Alexis probably became the only friend I had around here. Not because I wanted it, of course... It was actually out of my hands the moment I replied to her back in hospitality. After that she spent a lot of time walking me to classes, which oddly enough also happened to be HER classes. It was weird, yeah, and in any normal situation I probably would've spent a good deal of time trying to avoid the socialization, but her random topics of conversation did help me get my mind off Evra.
She helped distract me. So yeah, I guess I was grateful for her company. Right now it was third period, our lunch. And we were sitting in the usual stairwell, still hardly used by others I often went here to eat. I enjoyed the solitude. But having someone to talk to was nice too, I guess. Not that we did a lot of talking today though. In the week that I knew her this was the one day that she was usually quiet.
"Something wrong?" I asked, biting into a sandwich that I had packed for myself. My mom always made sure to provide me money to buy stuff from the cafeteria, but I hated her so I never accepted it. Alexis never ate though, at leased, not in front of me... Whatever, not that it's any of my business. She took a few seconds, I guess to collect her thoughts, before finally answering my question. Her brown eyes treaded over to look at me, as a smalls mile played a roll on her lips.
"I'm fine, I mean... I was thinking that we should hang out!"
Her enthusiasm made me worried. Stuffing the half-eaten sandwich back into m y bag I edged away. "We're hanging out now, aren't we?"
She laughed, another strange occurrence that made me really uneasy. "I mean, outside of school... See, there's this show..."
I immediately jumped to my feet. "The cirque?" I shouted, covering my mouth when I realized I had. A few niners (grade nines) panicked and flew up the rest of the stairwell to get away from the random outburst, but I was too focused on Alexis to pay them any mind. Her eyes were wide too, but I couldn't help but notice the flicker of light beyond her startled expression. Had she known what I was talking about?
"I was gonna say there showing Titanic at the theatre... It's a classic, so..."
Nope, she had no idea.
My shoulders slumped in dismay, and I turned my back to her, too quickly to hear the rest of her sentence.
"Hey, where you going?" She called out, as I started walking down to the first floor exit.
"Home! I'll get back to you about that movie thing!" And I was gone, running so fast towards my car that I was under constant threat of tripping and going into another fricken comma.
I knew what I needed to do now. Why I hadn't seen it earlier, I don't understand...
Turning on the ignition I pressed down on the pedal and sped away from the school.
Heading back to the place where it all began. The old theatre.
