NOTE: This is from Henry's POV... so if you decided not to read from his... SKIP THIS... but i recommend reading :D
Today was the last time I would enter this classroom. The first day of summer was tomorrow, and I was actually going to miss this room. The white walls and assigned seats showed some uniformity in everybody's busy lives. There was no guarantee I would see anyone over the summer. No guarantee I could see Cassidy. You couldn't call her my girlfriend; you couldn't really define us as friends either, really. Both of those words were too subtle to define our relationship; I liked to call her my soul mate, she just doesn't know it yet.
Henry, stop staring, I thought to myself, she is going to notice eventually that you can't keep your eyes off her. Just as I thought that I looked over as Cassidy again; she was slowly turning her head in my direction to meet my gaze. Just as quickly, she put her eyes down. She turned back to whatever paper she was writing, so I turned my attention back to Ms. Smith, who was telling us about a summer writing assignment. Boring, what was I supposed to write about if I wasn't doing anything this summer?
"Fritz," David whispered, answering my unspoken question, "Look who invited us to Paris for the summer."
Ms. Smith dismissed the class and I walked with David over to the doorway to wait for Cassidy and Kasey. I was able to sight Cassidy through the crowd immediately; the soft pink top she was wearing today really brought out the blue in her eyes. David nudged me, a silent plea for me to focus, as he too spotted the girls.
"I am so excited for your trip back to my hometown," David greeted the girls with a smile and put his arm around Cassidy, purposefully tormenting me, "The eight of us are going to have so much fun."
"You already got your invite?" she asked him, "I sent out the email like 3 minutes ago!"
He pointed to his blackberry and laughed, "I have everything in here. Henry and I are quite excited."
"Awesome," Kasey interrupted, it seemed like she was trying too hard to talk to me, and "it's great you can come."
I nodded, what else was I supposed to say? Cassidy looked over at me suspiciously, so I struck up a conversation with David. I wasn't really paying attention to whatever it was I had decided to talk about, Cassidy was still looking at me. I looked to the ground, played with my collar, anything to keep me busy, and when I looked again her eyes were focused on something else.
David started to say something important again and the "school's out" bell rang. Finally it was summer. It was amazing how in three minutes my summer could change from boring and stupid to amazing and fun filled. Paris was going to be awesome. It was one of the cities of love right? I could win over Cassidy's heart this summer just in time for senior year.
"So we are still going shopping tomorrow at one Cass?" Kasey asked, using the stupid nickname everyone was giving her. The name Cassidy was so much prettier.
"Shopping?!" David exclaimed with a snort, "Why shop here when you can have the luxury of shopping in France?"
"Because we have to have something to where while we are shopping in Paris," Kasey retorted giving him "the look", "duh."
"Girls," I muttered, I couldn't understand why they needed to shop, shop, shop, all the time. It made no since to me whatsoever.
Cassidy smiled, maybe she thought I was funny but then said, "Maybe David's right Kasey! We can just wear whatever we have here⦠and save all of our money for Paris!!"
"Cassidy makes since," I said, rubbing my hands through my hair, "but now we've got to go pack too. Sunday 1pm?"
She nodded as she got into the car. I had a lot of stuff to get ready for a summer in Paris. Make that, a summer in Paris, with Cassidy Reynolds.
