Once in Forever

Chapter 2

"I heard what you and Devon did last night."

Miller scared the crap out of me.

"What do you mean? We only studied." I was worried that he was going to be mad at me and was going to yell at me.

"No, you made out with him and now you two are a couple!"

"How'd you find out about that?"

"Devon told me. He asked me what kind of flowers you liked and I said black ones."

"Why did you say black ones? Really! Why can't you just be happy for me for once in your life?" I have never yelled at anyone but I just didn't understand why Miller was being a jerk. I walked away and Devon caught me from behind and turned me round and kissed me with a fellow good morning feeling.

"Hey," I said.

"I got you this." He pulled out from behind him a pale pink rose and handed it to me. "It means Grace, as in your name, and joy, as in what a joyful night we had last night and all the nights to come."

The rose was beautiful and I had never had a boy give me one before."I love it. Thank you."

"So," he remarked. "How are we going to act around each other?"

"What do you mean?"

"Are we going to act in love? Scared of each other? Seperative? What do you think?"

I thought about it for a few seconds. "Well, since we have our arms around each other and just kissed each other in the halls...I guess we have to go with in love!" I smiled and looked up to him.

"Okay, then it is in love! I have to go to my first period. See you in third period babe."

He hugged me and walked away. I have never had anyone call me 'babe' before but I didn't mind it at all. I got to my first period and Miller was already sitting at my table with his head in his chemistry book. I sat down quietly and didn't say a word to him.

He looked at me and said, "I'm sorry. You're right, I need to be happy for you because you're always happy for me."

I looked at him and smiled out of the corner of my lips. I didn't really care anymore after having whatever had happened in the hallway just before.

"It's fine." I said as I looked down at the table.

"Sit your butts down in the chair." Said Mr.Zoom.

Mr.Zoom was one of the oldest and meanest chemistry teachers in the school but he was such a good one that no one dropped out because they would fail in any other class. "It is time to start and today we are taking a quiz."

The quiz was just about the elements on the Table of Elements and I got all the questions correct. Miller also did too. We did a few problems on the board and then the class bell rang. I got up and walked out of the classroom with Miller on my tail.

"Look Grace, I get that you're mad at me, but you can't just ignore me all day."

I turned around and looked at him but then continued to walk away. He grunted and saw the clock and quickly went to his second period.

I felt like if Miller didn't like me having a boyfriend then why should I care about him anymore? I got to my second period and i took a test for Algebra 2 and I think that I failed, or in other words got a 'B'. My parents are very strict about grades and I have been hard on myself too. The bell rang and I walked out in the hallway and got to my third period. Miller was sitting by Ellie and Devon was sitting at the table waiting for me. I thought that maybe I should get Miller a little more mad than he was before, so I walked over with sass to Devon and kissed him on the lips and sat down.