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The next morning came all too soon. When I woke up it was already 6.20a.m. I could smell eggs and bacon in the kitchen so I darted downstairs still in my pajamas. Gediminas used to skip his breakfast whenever he could so I didn't bother waking him up.
Charlie…well… now Grandpa was eating his plate and I joined him taking mine.
"It is delicious." I smiled, but made a mental note to take the cooking over from him. The food was edible and quite good actually but the mess around was even worse than the one my brother makes.
"Glad you like it." We were silent for a while.
"So, when are you planning to come home from work today?" I hoped I hadn't sounded too impolite but I was not sure how to talk to him.
"Actually, I was thinking about staying home with you guys today. Nothing is happening in the station right now and if something goes wrong they can always call me and I would be there within a few minutes. And I was thinking about you kids. You need somebody close now. We could do something together. Like get to know each other better." He said somehow a little hopefully and carefully. He was afraid that I would not want to spent time with him.
"It would be great." I said enthusiastically. "Though it is our first week in this school. Well in a normal school at all. We had been home schooled till now so I think it is important and in a way interesting not to miss any lessons." I voiced this out carefully, fully aware of his possible reaction and was not disappointed as I saw grandpa's face fall a little after such words. "But it would be wonderful to spend the weekend together… Mom mentioned that you liked fishing and I have never been on a fishing trip before. Gediminas never took me along because as he has said he "liked fishing too much". And I would love to try." I said with my eyebrows raised and a little smile. Grandpa chuckled ever so lightly.
"Alright. Then we will spend an entire weekend together if that is what you want." He smiled and mine broadened in anticipation. The weekend was going to be great! "But you should go and wake that sleeping beauty up because you are going to be late." He said standing up and making his way to the door. "I should be back by 6p.m. but I cannot promise anything."
"I will be waiting." I smiled at him and saw his smile reach his eyes. He was happy he had us and that we were getting along quite well for a start.
When Grandpa left I went to the bathroom. I still had to make myself think of Charlie as my grandfather sometimes but it was becoming easier each time we talked. And I had a lot of time ahead of me to fully except him as a family member.
Surprisingly it didn't take me that long to be done in the bathroom and when I got out I made my brother go inside. Then I opened my bag which was full of clothes. I had no wish of doing my unpacking yesterday and now I saw why it was going to be a necessity to be done as soon as I came home today. Most of my favorite clothes were in a state that needed ironing quite badly and my options to wear were very limited this morning. I would have settled down with my yesterday's clothes but mom had taught me not to put on the same ones two days in a row. Especially when people were still likely to notice me more than was normal because of me being the new student. Like mom I never liked a lot of attention and being glared at by girls was what I hated the most. Which was exactly what I was going to get if I wore skirts. The reason for that was completely unknown to me so pushing aside everything that ended above the knees I found my black jeans that were a bit shorter than usually ending just above my ankle, resembled pants more than jeans so not offending to the teachers, and a little tight but not enough to make me look like a stuffed sausage. Pierre Cardin definitely knew how the job had to be done. I wanted a quiet day so chose a light brown shirt with a little compass on my front left side at the bottom. I left my hair loose; this was going to be enough of a complicated day to give a lot of time to my outfit. And Gediminas had finally made it out of the bathroom. We had both decided that it was still too early for us to walk around with designers' labels all over our things so we once again took our simple bags that I had made us years ago just for such situations.
Our bikes were outside waiting for us and it was only a little drizzle so we took off to have yet another (wait, it was only the second! And it already seemed like an eternity… just great…) day at school.
When we arrived the silver Volvo was already there and so was the creature. How else could I call him after all that he had done. On the other hand I was happy to see Angie coming in and after parking my bike went to greet her. The creature had started moving towards me but the moment I turned to my new acquaintance, he stopped and looked over to my brother. Gediminas was acting indifferently towards everything and everyone around him. Though he did put his Iriver player on and pressed the play button. The creature was starting to walk to my brother but changed his mind when the music blasted around us so loudly that even I could hear our friends' voices from his earphones and I was meters away. Then I finally reached Angie and we made our way to our first lesson Mathematics. Not a perfect beginning for a day but there could nothing go wrong during this class so I felt hopeful and relieved.
