Perfect Strangers

Just a simple morning

{5th January}

6.00 a.m. My phone kept buzzing and wouldn't stop until I pressed the stop button without opening my eyes. But it wouldn't work. I kept pressing stop over and over again, but because the screen was that broken, it didn't take my touches. I opened my eyes and sighted. This was one of the things I've always hated about iPhones. The snooze button was so big but the stop button was a little word somewhere near the home button, and nearly anybody ever pressed it. But I did because I had to get up the first time my alarm clock rang, and not the 4th time. because if you're late for school and you have to get trough the early traffic jams of L.A, well, good luck. I hopped off my bed and went to my closet. I decided to wear a black jeans combined with a golden shimmering top. After I had gotten ready, I did my make up. I never left the house without mascara and eyeliner because nearly everybody looks perfect with a little winged line above their upper eyelid, right? My mom had left for work early and I had already opened the door of the apartment but before stepping out I had to look at the huge mirror in the hall. I looked at myself, my lilac hair fell over my shoulders and the top really fitted me well, just like the black jeans. I was wearing the black nikes I had bought with my mom a few weeks ago. A few weeks ago everything was so different. back then, all I had to think about was Jake and what I was gonna get him for his birthday. But now, I had a cracked heart and phone because of him, got wasted on New Year's Eve, lost my students' ID and got it back from a ridiculously hot guy I have never even seen before. I sighted again, took my coffee to go and left the apartment. I checked my phone messages, but nobody but Maddie texted me. I quickly answered her while I was in the elevator down. I hurried to get to the subway station where I usually get into mine to get to school. It would be the first day of school after the Christmas holidays and I wasn't really  happy to go to school again and having to pretend to care. Or not to care. In the case of Jake and his new chick. I flipped my hair and checked my phone. I was on time, but it took the subway 2 more minutes to arrive, and even though I live in Los Angeles, it can be pretty cold in the morning, which is why I should have brought a jacket. But the subway finally arrived and I hurried to get a good seating. While it started moving again, I closed my eyes for a moment. I opened them again and pictured Adrian in my mind. I had to think of our kiss and in that little moment between the 2 years where nobody really knows what year it is in that one second that changes the hour. But everything seemed so perfect and real. Or maybe it didn't seem perfect because it was real. In that second, I could see the stars in his chocolate brown eyes. Suddenly I felt a really strong need to hop into his arms and hug them really tight. But I would probably never see him again and that's okay. Because whenever I felt really close to someone, all they did was leave and it would have been only a matter of time until he had found someone better, someone prettier than me. Lost in my thoughts, I almost forgot to get out of the subway at my station. A cold wind blew me in the face when I went upstairs. before crossing the street, I looked up at the sky. it was cloudy and windy, maybe it was gonna rain, too. I focused on the street, but the traffic lights were on red which meant that I had to keep waiting. I gazed at the thousands of cars which just wanted to pass this annoying place to finally get to their work, family, breakfast date, whatever. Suddenly the billion lights in front of me faded and I could feel a tear running down my cheekbone. I quickly wiped it away and crossed the street looking up to the huge building in front of me- Beverly Hills High. 

I entered the building and was welcomed by hundreds of people chattering and laughing in that hall. It should have seemed welcoming, right? But deep down, it was an ice cold chattering . You are walking down the hall and you know that all these eyes are on you for a second, and then they start talking about you and your clothes which totally don't fit you and they start laughing about how your hair falls. Welcome to high school. 

But I survived the walk somehow and arrived at my locker. I greeted some people I knew from the classes I took and opened my locker. I got the books I needed for first period- chemistry. God, I hated that subject. I closed the locker again and wanted to check if I had brought my lunch money, which I usually carry around in my back jeans pocket.I slipped my hand into the pocket and felt some weird piece of paper, so I pulled it out. When I realized,  what kind of paper this was, I froze. -Adrian. It was the one Adrian gave me with my ID he found. He touched that paper, too. Just like I did right now. I couldn't hear all the talking and laughing for a moment, instead my mind pictured our kiss at NYE. It was so damn perfect and damn, I missed him. And maybe I had a little crush on. Maybe. But the bell interrupted my thoughts and I had to hurry to get to class.