Jelly

Keep Heading Up

The thing with Damian and the girls leaving is that they probably left to talk about me in private. I know how all the social aspects in school work, it's just that I don't know nor want to actually work those aspects. I decide to just assume that they left to evaluate me and decide if I fit in with them. I'm overwhelmed by the fact that this is it: this is how my quest to finding my new friends starts. I get such a great vibe from Katherine and Christy is fine... It's Damian that worries me. The time I met him, he seemed so sweet and concerned about me and I just don't see that in his looks and school attitude. I can't believe I'm judging him by his looks and I've only made negative observations so far... Although he looks great. They start to walk back into the café and I try to sit as casually as possible. The girls are grinning and shoving Damian against one another all the way until they get back to the table. It's suspicious, but it isn't anything significant. They sit back down and just keep eating and everyone continues to talk as if they hadn't left in the first place.
"You know, people consider it rude when you leave the table during lunch time," I tease. They giggle a bit and Damian doesn't. I knew there was something different about him and it's showing.
Lunch time is over. I'm satisfied with the fact that I've found a small circle of tight friends to stay close to, but the circle is... How do you say... Not stable. It's one of those friendships that are super shaky and probably won't last. I'm fine with that for now though. I grab my tray and throw it into the trash bin and see everyone head to class... except Damian. He's still sitting there as if he was waiting for something special... Or someone special. I turn towards the table and strut towards Damian. I sit across him and stare at his coffee colored eyes. They're not just brown... brown is bland and just a plain color, but his eyes look creamy and soothing.
"Hey. Waiting for someone?"
"Uh, no. I'm just," he pauses for a moment, "thinking."
"Thinking? What about?"
"Something Christy and Katherine told me earlier today. It's nothing really. I'm just having some small thoughts about it."
"Here's the think, Dame," I have enough courage to call him his nickname, "the awesome thing about me is that I new, so you can tell me anything. I don't know anyone so it wouldn't hurt to tell me."
"True. Okay, I guess," he starts as he takes deep breaths throughout the whole time he tells me, "so when the took me out of the café, they wanted to talk to me about something. They think I like someone at school which has never happened since I've always been focused in school..."
"This is how I see it... It doesn't matter if it's small. Something so small like this can affect your whole future. You'll never know if the girl they think you like could be your sole mate. You need to take chances and have some hope." He seems disgusted at the end of my comment but tries to throw it off with a small smile. I still see the disgust in his eyes and immediately realize I failed.
"Thanks Pilar," he mumbles as he gets up from his seat, "they really... Uh... Helped". He walks off and goes to his next class. I grab my sbchedule and look at my next class so I can recall what it is. It doesn't work since my head is filled with thoughts of Damian. I sit there for 2 minutes... 2 minutes just thinking about a guy on my first day. I start to think about my pathetic choices for my entrance in Largent when I forget the bigger picture: I think I may like Damian a bit.
I squeeze and pinch my arm, trying to send my mind out of those thoughts and stand up.
"I like Damian" I state loudly alone in the café, "and I just told him to take a chance with another girl...". I walk to my next class, thingking about my idiotic remarks, and get to my class' door. I push the door open, hoping someone like Damian or Katherine are there for me to talk to, but there isn't. I sit down and look back down to my schedule:
GEOMETRY
I'm sure Damian must have nearly all of my classes, but they're in different periods. Ditto. I take a seat and I'm right on time. Luckily, the Geometry room is close enough to the café for me to get there in 2 minutes. I take my seat in class and try not to be noticed: I'm still fairly shy.
As I suspected, my whole "Go Unnoticed" act doesn't work and a guy sitting beside me speaks to me.
"How about you stop being shy and introduce yourself to me," I can already tell this guys ego is the size of Damian's hair, "my name's Jackson. I've seen you around the hallways today but never before then." He's serious when he stares at me but smirk after I don't answer for a while. I turn around and wait for class to start. I ignore Jackson, even when I see him sending me various messages through "Paper Airlines". I sit down and listen to my teacher as he keeps trying to make me his airlines' landing. I finally budge after he throws around a dozen planes at me when I open the first one:
"You're really cute," the note starts, "maybe we should go out soon".
I crumble the paper when I realize that it's happening again. I can't let this happen again. I'm not going to turn into the girl that everyone likes for the stupidest reasons. There's a way to stop this and I have 2 choices. I either throw all throw all the notes into the recycling bin (helping the world) or get the teachers attention and let the notes be read out loud. I quickly make my decision and smirk at Jackson.
"What's this?" Asks Mrs. Wallace "who's been note passing in my classroom?" I know exactly what I'm going to say right after. I'm ready
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Authors Note: Hey Readers! Thanks for reading this so-called book. I'm gonna try to start releasing 3 chapters at a time, but to do that, I'm gonna need to have so time off. This is most likely the last chapter I will post individually, but that just means that there'll be much more drama in the future! Thanks for understanding! Adios!