The Love of High School

Chapter 5

HEY EVERYONE! I am so sorry for going a few months without updating. Father's Day was the last time I updated a chapter. I've been busy in family stuff, my niece and nephew twins was born, I recently got my first job, finally, at Michael's on August 3rd, my senior year of high school started August 10th, and distracted on reading other people's fanfiction. I did miss writing my story and I HOPE you guys missed the updates.
Credits can be found in my previous chapters.
Here's a list of characters:
(Lily I changed to Ella because it just makes sense and I think I was going to do that but I made a mistake, I'm sorry) Ella – Gabrielle
Carmen – Xena
Jack – Joxer

Enjoy the chapter

Chapter 5
Carmen's POV
Friday, August 28, 2015

"Morning mom," I say walking into the kitchen after getting ready for school.
"Hey sweetie, how did you sleep?" She asked me kindly.
"Pretty good, until I had a nightmare," I said.

Flashback to my dream

"Ella you're so beautiful, sweet, nice, and really hot in cheerleading..." I said looking into her sparkling green eyes. She's smiling a big smile, but she's also blushing, which made me smile really big.
Then I saw her face contort into a thinking expression. I gave her a questioning look in return, silently asking what she's thinking. Then she asks mischievously, "What do you mean when you said that I look really hot in cheerleading?"
I gulped and blushed profusely, my face and chest going a bright shade of red. After I cleared the lump in my throat, I then replied, "Um, well, you look—"
I was stopped by Peter kissing Ella on the lips. After sometime he pulled back and said, "Hey babe," to Ella while smiling. She, of course, said hey back, but I felt really hurt. I woke screaming, "No!" while crying.

Back in the kitchen talking to my mom

"Aww honey, what was it about?" My mom asked.
"I don't really feel like talking about it. I'm going to go to school, bye mom, love you," I said.
"Ok, bye Carmen, have a great day at school," she said.
​I nodded to her walking out of the kitchen, out of the house, and driving to school. I arrive to school at 9:35 and make my way to my locker. After I get things out of my book bag and arrange it in my locker, I put my book bag away and get my stuff for short stories and my drawing supplies. I grab all of my stuff, shut and lock my locker, and head to the cafeteria for breakfast. When I go through the breakfast line I grab a chocolate milk and a bacon, egg, and cheese croissant, check it out to the cafeteria lady at the register, and head to class.
​I make my way to my desk once I arrived class and start eating my breakfast. When I got started eating I got a text message from Jack.
Jack: Hey bestie, How are you?
Me: Not great, I had a bad dream that was about Ella.
Jack: What was it about?
Me: I got to go, I'll tell you in Spanish class.
Jack: Ok, bye.
​I put my phone away after reading the message. The bell for class to begin just rang and I'm done with my breakfast. Everyone in my short stories class is here along with my teacher are standing up for the Pledge of Allegiance and Moment of Silence. After a couple of conversations, we get started on reading Proposal by Meg Cabot. All of the fifty minutes of class period was used for reading and answering the questions that went along with it. I even got a good chunk done without thinking about Ella too much. I really want to think about her right now because it left me feeling hurt in the chest and teary eyed.
​I make my way to my drawing class with my supplies already with me. Once the bell rings the teacher tells us we are starting on one of the three big projects of the semester. She also told us that we are to draw whatever we want but it has to come from the heart. I'm not sure what I want to draw, but after sometime of thinking I decided to draw and color Ella. I still think about her and I'm still head over heels in love with her, I can't make those feelings stop no matter what. I don't care what anybody thinks, my heart is made for her. If they will make fun of me, then I'll try to brush it off, but the only person I'm afraid of is Callie. She's a bully towards me and our relationship has stayed that way ever since we were little.
​So for the next 30-40 minutes left of class to perfect Ella and make her stand out from my other sketches.
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Spanish 3 
    I walk in and see Jack already at his desk waiting for me. I sit down at the desk next to his and he asks me what's going on.
"My dream was about Ella," I say.
He says, "I know, you texted me that, now what happened in the dream?"
I respond, "I was flirting and complimenting with Ella, but I get interrupted by Peter coming in and kissing her. After that I wake up screaming and crying."
"Aww, I'm sorry," He gulps before responding sadly.
I just shrug my shoulders as I prepare for class to begin.

45 minutes later
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The bell has rung, so I make my way to my locker and get my things for Algebra 2. I didn't get to talk to Jack anymore after I told him my dream, because we were learning and relearning Spanish grammar and the teacher had to use the entire period.

