Excuses
Joss and I walked the familiar path to Vlad's house on the way to school like any other morning. I was still tired like always from my lack of sleep thanks to a certain boy... And also I was scared to death about him wanting to know why I kissed him on Halloween.
By now it was early December, I have avoided the question for two months now. Whenever he'd ask I would pretend to be occupied, busy, or that I didn't hear him. Once he asked why I did what I did on Halloween in front of both Henry and Joss and spoke so as not to avoid it. I said 'what did I do?' I knew he wouldn't have the heart to say it in front of his two best friends.
So after a while he stopped asking. Now we were able to hang out with or without my cousins again, it felt good. And though he hasn't brought it up again I was still worried.
Vlad had revealed he would be gone on Winter Break for vacation. Therefore he was missing my birthday but not Henry's. It made me mope but I shoved it off. If he wanted to go to frickin Siberia let him be my guest! It was Vlad, I can't deny him anything.
But back to the present. Henry had been ditching us in the morning for Student Council meetings; so Joss, Vlad, and I walked alone to school. Vlad walked out of his house and seemed remorseful; I didn't want to bother him.
"Hey Mina, Joss." He grumbled as the shuffled down the porch.
"Hey, Vlad. You ready?" He sighed and fixed his backpack after offering us a short half smile.
"As ever." We dragged our way to school like any normal boring day. I sighed as the school came into view. As we slinked up the steps I heard Vlad groan in annoyance. "Why can't it be Friday?"
"Because it's Tuesday." Joss teased with a giggled. Stephanie came over in her preppy little cloud of fluff and handed Joss a newspaper. Vlad muttered that he would see us later. I decided to tag along with him instead of stand around with Stephanie. I was always welcome to hang around with Vlad rather than my family, he never minded.
He also noticed that everyone seemed interested in the newspaper today too. "What's with the paper?"
"I don't know. Maybe something big happened." I shrugged as we went to our lockers. We turned our codes, opened our doors, dropped our bags, pulled out our books, slammed our lockers, leaned with our backs on the metal, and sighed in complete unison. Five months of the same thing caused everyday to be the same yet vastly different. We turned to each other and laughed. We did this often when alone and in total boredom.
But I saw the irritation in his eyes. He really wanted to know what everyone was fusing about. He was too easy for me to read. Henry finally walked up to us, fear in his eyes.
"What's up?" Vlad asked him.
"Hey Mina!" Amelia called from behind me; I turned and spoke with her rather than stay with Henry and Vlad. Amelia and I spoke about all kinds of things for the two seconds I was with her.
"So how's everything with Vlad?" She spoke in a hushed tone. Amelia is the only person I have told about my crush on Vlad. She is the closest female, non relative friend I have in Bathory. She understood my crush on him, but I never gave her details.
"It's going fine. I was going to see if we can hang out after school today. Maybe something will happen." I grinned, she smiled.
"I hope!" Amelia had P.E. and choir with me, the two classes that I wasn't with Vlad the entire time. With all that alone time I met Amelia. Amelia and I became fast friends, yet we rarely find time to hang out outside of school. And outside of our classes we never really talked much. But whenever I really needed advice about Vlad I would turn to her, who else?
