I followed a couple kids inside Ms. Gomez's room, I look from schedule to find the science tables beginning to fill up with kids. I looked around the room for the teacher but, she isn't in it. Well damn, where am I supposed to sit..
I notice a girl in the back who seems to be smiling at me, she has an empty seat next to her.
I give her a small grin as I head back to the seat clentching my binder and bag strap,
i seat myself next to her setting my stuff on the small space in front of me.
"Thanks, I was beginning to think i was gonna have to sit on the floor.." I softly chuckled out as I take out my pen looking over at the brunette seated beside me.
"No dude, I'd never let that happen.. Plus I really dig your hair. I'm Miley by the way." She smiles at me as she reaches out her hand. I take it smiling "I'm D.." but i was interrupted by that familiar voice echoing through the classroom.
"Ohh would you look here, lost little Demi managed to score to get inside my room." Ms. Gomez cheered out as she closed to the door behind her, locking her eyes with mine. I began to lightly blush as everyone's attention turned to me, I tapped my pencil against the table skimming past the many pairs of wondering eyes. "Uhh yeahh.. I'm Demi.. The new kid." I awkwardly spoke out as I curled my lips slightly looking back up at Ms. Gomez.
"I actually ran into Miss Lovato earlier, she's from California everyone." She smiles at me before turning her attention to the writing on the board.
"Demi you're lucky you came now, were about to start the whole lesson on DNA.. Do you know what DNA stands for?" I look up to find people are still eyeing me down "Um.. Isn't it Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid..?" She immediately turns around looking at me with shock written all over her face. "Did you already study this at your other school?" She asks me, blankly staring at me. I shake my head starting to smile.
"My gir.. friend! Friend, one of my best friends was a major biology junkie. She loved to study it, I was in chemistry when I left East high.." I bit my lip as I remembered what my mother had said. Not to be too openly gay, I have yet to figure out if people support it here or not.
Where I came from we lived close to West Hollywood, so Alex and I would spend most of our time in and around there since, nobody who wasn't gay or at least accepting of it was no where to be found.
"Well well well it looks like your friend knows her books right." her face finally eases into a smile as she picks up a stack of papers starting to pass them out. I smile as I lightly grasp the locket she had given me around my neck nodding a little.
She sure knew everything, Alex wasn't the one to be that smart at school but, when it came to biology or art, she was absolutely amazing at it. She never gave herself enough credit for it though.. The class seemed to go pretty fast, once the bell ring I started to pack up my stuff, since it was lunch I shouldn't have to rush too much.
"Demi, do you have any plans for lunch?" I look up to find Ms. Gomez looking down at her papers.
"Umm no, as crazy as it sounds I was gonna go outside and find a nice tree to sit underneath.." She looks up at me starting to laugh.
"Well instead of freezing outside, you can come join me for lunch if you'd like. I'm not a big fan of eating in the teachers room so, you can go grab something from the cafe and come back." I quickly nodded getting out of my seat picking up my stuff. "Is it okay if I leave my stuff in here then?".
She smiles taking out her lunch from the bottom drawer of her desk. "Yeahh of course, you can move up closer if you want, so it doesn't feel like were shouting across the room." I smiled as I moved my shit up to the front seat setting my phone underneath my bag.
The walk to the cafe was short but, it was crowded with kids everywhere and there wasn't a coffee machine in sight. Great.
At least in Cali we were actually allowed to leave for lunch but, Alex would always get me my favorite from Starbucks and we'd just sit underneath our favorite tree by the volleyball nets.
I really miss her, I miss her laugh, I miss her kisses, I miss her little surprises she'd leave me here and there.
I decided to get a iced tea, a muffin and bag of popped rice snacks. They didn't have much of a selection for hot foods.
There was only the 'fast' food bar, the cooked meal bar and a salad bar.
They didn't have a pasta bar which was my favorite to get at home. God why does this place have to be such a hell hole?