One hour and twenty minutes later

​I walk into Chemistry with all of my stuff ready to go. I ignore Ella walking in because I'm still sad over my dream and I just don't want to look at her, because if I do, I would react high body temperature, heavy breathing, and rapid heartbeats. So I just look at the front of the class (opposite side of the room from Ella) and see that we are doing a lab, written on the agenda. 'Ok, fine,' I think to myself. The bell rings and the teacher comes in to her desk and takes attendance. After she's done she works on getting the class' attention. Then, a few seconds later she's able to get the class' attention and starts talking about the lab.
​She starts out by saying that the lab is with partners and she chose the partners for us. There was a collection of groans around the classroom, including myself. I just kept praying not to be partnered with Ella. After she's read off several students lab partners, she gets to mine. Luck is not in my favor, I'm partnered with Ella.
With Ella
WITH ELLA
WITH FREAKING ELLA!!!
​After she gets done listing everyone's partners, she starts explaining the lab, and what we are going to be doing. The idea of the lab is to work with the mass (g) of all the elements and see what happens. Wednesday we had our full class period lecture to work with Avogadro's number that deals with converting grams into moles or whatever (atoms, ions, particles, or molecules). After she's done talking, everyone goes to sit with their partners along with their stuff. I notice Ella coming my way and I start freaking out my heart is beating fast and my breathing is labored. I'm still thinking about Ella a lot, but I can't believe the effect she has over me.
"Hey," She says really sweetly.
"H-Hey, how did you know who I was?" I ask nervously while I'm internally freaking out and my stomach doing flips.
"We had classes together last year and I notice you watching us girls at our cheerleading practice." She replies while smiling her beautiful, wonderful smile at me, she sits down and gets comfortable. I feel myself blushing and my stomach twisting up in nots even more than before. "So, would you like to start now?" She asks.
All I can do is nod my head up and down because I don't trust my voice right now.
​We started working on the pre-lab questions, it's pretty easy. We just had to do the conversations we learned about. After we get done with that, we move onto the procedure. We followed the directions adding however many drops or milliliters to a substance, but after some moments in sitting in silence Ella starts talking to me.
"So your name's Carmen, I notice you at my practices,"
"Yes," I say.
She stops what she's doing and looks at me in the eye while I do the same. "I'm just curious, why do you watch our cheerleading practice?"
"Um, well...I...I like-" I stutter before hearing Ella's phone vibrating.
She pulls it out and sees who it's from, "Oh, I'm sorry, it's my boyfriend checking up on me."
I gulped on the verge of tears. "Boyfriend?" I asked. I really like Ella, we were just talking, and for her to just say that, I couldn't believe it. But it wasn't just that it was also that part of my dream was true, I feel like my heart is breaking and I'm trying to not cry. I take my eyes off of her but I already knew by the way she's looking at me that she saw the pain in my eyes. When she was looking at me she frowned at seeing the pain. In her eyes, that I looked deep into, I could see concern and confusion.
"Yeah, um, my boyfriend, Peter," She said sadly.
And that's when the damn broke, I couldn't fight the tears now. I couldn't believe it my dream was true. I feel like my heart is ​all broken. So, I gathered my stuff and ran out of the classroom. I went to the office, signed out, and drove home. When I got to my room I collapsed in my bed, still crying, and passed out in pain and exhaustion.

6 p.m.

"Carmen, wake up, come on," Jack shakes me awake.
"What?" I whine.
"I heard that you ran out of class, but I want to hear what happened from you. I'm here for you, come here." He said while he sits back and opens his arms to me.
I lay on his lap and start telling him the story of what happened.
"I'm so sorry that you found out that way, I didn't want you to know," he said.
I got angry, he knew and didn't tell me. "You knew, how did you know she's dating Peter?" I asked furiously.
His eyes widened as he realized his mistake. "Carmen, I-I'm s-sorry, I knew how you'll feel, if I told you. I found out by Ian telling me in homeroom."
"I need a moment but please stay, I need you right now," I said sadly while laying back down. Even though I was mad at him, I know he knew how hurt I would be because of the best of friends we are, I still wanted him here with me.
He just nodded and went to turn off the light. After that, he went over to lay down next to me on the bed. We were ok to lay together, because we were friends since we were kids so my parents knew him and loved him. My family already knew that he was bisexual (but isn't into me) and I was a lesbian, so no my family has no problem with him sleeping with him.
And there you go, I hope you liked it. I'm not sure about the ending, I didn't know how else to end it.

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