There was a faint knock on the classroom door. I immediately looked up from my scribble of notes to see the teacher approach the door. There stood a perfect looking girl. She had her hair bunched into two pigtails was wearing a university jacket over a pink tank top with spaghetti straps, bleached wripped short shorts, and pink filp flops along with a trucker cap with a "D" on the front. She was clutching her textbook in her arms. I may have accidentally over heard the new girl and teachers conversation.
"Ah you're the new girl... um Clementine? Was it?"
"Yes ma'am." Clementine replied smiling. Her voice was silky smooth like caramel. I suddenly felt something hit the back of my head. I looked behind to see a piece of scrunched up paper next to the legs of my chair. I glanced over at Nick he just shrugged. I unfolded the paper to find a note scribbled on it in Nick's same awful handwriting.
"Do you like the new girl? Y or N?" I shrugged at him as I re-scrunched the paper and threw it back at him. Nick was my best friend, he sat one away from me so every time he threw a note at me it had to go over another kid's head. It was a stupid system but it worked.
"You can take a seat next to Luke." I looked up hearing my name to see the teacher pointing at the seat next to me. I watched as the new girl um... Clementine set down her books and sit next to me. She looked over at me and I smiled and gave her a little wave. I was soooo bad at this. She smiled back. I felt another piece of paper hit the back of my head and I looked back at Nick, he had a smirk on his face. *TWAP* I looked back at my desk to see a ruler slammed on it. I looked up to see Mrs. Oaki glaring at me.
"Luke, please focus." she said in her usual stern voice. "So will you do it or not?" I looked up confused.
"Do what?" I asked looking up at her.
"After class can you please show Clementine to her classes? She's majoring in Art History, and has got a minor in Agriculture along with this one of course. She also needs to be shown her dorm room." I nodded silently. Those were the same classes I had. I wonder if we had the same teacher in the Agriculture one considering there were two different houses containing an agriculture professor and class.
"RIIIIIIIIING"
Finally, class was over. I hadn't gotten a single thing down in notes ever since Clementine sat next to me. I felt stupid around her for some reason. I stood up and grabbed my backpack off the back of my chair.
"Ready?" I asked looking over at her. She nodded, Clem didn't talk much now that I thought about it... as we approached the door I held it out for her. She didn't even question it which was odd. Nick went through too and sent me a smirk as he headed for his next class. I rolled my eyes at him.
"Okay so follow me." I said as I gestured her as I began to walk down the hallway.
"What was I supposed to do?" she said sarcastically. I had to really listen to hear her say it but I did.
"Yeah, yeah you're right." I smiled back as we continued to walk down the hallway.
"Okay so this is our Art History class." I said as I opened the door for her to go in and look around. She nodded as she looked around.
"Next?" she asked with a small smile on her face. She was actually... really cute when she smiled.
"Eh, lemme see your schedule." I said as she put her backpack down on a desk. She slowly pulled out a folded up piece of paper and handed it to me. I unfolded it. We DID have the same agriculture teacher.
"Kay." I said handing her back the paper. "C'mon I've got that room too." I said gesturing for her to follow me again. We walked down the hallway in complete silence not counting the small whispers I kept hearing from people standing by the bathrooms and water fountains, anywhere really.
"Are you like... I don't know, popular?" I heard a small voice ask behind me. I looked back at Clem.
"Well yeah, I guess you could say that. But it really doesn't matter all 'n all." I replied as we reached the agriculture room. "Here it is." I pulled open the door letting her poke her head in the small classroom before us. I looked up at the clock on the wall.
"Dammit!" I said under my breath as I slammed my fist against my leg.
"What?" Clementine questioned looking back at me.
"Oh we're late for lunch which is my BEST class." I said as we started to rush through the crowd now also rushing through the hallway. We um... fastly walked for what seemed like forever.
"Hey can I uh, sit with you at lunch?" I looked back at Clementine surprised, usually people who weren't really friends with me didn't ask they just kinda shy away from it.
"Sure." I smiled back at her as we walked out the door to the outdoor eating area. This is our table. I said as we approached a table by the food truck. Nick sat down at the table slamming down two cans of "Switch"