The Long Road Less Taken

Chapter 10

I was standing at my locker waiting for Jonathan. I was wondering if he would show up, or maybe he was waiting at his locker for me, or maybe he has already headed home because he had forgotten about the project. 

"Wow I worry too much..." I thought to myself as I was shaking my head. I closed my locker and made up my mind to go over to his locker to see if he was waiting. As I was starting to walk I herd someone say,

"Hey Vikki wait up!" I could tell it was Jonathan's voice.

"Hey where have you been?" I ask.

"Sorry the teacher kept us a couple minutes late and I got caught at the back of the class waiting for everyone to get out so I wouldn't get stampeded. If you know what I mean."

"Oh yeah."

"I just need to get my stuff from my locker and I'm ready."

"Okay I'll be at Lexi's locker." Her locker was just a few lockers down from his so it wouldn't be hard for him to find me.

"Alright." Then we start to walk. Once Lexi sees me I walk over to her. When I get to her she wiggles her eyebrows and I smack her.

"So you two going to your house to make out again?" she taunts.

"No! We are just going to work on the Romeo and Juliet project. It was his idea jeez." I say back in a defending tone.

"Uh-huh. Sure. He just want to STUDY you say." then she brakes into laughter after I smack her a couple times. Then I see Jonathan start to walk over. She starts to giggle again. Once Jonathan gets over to us he says,

"Ready?"

"Yep." I say. Then as we are walking away I hear Lexi call out,

"Make good choices!!" I turn my head and give her a evil glare. I hear Jonathan snickering and I see Lexi laughing.

"She's insane." I say.

"I can tell." he says. Once we get outside we see the jocks looking at us. I get really nervous.

"Get on my back." Jonathan whispers. I get slightly tense.

"What?" I whisper back in shock.

"Get on my back, they might leave us alone."

"Okay fine." he bends down and I climb up. Then I start to laugh. So does he. I glance over at the jocks and I see them shake their heads and ignore us. I let out a sigh of relief.  Once we are on the sidewalk, we have the trees between us and the parking lot.

"You can put me down now." I say.

"Nah. I'm just getting comfortable." I see his hands locked in front of him so at least he isn't hanging onto my legs. He probably guessed that would be kinda awkward.

"I'm not going through this again." 

"What do you mean?"

"I think you know."

"I forget." he says sarcastically. Obviously putting me on the spot.

"Seriously your going to have me explain it to you?"

"Yes, because I totally forget what happened."

"Your head was on my lap and you wouldn't get up because you were quote on quote comfortable." I say in a flat tone.

"Oh yeah. See totally forgot. But I'm still not putting you down."

"Please!!! Um, my legs are starting to fall asleep." I was searching for a excuse that would seem legit. He laughed a little and put me down. My excuse must've worked. Then I notice we are at my street.