I walked to school the next morning and noticed her talking to Paige on the front steps. I sighed and decided to say hello to her.
"Hi Alex." I told her. She whirled around and gave me a who are you look. I turned my gaze towards the school and ignored Paige and her laughing at me. I can and will make this work. One day I will say that Alex Nunez is my girlfriend.
I sat through English upset about what had happened. Jt who sat next to me noticed right away.
"What's wrong Tobes?" he asked.
"Nothing," I said way too fast. He would notice I was sure of it.
"Is Ash okay?" he asked now worried.
"Yeah she's fine." I muttered. I pretended to try and concentrate on Shakespeare. We were supposed to be studying. We were reading Romeo and Juliet how ironic. Yet completely relevant. I am no Romeo because let's face it. Romeo was probably some really good looking guy every girl wanted. He could probably turn a guys heads too. They would either be gay or just jealous beyond belief. I wasn't that. I was nowhere near that. Then again Alex isn't Juliet. I bet Juliet was nice to everyone and would speak proper and make every guy jealous of her boyfriend. Juliet would only have a guy who truly made her happy. She's popular and I'm just a nerd.
"Tobes? Tobes?!" Jt hissed.
"Huh?" I was taken aback from his voice cutting throug my thoughts.
"I said is it your dad?" JT repeated.
"No everyones fine." I said with no emotion what so ever.
"What's wrong?" he asked me again.
"I said nothing. Now read before we get in trouble." I muttered.
"Fine but you have to tell me sometime." he said.
"The hell I do!" I snapped. JT turned to me shocked. So did Emma who was sitting behind us.
"Did...did you just swear?" Jt asked.
I glared at him for a response. Jt mouthed wow but then started to read. The words seemed to blend together in my mind as they aligned themselves to spell A-L-E-X.
At passing Jt and Emma took turns jumping down my throat. "Toby if somethings seriously wrong you'd tell us right?" Emma asked.
"Of course." I mumbled. I was on auto-pilot. I don't take rejection well.
"Tobes come on!" Jt said.
Then I saw Alex walking down the hall towards me. She couldn't be coming to talk to me. I was invisible to her. I turned around and glanced around to look for Paige and her circle but I saw no one.
"Hey Todd." She called to me.
"Toby." I corrected her.
"Whatever. Look Paige was being mean earlier. Just ignore her." Then she kept walking. Emma rolled her eyes. Jt eyes were open really wide when he noticed the smile on my face.
"That's pathetic. How can she call Paige mean? She doesn't even care what your name is." Emma said. She obviously didn't like Alex.
"Toby...please tell me...that I'm wrong..." Jt said. Emma looked at us clueless.
"What?" she asked.
"Nothing, Em. Could you give us a minute?" Jt asked her. Still in shock.
"Um okay...see you at lunch..." she said before running after Manny.
"Jt I'd love to talk but I'll be late." I said turning down the hall before he could interrogate me. That was close. Jt could tell if I was lying and I didn't want to upset him. I had math class now. I made it just in time. I just thought of a great idea. At the bell I approached Mr. Armstrong.
"Sir could you give me another problem I could solve at lunch?" I asked knowing Alex would be there.
"Of course. Great work on the other one." I nodded my thanks because honestly I couldn't talk. All I could do was smile as he handed me a piece of paper. It was a lot shorter and would take about seven minutes. I could hardly breathe. I was so happy. I never felt this way with Kendra. I sat through a long hour of Media Immersion when it finally ended. I then started on the problem. It was going great until Alex walked in. She sat across the room from me like before. Just like yesterday she didn't acknowledge my existence on her way in.Mr. Simpson left and I continued to work. Since her entry int the room about three minutes ago I noticed I made five different mistakes. She was breath taking. Her raven hair laid flat on her head. Not a strand out of place. She was beautiful.
"Issacs?" she asked turning around. Did she catch me staring.
"Yes?" I asked red from embarrassment of noticing my starring.
"This math crap is retarded. It won't work." she grumbled obviously angry.
"Okay..." I said.
"Come fix it!" Alex said annoyed I didn't get it. I jumped up and almost ran over. I looked it over before nearly laughing at her mistake. It was really familiar.
"Right there...on the third line. Two plus two is four not-" she cut me off.
"Twenty-two." she laughed erasing her mistake. "I'm an idiot sorry." she muttered.
"No...you're not." I said. She looked up at me surprised and lifted one eyebrow at me.
"...Okay...Thanks..uhhhh..."
"Toby." I told her.
"Thanks Toby." she said awkwardly. I freaked her out. That's great. I was still hovering over her when Jt came in. He came alone which surprised me. He gave me an Am I interrupting look. I motioned him to my desk across the room. I walked away from her and sat down at my desk. I smiled and typed the answer at the bottom and hit print.
"Toby?" Jt asked.
"What?" I asked.
"You know?" he said.
"Does it matter?" I asked. Jt didn't answer. I pulled the page from the printer.
"Bye Alex." I called leaving.
"Bye Toby."