The Angel of Paris

Nicolette

      "Oh gosh it's Saturday, and there's so much to do, clean the house, get groceries and then do my project for school. Ugh." I look over to my window.
"Oh great and there's another couple outside my window, kissing, I love seeing strangers make out outside my house." I said sarcastically.
        I walk to my desk and start on homework before Doing anything else, I then get bored and decide to leave my house to get the groceries and some fresh air. I ride my bike over to a nearby store and get some milk, eggs, bread, and a whole bunch of other stuff on this list along with some supplies to help with my project. As I try to read my moms handwriting on this paper, I start to feel my back getting warm... like someone was watching me. I turn my head and see that girl from school, the one that I skipped the whole school day with. She notices I'm looking at her so she looks away.
       I don't know what I should do.. I just met her once and had multiple conversations with her but she's still a stranger to me, and I don't even know her that well. If she wants to talk to me she can, but I'm not going to be the first one saying hi. A couple seconds looking through the aisles and I see her again, o my this time she's walking towards me. Shit what to I say? Hello? No agh she probably wants to skip school on Monday and Smoke weed. I am not that kind of person, I refuse to do anything THAT bad. Oh god here she comes...
        "Hey remember me? We skipped school yesterday?"

"Yeah I remember..Camille right?"

"Uh yeah. Look yesterday was fun and I wanted to-"

"I'm So SO Sorry but I don't do drugs, And I Didn't mean to skip school, imagoodgirlanddontgetmyselfinvolvedinthat-"

"WOAH Wait wait wait, no WOAH no... uhm I don't do drugs either, I was going to say that I want to get to know you more... like friends."

"OH yeah that seems nice," I tuck my black hair behind my ear. Ah crap, I'm such an idiot, she thinks I'm crazy.

"Cool." I see her looking down at my basket full of groceries and art supplies.

"Project?" She says while pointing at the basket.

"Yes, schoolwork. And I have a busy day so right now isn't a good time to know each other."

"Right, of course but if you don't mind, I'd like to help, that way you get your busy day over with and I can get to know you better."

"Ok listen, it's weird that we only hang out a whole day and all of a sudden you want to help me with stuff, want to get to know me, and clearly your not taking no for an answer, so what's the big deal huh?"

"Wow I feel exposed, clearly your not one to take hints, and Its pretty obvious what I'm trying to do."

"What? That makes no sense why is it obv-," Oh shit, she likes me, like LIKES ME LIKES ME. Fuck I should tell her I'm not into girls before she starts getting to close to me. "Listen, I'm not into the same sex? So I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression but I'm not into you like that." She had a blank face, the pupils of her brown eyes were still wide and she still had the small smile, almost as if she was gazing into my soul and seeing something so beautiful that it made her smirk at how easy it was to be trapped in it, she enjoyed that feeling, I can tell.

"Yeah it's fine with me, I'm good being friends, you seem like a really nice person to be around and from our previous conversations, you sound interesting." She always shakes and moves her head when she speaks, along with her shoulders. She still had that same look I describe, it was attractive, but that's only because I know what does and doesn't look good, same goes for boys.
This conversation led us all the way to the cashier, she was still with me, and helped me out the stuff on the moving contraption. I reach my pocket to get my wallet and felt something round... I pull out my wallet and there falls my ring. Oh crap. I bend over to get it, but Camille gets it instead, she's examining it. Like really close. Almost as if she knows where it's from, her eyes trace back to me. Wow she really knows how to make attractive looks, she's got an eyebrow raised, her jaw line is visible and her lips are just the perfect size. But that's only cause I know what looks good and what doesn't, same goes for guys!
"Uhm that's mine..." I reach out for it and she she slowly gives it to me but she looks at the ring and thinks about handing it to me, she proceeds and finally the ring is in my hand. I put it in my front pocket, that way it won't fall again, but the real question is. How did it get there, it's not where I left it, was it?
    Camille grapes the grocery bags and carries them all the way to my house, it's nice of her but she won't get anything out of this, other than a poor exercise.
     "Here I got that." I say as I open the door to my house.
     "Thank you, so what's this project?" Camille asks.
    "It's suppose to be a re-enactment of the famous shakes spear's play 'Romeo and Juliet'."
    "Who?"
"You don't know 'Romeo and Juliet?!" I'm shocked, she looks a year older than me and doesn't know about a common story that all of our English teachers teach us about??
   "Uhm OH now I remember," she says giving out a small breath of air.
   "Really?"
"Yup, I was just daydreaming for a second."
"Uhuh.."
"Uhm so let's get started, before the sun goes back to sleep." She smiles and has a small giggle to herself. She is very odd, I've never met anyone like her, she clearly doesn't care about people's judgments and goes with the flow, I like that.
    My phone rings, it's Audre, I pick it Up and answer.
  "Who is that?"
"Oh a friend." Camille nods and starts taking out the supplies.
    "Hey Audre, what's up? Mhm... oh I can't I'm busy with a project right now.. no it's fine. Oh uh okay but another.. uh friend is helping me, I mean I guess it wouldn't hurt... Oh ok bye."
   "What did he want?"
"To hang out but I told him I can't because of this project. Now he's on his way to help."
"Oh. That's nice."
"Yeah." I nodded my head and continued working on the project. A couple of minutes had past and I had really gotten to know Camille. There was this one moment we laughed so hard I fell on top of her dying of laughter and she put her hand on my shoulder once I got up still laughing as if to tell me with her body how hilarious my joke was. Then I looked at her for a long time and she kept looking at me. It was like I could see through her, just by looking at those brown, hazelish eyes. I coughed and started working again. I didn't know what I was feeling but it just made my heart happy.
        Audre never came to my house, so I guess he got tired and decided to stay home, I didn't want to call and tell him why he didn't show up to help but I'm not the one who offered assistance. Either way I was fine with Camille here helping me out.
    I checked my pocket for the ring, it was still there. I don't know why I still have it, I should throw it away but something tells me it was meant for me to keep it. Luckily I don't have to use it anytime soon, unless it's for Halloween.
    Me and Camille spent the whole night working on the project and I got to admit I got tired and did sleep with her on the couch, it was quite comfortable.
 

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      Sorry it's late I just had to figure out some things before I could publish but here it is and I hoped you enjoyed it.
   
                          Goodbye 👋🏽