Could anything go right today? Apparently not. The lesson was so dragging that at some point I seriously suspected my watch had stopped working. How could a single person make something so interesting into something so terribly boring..? When we were supposed to do exercises on our own I finally got my chance to chat with Angie. The teacher wanted to give us both a lesson so she let us talk for a while till we got consumed in our conversation and my friend stopped writing. Talking and writing was never a problem for me because being a left-hander I could do both but that was not for Angie. The teacher asked her and she started blushing. I got my own idea of making fun and passed my notebook to her to read the answer. Since I had nothing in front of me the teacher asked me to explain the answer. Oh no. I was not going to give her the pleasure she was expecting. It wasn't difficult to remember everything. "Well it is obvious." I widened my eyes in a faked innocence with a tiny smile playing around my lips. And then I gave her a short version of my explanation. Her eyes widened in surprised. She was looking forward to hearing nothing from me so she tried once more. This time she asked me to explain some part of my answer. At first I thought that I was missing something but then I just gave her a right comment of the mathematical expression with my eyebrows frowned and in a tone saying that the answer was as obvious as the sun rising in the east. The teacher chose to pretend that nothing had happened and continued her lesson. The two of us were left alone to do whatever we wanted. Finally the bell sang and Angie and I both darted through the doors. Amusement was obvious on our faces.
I knew no other pleasant people in my next classes so I took out my notebook for drafts and started sketching whenever I was finished with my work in the current lesson. Some of the teachers noticed that but nobody said anything. It wasn't like I was being noisy or anything so they simply ignored me. I was more than glad with that.
Then the lunch came. I was supposed to sit with Angie who used to be alone. Gediminas was nowhere to be seen, so after getting an apple and tea I took my seat in front of the girl. We started talking about her sister. It was interesting for me to learn about the life of a normal girl. The way she was learning how to speak with guys when it always came so natural to me.
The bell rang too soon and we left for our next classes. It felt nice to have a normal friend to talk to and I was in a good mood before I entered my English literature classroom. Only then I remembered what was waiting for me there. An entire lesson sitting next to that creature. I decided to refuse to let my good mood go away and chose to try ignoring him the best way I could.
The class began and we were going to talk about Romeo and Juliet. We were reading and analyzing the balcony scene. I paid my attention only to the teacher doing my best to ignore all the background noise.
"Would you tell the girl of your dreams such beautiful words?" The teacher asked us dreamily. "Wouldn't you be afraid of her rejecting you..?" I saw how much she wanted to ask Mitchell but in the end she decided to go for another question for him and said "… Miss Swan?" Not what I expected.
I raised my eyebrows in surprise. "I wouldn't know because I never had a girlfriend." I smiled. And why did she decide to push it..?
"And if it was a boy you were talking to?" She wanted to get to know me better.
"I would never say such words before making sure he felt the same way for me."
"You would leave for a boy to start the conversation..?" she was surprised because of my old-time manners.
"Definitely yes." I was sure about this answer.
"Even if you liked him?" she frowned a little in curiosity.
"Especially then." I nodded. I heard some whistles coming from the guys in the class and that made me smile. Though a quiet growl at my side annoyed me. It was not its business.
"Sometimes the boys are too shy to talk to a girl in a such delicate way…"
"Then that is their problem. Not mine. If a guy is too shy to talk to a girl then how could he stand up for me if I ever needed him?" I answered with a question and a smile. I hoped the boys had heard this too.
"So you would act completely indifferently even towards the boy you liked?"
"Well, maybe I would snap at him a little less than at the others." We both chuckled.
I knew the class was coming to an end so finally I thought hard about all the ways it had betrayed mom and how much that had hurt her. The moment the teacher dismissed our class the bell rang and I almost flew through the door. I was not going to let it ruin my day. Gediminas was waiting outside the building with our bikes and I was glad to see him. We both took off. I was eager to get out of there as soon as possible.
When we got home I went to raid the refrigerator for ingredients needed for lasagna. The thing was almost empty so I sent out Gediminas with a list to do the shopping. In the meanwhile I took my time having a look around the kitchen and tidying the mess from our breakfast. I had just finished when my brother came back. He wanted to help me with the cooking. Naturally, in this way it took me even more time to do everything. When we were finally done with the job it was already late. We had our meal and Gediminas went to bed. I wrote a note saying about the food left to stay warm in the oven because Grandpa wasn't home yet. The moment I hit my pillow, I was asleep.
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