Chapter four:
The alarm clock rang and I bolted right up from my bed. A thought came up to me: Am I going to school or not? But thinking of Venus is making want to go to school. I'm also feeling nausea in my gut. I don't know what that means whether there is danger waiting for me but I forced myself to go to school.
I chose to wear the clothes that Venus bought me for today; a black skirt and a glittery belt, and a really cool white printed top. I also put on some accessories on my neck and wrist. I didn't put on makeup because it is going to be too much for today. I tied my hair on a pony tail, and slightly higher, making me look like a cheer leader, kind of.
You wish Kayla I told myself.
I looked at the mirror and I'm a little glad to see me like what I am looking at. I'm thinking that this kind of Kayla will be famous and popular and loved by students at school. I am hoping that they will not think of the real me if they look at me.
As I walked towards the school, girls and boys turn to look at me. I felt shy. The stare they're giving me is not like at the cafeteria; it is more like 'awesomeness' stare. I gave myself a small smile for thinking about that.
I met Venus at her locker and gasped, but then hugged me. I didn't see that one coming. She said that there is just one thing missing on my look.
We headed to the rest room and she opened her mini bag, and I think it is Prada. She fished out her pink lip gloss and gave it to me.
"Here, use this. Then lemme see." She handed me her lip gloss. I turned to face the mirror and used it. I forced myself not to laugh while I was doing it. It just tickles on my lips, I never used one before.
"EHMAHGAWD! Kayla! You are the flyest country girl I've ever met, and that skirt is just sensational."
"Thank you,"
Before we get out of the rest room, Venus sprayed her neck and wrist with an awesome perfume. I can smell it and it is really good, boys will run after her and stick with her when they smell her. I wish I have one.
On the class everyone is really stunned I guess the outfit is just a lifesaver. Right now I'm already planning what to wear tomorrow. And I couldn't wait to see all the clothes at my home, I already miss them.
On the next class, Geometry, I have Leon in it. I smoothed my ponytail with my hands and took a deep breath and stepped in the class. The whole class is looking at my grand entrance, even Melissa. She is staring but at the same time, giving me a disgusting look, like she is still seeing the real or old Kayla.
On the whole class, the time went slow motion when a set of electric blue eyes looking dead straight at me, with his brown hair and blonde highlights showing, at the far corner of the room is Eddie. He always looks bored and expressionless but now he seems, I don't know different. He is looking at me with awe, and something. Just something. After that the time went to normal speed again.
The only seat left is one in front of Leon and one beside Eddie. I took the one beside Eddie. He was still looking at me and I was hoping he could say hi to me. But he just stared longer then he looked down at his desk.
Before I could think of anything else to say, the words came to me voluntarily: "Hi,"
He looked at me again, but without the awe look and replied: "Hi,"
The teacher announced that we're doing some kind of exercise and we have to work on pairs. The other students in the room already have their partners and I am stuck with him. In my head I am screaming: Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, oh my gosh, I am working with him, my top two crush, I gotta act cool.
I turned to him and say, "Hi, do you want to work with me?"
He looked at me startled that I just offered him to work with me, then says, "Sure"
"Cool"
The teacher handed out work sheets and we worked on it together. He doesn't talk much but he talks when he has to, or to say something like,
"Nice clothes, you look good."
I was startled that he just said that. To me. I smiled at him and I hope I am not doing the dork smile, coz I'd kill myself if I do that, ever again. I acted cool.
"Thanks, nice hair." I gotta give him some comment too, you know. He has a really cool hair though.
He didn't say something after that, and then we continued to work. While doing that I cracked a joke about how our teacher talks and explain something he laughed the whole class room seems to be in slow motion again except us and I am loving it because it means that more time to spend with him. And it was a really good laugh, like a song in my ears and the first time that a boy laughed to my joke. And the laugh is just influencing and I laughed harder. While laughing, I realized that I am having a good time with Eddie Simons. I never felt so much alive and glad in my life since I started school here. Thinking of Eddie as my top two crush made me remember about Leon, my top one crush. But it is not the time to think of him though, so I shoved the thought out of my mind.
The teacher spoke and it snapped me in to the reality. The boy beside me is just now smiling and he looks good with it. He should smile more often, maybe the students may want to get to know him and be his friends.
