Sticky-notes & Skateboards

Chapter 3

Kara's POV

I walked along the plain tiled floor in the hallways of Pine Valley High School. As I drew closer to the gym, I grew more nervous.

Why I was so nervous? I don't know. Either Jace wrote back or he didn't it's that simple. No need for me to be so nervous, but yet I am.

"Kara, are you even listening to me?!" Jessica exclaimed from beside me.

I turned to look at her. She stood there staring at me with her hands on her hips, waiting for my answer.

I sighed and shrugged my shoulders. I'm not going to lie and say I was because I clearly wasn't. I heard her huff but I didn't really care at that moment.

I got to trashcan outside of the gym, I looked and it shocked me that there, stuck to the side of the trashcan, was a sticky-note.

I reached to pick it up when someone shouted at me. That someone being Jessica.

"Kara, what are you doing? That is so unsanitary!"

Crap, I forgot that she was next to me. I about got whiplash from rising up so quickly to face her. I racked my brain for an excuse to tell her since there was no way I was telling her the truth.

"Oh well you uhh see, I dropped my contact yup, that's what I did. You can go ahead I will only be a moment." I lied.

She nodded her head and seemed to believe me because she started to walk off. I started to let out a sigh of relief but it caught in my throat when she turned back around.

"Wait, you don't even wear contacts?" She stated but it came out more like a question.

Well there goes that lie.

"Did I say contact? Oh well I meant button! Yup, I dropped my button." I lied to her, not making eye contact.

"Umm ok? I will be in the locker room." She told me before she walked off once more, but this time she didn't come back.

When I saw that she really was gone, I reached down and grabbed the sticky-note. I took a deep breath before I opened and read it.

'Hey shy girl.'

That's what it said. Wait, how did he know that I was a girl? Why did he write that? What did he think when he got my sticky-note?

So many questions were running through my head at that moment. None of them I could answer for myself.

I noticed on the back there was a note.

'Drink machine in the cafeteria before lunch.'

I guess that's where I'm placing my write back sticky-note. I shoved the sticky note in my pocket and headed to gym.

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By the time lunch rolled around I had my sticky-note prepared. I spent all of the previous period thinking of what to write. All the questions just kept running through my head and they wouldn't quit.

Instead of just writing down something pointless, I wrote down a question. It was a simple question that I really wanted to know.

'What made you write back?'

I had the folded sticky note in my pocket and now I just had to get over to the drink machine. That doesn't seem too hard right? Well it is when you are sitting at the lunch table with my friends.