Note: The beginning is a little dark, but please keep reading. It gets happier! Also, this my first fanfic, so forgive me if it's not that great. I would really appreciate some constructive criticism and reviews! :)
Summary: Levi Calloway has moved to Degrassi with his father after his mother's sudden death.
I tried to concentrate...but all I could hear, all that reflected in my mind...the pen clicking and clicking behind me, the girl to my right bite-bite-biting her nails, the boy beside me scratching, scribbling, tearing away in his notebook...all I could think about was my mother.
It had been a few weeks since I came home and found her dead. The doctors had declared it was a brain aneurysm. Since then, I moved back to Toronto with my dad. As I tried to distract myself with the students around me I looked out the window and started thinking again.
"Mr. Calloway... ahem, Mr. Calloway, can you hear me." I snapped back to reality. I looked up. "Do you have an answer?" The round belly of the short moustached man stood before me.
"I'm sorry Mr. Perrino, what was the question?" I automatically responded.
He looked at me and sighed. "Would someone like to help Mr. Calloway out?" The class was quiet.
Suddenly, I heard the soft feminine voice speak, "he wants to know," I turned to see who the voice belonged to, "if you can turn on the projector for him." As I turned, her piercing gray blue eyes met mine, and I saw her smile sweetly. "It's right above you."
I looked up, and smiled back. I turned back toward the chubby man glaring at me, and stood up to turn on the projector.
He went back to the front of the room, turned off the lights, and started his presentation. In the dim darkness, I turned back around to see the girl with the beautiful eyes. She moved her eyes from the screen to look at me and shot me a quick thumbs up. I nodded and turned back around. Out of all the darkness, I started to feel something different, something brighter, something happier.
The weeks went on. The days passed I continued to face the world in oblivion, I acted like a normal person. I did what the world asked me. I acted as I was supposed to, and in this new town people couldn't notice the difference. The father I barely knew didn't know the difference. To him, I was just a quiet, introverted young man.
I stared down at my notebook. Nothing. I hardly wrote anything in English. We had gone over almost all the same books in my old school. 'School,' I thought. The school was a euphoric irony. It sort felt it like it had been pulled out of the 50s only to meet the shameless scandals of modern society. For goodness sake, the school had uniforms and hall monitors. It was probably the first time I had heard the word hall monitor since Ferris Buhler. And then the cell phone jamming was just on the verge of crazy. The irony of reading 1984.
The bell rang. I stood up and walked out of the classroom as I did every day. I walked to my history class as I always did. As I entered the room, I saw her. She was staring out the window. I noticed her soft curly hair as she twirled it around her finger. She had an offbeat yellow tie on her uniform. "Cute," I thought as smiled to myself. I had managed to notice her quite often in the time that had passed.
But today, caught she my glance. As I began walking, she continued to watch me. Something overcame me. 'Let's do something different today,' I thought as I neared. I looked directly at her and smiled.
"Hi," I said calmly.
"Hello," she smiled the sweet, genuine smile she always did. I smiled back and looked toward the window. "Looking for some fresh air today?" she asked.
"Um, yeah. Do you think anyone will mind if I sit here?" I asked.
"No one sits in the same seat every day, but if you're asking me, yes I do mind. I don't like strangers." she grinned slyly. I had never really spoken to anyone in the class except to talk about the books we were reading. I had stayed out of any personal conversations.
"I have never really introduced myself, have I?"
"I'm waiting," she smiled, showing her lone dimple.
"Hello, I'm Levi."
"I'm Fiona."
"So you chose not to turn green," I joked as I sat down behind her.
"Ah...no. That was pretty cheesy," she turned to me with a crooked smile.
"Ouch, and you wondered why I never introduced myself," I said.
"Hey, I never wondered. I couldn't care less," she played along.
"This conversation is getting scarier as I speak. Let's tone it down." I joked.
The bell rang. "You're lucky, this could have gotten really ugly," she giggled.
Mr. Perrino ushered us to quiet down, and class passed as normal. After class ended, Fiona turned to me. "I'll see you later." I felt something inside me. Excitement.