Kira

Oh my goodness! Not only did Michael remember my name, he came to find me just to say hi! Of course, it was the worst discussion on my side, I didn't say much, I was having too much trouble remembering how to breathe. And then he had to go and smile! I swear I was about to faint from happiness, I had to turn my head to stop from launching myself right at him! I really need to work on controlling my emotions around him.

What was it about him? I mean I've come across good-looking guys before, of course none anywhere as beautiful as Michael, but I hadn't almost passed out around any of them!

Get a grip Kira, I told myself as I quickly hurried towards my math classroom. I was five minutes late and I'm sure that would not escape from Mr. Todd.

Sure enough, the moment I was in the door…

"Miss Beckett, how lovely of you to finally join us," said Mr. Todd in a smug voice.

"Sorry Mr. Todd, I overslept," I mumbled as I quickly made my way to my usual seat at the back of the classroom. "It won't happen again."

"I'm sure it won't," he replied in a threatening tone, and he went back to teaching the rest of the class.

The rest of the class reluctantly turned back around to face the front, and then the whispers began. Although no-one was sitting near me, I don't know why but people tended to avoid me, I managed to pick up what some people were saying. Keeping my head down, I could hear one of the nearest boys, James Sharp, say something about me to one of his friends sitting next to him, Gavin Tinn, I think his name was. While most people don't know who I am, I know pretty much everyone. I've always been pretty observant; it was a good habit I picked up from my dad.

I peeked up through my eyelashes at them; they both had their heads turned towards me.

"So that's the girl Mike was asking about," Gavin whispered. "She's alright looking, but I wonder what it is about her that's got him so hooked, I mean I've never seen anything like it!"

"Yeah I know what ya mean, it's really weird. I've never heard him mention her before today, and then all of a sudden he comes on the bus and demands that everyone tells him everything they knew about her!" James whispered back, a look of confusion on his face.

"Mr. Sharp, Mr. Tinn. Is there something you'd like to share with the class?" Mr. Todd demanded, growing more and more impatient by the second. I quickly calmed him down, I didn't want the guys to get in too much trouble, I wanted to hear more…

"Um, no sir, sorry sir," Gavin stuttered.

"Yes, well, keep your lips closed please while you're in my class," Mr. Todd replied calmly.

"Yes sir," James said, with a small look of confusion on his face. Mr. Todd was known for his unstoppable temper, they had been waiting for the explosion that hadn't come.

While they were obviously relieved that nothing had happened, they didn't dare talk for the rest of the lesson, leaving me alone with my thoughts.

Michael had been asking about me…that was kind of hard to take in. By the tone in the guy's voices and from what I could feel from them, Michael had never displayed much emotion towards any other girls, so I had them genuinely confused. Hell, I was confused myself. I mean Michael could have any of the girls in our whole school. In gym once, I head Serena Goodson talking about how much she liked him, and she was definitely the hottest girl in our year. Blond, tall, thin, and not entirely stupid either, like most of the girls that she hangs out with. No guy took a second look at another girl when she was in the room.

But he had, he'd looked at me, I mean me of all people! It just didn't make any sense.

The bell rang finally and we all collected our books and started to file out of the classroom. Gavin and James were a couple of people in front of me, still talking in whispers which I couldn't hear over the noise of the other people desperate to escape. But I did hear it when James suddenly called out to someone outside the classroom.

"Hey Mike! What are you doing here?"

"Just waiting for a friend," he replied casually.

"It's that Kira chick, isn't it? I know she's in my class!"

"Yeah, so you got a problem with that?" he ask casually, sounding like he couldn't care less what James thought.

"No, it's just weird…that's all. I mean you barely even know her!" Gavin quickly slipped in his bit, standing up for James.

"Well that's why I'm waiting for her, so I can get to know her better," he replied, smiling at me as I finally managed to get out the door.

"Fine, well we better get going, come on Gavin," James said quickly, obviously not wanting to be stuck here with his friend and some 'chick' that he didn't know.

They grabbed their books from the bench and quickly took off in the direction of their lockers, I wasn't really paying attention, my eyes were busy focusing on Michael's perfect face.

"Hey," I said with a small smile.

"Hi," he replied, matching my smile with a much bigger, much more beautiful smile. "Mind if I walk you to your locker?"

Around me I could hear the whispers break out.

"Oh my god, are they going out? That's so unfair, why does he like her?" I heard Serena whisper to someone before she turned and ran.

My smile grew. "Of course, how gentleman like of you."

He just grinned back and motioned with his arms for me to lead. Oh yes, this was going to be one very weird, good day. Maybe I didn't hate Mondays as much as I'd originally though…