He Left, He's Back

Ally

I walk into Spanish class with my phone being tightly gripped in my right hand.

Why you may ask?

Because I'm nervous as h-e-double hockey sticks. I, usually being the dumb ass out of the trio forgot to study for the test we have today. I love Spanish. I'm pretty fluent in the language after taking three years of it, this being my forth. But I suck at remembering dates. Birthdays, school dances, club meetings Liv drags me to once a week, and especially test dates.

I scurry across the marble tiled floors and take my seat in the middle of the room. I straighten out my skirt and let out a shaky breath.

I have exactly 3 minutes until the bell rings to review. You can do this Abs.

As I'm attempting to review the list in my head, in strides the king of Grandview High himself. Cade Parker. Yes I have Spanish with him, as I did all my other years of Spanish. Although, he only has two other classes with me, he tends to pop up everywhere. Those other two classes are just maths and P.E. But lucky for me in those three classes we take together, he never sits near me.

But today apparently in Cade world he wanted to switch things up.

Mess up my whole system of avoiding the guy.

He walks in and scans the room. I look down at my hands and mess with them, trying to concentrate on studying for the test I'm about to completely bomb. I feel a pair of eyes watching me, praying its not him.

I hear heavy yet graceful steps walking down my aisle, and turning on the heels of his feet, planting the owner's caboose down on the cold plastic seat.

My breath hitched in my throat and I stiffened.

Spanish Spanish Spanish Spanish

Focus on your damn Spanish Abs.

"Hey Ally, do we have a test in here?"

The squeaky voice belonged to a blonde cheerleader in the seat on the left of me. Snapping her gum, she gives me an impatient look.

"Uh-uhh yeah. Yeah we do Candice." My voice still not steadied from the change in seating.

"Shit."

The bell rung and let a loud ring. But what I heard was time to fail, you stupid butt.

"Alright class, I'm passing out the test and you have 30 minutes to work on it then we will move on to next chapter. Do well, I expect good grades." Our teacher Mrs. Gillian, has been to Cuba, Porta Rico, Madrid, and Toledo and still is the most unexciting person I have ever met. If I had the chance to travel the world, I'd be a pretty happy person.

She hand me the test and I'm 100% sure satan himself created the test.

I take a deep breath and start the test.

25 minutes later

Muttering profanities under my breath, I'm trying to answer the last two questions of the 35 total. The last two I had left were in the culture section and was multiple choice. Shaking my leg, and bitting at my fingernails, I'm wracking my brain for the answer. With now only 3 minutes to complete the test, I'm set on accomplishing the test with no blanks.

Just when I'm about to give up and circle random answers, I feel the weight of muscle in the seat behind me shift forward breaking my concentration.

"32 is D and 34 is B." The voice behind me that hasn't said a word to me in years just gave me the final answers I need to complete the test.

"One minute children." Mrs. Gillian announces.

As my heart is hammering inside my chest I quickly circle the answers feeling like a cheat but more importantly, feeling surprised by the act of kindness from this former friend of mine that broke my heart.

"Time is up. Pass forward your test. Abbie, please collect the papers from the front rows."

"Yes Mrs. Gillian." I stand up and head to the front of the room collecting all the test from each desk in the front rows, as I was told to do.

Returning to my desk after handing the teacher the test I sneak a glance at Cade. He's drumming his pen on his desk. A habit he never seemed to break since 3rd grade.

I sit down and scooch as far away from the back of my chair as I can and stay that way for rest of the period. I forget about the incident for the rest of the period as Mrs. Gillian goes over the new chapter.

When the bell rang I gathered all my materials, placing them in my book bag. Cade rises from his seat saying something that surprised not only me, but a few others.

"Her name is Abbie, Candice. Not Ally." Shoving past me gently and exiting the classroom leaving the room a little quiet.