Chapter 4
"He wanted to meet you hmmm?" Riya said pulling her ear phone out of her ear. I sighed as we headed to the fine arts building.
"I don't get it…if anything I'm more confused now than I was before…" I said letting my head fall.
"Well he is pretty hot…" I stared at her as we walked
"…Nice Riya"
"Well he is!"
"…okay he is. I couldn't stop staring at him because he looked so nice today AND THAT IS BESIDES THE POINT" Riya laughed at me trying to get back on topic "I can't figure it out…you'd think he'd want to ask me why he was in my dream but he doesn't seem to care one bit"
"Maybe he knew where he was?" She asked yanking the doors open
"Beats me…oh well. I'll see you after this" I said open the first door on the right
"Love you" She called as I walked into the room. My smallest class, about 11 maybe 12 kids at the most. Half the class were seniors. I sat by myself off in a little section since…well I never said anything in there. I was surprised when people even spoke to me. I sat down and leaned up against the wall. The other kids were talking…about sex I think so I pretended I didn't exist, something I found very simple sometimes.
"…you're in here too huh?" My head shot up from gazing at the magnificent ground (not really…it was a piece of crap) to find someone I wasn't expecting
"Cloud?" He raised his eyebrows
"Who else would it be?" He said swiftly sitting in the chair by me. I stared at him
"…some sort of creeper?" I finally came up with. He just looked at me before looking to the phone in his hands. I gave up then and went back to coloring random sections of my agenda. Hey it passes time, and it was sort of fun too. The last bell rang and still there was no sign of a teacher.
"Does the teacher just not teach?" I looked behind me at the expressionless face
"No…well sometimes he does. Sometimes we present, like towards the end of next month, and other times we do…nothing" He sighed
"Sounds boring…" I giggled
"It is. But at least it's a free study hall" I said smiling. He continued to play with his phone
"It's too bad…" Okay how come EVERYTIME I turned BACK AROUND, he just HAD say something?
"What is?" I asked deciding it was best to sit sideways instead of forward
"That we didn't get to ask you questions…" I think I had a confused look on my face, because he explained what he meant "Japanese…the introduction"
"Ohhh…why would you want to ask questions to everyone?" I said giggling "Half the class is crazy over something, the other half is weird"
"I only wanted to ask one person" I glanced up at him from my workbook. I put my elbows on the pages of it with my chin resting in my hands
"Ohh? And who would that be?" I had to hold back making comments about being gay or wanting to have sex with the girls
"You" I blinked in surprise
"Me?"
"You"
"…why?" I asked crossing my arms
"I have my reasons…" He stated looking to the front. His spikes somehow still stayed up straight…it was actually really cool to watch his head move
"…reasons you have no intention of telling me huh?" He gave a nod "Then why would you even tell me in the first place?" He shrugged "…Nice excuse" I muttered looking back at my workbook
"…have you been here all your life?" He suddenly asked.
"Umm yeah. All 16 years of it" I didn't bother to look up this time. Instead I just kept scribbling words onto my paper.
"I see…" There was silence now and it was somewhat awkward. Cloud gave off this aura off don't-talk-to-me-I-don't-care-what-you-say, so I saw little point in speaking to him. At the same time I wanted to get him to talk to me…because well…honestly I'm not sure. I think it's that whole you want what you can't get thing going on. It was a little bit of a shocker to see Cloud in my 4th hour, let alone in my Japanese class as well
"Are you a sophomore?"
"Yep"
"And you're in year 3 already?"
"I took it in 8th grade." I stated simply, flipping to the next page. Oh god did I hate Kanji.
"I see…" I finally looked up to him, somewhat missing his face
"What are you doing?" He looked to me
"Hmm?"
"You keep asking me questions" I said narrowing my eyes
"Yes"
"…why?" He shrugged
"Not much else to do" He looked back down at his phone and I caught a glimpse of two kids on his phone…TWO KIDS? I tried not to panic but if he had kids already…oh god I was going to go off on that.
"Does it bother you?"
"Not really…I think" He looked up at me
"You think?"
"I'm just not used to it" I closed my workbook, finally done "I'm the quiet kid who sits in the corner in most of my classes…people don't talk to me"
"You talk a lot in Japanese"
"Because I know everyone in there" I smiled "They're in a way family sometimes" He kept staring at me with no emotion
"I see…"
"What about you?"
"Hmm?"
"Do you ever talk?"
"I'm talking now aren't I?"
"Other than this, you hardly speak" He leaned back in his seat putting his arms behind him
"I suppose…" …why was I, someone who LOVED to talk talking to someone who hardly spoke? Can someone tell me the answer to this? Just then the door opened and someone who was most definitely not Mr. Nicholas came in
"Okay…so Mr. Nicholas isn't here so you guys have a study hall" Everyone continued doing exactly what they were doing which was talking loudly, laughing loudly and playing music.
"Is this how most days are?" I nodded to him
"Yeah…like I said, free study hall." I stretched "We do this nearly everyday" He gave a little nod and closed his eyes. I decided to take advantage of this situation and take more of him in. Sometimes, I'll admit it, I can be a bit boy crazy but it's only over specific guys that I go nuts over…and so far Cloud was up there on my personal list of guys who were so amazingly hot I could stare at them all day and be perfectly happy. I honestly got yelled at when I was in 1st grade for staring at someone, so since then I've tried to be careful but hey! If you get caught, you lie
"What are you looking at?" Okay this whole spacing out had to stop because he caught me staring at him
"What?" I said stupidly
"…you keep looking at me…"
"Have you looked at your eyes?" I asked checking my phone for the time. Hey, my phone was far more reliable than the actual clock in there.
"…last time I looked I had them…" He muttered
"They nearly glow!" I think I saw him tense up a bit "Sorry I'll shut up" I said quietly
"It's fine…" The rest of the time, which was about ten minutes luckily for me, was silence between him and I. It was indeed awkward, but it was better than having awkward conversations.
I think…
I gathered my stuff up into my bag and lifted it up to get the shoulder strap on me. Oh messenger bags...so classy but so heavy.
"How many more minutes…?" I glanced at Cloud, who still was leaning back, eyes closed and arms behind his head.
"Two or so...oh wait it's one now" I said seeing the time on one of the few computers. He got up groggily and stretched. He even made stretching hot.
"Good…I was about to fall asleep" The bell rang and I followed the 10 or so kids and made an immediate right "Why are you going that way?" I stared to Cloud who stood by the door.
"Because Riya and I walk to lunch together" He eyed me before shrugging
"I'll see you soon I suppose" He followed the crowd as I watched after him. I let out a little sigh
"Something tells me…it might be better to not talk to him" I muttered to myself and went into Riya's classroom