cast l.h

week three part two

By the time I find a place to park my car I am already twenty minutes late to my Human Geography 101 class. I walk the winding paths under menacing morning clouds trying to dodge every jerk that walks a bit to close.

I arrive into the empty halled building with long corridors and speed walk my way to the third floor. When I reach the final sharp corner I am knocked to the ground by a figure causing me to drop everything that I'd shoved into my bag earlier.

Damn it,¨ I moan dropping to my knees trying to pick up rolling pens and pencils before they make their way to the staircase.

I don't even look up until I am finished to find a boy organizing the fallen pieces. I grab them from his hands in my current rage, ¨You've done enough, thanks.¨

His previously amused brown eyes furrow and he rolls them and walks the opposite way without looking back. What an ass... then again my anger issues aren't one to be quite honorable in situations like that.

I quietly sneak into the Friday class sitting in the very back where the misfits and sleepers go. I luckily don't miss the large lecture but mid-lesson, the girl I recognized as Henny from the clothing store gets uncontrollable hiccups distracting me incredibly.

My already annoyed state gets increasingly agitated. But I have been practicing on avoiding outbursts and instead trying to find solutions. solutions...

I reach into my Jansport backpack and pull out a sealed water bottle I'd thrown in this morning. The moisture drips down my wrist as I reach over a couple seats and tap the girl.

Uooopp and a smile is the response I get to my gesture. Thankfully within minutes the noise has dwindled down and I focus again.

After the 8 am class, the body of students shuffle out the building. I don't have another class until 11 so I sit down in one of the courtyards beneath a tree.

Within a couple of seconds I am interrupted from my textbook reading with a tap on the shoulder. I look up pulling my earbuds out and see the girl Henny again casually sitting parallel to me.

Her bright red hair in messy pig tail braids and she has on winged eyeliner that looked like it was done by a professional. ¨Hi...?¨ I say in curiousity.

¨Hi!¨ She says in response.

¨Can I help you with something?¨

¨Oh no! You were sitting alone and I thought I'd join.¨

I like sitting alone. I want to say ¨So the hiccups are gone?¨

¨Yes! Thank you so much they are so annoying.¨ I nod in agreement. ¨So whats your major?¨

¨I haven't really decided...¨ I have been in prison for the past year so haven't thought much about that.

¨Oh! I'm a business major. I want to open my own organic soap company one day.¨ This makes me laugh.

¨Soap?¨ I ask.

She laughs, ¨Yes soap! Someones gotta do it!¨

¨I guess you're right.¨

¨So today is Friday...¨ She begins and I look up to meet her hopeful eyes.

¨Yes?¨ I drag out.

¨There's this party and it's going to be super fun. You should come to my dorm and go with me. I don't have very many girl friends and you seem cool.¨

A party... I haven't been to one in forever. But a party has temptations and I'm on parole... I have to be good... But I am not an animal I have self control! Hell I am an adult.