Isle of flightless birds

2. The kids from yesterday

Gabriel and I decided to go with Romeo and Juliette. When the lesson ended I pack my things and run out of the classroom. I throw my English papers into my locker and then I slam my locker shut I saw that Gabriel's locker was right beside mine and he was staring at me. "So Thea, why don't we start that stupid project now. We can go home to you and get it out of the way. What do you say?" He smirks. "Why not. But we can't go home to me." I lied. I know nobody except for Miriam is home, but I don't want him there. It will be easier to keep him from finding out the truth if he sees my house. "Okay. Do you have a car? It will take a hour to walk, and my brother took mine." He had a brother? How come I didn't know. A year ago I spent so much time with him. He was like my best friend. "Yeah, we can take my car." I said and started to walk outside. I walked up to my car. "Nice car." Gabriel said and walked over to the driver seat. "What are you doing?" I asked. "Well it's my house and you don't know where it is so I'm driving." He explained. "Nobody except for me drives this baby." I said and opened the driver door. "You will guide me." I jumped in and Gabriel sighe and walked around to the other side.

"Take a left here." Gabriel said. "It's that house." He said and pointed to a big house. The house had white walls and a black roof. It had a big garden and at least three stories. It was a little bigger than my house. I pulled up to the driveway and parked in between two fancy Ferraris. I opened the door and jumped out. "So what do you think?" Gabriel asked smirking when he opened the front door of the house. Seriously can he stop smirking? "It's okay." I casually said. "Are you hungry?" Gabriel asked and I nodded. "Maria can you fix something for me and Thea to eat? We will be in my room." Gabriel said high so she would here him. "Of course querido." (An: querido means darling in Spanish) I heard a woman say with a Spanish accent. Gabriel started to walk and I had to jog to keep up with him. While I jogged I looked around. Every wall was white and there was tree floor everywhere except for the stairs which was made of stone. Gabriel's room was on the third floor. When we came up there I was out of breath, so I laid down in the big bed. "That was a work out." I breathed out. "Why don't you get a lift? And how can you do that every day?" I asked still out of breath. "How would we get a lift in here? And it's easy, you have to work out, do you know what that means?" He laughed. "Don't be lasagna." I muttered, I hoped he didn't hear but he looked down at me. "What did you say?" He asked seriously but I could see that he thought it was funny. "Nothing." I laughed. "Tell me." He couldn't hide his smile this time. "My lips are sealed." I put my hands up to my mouth. "Well then I don't have another choice then tickle you." He said with a smirk. "Well go on then." I said but my hands were over my mouth so he couldn't hear. "You have two seconds to take away your hands and tell me what you said or I will tickle you. One... two." He said and started to tickle me. Lucky I'm not ticklish so it didn't have any affect on me. "Your not ticklish?" He said with a smirk. "Then I have to figure out another way." He said and pretended to think. "I have it." He said with a evil smile. Then he took away my hands. This can't be good. Was the only thing I could think before he leaned in closer and kissed me. The I heard a door open. "Sorry querido, I was just leaving some food." The maid Maria said and then she hurried out again. "Tell me what you said or I will kiss you again." Gabriel said pretending that Maria hadn't just seen him kiss me. "Well I don't have another choice then tell you. I don't want you to kiss me again." I muttered. "I said don't be lasagna. Happy now?" I said and he laughed. "Really happy. Food?" He said and offered me a plate with a pizza on. "My favorite." I said and smiled. After we had eaten Gabriel got some papers and pens and then we started the project.

"I'm tired." I said and Gabriel looked at his clock. "There's only fifteen minutes left and the we have worked for three hours. Then we will stop." He said and I rolled my eyes. "Fine. But then you're going to give me chocolate cake." I smiled. "If you stop complaining I will give you two." He said in response. "Deal, but I have to smoke. I haven't smoked in four hours, and that hasn't happened in four years." I said and he sighed. "In that box there's cigarettes and a lighter, give one to me also." He said and pointed to a box beside his bed. "Thank you." I said and lighted two cigarettes. "So why do you think they took their own life's?" Gabriel asks and blows out smoke.