Cause With No Goal

Alex

 "Wake up sleepy." I hear a voice say. I open my eyes. I wake up to see Diana's face. I get up and rub my eyes. I get dressed and brush my hair. Diana is ready at the same time I am. We wave goodbye to her mom and walk out of the house. "So, are we walking or are we going to take the bus?" I secretly cross my fingers for her to say walk. "Let's walk. I'm sure we both need the exercise." I throw myself a silent party in my head as we walk down to the school.

I walk into the cafeteria and get into the line. Across the cafeteria, I hear loud, obnoxious, laughter. I get out of line to look at what is going on. I see the boy getting pushed around by some of the jocks. I walk over. "Hey leave him alone!" They all look at me and start laughing. "Oh, Geek has a girlfriend?" Brian says. Brian is one of the "popular" kids. He is tall and buff. He has blue eyes and blond hair. Every girl is crazy for him. Except for me. I despise him. He has a big crush on me though. He is always trying to hook up with me. Always flirting. It makes me want to vomit. Most girls envy me for it but really, I envy them. "Oh, it's you sweetcakes. I'm just dealing with this geek over here and I will get right back to you." He starts to turn around and I stop him. "No leave him alone." I say. I try to sound confident but really, I'm scared that he's going to punch my head right off my shoulders. He turns to me and wraps his arms around my hips. "But why? What does someone like him matter to you?" I push away from him. "Just leave him alone okay? All of you." He puts his hands in the air. "Alright, fine." He turned to the boy. "Don't think I'm finished with you. 'Cus I'm not." He says as he walks away. "Yes, you are!" I yell. I turn to the boy. He is already picking up his stuff.

"A-are you okay?" I ask. I can still my face burning from anger. Maybe embarrassment. I don't know. He stared at me. "Oh! Y-yeah! I'm fine." He said finally. "Don't worry about those guys. They're jerks." I told him. I noticed he had food all over his face. "Well, one of them seemed pretty fond of you." he said. I'm not exactly sure, but he looked a little mad when he said that. Jeez I really wish that it wasn't the case. "Oh Brian? Yeah." I looked at him. He looked a little mad. "I hate him. A lot." I added. He looked relieved. Oh boy. Does this mean- no. I'm not going to think about it. I looked at him and remembered all the food that is on his face. I quickly grabbed my napkin and walked over to him to hand it to him. I didn't take one thing into consideration. The food on the floor. Soon, I heard yelling of a familiar voice. Oh no. It was my voice. I opened my eyes and found myself covered in spaghetti. Great. I looked at the boy. He covered his mouth trying not to laugh. I started to laugh. Pretty soon we both were laughing. I got up and handed him the napkin. I realized that the napkin was covered in sauce. We laughed it off.

Me and the boy walked to the nurses' office to get clean clothes from our parents. We were walking in silence and it was really awkward. "So, um, I never did get your name." he asked. "My name is Alexandra. My friends call me Alex." He looked at me. "Okay, Alex." He looked at me for confirmation. I guess he can call me Alex. I smiled at him. "I never got your name." I told him. "My name is Phillip. My friends call me Phil." I looked at him. He laughed. "Well, I like to be called Phil" I smiled. We walked into the nurses' office. The nurse looked at us like we were a couple of ghost that just went dumpster diving. "We um, fell into some food." I said. Phil and I looked at each other and giggled. The nurse raised one of her eyebrows. "Alright then, we will need to call your parents for fresh clothes. You can use the phone over there and you" she pointed at me "can use the phone in the office." I reluctantly walked into the office and called my mom. After we were done calling our parents, we sat next to each other in the office.

As we were talking someone walked into the door. I've seen him around a lot. He's tall, Korean, and hair like an angel. Yes, I like him, so what? We've known each other for a while actually. He looked over and he saw me. "Hey Alex! How- ", he looked at my shirt and pants. "Whoa what happened? Did you fall in the dump outside?" He laughed. I rolled my eyes. "No idiot. It's a long story okay? How about you come over to my place after school and I will tell you what happened?" I said. "I dunno, I'll have to check my calendar..." I raised an eyebrow. He laughed. "I'm just kidding. I will walk you home after school okay?" "Sounds good." He walks out of the office and I look over and Phil. He has a really mad face. "Um... you okay?" He quickly straightened his face out. "Oh yeah I'm fine it's just, I uh... smelled something really bad." I didn't believe him one bit. "Oh." I said.

After school, I walked out with Diana and Philip, or Phil, run up to me. "Hey Alex, are you taking the bus?" He looked over at Diana. "Um... Hi." Diana says. She looks at me with wide eyes. "Phil, this is Diana. Diana, Phil." Diana stared at Phil for a while. "Hello!" Phil says extending his hand. Diana takes it and quickly let's go. I shake my head. "Nice to meet you. I've never seen you around before. A-are you new or..." She asked. "Yeah, but it's a cool school. I've got a really cool friend now." He looks over at me and smiles. I look behind me to mess around. I point to myself and mouthed "me?" Phil laughed. Diana nodded her head and looked down. "Well, sorry to be the party pooper, but the bus is going to leave." "Oh yeah um... I guess I will see you later." Phil said. He waved at Diana and walked away. I tug on Diana's sleeve. "Crush much?" I tease. She looks at me. "No, actually. I don't." Oh. I did not know that. Huh. "Well, let's get on the bus."

When I get home, I start running to my room. "Alex? Is that you?" my mom yells from the kitchen. "Yeah mom I have a lot of homework to do okay? Love you!" I say quickly and slam my door shut. I throw my backpack on the floor in front of the door and flop on my bed. I pull out my phone and go on Snapchat. I quickly text Phil.

Me: "hey phil! btw diana totally likes u"

I send it. Omg should I have sent that? Oh well. What's done is done. I quickly get a reply.

Phil: "U think so?"

I laugh. I think I know that he knows that.

Me: "no I don't think so. I know so lol"

Phil: "how do u know? She told u?"

Me: "No I just guessed"

Phil: ":|"

Me: "lol jk. yes she told me. ur her first crush"

Phil: "rly?"

Me: "yas"

Phil: "cool, well I gotta go. See u l8ter!

Me: "bai!"

I turned my phone off and plugged it in. Low battery. I run down stairs and went into the kitchen. My mom doesn't hear me because she has the water running for the dishes. I stare at her. Seeing her alone, I remember my father. I usually forget about him. My mom divorced him when I was six. My mother always told me I looked exactly like him. Brown hair, brown eyes, light skin, but not too dark. I'm Latino just like my dad.

I go towards my mom and hug her from behind. She turns around and starts to sob into my shoulder. I pull her up by her shoulders. "What's the matter?" I ask worried. My mom never cries. She is the toughest person I know. "Your papa. H-he" she doesn't finish her sentence and starts to sob into my shoulder. Oh no. I really hope it isn't what I think it is. I start to tear up. "He what mama?" I ask, trying not to let my voice crack. "H-he's gone Alexandra! He's gone!" She starts to cry even more.

She moves back over to the dishes, still crying. I walk up to my room. I... don't feel anything. I sit on my bed and just stare at the wall. I pick up the picture that is on the dresser. I stare at the picture and examine it. It's a picture of my mother and father and I at Disneyland when I was five. We were so happy. I feel a burning tear go down my cheek. I lay down on back, holding the picture to my chest, close my eyes, and cry.

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~Hev <3