The Lies You Tell

Part 3

" Miss. David, this is our new student Maddison. Be nice." She said firmly.

" Hi, I'm Reiley." she said reaching her hand out to shake mine.

" Madison, but call me Maddie." I said looking into her green eyes.

" Are you going to let my hand go?" She asked.

I looked down and released before blushing.

" Sorry."

" It's all good." She said smiling. She pushed up her glasses after showing her dimples.

I don't know what I was feeling, but it felt good. For the rest of the class, I could not stop looking 

at her.

" Madison? Madison?" The teacher called.

Reiley touched me and I woke up from my daydream.

" Care to share with the class?" She said.

The class was silently laughing.

" No, sorry. Where were we?" I said.

" We were debating how many questions we should do for our passion portraits. What do you 

think?"

" 15 questions, 5 basic, 5 medium, and 5 hard." I said trying to sound smart.

" I like it. 15 questions, each of you will come up with your own questions and then pick a 

partner to do it with."

When the teacher said that, I was happy. I might get to work with Reiley. I pulled out a piece of 

paper to start writing my questions for a head start.

The teacher walked over to see me already on the tenth question.

" Why are you so eager to finish first?" She asked.

" Cause then I get to choose a partner." I replied.

" And who might that be? She questioned me.

I took my gaze away from her and focused it on Reiley long enough for the teacher to see.

" Come to my desk." She said walking back.

" Yes?" I asked.

" Are you..." I stopped her knowing what she was going to say.

" No, I am not, she seems like a cool person to hang with." I didn't lie, its true I'm not or at least I 

don't think so.

She sighed. " Listen sweetie there's nothing wrong with being gay, but not with Reiley. She may 

seem sweet and kind, but she is a bad boy. Always has, always will." She said before sending my 

back to my seat.

I started to walk back, but I stopped and turned and said, " What is your name?" I asked.

" Jesse James, but to you Mrs. James." she said.

I went back to my seat to find Reiley looking at me.

" What did she want?" she asked me.

" Well she assumed I was gay because I wanted to be your partner for the assignment. Crazy 

right?" I said.

" No, Mrs. James is like that, she knows everyone before they know themselves." Reiley told me.