Falling

Chapter 5 - Bench Bus

I'm just walking back from school by myself because Tiffany was ill so she didn't come in. It's now the second week back and I guess I could say that I'm getting used to everything. Although not being in a school for 3 years feels weird.

Everything is so huge and complicated whereas mum teaching me and online schooling seemed like just writing out paragraphs, step by step including powerful connectives which made you sound like a professional author of biology books or geographical extracts. Secondary school was full of more practicals, discussions and notes. But I think that if I just put school to the side and make it seem less important, then I won't find it that hard anymore.

Since there was no hurry to get home, and I had some spare change that my mum gave me as lunch money, I decided to go to the mini shop a couple of minutes away, to buy myself an energy drink since I'm so tired after today's lessons.

On my way back I sat down on the bench by the park to finish it, cuz mum always hates it when I have them because she says they have too much sugar and I won't sleep at night.

A small group of 3 walk past me and start messing about on the kids playground even though they look older than me. They're all boys, two of them are actually kind of buff but I try my best to not pay too much attention. Luckily though, on their way out of the park they stop at my bench and it looks like they're trying to chat me up.
"Hey, you look lonely?" The cute blonde said, in a question way.
"Nah I'm good, thanks." I replied trying to sound confident, but worried to not look freaked out.
"We're not pervs, but can we still down beside you, we kind off have to wait for the bus anyway.' The other, tall one says.
"Yeah yeah sure, as long as your dicks stay in your pants."
They all laughed a little.
"It's all good, you're a bit of a funny one, aren't ya?" Tall guy said.
"Hmm, maybe"
"Why you here then, by yourself."
"Just don't want to go home yet, my friend wasn't walking so I decided to come here."
"Oh cool, guess you were walking from school?"
"Yeah, Ridgeway."
"Yeah I know that, that's far though rah. I'm Bryson by the way. What's your name?"
"Naomi." I murmured silently.
"Cute. We gotta go now, bus should be here in 5," he said, pointing at the bus stop down the road. His friend seemed to have already left to go there without saying anything through this whole talk. "So, yeah, bye Naomi, nice to meet ya."
"Oi, you seem cool and there's a lot of bitches left in this world but it doesn't seem like your one of them, so, could you give me your number?" The blonde guy asks smirking, usually I wouldn't do this, but if I'm starting a new school, I might as well start a new type of life and ways.
"Yeah sure," then I gave him the digits.
They both didn't say anything after that and kind of jogged to the bus stop acting silly, like those ladies that do daily jogs in their sports bra's and move their hips with passion, I giggle and watch them embarrass themselves.

After 10 more minutes of sitting, my ass starts to hurt and I get bored, also my Monster was finished ages ago. I started to walk home. Then once I got inside I had a quick chat with mum, as usual, and went upstairs to start some next long science project. It was all about Chromatography which seemed simple as fuck but once it got onto the questions I was bare confused.

Mum interrupted my work, and called me downstairs to eat dinner, so once I started eating the lasagna she had made, I took out my phone and snap-chatted T.

Once the phone vibrated, I went to take it out of my pocket again, expecting to have a response from Tiffany but it wasn't, instead it said:
'Hey Stranger, it's Bryson X'