I managed to get through the lunch line fairly quickly, as I was walking back to Ms. Gomez's class I could hear faint music playing. The closer I got the louder it got, I raised my eyebrow slowly entering the room noticing it was coming from her computer. She was too busy reading to notice me at the door. I bit my lip as I quietly walked over to my seat setting food on the table.
She looks up at me swallowing her bite as she wiped her mouth with a napkin. "Oh does the music bother you? I can shut it off if you'd like, I just like to listen to music while I eat. It's calming and whenever you have a good lunch the day goes by quicker."
I smile at her as I shake my head opening my tea. "No its perfectly okay, I just can't believe you listen to them." I take out my folder from my bag opening it. It's filled with pictures of Alex, my group of friends, more pictures of Alex, a couple drawings she did for me and of course pictures of both of us together.
"Who forever the sickest kids? I'm not that old ya know.. I'm only 22." She smirks as she finishes her sandwich, I look up to find her looking at me then her eyes shift down to the pictures i have scattered across the table.
I'm in the middle of organizing them on a piece of paper for the front of my binder, since Alex had already decorated the inside of it with her name written all over it.
I was about to say something when my phone started vibrating against the table. Both of our eyes shift to my bag, I bite my lip as I look up at her, my eyes must have said it all because, she gave me a slight nod.
My Boo Lexi 3 : baby how's school going? are they treating you okay? fuck i miss you so much.. were still on for our Skype date right?
D : its shitty but im managing.. yeahh for the most part do you know they don't have a single coffee machine or Starbucks around here?! like what kind of shit is that.. of course boo i wouldn't miss it for the world. I miss your face :c
My Boo Lexi 3 : well fuck them too. I literally almost left to go get your coffee too :( god i fucking hate this.. Demz please tell me we wont let this distance get between us..
D : never baby, its you and me forever. like i told you before we made love, it'll always be you and i..3
My Boo Lexi 3 : I love you so fucking much Demetria. Don't you ever forget that either, i got to go, Starrs glaring at me.. I love you. I love you I love you..
Instead of replying, I smile locking my phone as my thumb brushes over her picture in my hand right now. She looks so happy, im so lucky to be able to call this beauty mine.
" So was that your girlfriend?" Ms. Gomez questions me with a smile plastered across her lips. I look up at her starting to blush nodding a little.
"Ho.. How'd you know?"
She lightly shrugs her shoulders stacking her papers on her desk before getting up walking over to sit on the edge of my table.
"I had a feeling by the way you were smiling at your phone and earlier in class I caught of what you were going to say.. Is this her?" She asks as she picks up a picture of the both of us, we were cuddled up on the couch, my head was rested against her shoulder and she was kissing my head giving whoever was taking the picture the finger.
I nodded gluing some of the pictures to the paper. "Yeah thats my Lexi." I smile looking up to find her looking through the other pictures I had spread out.
"She seems to be quite a character, how long have you guys been together?"
"Umm.. Well on the 21st it'll be exactly 3 years but, we've known each other since we were 8." I was almost finished when the bell rang. I let out a quiet sigh realizing it was time to leave, I actually enjoyed being around Ms. Gomez. She was nice and pretty easy going.
As I gathered my stuff together, I had my schedule laying out on the table which she was looking over it.
"Why don't you have any classes scheduled from 12:55 til 2:25?" I looked up at her putting the strap over my head.
"Well for this week they will be empty cause I have to sign up for my electives. Are you busy by any chance during those two periods?" She smiled and shook her head getting up from her desk.
"The class coming in is actually my last for the day, those are my two free periods since im booked all morning." I began to relax knowing I could always come here instead of going to the library.
"When then I guess I'll see around 12:30 then." She began to laugh as she erased the chalk off the board, she looked over giving me a warm smile.
"I'll see at 12:30 lost little Demi." I smiled shaking my head as I walked out of the room and started my way to my next class.
