The Twin Project

Liz

"I can't believe that you won't play soccer this year! That was like our thing!" Kourtney yelled at me.

"I didn't at soccer last year either."I told her

"Well yeah you had those doctor appointments all the freaking time
But now you're not that busy." She complained.

"Yeah but now I just don't feel like it." I told her

"Ugh Liz I can't believe you're doing this to me." She protested.

"I think you'll be fine." I said as we walked off the bus into the school. "You have a ton of other friends on the team. I think you'll be ok."

"Yeah yeah." She said as she walked in the other direction. I walked to my locker to have it slammed shut in my face.

"Excuse me" I said obviously pissed off.

"Hi." He said smiling down at me. And man was he beautiful.

"Hi." I answered

"I'm Jake. I'm new here. Mind if you show me to the main office?" He asked.

"Sure." I said. "Its just down this hall and to the-"

"I meant I wanted you to walk me there." He said flashing me another smile.

"Oh uh sure." I said almost shyly. We started on our way down the hall.

"You know you never told me your name." He said.

"Oh I'm Elizabeth. Liz for short." I said

"Well nice to meet you Liz." Jake said with another smile.

"Where are you from?" I asked him as we turned the corner.

"I'm from New York City. You know the place with the big flashing lights and the constant traffic." He said

"Yeah." I laughed. "I think I may have heard of this place before. Well here we are."

"Thanks Blondie. I'll catch you around." He said as he went into the office. I turned back around to head back to my locker and ran into Kourtney.

"Who was that?" Kourtney asked.

"He's new. He said his name was Jake." I told her wondering why she was talking to me considering we weren't on the bus.

"Well you will have to introduce me sometime." She said while walking away. The day had barley even started yet and I already had more conversations at school than I do on a daily basis.

I went back to my locker and grabbed my stuff. Then I headed to class, like always, 10minutes early. I sat in my seat and pulled out my homework from last night that I didn't do. Looks like I wasn't off to a great start this school year with getting my work dome but I was already sick of caring. Then through the door walked in a newly familiar face.

"Well hey Blondie long time know see." Jake said to me as he walked in the room with the principle, Mrs. James.

"Oh you know each other?" Mrs. James asked. 

"No we just met not too long ago." I told her.

"Well I'm sure Elizabeth will have no problem making you feel comfortable here. I'll just be on my way." She said as she waved goodbye and walked out of the room.

"Hello again Blondie." Jake said as he sat in the seat next to me.

"Hi now if you don't mind I'm busy doing my homework so-"

"Isn't homework meant to be done at home?" Jake interpreted.

"Yes but so are a lot of other things so I'm just going to finish this really fast and-Hey give that back!" I yelled as  Jake took my homework.

"I just want to read it." He said as he walked to the other side of the room. "Things I already know I like about Jake."

"That's not what it says!" I protested trying to grab the paper from his hand.

"Number one: he's incredibly handsome." He pretended to read off my paper. "Well we both know that one is true."

"You know you are not making a very good first impression." I said while sitting back in my seat.

"Oh I'm not?" He asked.

"You're not." I told him

"Well that's not what it says right here." Jake pointed to the paper.

"I can't read that yore going to have to come closer." I laughed.

"Is this better?" He said as he took a baby step forward.

"Just a little bit closer." I told him.

"How's this?" He said as he put his face right in front of mine, our noses basically touching.

"Uh fine." I said nervously. Then grabbed my paper out of his hand.

"Hey that's not fair." He said.

"Why not?" I asked.

"I was distracted." He answered.

"Well, you snoze you lose." I joked as I started my homework. Jake looked as if he was going to say something else but the teacher walked in. Somehow I knew today was going to be a crazy day that I wouldn't be able to tell my girlfriend about.