Wishing for the Miracle of my life

2. Hand of Friendship

In the second year of middle school, life was going without any ups and downs. I started crushing on Lucas and have continued crushing on him for the past year now. But, the weird thing was that I kept my feelings just with me and never once let them out. Neither to Jewel. We had little interaction with him in the past academic year. But, this following year felt different. Something was changed. Many things changed and so did my love life take a turn.

(June 2018 – Third year of Middle school)

Spring vacations ended with eagerness and excitement to go to school and see him. All three of us, Jewel, Lucas and me, and many of our other classmates were again in the same class luckily!! And seeing him again after two months of vacation made me hopelessly fall for him again this time. "Woah, our class is bright. Such a huge amount of sunlight! Refreshing mood for studies, don't you think?", I asked Jewel with excitement while walking through the door.

"You're right! It indeed is so cheerful here", replied Jewel nodding in agreement while sitting on the 2nd-row bench. I went to the other side of the bench and we both sat together with a bright smile.

After a few moments of chit-chat, Lucas entered the class with his gorgeous messy hair, carrying the bag on one side of his shoulder and his jacket, wearing it in his usual style.

As he entered the class he threw his bag on the first bench near him and hugged his BFF Ken Williams. He then elegantly passed his fingers through his messy long hair that fell on his eye level and his eyes caught us staring at him, as he talked with Ken. He smirked slightly looking at us and then went to sit beside Ken. Jewel and me, we were surprised by his reaction and we stared at each other in confusion with wide-open eyes.

"Uhh...Okay, to be honest, that was really suspicious!!", Jewel said in shock.

"...And seriously breathtaking too!!!!", I exclaimed in agreement.

"Let it go, he's a weirdo from the very beginning... Oh! I guess this will be our new class teacher for the year", Jewel whispered to me looking at our new class teacher.

"Hello everyone! Please settle down now! And, let me give you my introduction first. So, I'm Ms. Helen Brown, and I will be your class teacher for this academic year. At the beginning, I would like to tell you the rules that need to be followed. First, I'll be deciding your places to avoid chaos. So, everyone please come in the front and empty the seats. I'll allot your places.", announced Ms. Helen.

Everyone wasn't ready to leave sitting by their friends but this had always been the rule for middle school. So, no escape! Our Teacher started to allot places one by one. Lucas's turn came, he was made to sit on the 2nd row, 3rd bench. "Haha, he wanted to escape all the teachers by sitting on the last bench but he can't do that now", I giggled as I thought. Then I was told to sit beside him!!! Damn!! I was feeling so happy and like I was in heaven internally imagining things, but not to express my feelings openly, my face had this 'Oh no!' type of disappointed expression. I walked with my bag to his seat and sat beside him without saying a word or even looking at him. Jewel kept on controlling her laugh and making fun of me, but I somehow liked it when people teased me and Lucas. Jewel was made to sit with some new guy who was really quiet. Everyone got settled and Ms. Helen started the introduction.

"So, we'll have to sit together from now I see?" Lucas asked, looking at me with a normal face without any expression. "Yeah, I guess so. Hopefully, we don't kill each other or something.", I replied.

"Well, maybe it's better we don't play along too much until we sit together. Maybe this is the time to be casual and calm like we normally are with our other friends. So, just that we won't kill each other as you said", he suggested calmly with a friendly tone that he never once spoke to me till now. I was surprised but what he said was fact and I liked his sweet nature. "You're right. So, finally friends, from frenemy?", I asked with a warm smile and gave him my hand of friendship. He smiled and nodded while shaking hands with me.