He stood there, Joe was facing the other way talking to Alex, I just stared at the back of his head like an idiot, Alex saw me and said something to him, and he turned and looked at me. I quickly looked away letting my hair fall in front of my face, I started to blush, I looked at him through the corner of my eye and saw him smiling, he turned back to talk to Alex. My friend Shannon walked in at that moment.
“Paige! Hey!” She yelled
I looked up, “Hi Shannon”
“did you do your science homework?” She asked starting to search through my bag
“No I forgot, you too?”
“Yup” she said popping the ‘p’ as if she were proud of it “Oi Joe. Did you do your science homework?”
He turned at looked at us from the other side of the room, I could feel myself blushing. Why am I doing this? “Yea I did” he said
“Give us it here” she said. Man she could be rude
He took it out his bag and threw it at up, Shannon started copying down the answers.
The bell rung and kids walked in and sat down, Joe and Alex went and sat down too, I was forced to sit at the back by Shannon, I watched Joe talk
“Paige?”
“mhhm” I sighed in a daydream
“Paige?” she said once more “Why are you acting different today?”
Shannon was my best friend, we had been friends ever since we were 2. I hate keeping secrets from her, well I never did but this, this was different. I was feeling different. Did I have feelings for Joe now? I can’t! but maybe I do. I couldn’t tell Shannon unless I was sure I like Joe. God those words don’t suit
“uh i-I didn’t s-sleep very well” I lied
“Ok” she smiled believing every word
“Good morning everyone” Miss Connor said coming into the class, groans and moans were heard from the students. The teacher took the roll, and talked to us about stuff we were doing today, I was watching birds bounce around outside the window, when I was interrupted by the teacher
“Paige, were you listening to what I just said?”
“No miss, I’m sorry” I sighed
“I said pick groups to get into for this next task, but now you wrecked that trust of doing that so I will put you in groups” She had her hands on her hips and the class was watching me “Alex, Liam and Kelly, group one. Joe, Daniel and Paige, group two”
I felt butterflies rise in my tummy.
Miss listed off the rest of the class into groups of three “Group one and two go and sort out your method outside”
I got up and walked outside, Joe and Daniel were already out there
“Are you in our group?” Sam said
I nodded
“Yay” Joe said
“What?” I said
“I’m just glad we didn’t get stuck with a dumb girl” He said
I smiled “Um I wasn’t really listening to the teacher, what are we meant to be doing?”
“doing experiments” Said Daniel
“Cool, what types”
“Um, miss is going to give us one and we need to do it and she judges us on it, then we get another. I think” He replied
"Oh, ok"
The teacher soon came out and give us a task, our task was to all work together and pick up a whole bunch of stuff outside and look at it under a microscope then draw the cells, and label them, it wasn’t very fun but we had to do it.
“Paige and Joe get leaves, grass that stuff, I will get slides, cover slips iodine and a microscope” Daniel ordered us
I get up and walked to the field, Joe followed me, I bent down to pick some good pieces of grass. Joe went and got leaves, all different shapes and sizes, I picked flower petals and Joe got three feathers.
“This is good for now” Joe said I nodded trying to avoid his gaze
Daniel had all the stuff ready
We started to prepare them, we were all talking while we did this, after a little while my phone started to ring in my pocket, it’s volume was on loud, I pulled out my phone and saw it was my friend Kate, I answered
“Kate, why are you ringing me? I am in class”
“I know, I know it’s just-”
She was cut off by someone grabbing my phone, I looked up. It was the teacher.
“What do you think you are doing! Look your group is working hard and you are sitting here having a nice gossip. No I don’t think so! You are not getting this back until Friday (By the way it’s Monday)
“Miss! No!” I yelled a little too loud
“Paige! Do not speak to me like that! Ok that’s fine, it will go to the Deans and you can get it on Friday and explain to them why it was taken!”
I hung my head low, scared and ashamed to say anymore.
The bell rung later on, meaning time for English. GREAT, last week My social studies teacher moved me to Shannon’s table, In Shannon’s table sat Alex and JOE!!!
‘why am I getting so excited over him!? Do I like him? No no no no! I don’t! I can’t!’ I thought
In English we watched a movie taking up the whole lesson, I watched Joe pull staples out of the wall most the time.
At lunch I went and sat by my friends, we talked and talked, Joe came in near the end of lunch
“Paige?”
“Y-yea?”
“Here” I held out his hand in it was my phone, I jumped up and down, I took it from him
“Thank you SO SO SO much Joe. How did you get it?”
“Just told Miss it was mine, and you had to call your mum”
“Aww thank you”
“It’s ok, uh Paige-”
He was cut off by Alex coming in and calling his name “Joe! Where have you been!?” he came over to us and glared at me. He used to like me but about a week or two ago he started acting like he didn’t want me around, it’s like he knows something I don’t. He pulled Joe away from me. They walked out the room.
That night I lay in bed, shadows danced across my bedroom walls, I was thinking what this day meant, did I like Joe? And what’s Alex's problem? I fell asleep thinking of them.
When I woke up I went and saw my mum.
“Paige, I have something to tell you”
I gave her a concerned look
“I have been seeing this guy” I sighed, “No Paige, please down sigh about it, he is really nice, and he is coming over for tea tonight”
Do you like it?
I know its horriable. :{
