Him

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I woke up to my alarm ringing to a Drake song.

Why you gotta start girl, why you gotta start?
I know we make time for the things that we want
I know you got another nigga tryna play the part
Just cause he got a heart don't mean he got heart
Could be standing in the field, and he still ain't in the field

" ugh " I huffed.

I leaned over to the night stand and grabbed my phone hitting the snooze button. Today was the first day of school. Senior year was waiting for me . I laid on my bed for a couple more minutes making up different scenarios of how today could end up going, unfortunately all of them ended up with me embarrassing myself in front of him. I can't stand to say his name so I refer to him as well " him ." He was tall, white face complexion and had piercing green eyes , those type of eyes that if you stared at them for too long you could possibly fall into some kind of trance. He had been my crush since like forever. And every year it seemed that I embarrassed myself even more than the last. Lemme just tell you that freshman year was possibly the worst

Flashback

It was a couple of months into the school year when I noticed that I had french class with him. The day before I had stayed up doing my biology homework. To my surprise I had only gotten 3 hours of sleep. As I walked in I noticed we had a substitute for the day which was a miracle since Mrs. Michelson never missed class. I decided this was a good chance to try and get back at least one hour of sleep. I closed my eyes and before I knew it I was fast asleep. What seemed like 20 minutes of sleep was actually almost an hour. I felt someone nudging me on my shoulder telling me to wake up.

" Class will be over in 5 wake up "

As soon as I woke up and raised my head to look around the classroom and to my surprise a drool of saliva hung from the corner of my mouth. I heard people laughing and that's when I saw him. He was sitting a couple seats away from me. He looked like he wanted to laugh but contained it by biting his lip and looking at me with amusement. I looked down feeling super embarrassed and silently cursed at myself for falling asleep.

End of flashback

The other years weren't so bad I suppose. Sophomore year I had bumped into him walking from lunch with my hands full of food which ended up falling on me. Junior year I decided to show some support to the basketball team, who am I kidding I went to see him play lol. Anyways as I was walking a ball comes out of nowhere and hit me right on my head. I looked around too see who had thrown it and there he was standing in the 3 point line looking at me with wide eyes as he mouthed an " I'm sorry ." Yeah high school has a funny way of treating me. I picked up my phone and saw I had a couple of notifications. The one that caught my attention was the one from my friend Aria. Crap . I'm sorry if forgot to introduce myself I'm Laurel, 17, and live in Seattle, Washington. Okay now that that's out of the way. I looked at the time and saw I had about an hour fifteen to get ready. I quickly got out of bed and plugged my phone to my speaker playing some drake songs. I went straight to my closet and decided on wearing and white shirt with some boyfriend jeans and a red flannel hanging from my waist. And obviously my black vans to go with it. Once I got my clothes I went to the restroom and brushed my teeth and hair. Two dutch braids and about a million attempts to to my eyeliner later I was done. I went back and put on my clothes and grabbed the most important school supplies my phone, my charger, and my earphones. Oh and well my backpack. I went down the stairs and and made my way to the kitchen. The smell of waffles and bacon filled my nose.

" Good morning to you. Here eat some of the food I made you before you leave. " my mom said

I took two waffles from the stack and one strip of bacon and began to eat. I looked at my phone and realized I had about 30 minutes or less to get to school.

" Shït " I muttered under my breath.

" Okay mom I'm done thanks see you tonight ." I half yelled while walking out the door.

" Goodluck sweetheart have fun ! " I heard her say before I closed the door.

I would've stayed longer to talk to her but considering that fact that I don't have a car only because I'm too scared to drive. My mom had insisted a couple years ago to get a car but I declined. The thought of driving by myself scared the hell out of me. Even though it was like a 5 minute drive to school I was freaked. So ever since freshman year I've walked to school which is only like a 15 minute walk.

As I reached the front gates of hell, I easily spotted him hanging out with his group of friends and to my surprise I saw a girl leaning on him and look up at him like he was the most beautiful thing she'd ever laid eyes on. As I tore my gaze from him, I felt myself trip on the sidewalk and land right on my face. I had my phone in my hand but I looked for it and knew it had flown to god knows where. As I stood up I felt a shock of pain jolt through my arms. I looked around if anyone had noticed and we'll yeah pretty much everyone stared at me with wide eyes and laughing.

" Are you okay ? " a voice said behind me.

I turned around and saw him holding my phone in his hand with a concerned look on his face.

" Um yeah thanks ." I said while reaching to take my phone.

" You know Laurel you have quite a funny way of getting my attention these past years. " he chuckled.

WAIT ! He knows my name ?! Of course he does considering the fact that you've embarrassed yourself so many times around him. My conscious said.

" Haha uh yeah " I chuckled nervously.

" So I was wond- " he began to say at the bell cut him off.

" Well I gotta go see you around Luke ? " I said but it sounded more like like a question.

" Yeah I'll see you around Laurel " he said with a hit of nervousness behind his voice.

Thanks god for the bell I thought. I turned on my heels and began to walk to my class. As I was walking, I kept on thinking about what he was going to ask me.

" Let's see what senior year has in store for me " I said to myself before walking into my first class.