Things you don't know about me

Chapter 3

Chapter 3

We ignored each other in school for the next two days. However, at the evening before the project was due, I came over. The original plan was to tie up loose ends and to do a practice run. I blubbered that I was nervous to speak in public within the first fifteen minutes of our first session, so we allocated time to practice just for me. I thought it was sweet.

So after we had a run through, Hale said that we should talk. He has become so serious, and I’m not sure why but it made me want to laugh. He said that he really liked me, but he can’t date me. The next sentence out of his mouth was the real killer he said and I quote - “We are from different social circles”.

Ok, I know that any self-respecting person at this point in the conversation would tell him to go to hell and storm off, or do something of a similar fashion. But to be honest that worked well for me.

I am by no means in the popular crowd. If you asked to put me into one of the five typical high school groups, like they did in this one episode of One Tree Hill, I would fall somewhere between a geek and a loner. And this is just fine by me.

The truth is that if you are popular and have a lot of friends, everyone is in your business. I don’t want this. There are a lot of things about me, that I wish to keep quiet, and I don’t think that there is anything wrong with that. Privacy is important.

So instead of storming off when I received this news, I sat down. I don’t want anyone’s pity, but there is a reason why I like my personal space, and not the biggest fan of the whole touching thing. But I was really comfortable in Hale’s presence. When we kissed, my first impulse, unexpectedly, was not to bolt.

And I really did not want to deal with everything that comes with dating the golden boy. So I proposed we date in secret, see where it goes.

I had other, more selfish reasons for it. My original plan was to start dating after I finish college, not that this was set in stone. I just wanted to focus on my studies, plus I did not think that I will find anyone to date.

The secret relationship was exactly what I needed. We can go slow, there would be no pressure, it would be kept in secret and we don’t have to involve any feelings. Of course, this is not what I said. I just asked if he would want to continue hanging out, seeing where this thing is going.

So this is the reason for the exchange of the secret smiles between me and Hale Johnson as I was walking to math.

 

 

As the bell rang indicating the end of math, I almost jumped out of my seat. I spent the last ten minutes of the class counting the seconds until it ends and I could get something to eat. I was starving.

Out math teacher asked to hand in our assignments on our way out of the class, so as soon as I put it on his table I bounced towards cafeteria. Yes, I actually had a small bounce in my step, that’s how happy I was about getting something to eat.