Friday, March 21, 2008 9:12:54 PM
Disclaimer: I have completely made up the timetables suited to a friend of mine in Toronto. As for classes, I'm going by what Wikipedia has said and what I'm going through, so don't say that's wrong and they don't have those classes because I'll say "This is a fanfic and this is fiction and this is AU and I'm the author."
-ICWYWS-
The rest of the school week seemed to be scheduled ever since Monday, for Darcy at least. She would go to Pre-Calculus class; dreading and waiting for it to be over, then to English class; mainly conversing with Kamryn and completely ignoring what Ms. Kwan was trying to teach, lunch; where she split her time between Kamryn and Manny, Emma and Chantay, Biology class; blatantly waiting for the school day to end and Chemistry class; still waiting for the school day to end. As the school day would conclude, she usually found herself heading straight to the front steps from her locker, finding Kamryn preparing herself to leave. Since the two girls lived in the same general direction, they would always walk together. However, when they arrived at Darcy's house, Kamryn ended up finding herself invited to stay for a couple hours which usually meant "stay until curfew was effective".
Every time Darcy would ask Kamryn to stay for the hours she did, she always questioned if the other girl really did have time to stay at her house or she was merely being polite. Though, that debate would be easily dismissed when Kamryn would announce that homework should be done first before anything. She believed that as long as Kamryn was able to do her homework first, she was fine. Then, soon a roll of questions would come up such as: do her parents mind if she's not at home for those lengths of time, do her siblings feel neglected by her absence, or does she have other friends that she should be spending her time with? These questions continued to bring upon new ones and it was making Darcy rethink her invitations to her house.
"You do realize that sitting there is going to do nothing, right?" Kamryn's voice rang clearly through Darcy's thoughts, shaking her from her other world. It was Friday afternoon and the both of them were in Darcy's dining room doing their homework. Their textbooks, notebooks, pens, pencils, erasers and papers were strewn all over the table while they were sitting beside each other. Darcy had asked Kamryn to explain the Pre-Calculus assignment she had received earlier that morning with hopes that the other girl was studying the same thing in her class, and lucky for her Kamryn's class was studying the same thing. Unfortunately, Darcy began to zone out as soon as Kamryn started explaining, and her thoughts immediately led to questions about the other girl.
"What? I'm sorry, I missed that," Darcy quickly replied, feeling a blush creep across her cheeks. She felt so awkward blushing repeatedly in front of Kamryn; never did anyone make her blush as much as Kamryn did. She looked down and tried to keep herself from blushing into a red tomato.
"You want me to repeat the explanation?" Kamryn asked, as she twirled a pen between her fingers. She looked over at Darcy and couldn't help but find the other girl's embarrassed expression adorable. She watched as Darcy solemnly nodded in reply, not bothering to look up.
"Yes please," Darcy whispered, taking a side-glance towards Kamryn, hoping she wasn't frustrated by her ignorance.
"All right, let's take another go at this. This time, sit closer because I can barely see your book, much less your notes," Kamryn softly chuckled, pulling Darcy's chair closer towards her. This time, she leaned closer towards the notes and Darcy, hoping that the other girl was actually listening to her; which was far from the truth.
Darcy was surprised when Kamryn pulled her closer. Honestly, they were close to begin with, but now both their chairs were pressed against each other. She tried to focus on what was being explained, but all she could actually focus on was the feeling that was humming around in her stomach and the sweet scent that was coming from Kamryn. Her mind began to replay Monday's events when she was on Kamryn's bike, holding onto her for dear life. She didn't know why she felt so strange whenever she was in close proximity with the other girl, and it was starting to get to her.
"Then you would go and replace 'n' with the term you just solved for," Kamryn explained, writing notes haphazardly on the page. When she looked up to see if Darcy understood any of the notes, she saw a far away look in her eyes which indicated that was lost in space yet again. "And the term you just solved for turned into a cow and jumped over the moon," Kamryn continued, trying to see if the other girl was listening. No such luck came to her, so she sighed and propped her elbow on the table, resting her chin in her hand as she stared at the other girl.
Several minutes had passed until Kamryn decided to snap her fingers in front of Darcy's face, waking her from her trance. The other girl jumped at the sound and saw the questioning look across Kamryn's face.
"You know this is going to take a while, right?" Kamryn chuckled, watching Darcy's face begin to take on a familiar red shade. She remained propped on her elbow until her cellphone began to ring. She walked out of the room and answered her phone, leaving Darcy alone with her thoughts.
"What is going on with you? Why do you keep spacing out like this? You don't space out like with this Manny, Emma, Chantay, or Peter. I've met Kamryn and I've become a spaced out, blushing kid. How sad am I?" Darcy groaned, plopping her arms on the table, resting her head on them. She didn't understand why she was feeling the way she did. The only time she ever felt the way she did was when she had a crush on a boy long before, though she never felt it as strongly as she did now.
"I don't have a crush on her, do I?" Darcy asked herself, unable to form another reason as to why she felt the feelings she did.
"Hey D, I'm sorry, but I have to go now." Darcy looked up and watched as the other girl began packing up all her school supplies. She pulled herself back into an upright sitting position before gathering her things up as well.
"Are you busy tomorrow? I mean, do you want to go shopping, you, me and the other girls?" Darcy asked, hoping that she could at least get her friends to like Kamryn.
"Sorry, that I have to decline. I have plans tomorrow," Kamryn reluctantly replied, zipping up her backpack. She glanced over at Darcy and saw a hurt look in her eyes when she caught her gaze. She flinched at the sight and slowly slung her backpack over her shoulder.
"What about Sunday? I mean, we see each other everyday and I come to your house every afternoon, don't you think that's a bit much, especially for someone you've just met?" Kamryn added, only to see the look in Darcy's eyes deepen. She mentally scolded herself for that response and walked over to Darcy.
"You didn't have to say yes every time I asked you to come over," Darcy stated, adding a negative tone that was too obvious to be ignored. She wanted to bite her tongue after saying what she said, quickly turning to look up at Kamryn.
"I didn't have to because I wanted to. You didn't have to ask me to come over every day, but you do. I'll see you later then," Kamryn stated with no implied undertone present. She leaned over to Darcy and placed a kiss on her forehead before turning around and leaving.
Darcy sat still in her seat, not knowing what to say. She wanted to call out to the other girl and apologize for her reaction, but something held her back. She took a deep breath and quickly ran upstairs to her room, feeling horrible for what she did.
-ICWYWS-
AN: This is a short chapter because I really needed a filler in between this chapter and the next. Don't worry; I'll post the third chapter soon enough, possibly faster than this one. Again, review )
