The Duet

Chapter 10: A Lot Like Christmas

The next Friday, Chase was walking down the path to school when he found Alicia walking ahead of him. He sprinted to meet her.

"Hey, Alicia." Chase said as he tapped her shoulder.

"Hi." Alicia mindlessly responded.

"Great time we had last Friday." Chase acknowledged shyly. "Maybe we can hang out more sometime."

With a rapid change of character, Alicia blushed, yet continued ignored him. They continued to walk in silence. Suddenly, she grabbed Chase's hand.

"Huh?"

"We're going to be late, idiot." Alicia said. She began to pick up speed at drastic rates.

"Let go!" Chase yelled as he flailed about. "I can't run this fast!"

"Well, scrambling around won't help!" Alicia responded with a hint of embarrassment, not bothering to look back.

They barely made it to school, however the struggle of Alicia tugging Chase to school and refusing to let go difficult. It had reached the point where, Alicia dragged a drained Chase across the floor through the school's entrance. They bursted into their homeroom, right as the bell rang.

"You're welcome." Alicia panted as she sat down

"You just dragged me around for a mile." Chase breathlessly commented.

"No need to thank me."

Homeroom flashed by with a couple of announcements.

"Class, we have winter break starting tomorrow. I hope you use this time to study for the finals that you will be having when you come back. Also we have an concert that will be performed by our one and only school band. I hope you all come to support the band"

The whole class groaned, as Chase looked at them offended. Before Chase could throttle them, the bell rang once more. As Chase started walking to the next class, Alicia caught him by the collar.

"Gah!!!" exclaimed Chase. "What are you doing?"

"You are suppose to go to band next!" retorted Alicia.

"Wait aren't we supposed to go to-"

"It's a rotating schedule, dummy"

She spun him around and started carting him the other way. They arrived sooner or later to the band room.

"Hello!" Mr. Joe called, jumping off his desk. He dusted himself off. "Man, I love doing that."

"Hi, Mr. Joe." Alicia and Chase both replied.

"Well, today, we are going to have a study hall period!" Mr. Joe announced. "Well, you guys are the first kids to come, so take a seat."

Several kids started to file in. Carson and Fleur sat next to Chase and Alicia.

"It's been a while," Chase said as he shook Carson's hand.

"Yes, it has," Carson replied.

"I've saw Eliana's instagram post. Amour sincère." Fleur commented in her French accent..

"What does that mean?" thought Chase.

As if she could read his mind, Fleur shrugged and walked away. When she was out of hearing range, Carson got closer to Chase and Alicia.

"Can I tell you guys something?" Carson asked.

"Yeah, sure!" Alicia said.

"I mean it had been not that long since I last saw you guys." started Carson, " I was planning to tell you early, but it sucked when the school split the band by grade."