Her

The beginning

I was rushing through the hallway.. my books rougly juggling in my hands, as I kept hopping up on one converse then another...
Here's the summary...
I had banged my foot shoving open the hallway door and splintered one finger from pushing that same door angrily away..
Yeah, I know... real smart of me to push a door angrily with one finger while balancing on a wonky leg..
So here I was hopping-wincing like a clown in the morning hustle in the hallway, my double chin popping out with my hair splaying everywhere..
"Urgh.. goddammit.."
Great! Now I was a muttering-hopping-wincing mess, still with my books precariously balanced...
"Hey- ohhhhhhh..."
Nadia was about to greet me, but after seeing me she did a clean 360 and started walking in the opposite direction..
Yeup, great friends as well!
What an amazing mix!

"Hey... HEY NADIA YOU BITCH GET YOUR ASS BACK HERE AND HOP WITH ME.."
"I-I don't know her I swear.."
I could hear her nervously muttering to all the smirking people in the hallway..
"HEY NADIA IMMA COUNT TO TEN YOU HOE.. AND AFTER I SAY 10 AND YOUR SMART ASS STILL ISN'T HOPPIN' I DON'T KNOW YOU..."
That made her pause and I could visibly see her shoulders slump..
"1"
"2"
"3"
"4"
"5"
"6"
"7"
"8"
"9"
"TE-"
Through all of those stages I had quite LITERALLY seen how an internal battle looked like...
From a scrunched up face, to a contemplative face... to a I'm-Gonna-Panic face to Imma-Faint face and finally the Fuck-This-She-Ma-Hoe face...
That was the face she wore as she came
scuttling from across the hallway and started helping me with my books..
I knew it, she loved me way too much..
"Dude.. I would've really appreciated it if you could've like... I dunno.. kept it down?"
"WHA? LIKE THIS?!"
She winced, but couldn't help the sadistic chuckled she involuntarily let out..
I was the loud, obnoxiously confident and can't-give-a-fuck one in our relationship...
I was well-known around any high school like this, always clashing with stupid Josh..
Ah Josh! More about that douche later..
Nadia on the other hand was quite like a mouse and couldn't bear to see more than one pair of eyes on her.. pretty hard comsidering she was friends with me...
"Ahhh..you're hopeless.."
"Merci bouqoue!"
"Pffff.. french my ass up.."
Don't ever judge a book by its cover though...Nadia wasn't all she looked..
She still swore more than me and when she got angry.. She put the Hulk to shame..
But yeah.. the door mouse Nadia was what everyone else saw though...
"Annnnnnd, we're here! I can take it from here!"
"Mkay... byeeee"
Nadia whisper-shouted as she handed me my extra books and camouflaged with the crowd...
I jsut stood there stupidly.. waiting for someone to atleast nudge open the door for me so I could go inside my history room imstead of waiting outside like a dork.. awkwardly hugging my books and being unable to open the fucking handle because I was so full..
But at these moments you are blessed with Satan..

"Hey! Oooo.. you look loaded!"
It. Was. Josh..
of course!
"Thank you Captain Obvious.. I'm sure you have places to be?!"
"I do.. but, I'd rather be here than there come to think of it... erm.. lemme help you with those.."
And before I could even make a SLIGHT adjustment to the mishap, my books came crashing down as he nonchalantly knocked them out of my arms..
"Woops! Well.. atleast now you can freely open the door, yes?"
My books were splattered across the hallway horizontally..
Currently getting kicked to the side as students just casually walked over it, kicking and stamping over loose sheets, homework and already-torn-pages-but-held-together-with-tears...
Angry wasn't the word...
"Well, I'll see you I guess..."
I heard Josh silently mutter as he made to walk away..
Oh. Fuck. No

I reacted quickly, kneeing him right where the sun didn't shine.. until he was keeling over, his nuts cradled in his hands...
"Yeup... I'll see you in a fertility clinic Maximillian.."
That was unexpected.. he could usually forsee or deflect my blows..
Woah. Either I improved, or he gave himself up willingly..
Flipping him the middle finger, I hurriedly scuttled to the four corners of the corridor, ass high in the air and I ran for my sheets not decorated with show soles and barely-there textbooks scattered over the linoleum floor...
Suddenly, an extra pair of arms were bending down to help me..
"Sorry, but when I see only an ass high up in the air, scurrying about.. I get kinda tempted.."
I lowly chuckled as I made eye contact with Eric..
Eric was my other best friend/teaser..
He wore nerdy glasses and looked like a proper Dylan O' Brien look alike..
He seriously made the girls want some, but somehow he stuck with good ol' me..
"Thanks.. Buuuuuuuuuddd"
We both collectively laughed at our corny joke as I picked up my last Biology textbook...
"Yeup.. no problem.... Buuuuuuuuudd."
We both had this mock Texas accent thing going on.. we found the Texans hilarious for some reason...

"Here you go.. and next time I swear Josh is going to get hurt real bad from me.."
At this, his tone dipped from playful to dead-serious as his eyebrows furrowed..
"Hey.. don't worry about it...Next time
Mkay?"
"Yeup...I'll see you.."
I nodded as Eric's light blue eyes twinkled..
I watched his retreating back with a lopsided grin..I could always count on Eric to be there for me..
He had always stuck by me for some absurd reason...
My grin slowly faded as Josh suddenly creeped into my peripheral vision, smirking...
"Ooooo.. looks like she has a man crush?"
I silently took two large strides directly in front of the History room, wrenching open the handle as I rushed inside...
But not before replying...
"Maybe..."
I could see Josh's reflection... and it was exactly what I'd predicted it to be...
Curious... and thirsty..