Butterflies

10

He walked into the room the same way he always did. Hands in his pockets, his bag hanging over his shoulder, and then there were a trail of girls following closely behind him. as he entered the room we made eye contact. Neither of us could look away from the other. Staring into each other's eyes not caring what our classmate thought was going on between us. But nothing was going on between us. Yes, we knew each other but no else knew it. We had decided that we would keep it away from everyone. Less drama that way. We had both thought it would be best if we didn't interact with each other at school. Or so we thought.

Many rumors spread throughout the school about us. How we were together and that we saw each other every weekend. The rumors started getting worse.

'I heard that Mai was at Jason's house all night Friday.'

'She's not even that pretty.'

'Jason's only using her as a pawn. Like he could love someone like her.'

It started to effect both of us. When we did talk to each other it always ended up in a fight. What we fought over, I wasn't really sure. Soon after we just let each other be. We stopped talking to each other. It was hard to see him walk into biology class and not lock eyes with mine. It was hard not to think about him. It was torture for me to be away from him. And now I couldn't tell him how I felt.

We had only been reunited a month ago and again we were separated. Maybe we were never meant to find each other again.

I looked at the mark on my hand.

'So much for our mark, huh Jason. We both tried so hard to find each other just to end up like this.'

It was at that moment that once again due to my clumsy self I ran into another person in that halls. The feeling of deja vu running through my head. My heart pounding. I didn't want to live this again.

I look away from my hand and up to see a beautiful pair of icey blue eyes.

"I'm so sorry about that. Are you okay."

He didn't look mad but he didn't look all that happy either.

"I'm fine. I wasn't really looking where I was going."

"I should be the one saying that not you. Oh, Im Mai. And you are..."

"Luke, I'm Luke. Nice to meet you Mai."

I nod at him in agreement. Maybe he could be the on to get Jason off my mind.

"Hey, would you like to hang out latter. Just text me if your free. "

It was like he had read my mind. He reaches his hand out to me holding a piece of paper I was assuming had his number on it. As I reached for it I saw Jason out of the corner of my eye. I reach for the slip and quickly stuff it into my back pocket.

"Thanks. So I'll text you later today. "

I walked away with a smile on my face. I turned the corner to come face-to-face with Jason.

"What is it now Jason. More rumors, or just another reason to argue with me. "