Closeted ASF

Isabella (Preview)

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"Isabella!" I peak my head out of my room to see my mom down stairs. She taps her watch impatiently, " We're going to be late for your French lessons. You know Mademoiselle Thomas doesn't tolerate lateness."

"Yes mom." I put away my stuff animals and quickly grab my bag. I make sure all my French papers were inside or else Laura would get mad. Oh wait Mademoiselle Thomas. Mom doesn't like me calling Laura by her first name.

I run down stairs but stop to pet Honey. Honey is our big fat cat that dad found outside. She's super cute and enjoys laying on the stairs. It funny when my dad is walking down the stairs and accidentally drops his books because Honey always surprises him.

My mom opens my bag and places a brown paper bag inside. It always contained a delicious sandwich and some barbecue potato crisps (the healthy kind.) Also a cute little orange.

My dad is always at work when I leave for my French lessons so I never get to see him until I get back. It sucks having lessons during the summer since I rather spend it with Paris. This interferes with the time I spend with her as well.

We walk out and I turn to see Paris getting out of her mom's car. A smile finds its way to my face whenever I see her. We've been friends since 1st grade and I'm glad I met her. Her mom gets out as well and proceeds to carry some large boxes over to her doorstep. Meanwhile Paris helps Jamie out of the car.

Jamie is Paris' younger brother and he's a total opposite from Paris. I think he's a year younger than Paris and I, not too sure. You actually wouldn't think that they're related to each other since they look nothing alike. He's a bit more lighter than she is and has these dark blue eyes. I would say that he's quite cute but Paris is cuter.

Paris then turns around and makes eye contact with me, a smile reaches her face. "Hey Isabella!" She waves her hand, " You have lessons today?"

"Yeah! We have to be there in a couple of minutes." I wave back to her but with both of my hands

Paris' mom notice us yelling across from each and joins in, "Hey Izzy! Hey Jenny! You guys going to lessons?"

My mom turns to Ms. Martinez and smiles,       " Yes, we're running a little late but I can't seem to find my keys in my purse." During this whole time my mom has been frantically trying to find her keys. She's usually always prepared but I guess today she forgot where she placed them.

"If you want I can drive you over there. Just have to put these boxes in the house and we'll hit the road." Ms. Martinez unlocks the door and quickly places the boxes inside.

We all hope in the car, "Everyone have their seat belts on?" We all nod towards Ms. Martinez, " Okay, lets roll out!"

She drives out of her driveway and ask my mom for the directions to the lessons. As they continue talking I turn towards Paris, " I didn't expect that I would get to see you before my lessons today."

She smiles, " Yeah luckily my ma came because she was taking so long picking up her items." She rolls her eyes then giggles.

"Hey I'm trying to beat Bowser right now so shush." Jamie chimes in keeping her eyes glue to his game boy.

"Sorry little bro but you don't know how much of a miracle this is." Paris sticks her tongue out at him

"Then get a room." He returns the gesture and resumes his game.

Paris scoffs but turns her attention back to me, "So, what do you learn in your French lessons?"

I think for a moment, " Just the basics phrases and some numbers and colors."

Paris eyes light up. The one thing I know that Paris loves is languages. Her dream to at least learn 5. So far, she knows English and Spanish (Her mom knows some Korean but not enough to teach her yet)

"Can you teach me a phrase?" She smiles and waits in anticipation. I can't say no to her so I think of one.

"Je t'aime." My cheeks feel hot once the word left my mouth.

"Je ten?" I laugh but correct her. After a couple of attempts and a lot of giggles she finally gets it.

"Je t'aime," she smiles feel satisfied to learn a new word from a different language, "so what does it mean?" I blink

"Uh... umm it means I like pizza." I smile nervously. She clearly bought it and I changed the subject.

"Hey mom can I have some gum?" My mom continues talking to Ms. Martinez not breaking eye contact and passes me her bag.

"Don't make a mess in there, I have it all organized." I nod and look for the green packet of gum she always carries around. As I look through I see my mom's keys. I thought she said she couldn't find them in her bag? I look up to see her laughing along with Ms. Martinez with her cheeks being a little pink.

Is she sick? I decide not to say anything and take out a stick of gum. I take another two out, passing one to Paris and the another one to Jamie. We continue the trip talking and laughing.

We arrive to the building that is used to hold special events like Christmas parties and other huge holidays. When it's not in use for that, they hold classes for French and Spanish. There's other things they use it for but I don't know the exact details.

I grab my bag and hug Paris, "I see you later, okay?" Paris gives me a warm smile then sticks her right hand up

"One high-five before you go?" I lift my right hand and high-five her. We laugh and I give my mom a kiss in the cheek.

"I'll pick you up later and be nice to the teacher. Also eat your lunch and take care of yourself. Learn a lot, okay?" I nod.

I get out of the car and wave everyone goodbye, "I love you, Bella!" My mom sends me a kiss and I catch it.

I smile and walk in the building receiving a greeting from everyone.

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French lessons is a pain. Sometimes the French accent gets me since I have a slight British one due to my mom being from England. It's very tiny but it comes out when I say certain words. Paris finds it cool to have a British speaking mom due to the fact that "all" spies have one.

I arrive home tired and exhausted from all the learning I did. Suddenly there's a knock at the door. I walk over wondering who could it be, maybe it Mrs. Smith asking for sugar again. I open it and see Paris carrying a box.

"Hey! I thought you would like to check out some books my mom brought me." She wiggles the box around making a slight thump noise.

"Yeah totally!" I let her enter and we walk up the flight of stairs towards my room. Once again, stopping by to pet Honey.

We enter and open the box to reveal a various amount of books. Before we could grab one, a light knock feels the room.

"Bella I'm going over to Mrs. Martinez house, be on your best behavior," she freaks over the door a little more and sees that Paris is here as well, "Hello Paris, you can stay over if you like."

We cheer, "Bye mom, come back before 10." She chuckles, "Well do. Bye girls." then she disappears.

I smile at her and turn towards Paris, "You know what this calls for?"

"Movie night!" We laugh and get things prepared, this gonna be awesome.

Hey it's me again! Hope you enjoyed these two previews, I'll try to get chapter one out there. Thanks for reading, see ya at the next chapter!