Chapter 5: Girl-talk
Charlie walked towards Fulton and slapped his arm to get his attention. "What are you staring at? A door?" he laughed at his stupid joke. "So...this new lab partner of yours..." Fulton looked at him and said, "You like her don't you? I knew it! This is awesome! Linda's gone and Charlie is back!!!"
At those words Charlie's smile faded and was replaced with a frown. He started walking to his next class. "Hey! Get over her! She left you...get over it. It's not like she was that great anyways.." Fulton was trying to make him feel better, well it was better than nobody. The bell rang and Charlie rushed into Geometry class. Fulton walked away.
Charlie's focus was not on math, but on his mystery girl. He still did not know her name, and he had forgot to ask Fulton. He did his math work in class, but he kept seeing her face. He missed Linda, but she was the one to break it of. She had been the one to say that they were too young to handle a long distance relationship. They would never see each other, so it was useless. But, now there was this mystery girl, who he liked, but he didn't know her very well. Maybe he could use Fulton as his go-between man. He might go for it, since he wanted Charlie to be happier.
The class ended and he walked to his locker and put his books in, took out his lunch and walked into the Cafeteria. He sat down at the JV team's table and started talking to Connie, who was on his team. "How was today so far,Connie?" She was eating, so he had to wait for her mouth to be clear of food.
"Oh, you know...same old classes, same old routine. But there was a new girl in Algebra. She is really smart, I invited her to come sit with me today at lunch. If you look at her, you don't think she was this genius inside." Charlie was confused, and Connie could tell, so she went on with an explanation. "She has thick, heavy black eye liner around her eyes, and a very pale face. She looks like a punk, skater girl, rocker, goth...but she is this really big nerd on the inside. But, she is still really cool. She knows a lot about almost anything, you can ask her. She even likes hockey! She has said that she's never played it, but she likes to go to games and watch it on television."
Charlie was stunned; this was his mystery girl. "What did you say her name was?"
"Terra."said a voice from behind him. He turned around and there she was. "My name is Terra.." She smiled and asked, "Is it still all right that I sit with you still, Connie?" Connie nodded her head and motioned for her to sit down in front on her left. Charlie was in front of her, and she had her books in the chair on her right. Soon everyone had settled at their table, and Terra had greeted everyone. Charlie hadn't really said much throughout the whole lunch period. Banks asked her if she liked to play hockey. "I have never played before." Almost everyone looked shocked. "Why not?" asked Banks. "Um..well.. I can't...skate." She looked strange, but she wasn't embarrassed. Everyone on the team laughed and many people offered to teach her, but she declined. The bell rang, and lunch was over. Everyone got up to throw their lunch away and go to their next class. Connie was leaning on Terra, and asked, "What's your next class?" Terra looked at her schedule and replied, "History...with Mr. Bates...whoever that is.." Connie smiled and said, "Cool. I have him next, after you, but I think Charlie has history this period too. Right now I have English. Bye!" Terra looked at Charlie and went to her locker, she rolled the combination and took out her books then turned to him and said, "Lead the way, Captain Ducky." Charlie stood there looking at her and was about to ask her how she knew, but she shook her head and said, "Connie, Connie told me, now lets get going before we are late."