You ARE My Universe (Marliza)

Feeling chemistry in science..

We pull out to the school and dad unlocks the car, we all grab our bags and start getting out, "thanks for the ride, daddy", Peggy kisses our father goodbye, so to Angelica and I, we then head into the school quickly. We walk down the hallway, our books in hand, "Martha Manning and I are going down to the mall this weekend to shop for prom dresses, I'm thinking pink for my dress, it is kinda my color.. kinda my aesthetic, ya know?", Angelica says, as I put my combination in my locker and start putting my books inside, "yes I'm fully aware of that", I giggle in response, "I do live with you after all", I smile at my older sister. All that Angelica has been talking about lately has been prom, and this is only the second week of us being back at school, but she is a senior now but prom isn't any time soon, I mean school JUST started up again. Peggy looks over her shoulder and gasps excitedly, "JOHNNN!!", she screams, loud enough for everyone In the hallway to look over at U, "peggs!", John giggles and hugs her, beside John is his grinning boyfriend, Alexander Hamilton. To be honest I've always had a sort of.. crush on Alexander.. It feels weird to admit because I felt like I couldn't say anything, but he's to charismatic, and sweet, and smart, and.. gorgeous. ..I may have gotten carried away with that last statement, I look over at Alex and wave, he smiles and shoots me a look, "hey", he smiles. I feel my cheeks burn, I know I'm blushing for certain, Alexander and John hold hands and walk off with Peggy. How embarrassing, I looked like a complete idiot, and.. oh no- I hope it didn't look to John like I was trying to steal his boyfriend, I would never even think to do that, Alexander and John are very happy together and just about the cutest couple I know, not to mention stealing another person's boyfriend is not okay, especially when they're your friend, and John is my friend.

I turn to look at Angelica, but she's already gone, I bet she went to ask the activities office about prom, I laugh to myself and smile, closing my locker and heading off to class before the bell rings. Science, I walk into class a little early to prepare my things, I place my things down and on my desk. I smile and sit down, fully prepared. The teacher looks over at me and smiles, "perfect timing as always, Elizabeth", she smiles at me, I smile and nod as the bed then rings, I rearrange my pencils and notebooks on my desk as people enter the class.
For a few minutes people are around the room, some at each other's desk, but after a bit, everyone gets to their desks and sits down.

Then our teacher starts, "good morning, everyone, I won't be talking much today because for the next few weeks starting today you'll be working on a project with a partner, this project will be a solar system project and you'll also be expected to get together and work on it outside of school, so if you want a specific lab partner you better get up and go sit by them now because I'm only going to allow you five minutes to find a partner." Everyone starts to get up and find a partner, so I quickly start trying to gather my supplies so I can move to another desk with someone but.. ugh.. dang it.. I spill my color pencils all over the floor..

I struggle to put my stuff down to pick up my colored pencils. As I put my stuff back down I look around as see just about everyone and class had chosen their partners, I sigh heavily, as if things couldn't get any better.. I bend down start to pick up my colored pencils as I then see two bare legs step in front of me, I look up and see a very pretty girl standing over me, "Hey, guess we're partners", she smiles down as me, I smile softly, a bit embarrassed as the impression I'd just made.. clumsy Betsey. She bends down and starts helping me clean up my colored pencils I go to look up at her as she's kneels down in front of me and accidentally bump my forehead with her's.

"Ow!", she drops a few of the colored pencils. "Oh I'm uh so sorry I- uh..", I sigh, "Maria, right?", she rubs her head and nods, "A bit clumsy aren't you?", she picks up my last few colored pencils, putting them back in the box then starts up and extends her hand to me..

I look at her hand then up and her and grab her hand as she helps me up. "Elizabeth Schuyler", I introduce myself, "although I mainly go by Eliza, sometimes Betsey." Maria smiles and nods.
"Alright, everyone, settle down, you'll have two weeks for the project, now I'm going to assign everyone a topic", the teacher says, she assigns us our topics then she lets everyone off on their own as she works on grading she has to catch up on.