Temporary High

Chapter 6: Him

Its him

He is standing there

Looking at me with that stupid smirk

He goes here

Red goes here! What are the fucking odds. I could scream. I want to punch that stupid smirk off his stupid face.

But no I compose myself and say "Hi, yes I'm the one your give the tour to."

Still with a hint of a smirk he says "Good, this way"

I catch up to him and we walk in silence for a few minutes till out of no way he turns and pins me to the wall and stares into my eyes and I get a strange feeling and so I duck under his arm and stand behind him.

"Why did you do that?!?"

"Why didn't you say that you were coming to this school?"

"You didn't answer my question!"

I could see a fire rising in his eyes and I'm glad I can get him like this, I'm not the only one who can get mad. So I turn and start walking. I hear steps behind me and he grabs my hand and turns me so I'm looking at him.

The fire had gone down and replaced with a pleading look.

"Please tell me why you didn't say anything,"

"Well first of all I didn't know you had to know all my business. Second You don't even know me and I didn't think it was that big of a deal. Third I didn't know you went here or I would have probably said something!"

He puts his free hand on his forhead and says "Right, right why would you have to tell me that. We just meet, right, right,"

I look down at our still intertwined hands and stare. Holding his hand isn't that worse thing in the world it's actually kinda nice.

I pull my eyes from our hands and look up at him and say
"Well now that you know I'm going to be going here can we continue the tour?"

Now he's the one to give our hands a quick look and then he gives me a warm look and let's go of my hand and says

"Yeah we better do that or the headmistress will be madder at me then she already is," He huffs a laugh.

I smile but what he had said earlier about the headmistress being his mom crosses my mind. He shows me every hiding place, fastest way to get places, where to sit in the dining hall, everything and more. My phone starts ringing and see its my mom. I answer:

"Hi mom"

"Hey sweety how's it going?"

"Good, I think we're almost done. Are you guys done?"

"Yeah, We'll meet you at the front doors, alright?"

"Okay sounds good, see you in a little bit. Bye," I hang up and see the time 12:56 pm. Wow time flies.

I put my phone in my pocket and look over at Red he seems to be spacing out.

"HEY"

"HuH?! What?"

"Are we done with this tour?"

"Oh yeah, I think so"

"Alright good because my parents are done and are waiting at the front doors"

"Okay so let's head back"

So I follow him and before I know it we were at the front doors

The headmistress is looking at me with a big smile and says" Well hello, Rose. How was it? Did Griffin give you a good tour? Also here is your map"

Wait? Didn't she just say Griffin? That's Red's real name?

Red? Griffin says "Mommmmm, no one calls me that!"

"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Reddddd. Did 'Red' give you a good tour? "

I give a nervous laugh and say
" yeah very detailed. I shouldn't have any problem finding anything in the school."

And then I turn to Red and say
" Thank you Red. That was a very nice tour, hope to see you around, Bye" and I smile and hold on to both my parents arms.

They wave over their shoulder and say a quick bye to the headmistress and Red as I lead them out. We get to the car and my parents let out a breath and turn to me.

"So what did you think?"

"It was nice, very big,"

"Now you've seen it, are you okay with going here?"

"Mom, I was fine with going here even before we come here. But yes it helped to see it,"

"Well you'll be shown around for a few weeks till you get you to it. So don't worry"

I start panicking "Shown around by who?"

"Well that young boy back there of course"

"Haha, alright fun. That's just peachy"

"What is it?"

"Nothing, nothing. When do I start?"

"It's Friday. So we'll drop you off Sunday and you'll start Monday morning"

"Okay sounds good,"

I pull my phone out of my pocket and I'm greeted my a text from Red

*what was with the weird polite shit? and why run out so fast?* 1:17 pm

That's a good question. Honestly I've never felt that weird thing me and him have and I didn't want my parents asking questions if I said we already know each other. But instead I say

*i was hungry and idk im just weird lol* 1:28 pm

*alrighttttt sureeeee* 1:29 pm

*what its trueeee* 1:29 pm

*okay, so if we get in that situation again and u weren't hunger and weird. ur tellin me u wouldn't do that?* 1: 29 pm

*yeah most likely* 1:30 pm

*alright it's settled* 1:30 pm

*alright* 1:30 pm

*so what did u actually think of the tour?* 1:31 pm

I have no clue what possessed me to say this but I did

*well I mean my favorite parts happened at the beginning of the tour so overall good but the beginning really started it off nicely *winky face* *
1:31 pm

*smirky face* really? didn't know u were into that*
1:32 pm

*well we were a school, soooo i didn't want anything to go down in the hallway lol*
1:32 pm

*mmmm i see and if it wasn't the hallway* 1:32 pm

*then u would have to see* *so uh- griffin *laughing emoji"*
1:33 pm

*ugh ik u would bring that uppppp* 1:34 pm

*im sorry and ill stop lol*
1:35 pm

So that's how the rest of the ride goes mild flirting, joking. My parents drop me off and head to work because they only took a half a day. So I head inside and chill around the house eating and watching TV, and looking at social media, texting Red once in awhile. Till it gets late and I head to my room go to the bathroom get ready for bed and jump into it and text a good night to Red, and drift to sleep faster then I have for years.