The Brunette and the Blonde

Stuck and Hungry

  “No Cahill, Abraham Lincoln did not kill vampires at midnight.”

  Giesel was teaching me American History. She brought a bunch of textbooks and her past notes with her today. She was explaining to me how Abraham Lincoln battled against racial discrimination blah… blah… blah… I didn’t really listen to the details. All I know is that I recently watched this movie in where Abraham Lincoln was a vampire hunter.

  That’s considered a documentary right? So it has to be real.

  Anyway, it was rainy outside. Rainy isn’t even a word to describe it. There was thunder, lightning and a down pour. Giesel was rambling off curses and other jeopardy.

  “Would you just listen to me for one freakin’ day?”

  Giesel was going to start her famous reprimands on me when a huge flash of lightning lit up the whole room in a millisecond, followed by a round rumble of thunder.

  Then after a few minutes, the speakers start to blare an announcement:

  ‘All students are forbidden go down to the first and second floor. I repeat all students are forbidden to go down to the first and second floor.’

  “What’s going on?” I asked.

  “Hmm. The floors must be flooded.”

  “What!? That’s where the cafeteria is. And I’m hungry!”

  Giesel hesitated for a while, then she sighed.

  “You can have my granola bar.”

  “Granola bar! Where?” I frantically looked sideways finding the sight of the said granola bar. I know. I must’ve looked really stupid. Giesel groaned and scavenged her satchel. After about 30 seconds, she brought out two granola bars.

  “Here, take one! Just ONE.”

  My eyes widened. She had food. “Wow! Thanks!”

  I grabbed both of them when Giesel slapped my arm, “Hey! What was that for?”

  “Ugh! The other granola bar was for ME!”

Realizing that I took two instead of one, I apologized, “Sorry, my brain doesn’t work well when I’m hungry.”

  “Since when did your brain actually work?” she retorted.

  I decided to ignore her statement and chow on my granola bar.

  When I reached the half, Giesel started to open hers as well. She took a small bite and crunched angrily.

  I ate my granola bar, well actually Giesel’s granola bar, while smiling like an idiot. These granola bars were so good. I wonder where she got these, since there are vending machines in our school, except the one at the senior’s floor where it only had fruit yogurt and pineapple juice.

  Giesel was still half-way through hers when I finished mine. I asked, “Where do you buy these things?”

  “Oh, my nonna sent them to me, all the way from California. She has, like, a storage room full of these.”

  “Your no-what?”

  “My nonna? N-O-N-N-A? You haven’t heard of that term before?”

  I shake my head.

  “It means grandmother. I got theses granola bars from my grandmother.”

  “Oh. Okay.”

  She continued eating. I crumpled the wrapper and hid it in my pocket.

  A loud crash of thunder came, followed by screaming voices of the cheerleaders outside.

  Giesel took another bite on her granola bar and said, “Cowards.”

  I watched her eat. The site of the granola bar made my mouth water again. She caught me staring at her as she was about to take another bite.

  “What?” she asked. “Are you still hungry?”

  I absently nod

  She reached for another granola bar in her satchel, “Here, that’s my last. Try chewing and eating it slowly, it makes you full faster.”

  I took a big bite. I could have sworn I heard her giggle.

  I swallowed it. Another round of thunder and lightning made the girls scream. I bet it even reached the first floor.

  Giesel looked pissed off. She sighed heavily and continued typing of the storms hereo her blog while enjoying the last bites of her granola bar.

  A/N: This chapter is too SHORT! I guess it's because the next chapters will be really long... T_T Sorry for the long update. The internet broke down because of the storms here! BUT I'M BACK!