Can You Hear Me Now?

The Boy With The Blue Eyes

You know the feeling when you walk into a class for the first time? I hate that feeling. Hi, I'm Adeline Rose. A 15 year old nerdy, misunderstood, "emo" girl. So far in my first two classes I have all the people I despise. There's the Hannah's, all bottle blonde and snobby. Then there's Madison, only reason why people adore her is because she can dance and talk down to anyone who is twice her height. Then we got the group of Alyssa's. None of them are even friends, but they all have something against me that I don't understand.

Back to class. So this is third period, meaning I have English. Luckily my desk partner is John. For those of you who don't know john, he's a bit of an odd duck. He claims he's not gay, but we all know he is. He has bright red hair that hangs in his face, taller than most, and scrawny. He's another "emo" in my school. He's always been there for me so just having him in this class took a load of my mind. Recently I've been diagnosed with depression and he's all I had to help.

    I was sketching Alice in Wonderland with blood coming from her eye sockets, hair a mess with sticks and leaves, one shoe on, one off, some skin broken, and a torn dress when the students finally stopped pouring into the room.

"Whatcha got there loser?  Another one of your freaky drawings?" Cole came out from behind me and snatched my paper away. "Arty, come look at what the emo drew for us today!" He chuckled and gave my paper to Arthur.

"What a freak!" Arthur crumpled my paper and tossed it in the trash, just in time for Mrs. Waite to come in. She took the paper and scanned her eyes across the sketching. "What are your names?" she looked at Cole and Arthur as if they just murdered someone. "Are you going to tell me your names or do I have to guess?" her face got more stern. "Whose drawing is this?" I raised my hand.

She handed me back the drawing and told the boys to sit down. She came around and told everyone that she was assigning seats so get up and sit where she tells us. Cole & Meghan. Lena & Tim. Sam & Arthur. And so on. She placed me in the corner, the darkest corner, and I had no partner. She came around and gave us packets of assorted colors. "I need the purple and yellow forms back tomorrow signed by your parents. The pink stays in the front of your binder. The blue is the supplies you need by the end of this week. And the green is a questionnaire I need back tomorrow. Consider it your homework. Does anyone have any questions?"

Of course the class had questions. "How many projects are we going to have?" "How many books do we need?" and the occasional "Do you have a boyfriend?" "What's your first name?" crap like that. So while the class started asking questions, I started working on my music. I took out my sheet music and started tapping out my part. Then I started softly humming. I got too involved in my music that I didn't even notice the figure sitting next to me. They accidently bumped me in the leg which made me realize someone was there.

I looked up from my music and straight into the most beautiful blue eyes I've ever seen. There was only one person whose eyes I could get lost in so quickly. But this seemed impossible. I forced myself to lose hold of his eyes and go back to working on my music. This just can't be. He left me. Met her. Forgot me. I looked up again to find that it was all just a simple day dream. I started tapping my part again. I tried so hard to focus on the music, but my mind would wonder to the day before school started freshman year when we went to the movies together. I did my hair and makeup the way he liked. But he brought me there to meet his new girlfriend, Charlotte. She is stunning. Natural light brown hair that went to her hips, hazel eyes, soft tan skin, long legs, and dressed in high-end designer clothes. The whole movie I kept seeing out of the corner of my eye, them cuddling and kissing.

I put my head down on the desk and started getting teary-eyed. Why do I have to remember? Why did he have to come back? I looked up to see the class was beginning to clear, so I put the packet in my folder, grabbed my bag, and walked over to john.

"Ad, what's wrong? You look upset. Is it the movie memory again?" John looked at me like I was a lost kitten. I hate when people do that. Makes me feel hopeless and helpless. I started getting teary-eyed again. "You know he's just a douche for doing that to you. Let's go to class and forget about it, kay?"

We went our separate ways, his to algebra 2, mine to art. "Hey! Wait up! Adeline!" I heard him coming. I just turned up my music and continued walking down to art. I felt myself being pushed up against the hallway and lips against mine. What was happening? When I was realized I opened my eyes to find that the boy with the blue eyes was back.