting to hurry Caitlin at the same time. Today is...well...lets just say that, today will definitely not be a good day.

Oliver isn't on the bus when I step in, but strangely enough, Cody and Julia are. I was just about to shout to get their attention when someone spoke first..."hey Riley!" I look around for who could've said that. Surprisingly, it was Gemma, Gemma Mason the most beautiful, popular girl in 9th grade. "Come sit with us" she said, quieter then before, she gestures with her hand for me to sit down next to her, along with all her fellow popular friends (Harry, Jasmine, Thomas, Julian, and Keria). Of course I did. completely oblivious of the way Julia's eyes followed me with jealousy, anger, frustration and most of all, sadness. To me, my day had completely turned around.

Unfortunately, I was unaware of everything else that was changing around me.

Class, Boring, Another class, also boring. The ear piercing bell sounded signalisingthe end of class and the beginning of first break. Again, Gemma Mason inviting me to sit at her table, the cool table, the popular table. Perfect. We started talking about the latest songs, singers, bands and stuff when Oliver came over to me and said he needed to talk to me about something. "Ok but you better be back soon" Gemma said when I got up to leave, then continued to blabber on about her boyfriend, Julian ( also in the popular group ). Oliver walked me to the library where we could be undisturbed and where it was quite. I noticed myself turning red in the face because he had a gentle hold of my hand, and I blushed even harder because he was bright read too.

"Do you?...no...would you?...um...you ya wanna?...uh" he sputtered nerdy like. cute. "I guess what I'm trying to say is...uh...do you wanna go out with me?"
BOOM! All the butterflies that where floating in my stomach burst out in surprise and happiness. "yes yes yes oh yes" i said idiot looking. He gripped my hand in his and smiled, I smiled back.

And what is seeming like forever,

I'm walking on sunshine.