If Only You Knew

Chapter 5

We have a lot of assignments to submit today. Since we had a day off after the fair and the weekend after it, our teachers uploaded a lot of home work. Our school has this website which our teachers use to upload all our assignments if they are unable to tell us during school hours. Talk about endless home work.

I head to my locker and I get my assignments out along with my books. When I'm about to shut my locker I notice Charity standing right next to my locker, looking nervously at the floor. I say " Hey?" She says " Hi." and she looks away. Gosh she's weird.

I say " How was your weekend?" she says " It was fine I guess?" I smile and says " Your questioning your self." and she says " Yeah...." I say " What brings you here anyways?" She says " Oh nothing really." I raise an eyebrow and say " That isn't really you." She looks at the hallway and I sigh saying " Is there something you want to tell me? Because if you do want to tell me something just say it. I have classes to attend." She says " Right." I wonder why she's hesitating. I sigh again and I walk towards my class but she stops me saying " I'm sorry!" I look at her and say " For what?" She says " For punching you." I say " Oh." She looks down and says " I'm really sorry. I didn't mean to. It's just...just that I'm not used to physical contact. I'm sorry." I say " Oh. It's okay." She says " And thanks again. For bringing me out of that situation and driving me back home." I smile and says " Your welcome." She looks at me and then looks down at the floor saying " Why are you smiling." I have to admit she's kinda cute.

I smile again saying " Because I didn't expect you to apologize." She turns red. She says " Well if you enjoy making fun of me go on." but I say " I didn't mean to make fun of you." She says " Oh." To make things less awkward I say " So what do you have now?" She says " Advanced math. What about you?" I say " Chemistry." She then says " I better get going then. See you later. Bye." I smile and say " Bye." She might be annoying at times but she's kinda cute.

Chemistry goes pretty well. I manage to ace the experiments and I don't mess up with anything. After Chemistry I head to English.

The day surprisingly passes by really quickly. The last bell rings and we go home. I haven't seen Charity since that event that took place in the morning. I guess I probably made things super awkward for her.

I stay back at school to edit the newspaper and I carefully look at all the photographs. I don't like having terrible pictures on the newspaper under my name.

I have a look at the picture of the soccer team that I had taken. Ian is smiling so much he kinda looks funny. But that was his first match with the soccer team and he was glad he made it before he graduated from high school. I would be acting like him if I was on the ice hockey team. I'm not on the ice hockey team because they don't want any more players. I had my trials for the first time when I joined the school as freshmen but they never took me in. That was a year ago and I wasn't really good so I don't blame them. But I'm a better player now and they don't hold trials so I've never had a chance to try out ever since. I train outside school and I hope to be a part of the club team but the people on the team are really good and there's a lot of competition so it's not going to be easy.

When I'm done picking out the pictures that I liked the best I attach them to Melissa's email and I send them to her. I hope you guys remember that she's the school's newspaper editor and she's a really nice person.

After I'm done I pack my bag and I walk back home.

When I get in I smell something really nice. It's smells like ginger bread cookies. I love ginger bread cookies.

I take a look at the kitchen and I look at my mom who's hard at work, making cookies. She's not just made ginger bread cookies, she's made caramel cookies, chocolate cookies, butter cookies and rum balls. I say " Who's all this for?" And she says " Oh hey. Your back already?" I say " Yes. I finished my work earlier than I was supposed to." She says " Well your dad wanted to give something homemade for Christmas and I decided to make cookies. I have a whole bunch to make. This is just quarter of what I have to make." I say " But there's still a month left for Christmas." My mom says " Honey. There's just two weeks left for Christmas. I say " You've got to be kidding me." My mom says " You really think I would sit and make cookies now if I had a month to do so?" I say " I have to buy stuff for Ian, Sam and Roger." My mom says " Oh before I forget could've you also get me two more packets of flour and one packet of confectionery sugar?" I say " Okay. See you in the evening. Bye!" And I walk out of the house to buy gifts.

I enter the gaming store and get the latest video game for Ian, 'War and Love III'. It's kinda stupid but Ian has been bragging about it for the past one month.

Then I head to the music store to get Sam new drum sticks. He broke his sticks out of anger and his parents are refusing to buy him new ones because of his stupidity. So being a nice friend I decided to get him sticks.

When I'm done shopping for Roger's gift I head to the convenience store and I search for my mom's baking flour and sugar. Gosh there are so many different brands and I'm not sure which one it is. I call my mom but she doesn't pick up so I stand there staring at all the types.

Charity suddenly appears from the back and says " You bake?" I say " No. It's for my mom." She says " Here take this. I saw her using this the last time I came to your house." I say " Your observant." She says " Anything else you need?" I say " Confectionery sugar?" She says " Follow me." and she takes me to this section that has all types of sugar. She says " I'm not sure what brand your mom uses but this is a pretty popular brand so I'm sure your mom uses this." I say " Okay I'll take this." and I get a packet. She says " Yeah sure." and she walks away.

I head to the cashier to pay for the stuff and I see her standing in the line. It's a huge line. When it's her turn the cashier who is a guy says " Hey Charity." She says " Hmm." and he says " How are you?" and she says " Fine." without looking at him. He says " You look really pretty today." She gives him a dead look and says " There's a whole line waiting behind me. Hurry up." He says " Yes." After she's done paying for her stuff and putting them in a bag he says " See you tomorrow Charity." but she just walks away.

I quickly pay for my stuff and run to talk to Charity. I have questions for her to answer. I say " How do you know him?" She says " I work there. He's a coworker." I say " Oh." and then I burst out laughing. She looks at me and says " Why are you laughing?" And I laugh saying " Because he was flirting with you. He likes you? How can anybody like you?" And then I realize what I just said to her. All though she maintains her poker face you can see that she's hurt. She says " Does it matter?" And she walks away. I should really learn to hold my tongue. I still can't believe I hurt someone like that.

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I get back home feeling extremely guilty and I hand over the baking stuff to my mom. She smiles and says " How did you know what brand I used?" I say " A frien...friend helped me." She says " Oh okay." and I walk up to my room. I keep my recently bought presents on the floor and I go search for wrapping paper. While I'm getting the paper from the storage room, I start thinking about what I said. Maybe I should have been less mean? I mean there was a reason I said that. She might be kinda cute but why would anybody want to get into a relationship with her? She doesn't talk much and she's all by her self. Why would you want to be with someone like her?