MYSTERIOUS BOY ⇄ NICK MARA & EDWIN HONORET

002 | the party

it's the first day of school and i was waiting by my locker for tiff. our hallway was pretty big and crowded, the lockers are big and matt blue. i sigh as i feel somebody over my shoulder.

"ari!" i yell out and hug her as she responds to my hug. her face is full with excitement, i could tell. how can you be excited for school?

"i know my brothers an asshole rey.. but could you please just try to be sweet with him even though he's an ass.." she says to me with a soft voice, i roll my eyes. "why me? out of ALL people" i close my blue locker and turn around and see tiff, i wave at her and she walks to us.

"he couldn't stop talking about you" she say to me and i freeze for a second. what does she mean by that?

"did he say bad stuff"

"actually.. no" she replies smiling at me and i furrow my eyebrows. why would he talk about me in the first place? tiff hugs me and ari and we check our schedules.

i sigh because i don't have a lot of classes with them, i got english and spanish with them, all us three. then psychology with tiff and history with ari. i wonder what classes i have with char?

i bring up my iphone 7 and check the clock. it's 8:25 and i start at 8:20. i freeze and run away.

"i started 5 mins ago oh my god sorry bye!" i say to them and keep running to the second floor. i finally reach the classroom and i am out of breath when i get there.

"i'm.. so sorry.." i say while trying my best to breathe. i cough in between. ms. cooper shows me where to sit, there was one seat left and it happened to be next to nick.. why.. i say to myself.

there i was, stinking and soaked in my sweaty armpits next to nick.. i hope he doesn't notice the smell.

ms cooper said we were going to continue working in the book, we have math. 10 minutes passes and nick ruins my concentration by slamming on the table as he looks frustratingly on the book. the second i was going to be rude ari's voice replayed in my head. to be nice.

"i assume u need help with 337? y1 = 6 y2 = 4 and x1 = 1 and x2 = 4. and you know that the formula is dy/dx so it's y1-y2/x1-x2. which you redo into 6-4/1-4 = 2/-3 and then just do it on the calculator." he seems confused but nods as he looks in my eyes. i smile at him and go back to work.

"thank you" he whispers in my ears and it causes me to shiver, i look tensely at him as he looks at me. his soft voice.. i've never heard it before.

"you welcome" i smile at him as i look at his lips that turned into a smile, covering his face. i go back to working in my book but it doesn't go well because i can't get his smile out of my head. his not much of a talker which annoyed me a lot but.. my thoughts were interrupted by mrs. cooper.

"CLASS DISMISSED"

we stand up and i take a step before i turn around to look at nick.

"you've got somebody to be with right?" i ask nick as he slowly walks away as he ignores my question. why isn't he talking to me? i'm usually the bitchy girl and i've tried with him, he just pisses me off. it's just too annoying to put up with people who don't say anything.

"i cant fucking put up with you, don't talk to me you dumbass. i literally helped u even though you had a fight with my b-" he interrupts me. he doesn't really say anything, he walks towards me and i walk backwards and feel the wall touching my back. he was close, really close. i feel his breath that smells like strawberry, a taste i admired.

"you'll have to put up with me since i'll be hanging out with your group" he chuckles and my breaths were getting heavier. "i.." i stutter, nothing is coming out of my lips. we were standing there for a few seconds.