Her first crush

4

Pascal stood up in the middle of the night. He was thirsty. He went to the water dispenser and got himself a cup of water. He returned the cup  and left the dining room. He was ascending the stairs when Leona bumped into him. He was quick to move sideways and she fell flat on the ground.
"Pig", he said and walked upstairs.
  Leona tasted blood on her lips. Damn! She had a cut. She stood up and adjusted her night gown.
"Jerk", she said aloud and went back to her room. She took out metylated spirit and cotton woolfrom her drawer and applied a little of the metylated spirit to the wool. She dabbed her lips with it and it stung.
"Ouch!" She felt the tears welling upon her eyes and blinked them away.
She decided that she was going to ignore him and go her own way.
       Pascal got to his room and took his  guitar from a corner, but he couldn't play anything. He returned his guitar back to where it was and went to sit behind his reading table. He switched on the reading lamp and took a book which had Spanish lessons written on it. He flipped to a page and started studying.

                 *   *   *
Leona was hurrying out of the library when she bumped into two girls. Matilda's phone fell from her hand and she yelled at Leona. "Hey, dumbass! You dropped my phone out of clumsiness. There's virtually nothing good about you"
Leona picked up the phone and stretched it forward. "I'm sorry".
Matilda snatched the phone from her, "shut up"
Jennie, the other girl ran her eyes over Leona in disgust. "I guess your parents made a mistake by giving you the name, Leona. Its meant for beautiful girls not dumb people like you ".
  They walked off and someone tapped Leona on her shoulder.
"You should avoid them, they are always making trouble "
Leona nodded sadly and the guy continued, "I'm Arthur Elbow"
"Leona Walker"
Arthur smiled and they walked towards the basketball court.
"I'm in the department of biology "
"Department of languages ", she responded calmly.
"That's cool! Buh you've gotta read your ass out in that department "
"I guess so"
"You play basketball?"
"Yeah"
"Would you mind a quick toss with me? "
"Okay"
They entered the court and Leona watched him bounce the ball.
"Are you a basketball player?", she asked him.
"I've been playing since my first year "
"Wow! You're pretty good at it "
"Yeah! Buh not as good as Pascal Brown"
"Pascal? "
"Yeah, the captain of the basketball team, department of languages "
"Oh"
"You've met him? "He threw a he ball at her and she caught it.
"Kind of"
Just then, Pascal passed by and Arthur shouted, "Pasc". He turned towards them and Arthur went to meet him. Leona followed.
"Pasc, this is Leona"
Pascal nodded his head and Arthur continued, "department of....... "
He interrupted Arthur, "I've met her already".
Leona felt embarrassed, but if Arthur was, he didn't show it.
"Okay, I just felt I should...... "Arthur started to say, but this time, Pascal was obviously irritated.
"Look, I gotta go now", he walked off.
"He's always like that, but he's got a lot of girls flocking around him though."Arthur turned to Leona.
"Bitch", she said angrily.
"Its okay. He's good, you know. He's the best in his department, a guitarist, the hottest guy in the school, the captain of all basket ballers in our school, teachers' toast, the best.......... "
"Who cares? "Leona interrupted. "He's also he worst guy ever, speaking of manners".
"I like him too", Arthur said instead.
"Whatever"
          Pascal got home to find Nelly  playing video games.
"Hey, enjoying your game? "
"You're back? "
"Yeah! Who brought you home"
"Mom"
"And she didn't bother to tell me before doing that?"
"Cut  yourself some slack and calm down, bro"
Pascal sat down, smiling. Nelly knew how to calm him down. He played video games with his brother till he got tired of it.

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