White Paws

History

Chapter Three

Anna's P.O.V.

I walk to school with a look of depression on my face. School is not my most favorite place to be so I just growl under my breath and wish that the day could be over. I am feeling a little sick, I even had a temperature this moring, but I promised my mom that I was fine. I cannot miss school today! Today we are turning our English projects in, and I just got mine finished this weekend. I am so excited to see my grade!

While busying myself with thinking about school, I walk into the path of two shadws: a huge one and one that seems slightly familiar. I turn and look just in time to see a flash of dark brown, almost black, hair zip by my face as I collide with something solid.

"Ouch!" I yell, rubbing my head as I sit on the ground dazed.

"Sorry, sorry!" the tall silhouette standing in the sunlight says over and over again. "We didn't want to be late for school."

I look up blinking my eyes and recognise my best friend Joshua.

"Josh!!!!!!!!!!" is all I manage out before I lunge at him, clambering onto his back and tackling him to the ground. It has always been like this. Josh and I have known each other for years, our parents having mutual friends that introduced us, and I have always felt like a big sister to him. He is annoying, grouchy, and at times, that only person in the world that I can stand to be around.

"Oh Anna! It's just you! What a relief. I thought I had hit a teacher or something." Josh said.

"Well now you probably wished that you did," was my only reply.

All that I got was a skeptical look from Josh and a bump on the shoulder from the bigger shadow.

"Hey," it said. "My name is Steven. Nice to finally meet you. Your friend Josh here has been telling me all about you on the way to school."

Josh? Now what has that boy been saying? I give him one last glare but it is impossible to stay mad at him for long.

"Alright, alright, fine. I forgive you" I say, laughing at Josh's incredible puppy dog face. He really has the science of making a person forgive him perfected. "You are such a big baby," I quote, remebering the time that he held my hand when I feel out of a tree when we were both little. He comforted me and told me that my fall was nothing compared to the time that he almost droppped out of a moving truck. Like I always said, boys are reckless.

"Maybe so but then that makes you an old lady!" he says playfully. "You are, after all, a year and three months older than me."

"Oh please, that just means that I am way more mature than you Joshua Wolf."

"And you, Anna Eckzahn, are the most annoying mature person on the planet."

"Well thank you very much. And now I think I will have this young gentleman, Steven, escort me to my classroom. Steven? Would you do the honors?"

"I would be much obliged, m'lady," Steven replied, getting into character.

I curtsy as Steven bows to me, and we both walk to school, without so much as a glance behind us, trying not to laugh as we hold our heads high in the air.

"Hey! Wait up!" is all that is heard behind us, as well as the sound of approaching feet and maybe some grumbling.

"Did you hear something Steven?" I ask, playfully.

"No I did not m'lady. Maybe it was just a breeze in the wind," is Steven's reply. He is a pretty good actor.

After a while we both hear, "Okay, can you cut that out now?" Josh is getting flustered and probably a little agitated.

"Alright, we are done now," I grin in response. Josh does look a little upset. Maybe we took it too far? His face and cheeks are all red.

"Are you okay?" I ask, worried now.

"Yeah, you look really red," Steven says, peering at his new friend.

"I'm fine," was Josh's curt reply.

"Okay...if you are sure," I say as I walk up to him and give him a quick peck on the cheek before class. I do not think anything of it, as Josh and I have been friends for ages and always hug and give a quick kiss on the cheek in greeting, but somehow it is different this time. As I walk away I see Josh giving me a confused look, with Steven talking to him about the Math quiz we have today. Today, I could have sworn that in Josh's eyes, I saw a soft glow of happiness that had not been there earlier this morning.

How was this chapter everyone??? I am a little sick at the moment but I want to publish some more stuff soon! Any ideas? I have some ideas but I just cannot seem to type fast enough! :)