I began to walk towards my locker when Dakota came running towards me with a huge smile plastered all over her face.
"What happened? Tell me everything!" she was breathless from the entire running and her hair was windblown.
"What do you mean?" I knew what she meant but I wanted her to work for it.
"Hello, little meeting with Mr. Hottie McHot Hot. Please leave no details out" she seemed so excited I couldn't keep making her wait. I walked to my locker and opened it.
"Well he wanted to know if I was okay with my dad's death and everything" that probably didn't make her so happy but I was surprised when I looked at her and she was still smiling. "What?" I asked confused. I thought her excitement might lessen when she knew why he kept me after class.
"He's never been one to get involved with his students, not in the two years he's worked here" she said still smiling. Dakota wasn't one to be displeased but I knew perfectly well that Belvedere's intentions were good.
"Two years? How old is he?" I noticed the guy couldn't be more than 20 so how could he be working here two years?
"He's 22, single and absolutely gorgeous. Every teacher has her eye on him and every girl in school wants to be the one he breaks the rules with" she seemed to know a lot about Belvedere. He was absolutely stunning but I couldn't let that distract me from class. Besides he's a teacher, gross. I shook off the thought and continued to change my books.
Thankfully lunch came rather quickly after Bio, French and Math. I felt so relieved by not having to wait so much so I ran to change my books and for the second time bumped into a huge thing (a thing because that's the only word that can describe something with such power). Again I fell on my butt. I looked up and it was Belvedere again smiling his ass off. I made a stubborn face while he offered his hand to help me stand up but I rejected it. I stood up on my own and kept walking while he followed.
"I'm sorry but it's not my fault you collapse with everything you meet" he said as I turned to look at him with an angry face. He seemed amused by my face and smiled even wider.
"It's not my fault you meet me everywhere" I said widening my eyes as I spoke. He laughed gently and musically.
"I'm sorry" Belvedere kept his good distance between me and I smiled a fake smile and kept walking towards my locker to put away all of my books. I looked back and he was still standing there staring at me until he saw me looking back at him.
I made it to the cafeteria and it was packed, everyone had there own cliques and all I had was Dakota. Thankfully Dakota was a very sociable girl so when I finally spotted her she was sitting in a table with a few people. I sat next to her and looked around the table, a few faces I recognized others I didn't. I remembered Sebastian from pre-school; his hair was still long and black. His eyes were a very cool shade of brown green and he was pale with a few freckles. He was a funny guy, and there was Valerie. Two people I recognized out of four. Valerie was a very healthy girl; she always watched her weight because of her family probably. She has bad genes but she refuses to gain weight. Dakota saw I wasn't eating anything and passed me an apple, I gestured her to take it away but she insisted.
"You haven't eaten anything," she said while insisting the apple on me. I grabbed it and began to eat it, I loved green apples but I really haven't been getting hungry lately. I looked around the cafeteria and recognized Darcie sitting with her little fan club around her. Darcie was never the nice girl, ever since 1st grade she has been on my nerves. She had her blonde hair straightened out and her tanned skin recently fake tanned. Her eyes were a dark shade of brown and her eyelashes were almost invisible, I think boys had more eyelashes then her. I, on the other hand, have long eyelashes and small eyes. She had her tight skinny jeans on, a fashion blouse and her high heels for school. I looked like a loser next to her. She seemed to be gossiping about something with her friends without keeping her eyes off of something. I looked around to see what she was looking at and it was surprisingly, Belvedere. He was sitting at a table with all of the women teachers, eating his pudding after having finished his sandwich. He was very attentive to what people said and he spoke a bit now and then. Somehow he sort of felt I was looking at him and he glanced over at me, our eyes meeting only merely a second. I obligated myself to stop watching him because if I started I couldn't stop. I finished my apple, threw it away and engaged on the conversation at the table.
"Do you guys think Kevin really likes Darcie?" Dakota was asking for like the zillionth time. "Because she's really not that pretty and he's gorgeous" she seemed to always have hope for him.
"How could he like Darcie when he can like you?" Sebastian pointed out politely. He has always had a huge crush on Dakota since we were kids and we all knew it but over the years he began to accept they weren't going to happen. Even though Dakota never knew he liked her.
"Yeah, I mean Darcie's got big boobs and all but you have a big heart and you're smart and sensitive" Valerie continued. She was very supportive of people's feelings and decisions since hers was always to be skinny.
"Dakota if he's meant for you he'll come to you" I said for the zillionth time as I grabbed her hand and smiled. She smiled back and her eyes filled with happiness. It didn't seem to be of me so I turned and saw Belvedere walking behind me without even acting as if he weren't staring. I turned back blushing a new shade of pink.
"Ohmygosh he's so hot" Dakota said once again. She was sprinting with joy out of her seat and before I knew it the bell rang again. Time for elective, ugh. I have computer class.