My Girl

The boy

Isabella's POV;

Ever since my first day at Oakwood High, when I first laid my eyes on this boy, ive been mesmerised by his stunning looks and incredibly sharp features. He was the type who was funny and popular but i could tell that he was quite down to earth and even a little mysterious too.

Maybe thats what attracted me to him so much, the mystery that he brought along with him. We were in most classes together, and to make things even more interesting we sat next to each other in basically all of them. In all honesty he was quite smart, he tried to play it off as if he wasn't but he was, one of those who 'had it all' popularity, looks, brains and a sense of humour.

We sat together in History, English, Maths, Psychology and he was in my class in science but we sat on different tables.  We often just sat there in lessons and talked about whatever popped into our minds at that time. We never really talked about anything very
personal but we were becoming friends. Sometimes sitting next to his godly presence would make me feel butterflies inside my stomach which was weird because we were just scraping the friendship line.

However, to my disappointment, we had never once spoken to each other outside of class. If we passed in the hall we would smile but we never spoke. He was often surrounded by his friends. Him and his friends were quite similar in some aspects but none of them had that wow factor like he did, he wasn't like them, they prided themselves on being players, using girls and then pretending that they didn't exist, but i knew he wasn't like that, he didn't just use them and walk away or at least as far as i knew he didn't.

His name was Riley. Riley Evans. Even his name sounds like something you'd hear in a movie.

Most of the time when i saw Riley  i was walking through the halls with my friends we smiled at each other and that was always it.
My friends, consisted of Cleo, Rhiannon and Ruby. We always had the best time together and laughed so hard that our stomachs hurt. It was great.

One  faithful Friday afternoon i walked into science class and i saw him speaking to our science teacher, Mr. Darlington. He had finished his conversation with Mr. Darlington and looked over to me with a smirk. What was that smirk meant to mean? I went over to my seat and i was a bit early so i sat on my phone before slowly seeing the other students gather into the classroom. ' just one more hour and you can go home and its the weekend' i mumbled to myself.

Finally, after everyone got to the class and sat down preparing for the lesson Mr. Darlington opened up his laptop and turned on the slide show for that lesson, in big letters it read 'pair project'. I hated working in pairs, it was always such a pain, especially when you got paired up with the weird kids in the class like the stinky kid in the corner or one of the quiet ones who only spoke their own made up language. I always much preferred to work alone because i always knew that the quality of work that i was handing in was good enough.

Sir started reading out the names off of his list and eventually it came to my name; Isabella & Riley. To my surprise I wasn't paired with weird kid, I was paired up with the one everyone wanted to be paired up with and i was so happy.

Sir went on to explain that we were to spend the lesson making a start to the project with our pair and how the project had to be about one of the multiple systems in the body and that in a weeks time we would have to present it to the rest of the class.

Riley and I had decided on what we were going to do and we began on it. We had another 20 minutes left of the lesson before we could go home. Just another 20 minutes. It slowly went down to 15, 10, 5. 'So uh, when do you wanna finish this project?' He asked
'I don't really mind, I'm free this whole weekend and like most of next week apart from Thursday ' i replied  (It was the one year anniversary of my parents death, it was also my birthday but that didn't mean much to me)
'oh ok sounds cool. What about like now after school cause then it'll be done with. Do you wanna do it at like one of our houses?' He said
' yeah sounds good, my house is free, we can finish it off at my house if you want' i said. He nodded. The bell rang notifying me that it was time to go home. ' so ill see you in like half an hour?' I said before grabbing all the papers of work we had done off of the table and exiting the class room. I saw him smile as i was walking away. I started to make my way home.