My Oh so Iridescent Life

Chapter 3

Turns out Alex and I live close to each other and so we walked home together. He looked particularly happy while I was not, the last thing I wanted was to be stuck with one of Claire's boys. They only ever talked to me because they wanted to get closer to Claire. 

Alex: The name's Jane right?

"Yeah.."

Alex: So how long have you been friends with Claire? You guys seem really close.

I tell him since the beginning of high school so I guess three years and I secretly think, I knew it, he is already asking about Claire.

Alex: So does Claire cheat her way through school or are you just secretly a great tutor and she gets all the credit for it and he just smirks at me.

Jane: Uh no and no. Claire works hard to get her grades and I am a C- average student so there is absolutely no way I could tutor an A+ student.

Alex: Oh guess I was mistaken, it is just that whenever I see you, you are never talking to anyone during class and you are so focused on your work.

I tell myself its because I have no friends so I have no choice but to do the work.

Jane: Oh that is just cause I try to finish all the work during class so I don't have to take it home.

... wait, whenever he sees me? I'm doing the work? The only class I have with him is maths, and I barely do any work there.

Do I have any other classes besides maths with you?

He tells me that he is in my publishing class and I apologise to him for not noticing earlier. He takes out his phone and plugs in his earphones. I start to believe that he is a rude person, like who just does that. He hits play on his music and the song comes blasting through the earpones, its a rnb song by Mika yo. My eyes come to disbelief and he sees it. "What" he asks me? 

Jane: You listen to Mika yo?

Alex: Yeah she is my favourite singer.

Jane: ... as if.

He laughs and asks why I'm so shocked.

Jane: That is so weird she is my favourite singer too, and I have never met anyone who knows her.

Alex: Yeah I know what you mean, I can never talk about her to Jake cause he doesn't get her on the same level I do.

We spend the rest of the walk talking about her and discussing what our favourite album is by her and what song we personally thought was the best. The next thing I knew we were on my street and I told him that my house was already here and so he waited for me to get inside the house before he left because he wanted to make sure that I was safe. Oh gosh I wish he left because my mother opened the door and saw him and invited him to come inside and have dinner with us.