School Days

Chapter One - Her

It's been a while since I told someone this story. But as my lovely wife is on her death bed I feel I should tell you about our story. This happened along time ago, 20 years to be exact. The story, my story. Of love, happiness and best of all.
Her.

The day is young, the night slowly fading into a distant memory of dreams. As one boy wakes up, his alarm blaring into the empty room. As he sits up he notices that his roommate it gone, 'must've gotten an early start' he thinks. It's six o'clock, when most are still sleeping and only those who need to be are awake. The boy gets out of bed, showering before eventually dressing into navy blue Chinos and a black v-neck. As the boy looks in the mirror, he sees his light grey eyes and scruffy black hair, he waxes it and puts on his red and black trainers before stepping into the hall of his dormitory. There's a window at the end of  hall. He walks up to it and through it he sees the snow, glistening on the ground and on the trees, the light breeze causing small amounts to fall to the floor. The sky is cloudless with the sun announcing its presence with blinding light.

The boy walks down a flight of stairs and outside to a fountain. 'Yo, jack!' He hears, as he looks for the cause of the abrupt call of his name, Jack sees his friend Ty walking down the path skateboard in hand. 'Oh, hey Ty how are ya?' Jack asks his friend, 'I'm good I'm good, what 'bout chu?' Ty replies. Ty is shorter than Jack by 2 inches, but his hair is naturally white and he has black eyes. 'I'm good, just woke up' Jack answers, after a 10 minute chat they hear 'Hey, it's ying and yang!' it was Jake, another of jacks friends approaching, he's an inch taller than Jack and has dirty-blonde hair and sky-blue eyes. They continue to converse when someone walks past, a blonde haired girl around the same height as Jack, 'she's cute' Jack thinks to himself, and then just as quick as she came she was gone, disappeared into the distance, the bell for first period bringing Jack out of his thoughts and back to reality. They run to class, making it with only seconds to Spare.

First lesson was English, Jack never liked it. The teacher was always boring, teaching the class the way he was taught, Except without a chalkboard. The desks were smooth but underneath lay a forest of chewing gum, the cream walls of the room coupled with the white ceiling making the classroom ever more bland. But none the less he set there, looking through his book for any comments the teacher has made, and doing the work that was set. Of course Jack and Ty would talk, jake was on the other side of the classroom sitting next to a girl that Jack seemed the find familiar... It was the girl from earlier!

the bell rang for second period after what seemed to be an eternity of written work. But all was not lost as jacks favourite lesson was next, maths. Jack hurried to next lesson making it 3rd into the classroom, he sat down waiting for the teacher to say what he thought today's lesson was going to be, and he did. 'Now we're all going to the I.T suite today' the teacher said, the class got up and walked out the classroom and through a door as he waved to jake, and then to Ty. Math was over before and he knew it, it was break time. But no matter how hard he looked he could never seem to find the girl.

The rest of the day goes by with only one thing on jacks mind. Her. He doesn't think of his homework or upcoming exams, only her. His friends explain this phenomenon as love. A normal thing his friends say. But Jack can't help but wonder, what caused him to feel this way? Is it her long blonde hair that reaches down to her lower back? Or her blue eyes, which shimmer and glisten in the light? Whatever it is he didn't know, but he didn't care. He loved her and that was all that mattered to him.

Days had past and the constant butterflies he felt when she walked past were starting to become unbearable. Jack decided that he was going to talk to her. So he Sought her out, and began their friendship. 'Hey, how are you today?' Jack said, 'fine, you' she replied with a voice smooth as silk 'I'm Jack, Jack Blackheart. what's your name?' He asked, it took her a few seconds to reply, but she did 'Lilly, my name is Lilly Moon'

After those words. Jacks world lit up. He saw the world in full colour in stead of the dull grey that had enveloped his world for so many years. After a few days Jack introduced Lilly to his friends 'jake, Ty, this is Lilly, she's my new friend.' Jack said as they entered into the cafeteria.