If Only You Knew

Chapter 2

" All three of you'll were completely dunk! I mean there's a limit. You don't go around drinking like retards." I say. Ian, Roger and Sam say " Sorry." Ian says " Thanks for dropping me back bro. I wonder what my parents would say if they found out." then he says " Bro you wanna come over? Gaming night? Ryan and Sam will be joining us." says Ian. I say " I'm not sure. My cousins might be coming over." He says " Oh. Try to come. It gets boring when you're not around." I say " Sure." and I walk through the hallways of my high school.

" Hey Jason!" says Brian. I say " Yes?" He says " Can you send the photos that you had‪ taken of the science fair to the newspaper editor. I mean Melissa. You know her right?" I say " Yeah I know her and I'll email them today." He says " Great. See you tomorrow."

I continue walking until I spot Charity. The girl that has caught my attention since I bumped into her on the first day of junior year. I'm don't have any feelings for her because I don't know her. I just find her really interesting. She's fifteen and she's a part of the music club. She has a few friends but she's mostly to her self. She doesn't talk a lot and she's not like the other girls. She's an expressionless human with black hair and eyes. She's Mrs. Not So Popular and she's a secret to the world. I don't know why I find her interesting.

Charity removes a book which I'm guessing is her music book since she plays the ukulele. I love the way she plays. When I had passed by the music room once I stopped to listen to her play. Okay I always purposely stopped by to listen to her play. She's smooth with the ukulele.

She turns around and I whip my head to the other side pretending to look at the wall which is stupid. She says " I know you were watching." and I turn around. I say " Hey." She turns back to face her locker and she says " You should stop stalking me. Your invading my privacy." To cover up I say " You play really well." She says " Thanks." with out turning around. I sigh. She says " What's your name again?" and she turns around with a look of boredom on her face. I say " Jason Dean." smiling at her. " Hey Jay! What's up bro?" says Sam from the other end of the corridor. Charity says " I guess you have to go. See you later." I say " Bye." and she walks out of the school building.

Sam comes up to me and I say " Thanks for ruining my chance of talking to her." He says " You spoke to Charity? What did you ask her?" I fake laugh and say " She spoke to me. She is still annoyed because I appear to be at the same place wherever she is and she calls that stalking. I'm beginning to think that she's probably the one following me." Sam says " Oh. Well what did you say?" I say " I just said that she plays really well." He says " Terrible start bro." I sigh again. Then he says " Are you coming to Ian's house tonight?" I say " It's the weekend and I might have cousins coming over." He says " Sneak out of the house." I smile and say " I'll try." and we walk back home.
When I'm back I remove my shoes and I get to my room to do my project. I'm not a nerd who does things in advance and I don't like school but I dislike getting low grades. I've always got straight A's and I've never failed. I'm serious about school because I really want to go to college. I want to go on scholarship so my parents don't have to pay hefty amounts just for my education.

While doing my project my mom comes in. I say " Mom! Why did you come in with out knocking the door?" She says " I just wanted to check on what your doing." What if I was going through Charity 's wall ? Or chatting with Ian about her? Why does my mom do this?

She says " What subject is that project for?" I say " Math." She says " How was school today?" I lie " Same as usual." She says " Okay. Well Ian called and he asked me if you could go to his house for the night. He wants you to stay over." I say " Oh yes!I forgot to ask you." She says " You can go after your cousins have come." I say " But mom they'll only come at seven!" She says " You can't just go with out saying hi." I say " Alright but I'll only be there for 10 minutes. Not more than that." She says " Okay but you better not run out of the house till then." She goes out of my room and I try to finish my home work as quickly as possible.
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" Hello Jason. How are you?" says my cousin Lea. I say " I'm good and you? she says " Great." then she says " I got one of my friends today. Please excuse me for not telling you." I say " It's fine. They can come in." Charity comes in. Charity comes in?!We stare at each other. I say " So she's your friend?" Lea nods in reply. I say " Hey." She says " Hey Jason." Lea looks at me and says " You guys know each other?" I say " Yes she's in my school." Lea says " Nice to know." Lea's brother says " Hey Jay." I say " Hey. Long time." He says " Yup." and he gets in. I let Lea and Charity in so they don't have to push through and I close the door.

" Hello Lea and Kian! Nice to see you'll again. You both have grown really tall." All adults say that to kids but we know they lie. Lea says " Hello. Nice to see you again." while Kian runs up to my room. He doesn't like visiting us. He told me that when he came over the last time. He only comes here because his parents force him too. I know my house is boring because we don't have a lot of video games or a swimming pool like him, but that's how it is and I like it.

Lea talks to my mom and so me and Charity are alone. To break the awkward silence between us I say " You...umm...want to come....up to my room?" She says " Okay." I take her up to my room and when she gets in she says " Nice room." She goes to my pin board which contains some of the pictures I've taken wherever I went. She says " You're an amazing photographer." I say " Thank you." She looks at my math project and she says " That's a lot of theory." I say " I had to write all that. I need to get an A and it's important information." She says " But you can cut it down." She sits on my bed and she looks around. My phone starts vibrating meaning that someone's calling me and it's Ian. Shit. I was supposed to be at his place. I get out of my room and I answer the phone.
Where the hell are you?

Home

What are you doing? You're supposed to be here one hour ago!

Charity is at my place.

Wait what? Charity? Charity Hart?

Yes. That poker faced girl.

How?

Turns out that she's my cousins friend. My cousin asked her to come.

Oh. But you have to come! You can't stay there forever.

I'll come once she leaves.

Okay. See you then

Bye

I get back to my room and I look at Charity and rub the back of my neck. I hope she doesn't leave really quickly. I want to go play video games with my friends but I want to know why she's so different. She say " Stop staring at me." I realize that I'm staring at her and I say " Sorry." After a while my mom comes in and she says " Weren't you supposed to go to Ian's house?" I say " Yes. But I'll go after a while." My mom looks at me and says " Oh. Okay." and she leaves smiling. I look at Charity and say " What do you want to do?" She says " Teach me how to click great photographs. I'll teach you how to play the ukulele." I say " What?" She says " Teach me how to click photographs. Your so good at it." I say " Umm...Okay." and I get my camera from my drawer. I remove it from the camera bag and I dust the lens. I always do that so the quality of the photos are not affected. I look at my camera and say " It's pretty old. Nikon D1500." She says " That's a big camera." and she takes it from me. Then she says " Heavy too." I make her hold the camera and I say " Are you good at angles?" She says " Not really." I say " Not a problem. You'll improve eventually." She says " Okay."

I spent the next few hours trying to make her click a good photo but she's bad at it. Really bad. After a while she says " I give up." I say " It takes a while and since you're not good at angles it would take longer to achieve a perfect shot." She smirks and says " You sound like a school teacher." I say " That's a very nice thing to say after I taught you all that." She says " Okay Jason." I say " You can call me Jay. It's shorter." She says " I don't like short forms." I say " How can you not like short forms?" She sighs and says " I just don't."