Awkward.

Chapter 1

I woke up with the sound of my phone alarming. When the alarm stopped, that's the time I had enough energy to sit up and open my still sleepy eyes. I look at my window at the wall near my bed. I could see it raining. Typical. It always rains here. My phone started to alarm again and I was too lazy to make it go on snooze. I need to get up before I become late in going to school and the weather wasn't helping either. Today feels like such a lazy day.

I head to the bathroom and locked the door when i was inside. I looked at the mirror and saw a girl with hair sticking up in different directions and dry saliva at the corner of her mouth. I laughed at my reflection and headed to the shower. I finished the rest of my morning routine and headed downstairs for breakfast.

I'm always the first one to wake up in this household. That's why it's always so quiet whenever I eat breakfast during a school day. I miss my brother and sister. Before they went to college, it was always a race to be the first one downstairs. I would rather have  a noisy and active morning with all the ruckus around me other than having a lazy morning every weekday, eating my breakfast with no company. It would be nice to have my parents eat with me but they would always be sleeping at thus time. I don't blame them for having jobs that drains all their energy all the time.

After i was done eating my breakfast, I glanced at the clock and saw that it was almost 8. The school bus would be arriving soon so I ran up to my room, got my school bag and a book to read while i wait for the bus. I went outside and got to the bus stop. 5 minutes later, I saw the bus. after reading another page of the Giver, I closed the book and went inside the bus.

I saw a vacant seat near the back and sat there. The bus started to move again and I continued to read my book. I'm not exactly a sociable type of person. I would rather be invested with a book other than chatting and gossiping with other people. Just to clarify, Im not anti-social. I have friends but I'm not quite good at making a lot of them. My mom would say I'm socially awkward and i should dress better but she should be thankful that I am not like other girls who go out too much and who wears clothes that don't even cover anything!

Just I was about to read another chapter, I heard something

*Brfft!*

It started to smell awful. I found thd culprit of this dreadful smell and saw that he was Ed. He was sitting right infront of me. People would call him Stinker becaus he would let out gas that smelled horrible. He is skinny, more skinny than me and very small. He looked at me with an evil grin.

DISGUSTING!

He farted at me. I gagged and went to a different seat farther from him. The other people started smelling it and they were all gasping for air. It was seriously such a horrid smell.

"Don't drop your stink bombs in the bus! Are you trying to kill us? You are so gross!" I look up to see that my best friend, Dillian, was the source of the screaming. I told you I have friends. She just got in the bus and she quickly smelled it. She finally saw me and headed  towards me.

"Hey! why are you all the way at the back?" She says as she pats me on the back. I'm not really fond of hugs. I don't like people holding me with their body close to mine. I just really like my own personal space. It's a good thing Dillian understands that. She has been my friend for as long as I can remember. We were opposites. She was very talkative while I always listen to her. I guess that balancds the friendship that we have.

"Stinker farted on me. that's why I smell like puke." She laughs at me after sitting next to me. "Maybe i shouldn't sit beside you, Jessica. I don't want to smell as bad as you." I slap her arm as i smell myself. "i don't smell bad." I feel so worried. I don't want to smell bad in school! "I'm just kidding! chill." We both laught after that and i sighed in relief. She tells me all about what happened to her this weekend. It's always like this. She talks. I listen.

A phone suddenly rings which interrupts Dillian from her wonderful story of her going cliff diving. It was her phone ringing. "wait, I'll tell you later" then answers her phone so i decided i start reading my book once again. The bus gets crowded when more students come in. We were a last stop. The last students came in and the slding door was closing..

"Wait!"

My head shot up. Who was that? A guy went in the bus. He was wearing a knitwear sweater and a beanie. His chocolate hair escaping from the beanie. He looked really nervous going in the bus. Is he a new student? He didn't really look familiar so i guess he is.

"Sorry! I didn't mean to be late. I didn't know where to find the bus stop." He tells the driver and the driver relies with a simple nod. He scans for a vacant seat in the bus. Students walk past him which makes him stumble a little. He mumbles a sorry even if it wasn't his fault. He continues to walk forward and as he got closer, I notice that he has blue eyes. It's as blue as the calm deep ocean at the seaside. He suddenly looks up and his eyes reach my brown ones. I quickly look away feeling my cheeks turning crimson. After a while, I look at him again. He is heading to the vacant seat next to...oh no....

He's going to sit beside Stinker. Get out of there! Are you trying to kill yourself? I thought to myself. Sit somewhere else! Sit on the seat right infront of me. Sit anywhere but not there. As if on cue, he looks at me and he notices my look of worry. He quickly glances at Stinker then to me as if asking me if he was okay to sit beside him. I cringe my face and shake my head. He took this as an answer and went to sit elsewhere. Now, he's infront of me. Suddenly, we hear another sound which meant another stink bomb has been blown. 

"Another one?? Are you serious? You are so disgusting!" Dillian tries to cover her nose. Eveyone in the bus seem to smell it which made everone start gagging and opening the windows for fresh air. I hear a light chuckle and i see that it came from the blue-eyed boy with chocolate hair. His skin looked so flawless, no pimples or anything. How does he make his skin like that? He looked back and I suddenly felt embarrased for being caught of staring. I quickly cover my face with my book so that he wouldn't see my crimson cheeks. I peeped from the side of my book and saw that he was looking at me. He suddenly looked away and scratched the back of his neck and looked back to me. 

"Hey..uhmm..uhh..hi" I could see him fiddling with his fingers as he said that. I slowly put the book down from my face and i give him a small smile.

"uhh..hello" I think that's a good enough reply. I don't really know what to say next. I can assume that both of us were very nervous. "Hey! I'm back" Yes! Dillian is here to save us from the awkward silence. "I see you've got a new friend, Jess" I just nod, not trusting my voice to speak. 

"Well..uhmm hi" He gives a warm smile to Dillian and I. "My name is Dillian but you could call me Dill. And this shy yet adorable weirdo beside me is Jess" I give him a shy smile and wave at him. The bus comes to a halt and I see students standing up and slinging their bags to their back. I see the school through the window, dreading the boring classes I'm about to attend to. I grunted and stood up following Dillian out of the bus. "Hey! What's your name by the way?" Dillian asks as he steps out of the bus.

"Carter. My name is Carter." Giving us another smile and started to walk away. 

"He is soo freaking cute! He's shy...like you. OH! What if you guys turn into a couple? You guys look definitely adorable together. Look at your face! You're as red as a tomato." She starts laughing and i feel more embarrased. "Ugh! Stop! Quit laughing at me." I say as I slap her arm which makes her stop laughing. "Ow! you didn't have to hit me that hard. As you wish, Mrs. Carter" She starts walking away, leaving me feeling more embarrased than before.

Yet my mind goes back to Carter smiling at Dil and I. Carter, you mysterious blue-eyed boy

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Love, 

A.