Adam's High School Experience

Ch. 1    Lea white

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Lea White was the smartest and prettiest young lady in the whole high school. She was that girl. You know Miss July wearing a student president badge. Captain of the debate team, the captain of ---- every club actually. School activity, fundraiser. “Let’s make money for the orphans and the needy.”  She was there. Bets off she was going to be the Valedictorian with the full scholarship to some fancy school, heck, any she wanted. With her, she was good at everything not just brain stuff and talking. She was a gymnast and a track star. Lea White kept the school running at every possible angle and meaning.

        So you see my surprise when me Mr. “Can’t catch a break and defiantly not a Girl” skipin’ and Chinese skipin’ everyone in line to get behind Lea White. Making sure I got everything she got, although, I hate salad and I’m lactose and tolerate, but, I thought, it would look good if she gazed down with her long eyelashes and saw that we had the same taste in food choses. I needed all the plus’s I could get if I was gonna do what I was gonna do. Before Lea paid for her food I popped the big question, “Lea will you go to the fair with me… Saturday?”

She was countin change. “Do you have a ride?”

“course” I said as she passed the change to the lunch lady.

“You’re paying our way in?”

“Yeah, already got the tickets.”

 She raised her eyebrows at the salad, grabbed her tray, “K, 6.” And left to her table outside. Afterward I turned to the Lunch Lady Jenkins, she was like “Are you sure you want that milk, baby, you and your laktoast-self.”

 “Naw mam, you can take that, and the salad too.” I grabbed the bathroom pass and went back to class.

        I had already spent the last two weeks suckin up to my parents. Having the whole house clean before they got home, straighten the garage and attic, doin yard work, and unnecessary work baking brownies, handing Long Lost, my dad, the remote so he would have to get up, shine his church shoes, givin momma a foot message. That day I went to reap. (You reap what you sow) Long Lost suspected something was up before I even went to him. Now When I got home I was still hype, but between takin my shoes off at the door, going upstairs to put my stuff up, and fallin back down the stairs , I was able to calm down a little. Pulling myself together at the bottom of the steps I made my move, on Long Lost. I passed him the remote and sat beside him waiting for the game to end and go to commercial. Commercial came:

“Aye Dad, a…”

“Whatcha want.”

“Well you see...” he was flippin through channels, “…I got a big date on Saturday.”

“Good for you.” he was turning to 1030..HBO! I had to speed it up.

‘Yeep. Could I borrow the truck? The blue one.”

“We only have a blue one.” Long pause Trublood theme song: “When you came in the air went out..” I prayed I hadn’t lost him, and then mumbled:

“Sure, just make sure there’s a full tank of gas when she gets back.”

“Whew!...thanks.” Got up went to my room and clasped on the bed thinking about Saturday and feeling satisfied. Rubbin the green tickets in between my fingers.

        My Uncle Sam worked on the fairgrounds, so rides and funnel cakes were free. He had given me the idea; Defiant groomsmen. I had the car. And the Lady. Lea White; that girl. I put the tickets under the pillow, and when I closed my eyes I was dreamin of a stray coaster holdin a couple, rollin through cotton-candy clouds, and endin at the big heart shaped sun of love.