Window to Another World
"Suze!" The yell echoed up the stairs and bounced off the walls in my room. I grunted. "SUZE!" This was how it had been for the first ten minutes of my dreary morning. "Suuuuuuuuuuuze" Brad's voice seemed to have reached a pitch that, before today, I didn't think was possible for a guys vocal cords. "Suze," came the voice of David, my other stepbrother. "you should probably get up now or you'll be late and you won't have time to do your hair."
I, of course, didn't want to get out of bed, but the sound of Brad's voice and Dave's reasoning, convinced me. So, with one final moan, I sat up in bed and yelled down the stairs, "OK, OK, I'm up".
I stumbled out of bed and somehow managed to put on the clothes I had chosen for the first day of the new school year, applied my makeup and ate an energy bar.(which actually is a good breakfast, especially since it was blueberry flavored) The rest of the morning went by like a hazy dream until I got in the land rover with Brad, David and Jake, who was driving. "Wow Suze, what happened? We might even be early to school today!"
I rolled my eyes and, with a smile replied, "Must be a first day thing." Now it was Jake's turn to roll his eyes. "Yeah today it only took about nine times to call you. Usually it takes ten." With that, he started the engine and we were off to the mission.
As soon as I stepped out of the car I spotted CeeCee. She's kind of hard to miss, being an albino and all. I walked up to her and was about to open my mouth and say hi, when she saw me and said in an excited voice, "Oh my gosh, Suze, you'll never guess! There's a new student, from Seattle." Seattle, who did I know from Seattle? Then I saw him and I remembered. Paul.
CeeCee, who, it seemed, had also glimpsed Paul, said in a not-so-hushed whisper, "Suze look! Oh no, you missed him! I hope he's in our homeroom!" Now you know how the rest of my morning went.
It wasn't until CeeCee and I were headed to our homeroom after morning assembly that I saw Paul again, only this time, he saw me. Paul was one of those people who is always looked at, watched. Guys watch him because they're impressed, girls because they're impressed too, but in a different way. So, when Paul walked up to me, I had a right to be a little nervous, right?
"Hey Suze." He said. "Hi Paul. I didn't know you were transferring to the mission." How dumb could I possibly be? Of course I didn't know he was transferring, he hadn't told me. "You know him?" CeeCee said in what she thought was a whisper. Apparently not soft enough because Paul answered, "Yeah, Suze and I had sort of a thing last summer." "A thing?" CeeCee echoed. Then, before Paul of I could answer, a novice came up and said "Mr. Slater, Father Dominic wants to speak with you." And with one dazzling smile, he was gone.
If it wasn't a thing, then why did he call it a thing? CeeCee wrote on one of her spare papers in her notebook. I picked up my pen and was about to write back when Mr. Burnes announced, "Class, we have a new student in our homeroom today." I looked up expecting to see Paul, but the person at the front of the room couldn't be Paul. He had curly brown hair and a perfect bronze face. But the fact that made it obvious just from one glance that he wasn't Paul, was that he was in a wheelchair.
Thank you to my reviewers for encouraging me to write this story- Zoe xxx, .Darkness.007, I Want To Be Jesse's Girl