Hey loves...hopefully the last chapter was good? (:
Disclaimer: don't own TT.
Ugh. Monday mornings were a bitch. I woke up to my alarm clock and stretched out my arms in bed. After a few minutes I got up and went to take a quick shower. Once I got out, I went to my closet to choose what to wear.
"OH MY GOD, I HATE MONDAYS! What happened to the weekend?" Rachel screamed when she walked in. She was about to rant some more as she usually does but stopped before she said anything. She looked me up and down and whistled. "Geez Kor, do you have a date or something today?"
I answered with a simple no and checked myself over again. I wore a short jean shorts that showed off my long tan legs, a low-cut v long sleeve that was white, and Ugg boots that only came up to my ankle. Simple but in a sexy way-hey, I had to look good if I was going to be Richard's next girl. I glanced at Rachel and she rolled her eyes. I went towards my vanity and looked at her in my mirror.
"Rache, Mondays totally deserve to have a good outfit day. It shows that you'll have one every day for this week."
"Let's just go. Wouldn't want to keep your boy toy waiting now do you?" I smiled and grabbed my stuff. We went inside Rachel's car and put on our seatbelts. Technically, Rachel wasn't supposed to drive alone or even with a 'minor' but she's a good driver and it's only two more months until she can drive alone.
We arrived at the school and some people whistled or clapped or wooed at me when we passed by. Sorry boys, not for you, I thought to myself. I smiled and kept on walking. We met up with Vic, his current girlfriend Karen, Gar, and Roy. I glanced around to see if Richard was anywhere near but didn't seem him.
"Whoa Anders, talk about dress to impress-if you wanted to impress me, you should've just kissed me on the cheek and it'd be a done deal." I giggled and rolled my eyes.
"Whoa Harper, you're just as lame as ever. Get over it. I just felt like looking nice today."
"Someone's bitter today…did you and your mysterious boyfriend break up?" he asked in a taunting and teasing voice.
"Lay off asshole. I don't have a mysterious boyfriend so leave me alone. It wouldn't hurt if you just complimented how I looked instead of being a conceited jerk." I pushed him out of my way when I walked past him and when he called my name out I flipped him off. I walked inside my first period class and sat down in my seat. No one was really there yet except for some nerds and Jinx was probably going to be late…again. I looked out the window and thought about the scene that just took place. Why was I so mad, because Richard wasn't there? Whatever, Roy is just stupid. The bell rang and kids came in class and took their seats. Our teacher, Mr. Mod, otherwise known as Mad Mod since he was a weird science guy, told our class to settle down and keep quiet.
It was the middle of lunch and I still haven't seen Richard all day. At least I see him during lunch. Maybe he's absent? I don't know, but we'll see next period. The bell rang and I said good-bye to everyone and walked to art with Gar.
"Hey, what was up with this morning?" he asked me while throwing away a soy-protein power bar wrapper.
"Nothing, there's just a lot of things on my mind."
"Like your date with Dick?" I gasped and pushed him a little bit.
"Who told you that?!"
"Rae did."
"Well for your information my dearest Gar, the HANGOUT was fine. This morning I was just thinking about some other things."
"Oh okay. You'll tell me later right?"
"Yeah…" I shrugged and he gave me a comforting hug. Something I needed but wanted from someone else. Gar really was like the older brother I never had-someone who knew me inside out and I could have a serious conversation with him, even though he was voted 'Class Clown' of the school's 'Senior Favorites'. My real older brother, Ryan, was more of a jokester-we were close by having fun and pulling pranks on people. We always helped each other out but only when one of us was in trouble-we never really talked about out life and stuff and our problems.
We sat down and waited for our art teacher to come in. After five minutes, Gar pointed out a note on the white board.
"Everyone look! Teach left us a note!" He ran up and read it aloud, "Students, please enjoy this video on the different shades of orange. It truly is fascinating and tomorrow I will be asking you which shade of orange is your favorite! Gar, please throw away this note and start the tape. Make sure you don't put the tape in backwards this time, I don't want another VCR to end up breaking because of your mistakes." We all laughed while Gar blushed and crumpled up the paper. He turned on the movie and put it on mute while we all just sat around and chilled. Gar was having a contest with Victor on who would be able to throw a paper airplane the farthest so I decided to text Richard.
KA: Hey, r u here 2day?
It wasn't long until I got a reply.
RG: Yeah, I'm right next to you.
I looked to my left and only saw Gar and Vic folding papers and stuff. I looked to my right and it was like, WHOA. There he was-smiling and looking a little tired.
"Scared you huh?" He panted.
"Not really…more like surprised me. Why are you so tired and late and stuff?" He shrugged and put his arm around me.
"I lost track of time," I looked at him and rolled my eyes. "So, what's up Kor?"
I kind of just stared at him; wasn't he going to like, just talk about how our weekend was, and how like we are supposed to be together by now? Something at least…? Maybe I'm just over-thinking it.
"Uh, Kori, are you there?" Richard kept waving his hand back and forth in front of my face and I shook my head a few times to get focused again.
"What, yeah, sorry Richard."
"It's fine-what were you thinking about?" Then I locked eyes with him and it was as if he was saying-are you thinking about what's been happening to us lately?
"Oh nothing, I was just thinking about some stuff that happened today."
"Oh."
"Yeah." There was somehow tension between us now-and I don't know about him but I was ready to just grab his face down and start kissing him like crazy. I slumped down into my seat and Richard put his arm on top of my head. We didn't really say anything because it was mostly one to two word responses. Gar looked over and noticed how we weren't our usual selves.
"Dudes, did someone die or something?" he asked with feigned suspicion. We both looked up and stared at him with questioning looks.
"Well, neither of you two are lovey-dovey gross flirting with each other and Dick, you never called me on Friday to tell me about the game."
"We don't flirt Gar!" I exclaimed.
"We're just not in the moment right now man," he stated. I looked at him and punched in him the shoulder.
"Richard! We do not flirt! That's gross! We are not even a couple yet or something!" I said while laughing. He smiled and hugged me. Gar gave us a thumbs up and said,
"That's better you guys, now if you'll excuse me, I'm still on the phone with Rachel."
He left and it was just the two of us again. Gar's such a weirdo sometimes.
"You want us to be together Kori?" Richard quietly asked.
"What are you talking about…?" I asked back.
"'We are not even a couple yet' were your exact words. Does this mean we are going to be one?" I looked at him wide eyes and he moved a little to look at me.
"Um, I don't know, I don't care…"
"Well obviously you do if you even said that."
"It's called 'Freedom of Speech'; I can say whatever I want to say."
"Well I can ask whatever I want to say also"
"Why are you asking so many questions?"
"Why are you so stubborn?"
"I hate you; you made things awkward for me now."
"I don't care, I'm older than you"
"I don't care, you should listen to me"
"Well you're stupid because you think I should listen to you when you're just a freshman"
"Go away, you make me mad!"
"Fine"
"FINE"
"FINE"
"FINE"
"Go on a date with me"
"FINE-wait what?"
"We're going on a date together. I believe you agreed-rather willingly I must say Korina"
"Oh my gosh. I hate you."
"And I could never hate you."
"I'm leaving."
"Why? To get ready for our date?" I shook my head and pointed at the clock. The bell rang and everyone gathered their stuff. I'm surprised no one paid attention to us in that class-but it doesn't really matter now. Richard came up and gave me a hug and a kiss on the top of my head.
"I can't wait for our date Kor," I acted like I reluctantly hugged back when really that's where I wanted to stay all day-in his arms.
"Whatever Richard, call me whenever you want to go on one." We both smiled and went our separate ways.
xoxo,
-swt kisses x