I wonder if this would happen with me and Leon, doing work together, making jokes and laughing together. I looked at him in front and saw is face expressionless and calm, or maybe bored.
I looked at left-side of his face and suddenly forgetting about what I am doing just before I look at his perfect face. My surrounding went blur and it is just him that my eyes are focused, he half-heartedly smile at Melissa and I can't help but smiling too; his smile is so influential, everyone around him must have felt like that too, or maybe it is just me.
Melissa and Zoe continued to talk and flirt with him, but he seems not noticing what they are doing, or maybe ignoring what they're doing. While watching him, I feel like dreaming or in heaven even. His calm face is so angel-like and irresistible, he can be an actor or a super model but I won't like that, because he'll have fans and more teenage girl will run after him, and he'll stop going to school, fearing that the whole student body will stampede. I wish this moment will never end, I wish I can just look at him all the time and I won't even get bored. But suddenly, it just ended.
He caught me looking at him and his face is still neutral but his eyes are glinting and its corners are slightly squinting like he is forcing not to smile. That snapped me back to reality and I can feel my cheeks are burning red and I looked down immediately to hide my burning face.
I want to punch myself for letting myself looking at him and him seeing me looking at me is just embarrassing, for me. He must be thinking how crazy I am about him or something. Eddie looked at me curiously and I gave him a nervous smile and it seems like I was frozen in my seat. The bell rang and I couldn't stand up, it is like acting on its own and they're too embarrassed to walk me into the cafeteria. I forced them to stand up and held my chin up and walked to the cafeteria.
The butterflies in my stomach are just impossible, I think they are doing back flips and climbing up and down on my stomach. Seeing the cafeteria sent chills up my spine and the thought of spaghetti and slushy came in my mind. Melissa and Zoe also came in my mind, with their faces like witches. My stomach is telling me not to enter because they probably prepared another prank for me.
I took another step and felt my gut go sideways and downwards. Yes, something bad is gonna happen. But I went inside anyway. I don't know what I am thinking but I kept on walking. The silence around the cafeteria made me stop from walking. I noticed that I am the only one walking towards the cafeteria no one is outside.
I continued anyway and as I opened the cafeteria door, my phone chimed a tune that I had set for text messages. Then something black and had hit my head and a cold green slime was all over me. The students laughed so hard, the whole cafeteria must have shook. Just as I thought the scene was over, another bucket fell on my head and next thing I know, I was covered in slime and flour, but, wait for it – the students threw eggs on me.
I was in the middle of an egg fight. Kayla versus the whole student body. Hey what are the odds?
When I was just in the urge of crying, a boy came up to me and together we went outside the cafeteria. His hands were warm and soft on my skin. He was saying something but I couldn't hear it. It is like the earth has been muted. I can't hear everything, even thought the things around me should be making noises and their own sounds, even this boy beside me. I was sure that he talking to me but I can't hear. I was like, in a state of coma.
The boy shook my shoulder and it worked well, I was then back to the reality, I heard a heart-breaking cry of a girl and noticed that it is me. The warm tears are all over my cheek, washing bits of slime and flour. And the slime and flour with eggs are crusting on my clothes and hair. Then I noticed the voice that was asking or telling me a million times since the world have been silent.
"Hey, don't cry, do you want to go home?" the voice seems familiar and I met his blue eyes, I looks worried and kind. I didn't have the motivation left to speak so I continued to cry.
I ignored Eddie's face and dunked my head on my hands. I could just stay like this forever; on the ground, with my face on my hands and no one can see my face, I am afraid of what is going to happen next when the lunch is over. People will start to flood outside the cafeteria and see me here. And I don't want that. I was just planning to stand up and head to the girl's bathroom to lock myself in one of the cubicles when a girl came to me and grabbed my arm and pulled me up. Her perfume is so relaxing and it is familiar.
Venus was helping me to go to the bathroom so she could wash me up. The boy was frozen on the ground and maybe feeling defeated that he didn't get to help me.
A voice startled me, not that it was scary but it was so calm and just relaxed. "Didn't you get my text?"
I searched for my ancient cell in my pocket and opened the message.
Kayla, do not come hir in cafeteria.
No matter wat.
Venus.
She texted me not to come inside that building, and my gut also warned me not to. But I went anyway. If only my gut could speak it was now telling me 'I told you so'
