Settle down

Chapter 27

When I wake up the next morning I feel a slight tingle in my stomach. I'm not 100 percent sure what it means, but I think I may be nervous. I don't like being nervous, I try to avoid it as much as I can. It's now wednesday which means that it's three more days till weekend and freedom. Or I can't really say freedom since I'm forced to go to a bar with my best friend and her "date". I'm third wheeling so hard.
I actually take time on my appearance today. The last couple of days I haven't cared less about how I look, but now I've picked out a cute outfit and I'm doing my makeup. Not too heavy though, just some conceler, mascara, a little bit of blusher and those kind of stuff. I put my hair up in a messy bun on the top of my head because it's too messy and ugly to have down today. I end up feeling pretty proud of my work with myself this morning, but I can not be bothered to do this every morning. Dora got a ride to school (but not by me) so I get in my car and drive straight to school. It's quite a lot of traffic, but I make it o time.
During biology Tim comes up to me.
"Lola! Did you get Marie's call yesterday?" Marie? Oh, right. That's my boss now. I love saying that. I have a job and I have a boss.
"No I didn't why? Is something wrong?" I ask him. I had my phone all day yesterday but I can't remember anyone calling me.
"Oh no, everything's fine I can tell you now. She said that you could come down to the center today so I could show you around and introduce you to everything and everyone since you start working monday." He looks very happy as he speaks.
"Yes! That sounds lovely! We can go there together after school. Do you have a car?" I ask him. If he does I can follow him there.
"Yes I do, but I didn't take it today. I usually take the bus there when I don't drive." I remember thet he told me that he lives very close to the school, he probably waked here.
"Okay, I took mine today so we can go there together in my car." I propose and he noddes happily.
When class ends this nervous feeling comes again. What am I nervous for? Maybe it's not nervousy, maybe I'm getting sick again...
Tim has french with me and so we enter the class together talking about the job and he keeps saying how much I'm gonna love it there. We sit down on the second row just behind Harry. He looks back at us and gives me a scary look and gives Tim a even worse one. If looks could kill, Tim would definitely be dead.
"What was that about?" Tim silently ask.
"I don't know, I can't understand jerks." I say loud enough for Harry to hear.
"Wow, chill Lola. Have you guys been dating or something?" He asks and put his hand on my shoulder in an attempt to calm me.
"Ew, No! I would never be so desperate for a boyfriend to date him" I say with a confident tone loud enough for Harry to hear again. It's not true that I would never date him. If he could become the Harry he was in the beginning I would maybe date him, but right now I'm kind of ticked off at him. I think what I said must have annoyed him because his head snaps towards me.
"And you think I would date you? Even if you were desperate enough to date me I would never in a million years even consider dating you!" He says and looks right at me.
"Oh I'm sorry, but I did not get that impression when you came to my house twice just to get into my pants you freak!" I yell back at him equally as harsh and loud as he did.
"You are so naive and foolish. Maybe I did try to get into your pants, but hello? I did not like you what so ever, I don't think no one ever will. I was just playing with you!" He says and it goes straight to my heart and it feels like I'm being stabbed. It hurts more than I thought. He has told me this before, but I didn't believe it. He made it pretty clear now. The whole class was listening to our fight and now they all are silent and they're waiting for me to respond. But I can't. Nothing comes out. I stand up, grab my things and leave the class room.
"Lola wait!" I hear after me, but I keep walking. I'm not sure if it was Tim or Harry. Most likely it was Tim, because Harry just told me that he does not give a crap about me what so ever. He's right though, I am naive and foolish because otherwise I wouldn't have kept playing with Harry. It was like playing with fire, It was kind of fun but now I got burned.
For my own good I don't leave school, I just skip the classes I have with Harry which are french and history. Luckily for me I don't see him during lunch or inbetween classes.

School is over for the day and I'm waiting for Tim on the parking lot. I told him that I would be waiting in school and not leave. When he arrives he gives me a friendly hug.
"Lolaaaa, please don't believe what he said was true. You're amazing and great and any guy who you would want to be with will be very lucky." He says with kind eyes and a soft smile.
"Thank you, that's very sweet. Could we maybe not talk about that today, I feel a little..... not my best thanks to him kind words." I say and he noddes which I appreaciate.
We drive to the sport center and we walk over to the pool and gym section. When there we walk into the staff room.
"Just follow me Lola." Tim says and I follow him. In the staff room we meet Marie (our boss). I know that this is not the thing to be thinking of at this moment, but the view from this place is not bad. We see right into the pool room and I see the seniors do their swim practice. Not bad....
"Hey Lola, how are you? I tried to call you but I must have the wrong number." She says happily. I'm so glad this is my boss. She's so nice and happy. I pictured that my boss would be a grumpy old man who hated everything, but this is so much better.
"I'm good. Yeah, Tim told me that you tried to call. I can give you my number again." I smile and Marie tells Tim to continue my tour.
We walk into the pool room and there are three different pools. Tim tells me that the big one in the middle is for swim practices and exercise. That pool can be booked and those bookings I have to know about. Great, I'm gonna go home and lern bookings. The slightly smaller pool to the right is for swimming lessons and water fitness. Tim tells me that I will be holding swimming lessons in the future, but not right when I start. In the pool room there is three pools and the last one is for playing and amusement. When Tim has told me some facts about all pools and what I will have to do here we continue walking and the next stop is the gym. This is probably my favorite part and not only because I get to look at guys working out, also because this is where I have spent a lot of my time over the years. I thought it was extremely hard to move all the time, still do, and to let out my anger and frustration I used to go to the gym a lot. This is where I feel most comfortable. I tell tim this and he says that I should tell Marie this, maybe then I could work in the gym more than the pools. We'll see.
After the tour I feel a lot better about coming here monday. I have talked to all the staff and I have gotten a schedule, I'm actually excited now.