Chapter 2- A long awaited reply
"Your gonna be late" my mom yelled from the bottom of the stairs. I shrugged my shoulders and called back "coming mom." Brooke was already downstairs when I got there. I sat down and looked at the cereal sitting in front of me. I wasn't really hungry, I had so much on my mind. It's been 3 months to the day since I emailed Harrison. George and I made up, we decided to just be friends because he understood how I felt about Harrison.
Brooke and I went to school; we got in separate cars, seeing as how both of us had a car. I got into mine and waited for Brooke to pull out. I stopped to pick up Carmon, when she got in the car I could see she had been crying.
"Carm, what happened?" I asked pulling out of her drive way.
"Just my mom, she's drinking heavily again" Carm said trying so hard not to cry, but to no prevail she couldn't hold in the tears any longer.
"That's it, after school your coming to stay with us, mom and Mike won't mind. You can stay in my room." I said giving her no time to respond. I parked my car next to Brooke's, shut off the engine and Carm and I stepped out.
I found it so weird, how I would walk past Harrison in the hallway and he wouldn't even look at me, he had to have gotten my email. I mean it's been 3 months; it doesn't take 3 months for an email to travel. Maybe he has read it, but he's not sure how to reply. I parted ways with Carm and headed for my locker. I looked up just in time to see Josh walking towards me.
"Hey Sam" he said smiling at me.
"Hey Ford" I said returning his smile even though it was hard to do. I glanced back down at my feet, when I heard a familiar voice.
"Hey Sam, hey baby" said Lily. I glanced up just in time to witness Josh and Lily share a passionate kiss. I slipped away from them and went to my locker.
"22..32..14" I mumbled to my self out loud as I spun the dial to the last number. I pushed up on the latch and watched as it slowly swung open. I heard foot steps coming towards me but I paid no attention to them. I grabbed my chemistry book and binder and shoved them in my bag. As I was shutting my locker I glanced down at the floor and saw those familiar black skate shoes. Then I saw that familiar face, the one I've seen everyday of my life. My stomach became an instant house for butterflies, not to mention the knot it tired it's self into. He stood there frozen, just watching me watching him. Finally he spoke.
" I got your email" He said, a smile appeared on his face. I didn't know what to say. I tried to return the smile but it was hard. However I forced my lips into the smile I knew Harrison loved. We didn't talk about my email, or our fights, we just stood there staring at each other until finally the bell rang, a bell that seemed to pull us back to reality.
"I guess we should get to class" said Harrison, extending his hand to me.
"Yea, before the claw gives us an F for being late" I said, lowering my hand into his allowing our fingers to becomes intertwined, Harrison leaned in and kissed me. Our first real kiss as a couple. We walked down the hall hand and hand to chemistry.