Love At its Best

Chapter two

2

I walk into the room marked 220 and I immediately regretted staying with Haile for that long. Everyone in that class was staring at me including the teacher. There weren’t that many people in the classroom, maybe 15 or 16 at the most. This shocked me because in Texas in every class there were 20 or 25 kids in each class. I looked around and found an empty seat in the back of the classroom next to a cute looking guy quietly studying. He was the only one not looking at me. I walked slowly to the back and sat down, placing my bag on the back of the chair. “And you must me Kylie Hudson.” The teacher in the front said to me. This made the quiet guy look up and look around before realizing the new girl was sitting right next to him. I nodded my head and looked around. “Well welcome my name is Mr. Jones, I’ll be your U.S History teacher this year.” I sort of did an awkward wave toward him and smiled. “Why don’t you tell the class about yourself.” I dreaded this part of moving. It was always the same.

“I’m from Texas. My mom made us move and I have a sister and my dad and mom at home. No pets.”  Every time I said this part my throat closed up. I don’t know why but it always made sense to me to not tell everyone what happened; obviously. So I didn’t ever mention him. Just like always everyone would gawk at me and few would laugh. Then there were, “Really?!” or “Did you ride horses to school?” things like that that would annoy me.

After about 15 minutes I had everyone’s questions answered and I got my assignment assigned; due in three days. Of course there was homework right away and I expected that too. I flipped my book to a random page and pretended to read. “Hi.” I looked over and saw the cute guy whispering to me. “Uh, Hi.” I said. “Your name is Kylie right?” he asked smiling. I almost forgot to breathe for a second. His smile was so gorgeous and made his face light up. His teeth glistened even in the dimmed lighting of the room.  It took a second to compose myself and in my stupidity just nodded. Gah! Why was I so awkward? And why was this cute guy talking to me I wasn’t even that cute. Every day that I looked in the mirror I seemed bored with my stick straight black hair and blue eyes. I didn’t wear that much make-up. I didn’t need to, my eyelashes were already dark enough and my complexion also dark. Then again it was because I lived in Texas and it was almost always sunny and I almost always had a tan. I wondered if I’d lose it because I moved to this nowhere town. “Well Hi, I’m Matt.” He said, smiling again. This time he stuck his hand out for me to shake. I put my arm out and shook his hand. It was rough and callused, he had a strong grip and for no reason at all I wondered what his hugs were like. I shook that thought out of my mind quickly thinking I was acting ridiculous. “Hi.” I didn’t know what else to say so I thought of something quickly and made it seem, normal.  “So it doesn’t look like you’re too into this assignment.” What?! I didn’t know where my train of thought went but I was really about to slap myself. “Actually, I am kind of into it. Other than the research I really don’t mind writing.” He said. His voice was low and in a way it sounded a little mysterious. “Oh, Well I don’t like research either although I like writing I’m not very good at it.” I said. After I started lighting up I realized Matt was easy to talk to.

We went on talking like that the whole period and he even showed me to my next class. Which I thought was really cute. “Hey all juniors have the same lunch maybe I’ll see you there?” he asked. I nodded my head and smiled. “Maybe I will.” He walked off and I watched him go. When I couldn’t see him anymore I walked into my class and once again sat in the back of the room, although this time there wasn’t a cute quiet guy there. The same routine happened like first hour had the rest of the classes before lunch and by fourth period I was worn out. But I met Haile where she told me to and we walked to lunch together.

“Guys, Listen to me, this is Kylie. She’s new from Texas!” she put a big emphasis on the word and of course, like all the other people in my classes they gawked at me and whispered to each other. I looked around the table and spotted some girls that were in my other classes. I smiled at some of them and they respected that I already answered all their questions so they didn’t press me too much. After some of the girls kept asking questions and Haile kept answering them for me I just zoned out and let her do the talking for me. While Haile was rambling on about horses and Texas I let my mind wander to Matt. Crazy I know but, hey, he was cute! His Dirty blonde hair almost always looked wind swept and gorgeous and I didn’t realize until he was walking with me how tall he was. He was about a half a foot taller than me. That was cute, I liked tall guys. The way he looked at me made me melt and I couldn’t help but wonder if he looked at everyone like that. I shook the thought off considering. Then there was his smile that was so breathtaking. The only thing that made me stop thinking about it was the fact that I heard a girl named Macy whisper-yell across the table. “Girls, Matts on his way over here at this very second.” Even though we were juniors in high school she made it sound like we were back in grade school. I didn’t want to make it seem to obvious that he was coming so I didn’t look up, even though all the girls were already gawking at him and his gorgeous self.

That walk from across the lunch room to my table seemed to go on forever. I knew Matt was coming to talk to me; at least that’s what I hoped anyways. “Hey Macy.” He said flashing that beautiful smile. I knew he did that just because he saw her gawking and did it just to mess with her. She was trying to compose herself but failed. He tried to hide his laugh but couldn’t but as quick as the laugh flashed across his face, it was gone. I figured I was the only one who saw it. I smiled slightly to myself but Matt caught it. “Well, we meet again miss. Kylie.” He said playfully. I smiled again only bigger this time. “Well, I suppose we do Mr. Matt.” He smiled too. He tried to squeeze between me and Haile before she realized what he was doing and forced the girls to scoot down; watching in awe as this unfolded before them. “How was the first part of your day?” he asked, sincerely. I blushed, “It was basically all the same, questioning me and laughing at my responses.” I laughed slightly. “But I met a few people so that’s good.” I smiled. “That sounds so fun I can barely even contain my jealousy.” I laughed and nodded. “I know, it’s crazy.” After that Matt invited me to join him outside for a walk before I had to come back in and “meet new people” as he put it. I apologized to Haile and waved bye to the rest of the girls and left with Matt at my side.

“So, Texas huh?” he asked. I nodded and sighed. “My mom made me move here after we were going through some….stuff.” I paused when I said that and I could see him look at me. He noticed my hesitance. It took him a second to reply. “Well, It’s really nice here the people are so friendly and they welcome you, just after they get to know you of course.” I nodded, I was now in the “depressed” state and I knew it would take a lot to get out of it. “Well that’s good; I can’t wait to get to know everyone.”  I put as much positivity into that sentence as I could but even after that not even I could believe it.