Everything Has Changed

Chapter Thirty Two: Exposed

Chapter Thirty Two: Exposed

I spent the entire weekend applying for college and studying. I had about two hours of a break with Danny where I painted on him, and then we went right back to work.

I was up until two in the morning memorizing everything I can about my Trigonometry test today. I can use the art one on my test so I'm not that concerned about it.

What I'm concerned about it how much I'll never see Danny today.

Danny and I are annoyed because we aren't exempting, so we made a pact to only miss two days next semester so we can exempt.

If I get Ebola, I'm going to school anyways.

My Dad is right and I've really let him down lately, so I'm going to try my best to make it up to him.

I walk down the hall with my art study guide in hand, studying it anyways because what if my teacher decides I can't use it?

As I walk, I slam into somebody. My eyes snap up from my paper to the person

Ian Wilson.

"Hey cutie."

"I'm in a relationship." I say shortly, walking away from him.

After a few more seconds, I bump into somebody else.

My eyes snap up, annoyed, but when they meet familiar brown eyes, I calm down.

"What did Ian want?" Danny asks, looking over my head to glare at him.

"I don't know. He called me cutie and I told him I'm in a relationship." I look back down at my study guide.

I see him roll his eyes at Ian's back and then he looks down at me and smiles, snapping out of his territorial manly thing.

"You need to relax before you combust." He says, rubbing his hands up and down my arms.

"That's not possible. I'll relax Friday afternoon when the bell rings."

The warning bell signaling we have a few more minutes to get to class rings.

I lean in and kiss his lips.

"I'll see you at lunch."

"Okay." He pouts, backing up towards his classroom door. He was stopped at my door.

I turn to go into my room, but he darts back towards me to steal another kiss, and then he slips into his classroom door.

I love him so much.

*****

After the written exam, our teacher took them away and told us to use the supplies to draw our favorite thing about earth and nothing made by humans can be in the picture.

I was going to do the rain but I figured it would be hard.

And then I thought about sitting under that tree in the cool air with Danny.

I think it's because since he kissed me, all I can think about is touching him and kissing him.

I'm obsessed with him.

And then I thought about a creek that ran behind Danny's house in Maryland and we used to play in it and jump from the tree into the river.

So I painted that, moving as quickly as possible. I mixed colors quickly and had to stand up to do it, getting the right shades of everything.

I was putting the last dab of paint on my painting when the bell rang.

Now I'm walking to lunch with my hands coated in paint, picking at the dry spots.