Chapter 21

Chapter 21 of "Forever My Love."

I had been gone longer than I had realized because a girl from my class came in and told me Mrs. Hazard had sent her to come find me. She “escorted” me back to class where we got to the part where Nemo almost got turned into sushi by the filtration system in the movie. My eyes stayed glued to the screen but my mind drifted to other faraway places. I was so far gone I hadn’t realized the everyone was standing at the door ready to leave until Mrs. Hazard turned on the lights immediately bringing my mind back. Feeling embarrassed I quickly scooped up my books and left through the other door to avoid pushing through a crowd of cold judging stares. I was never good at making eye contact with people in the halls as I passed them. Instead I stared at the ground careful not to bump into anyone. It was epically hard because it was lunch time and everyone was eager to get to the cafeteria for greasy overcooked slices of pizza and French fries that didn’t even LOOK right. And yet people still pated 3 bucks everyday for it.

        I reached my locker and swapped Spanish for Science. Mrs. Polari was REALLY strict about her period 6 class-my class-going to their lockers BEFORE lunch instead of after. But of course every Friday some IDIOT screws it up and walks in late and for the next 10 minutes the WHOLE class is receiving a lecture about responsibility and other worthless s**t that no one’s paying attention to.

        I made my way down the two flights of stairs-which is EXTREMELY precarious with all the pushing and shoving-with the rest of the crowd. The key is just to elbow your way through until everyone pours through the four, oddly heavy, door and into the hallway that leads to the cafeteria, the stairs leading to the girls and boys locker room, and the music room.

        To actually get INTO the cafeteria is 2 ways. Walk down the three stairs (which is too much of a struggle for some people) or go down the wheel chair ramp. I turned the corner of the teacher’s longue entrance on the edge of the wall and crashed right into another girl. Both of our stuff spilled onto the ground causing people to curse at us for blocking the ramp.

        “Sorry.” I mumbled bending down getting ready to be called a freak.

        “No it’s my fault.” said the other girl kneeling down to help. Once our stuff was back in order we both stood up and met eyes.

        “I’m Theresa by the way.” She said holding out her free hand to me.

        “I’m Jamie.” I said returning the gesture. Theresa seemed different than all the other fake preppy b*****s here at this school. And not just because she looked different. Theresa had short biker hair with some lose strands dangling around her face. Her green soft eyes gave her that look that made you want to be nice to her. Besides her features her blue skinny jeans white tank top covered by a light brown jacket and female biker boots seemed to give her a laid back kind of look.

        “Nice to meet you, so sorry about your loss” she said.

        “How did you…”

        “You hear things in this school.” As much as I HATED hearing those words by now when she said it, it seemed truly sincere.

        “Course. Well thank you.”

        “Oh I guess you two have met” said Rachel coming up to us, “I met Theresa in music and I told her about you and I was gonna introduce you guys. But I guess you got that covered.”

        “Yeah we kind of walked into each other.” I explained.

        “Who walked into who?” Out of nowhere a guy appeared behind me making me jump. He had dark long brown hair with a skater cut and was wearing a maroon long sleeve sweater with a pink stripped dress shirt underneath that would make most guys look like nerds but it just made his blue eyes stand out.

        “RIDER!!” Theresa squealed dropping her books and jumping into his arms she kissed him as her body fitted his perfectly. She draped her arms around his neck and touched her head with his. “This is my boyfriend Rider McKnight. Rider these are my two friends Jamie and Rachel.”

        “Hi nice to meet you both.” I wasn’t expecting shaking Rider’s hand since his arms were around Theresa’s waist holding her close.

I couldn’t help but feel envy as I stared at them together. So happy, so hopeful so…in love. And I could remember a time when that was me. The happy go lucky girl so in love with her “perfect half” living a dream not believing her perfect life could be shattered by something as simple as water.

I hadn’t realized how weird I looked basically glaring at Theresa and Rider until Rachel spoke obviously trying to dissolve the awkward moment I had created.

“So I was actually planning on catching a move tonight, you guys wanna come with?”

“Sure we’d love to!” chimed Theresa.

“Cool! Jamie you wanna come?” I saw how badly Rachel wanted this, and I realized how long it’d been since we ACTUALLY hung out. So I put on a smile and nodded.

“Awesome!” Theresa turned to Rider and cupped her hands under her chin “Hey rider can I borrow some money for lunch?”

“Sure,” he said pulling out his wallet of his back pocket, “how much?”

“Umm…” suddenly Theresa snatched the wallet from his hands and like hell down the hall still dodging kids coming to lunch
“HEY THERESA GIVE IT BACK!!!” And then Rider was hauling A*S after her. Rachel and I couldn’t help but bust a gut laughing. But suddenly a wave of dizziness slammed into me so hard my vision blurred. Everything sounded muffled and fuzzy. And then I was falling. I saw blurred figures running towards me except for one that just stood there watching me with those all too familiar cold black eyes. And I knew, it was her.

Author's Note

Hehe enjoy the long chapter!!! Theresa's character was inspired by my friend ^^ She is just as bad ass and crazy!

Reviews

[Daydreamer54]

Ugh! i wonder what this mysterious girl wants from her! And i also wonder how Theresa can call jamie her firend when they just met.
pated-paid
PS- i agree the wallet part was funny! ^^

[Leave me alone....]

XD OMG I LOVE THAT YOU USED THE WALLET SCENE!!!!!!! XDDDDD OMG I LOVE MY CHAR AND LOL RIDER XDDDDD I CAN'T STOP LAUGHING OVER THAT!!

and NOOOOOOOOOOO~ awww T-T poor Jamie WHY MUST SHE SEE WHOEVER THE HELL IT IS THAT SHE KEEPS SEEING?!?!?!