Thus with a kiss.

chapter 2.

The weekend was most definitely my favourite part of the week. A whole two days of sitting in my room reading and listening to music was exactly what I needed, I wasn’t really one for going out and getting so completely shit faced I couldn’t remember the night before. I would occasionally go to a party but they mostly consisted of me having to pretend I was enjoying myself while my ‘friends’ hooked up with random guys, which was not my idea of fun.

Our English home work for the weekend was to read the first act of Romeo and Juliet which I most definitely was not going to do. I had vaguely studied it before I mean I knew what happened, well most of the world did thanks to the stupid prologue. Why would you put so much time and effort into writing a drama to just give the whole story line and plot away in the first page? Like I said Shakespeare was mad.

As much as I didn’t want to even think about the stupid play, Calums words were blocking my other thoughts, for some reason I couldn’t wait to see him so I could argue my point of how ridiculous himself and Shakespeare were.

For a moment I even found myself thinking about his deep brown eyes. Once again my subconscious slapped me in the face. Why was I even thinking about him he was probably a dick, I mean most of the girls in school were already throwing themselves at him and I sure as hell was not going to be one of them.

The weekend pasted way too quick for me to be happy with. I contemplated pretending to be sick so I could stay at home but I changed my mind when I heard my parents shouting at each other. They had been doing that a lot lately, I didn’t like getting involved in my parent’s arguments but I felt like they were keeping something from me. I made a mental note to question them on it later.

I poured some coffee in a disposable cup and headed outside. The only good thing about being seventeen was the fact that I finally had my own car so I could drive myself to school. I had an old ford of somesort, I wasn't really into cars but i know it took me two years to save up for. It was a small, four door with more scratchs than you could count but it got me from place to place and on the plus side it was blue which happens to be my favourite colour.  I had my radio on full blast to try and wake myself up for the long, antagonising day ahead. I got to school with about two minutes to spare, I headed straight to my first class and watched as the day pasted painfully slowly. My last class before lunch was English, which I was not looking forward to. Ms. Clark walked in just after the bell rang and instructed us to take out our copies of Romeo and Juliet. A tired whine formed around the room but Ms ignored it. I turned around to see Calum in the same seat he had been in on Friday, he caught my eye and shot me a quick smile. At the end of class I decided against talking to Calum and went straight to the lunch room with Skylar, we sat in our normal seats. The food in school was never great but it was better than nothing. Thankfully the lunch lady had done mini pizzas today which my Monday slightly less torturing.  

As we were leaving the lunch room I heard someone say my name, “Hey Ebony,” I heard a male voice say from behind me, I knew exactly who’s voice this was. I turned around to see a smiling Calum. His hair was messy but it looked good, he was wearing black, tight jeans with subtle rips on the front of them, they were rolled up slightly at the bottom, just enough to show his ankles. He had a pair of plain black vans on and a basic white t-shirt. He was also wearing a black leather jacket and his left wrist was covered in random bracelets. His style was plain but he still looked extremely attractive. “Hey” I replied. “What do you think of Romeo and Juliet?” he questioned. I smiled knowing he wasn’t going to like my response, “well I kind of hate it to be honest,” I laughed slightly at the look on his face. “What!” he almost shouted. I hadn’t realised where we had been walking but we ended up at the small, red couches at the end of the corridor, he sat down and motioned for me to do the same. “The concept is absolutely ridiculous. People are to self-involved to ever be so in love with someone that they would be willing to die for them. I mean it’s cute and romantic and all that shit but it’s also highly unrealistic. And aren’t they like fourteen? Who gets married at fourteen! Yeah it’s well written and the literature is impeccable but I’ll always believe that Shakespeare was mad.” I hadn’t realised I was rambling until Calums laugh put me off my train of thought.  “That’s the beauty of it, the man was mad but wrote like a genius. Plus it doesn’t have to be realistic, you should just allow yourself to get lost in the story, fall in love with the characters and feel the pain that they’re feeling.” Just as I was about defend my side the bell for end of lunch rang, “we’ll finish this tomorrow Ebony Brown,” Calum said with smug grin on his lips. I nodded and smiled in reply.

 I met Skylar again in French for last class. “Who was that you were talking to at lunch?” she questioned me with a small grin forming on her face. “Just this guy from my English class,” I replied blankly. “Oh yeah just some guy! He’s absolutely gorgeous Ebony,” she exclaimed as her grin grew larger. I rolled my eyes in reply as the teacher walked in.

When I got home I went straight to my room and reluctantly look out my copy of Romeo and Juliet. As much as I didn’t want to read it I also wasn’t really in the mood to get told off for not having my homework done. I mean I wasn’t a nerd or anything but I’d rather not draw any attention to myself for not having it done, even though I probably wouldn’t be the only one.

I didn’t know how or why but almost an hour had passed and I was still reading this stupid play, I was trying to get lost in it like Calum had said. I put the small book down with a small huff and began my math homework.

 A/N

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