CHAPTER 6
I was showing Karin the note while we were walking to lunch.
"Richard gave you this?" She asked a little shocked as she read the note.
"Yeah and I don't know what to say." After he asked me out to the prom I had written back 'I'm not what you'd call a prom type of girl.' He just replied by saying, 'Just think about it…' So now here I am thinking about it.
We walked into the cafeteria. Karin went straight to an open table. I went after her.
"What are you doing?" I asked her. She looked at me with a questioning look.
"Well, I'm saving a table." Karin said raising an eyebrow.
"Why don't you get something to eat?" I handed her some money. She looked so shocked, and a bit confused.
"W-what? Are you serious? You'd buy me lunch?" She looked so happy. There was this sparkle in her eye that just…well, sparkled.
"Wouldn't want you to starve." I said quietly.
She jumped up and grabbed the money. Karin raced for the line to get the food. I felt good inside. A feeling I haven't had in a VERY long time.
"Today is pizza." I informed her getting in line behind Karin.
"Thank you, Rachelle! I haven't had…" She lowered her voice to a whisper. "Anything to eat this week except an apple I stole from the kitchen. Well, two apples."
"Anytime!" I said watching Karin practically jump up and down.
We picked up our slices of pizza and went back to our seats. Karin immediately started to eat her pizza. I just watched.
"Want some water?" I asked her, scooting my seat out and standing up.
"Sure." She said with a stuffed mouth.
I walked to the soda machine and placed the dollar bill in the money slot. I pressed the water button and bottled water came out. I paid for another and waited for the second to drop into the 'pick-up bucket'. I turned around and bumped into something hard. I looked up and found out it was none other than…well do I have to tell.
"Hello Richard." I mumbled and tried to walk passed him.
"Wait." He put his arm out to catch me before I left. "Did you think about it?"
"You already annoy me enough. Do you have to annoy me about this?" I asked with a slight pout in my voice.
"Have you?"
"Yes, but I still need more time." I pushed pass him and walked back to Karin and handed her a bottled water. She was eating the crust of the pizza.
"Here you are Karin. One bottled water." Karin unscrewed the top and started drinking some of it.
"You can have mine." I offered pushing my pizza slice to Karin. She accepted and took it.
"Mined if I sit here ladies?" Came Richard's voice from behind me.
Karin shook her head. I pulled out a chair for him.
"Thank you." He sat down placing his lunch in front of him.
I sipped at my water.
"What were you guys talking about?" Richard asked looking at Karin who was again stuffing her face and then at me. I shrugged.
"Well, that was pretty funny this morning in science when Karin sat in ink." He smiled at me and winked.
"Yeah." I was blushing so I hid behind my hair. "That was funny."
Richard looked over at Shelly. She was sitting at a table with her girl friends and some guys.
"She is a bitch." He said to nobody really.
"That would be why I kicked her stool." I said coldly.
"And that would be why I poured the ink onto the floor." He retorted.
"Whatever."
"How's your finger?" Richard asked trying desperately to start a conversation.
"It's fine. I just put a band aid on it." I showed him my hand; he delicately placed his hand under mine. My heart started to pound, but not in a scared way. My heart was pounding because…to be honest, I wasn't sure. My hand started to tingle as he rubbed his thumb in small circles on my hand. I looked up at him with shy eyes. Richard looked at me and smiled. And Karin looked at the both of us and burst out laughing. I shot a death glare towards Karin who instantly shut up.
"What is your problem?" I asked Karin.
"It was a cheesy moment…" She trailed off as she saw my face, which screamed 'Shut the hell up!'
The bell rang indicating that it was time for lunch to end. The rest of the school day consist of being bored, trying to stop myself from killing the math teacher who was blabbing on about nothing, trying to ignore Shelly's dirty looks, giving Shelly dirty looks, and trying to avoid Richard Grayson for fear I was falling for him.
By the end of the day I was pretty tired, because I hadn't gotten too much sleep the other night. I was up hating myself for betraying myself by starting to fall for Richard. I kept telling myself I'd get over him, but it was a waste of my breath because well look what happened today.
I grabbed some books out of my locker and stuffed it into my backpack. Karin met up with me outside of the school building.
"Ready for work?" Karin asked as we walked across the street.
"Sure." I shrugged.
We walked to the café talking about that day. We walked into Dark Days Café and got ready for work.
The workday started off with a few dark poets who wanted to share their poetry, and then it was pretty normal from there on. I actually, god forbid I actually felt this way, but I really did miss his annoying company.
Karin left at 5:30 p.m. And now it was 7:00p.m. 'Only one hour until closing…' I was waiting for a costumer's order, practically asleep.
"I will get just a coffee." The man said handing me a ten-dollar bill. I gave the order to the other employee and gave the man his change. He sat at a near by table. A few seconds later, his order was up and I brought him his order. I walked over to the bookshelves and grabbed a random book, sitting down and opening it to the first page.
I got so sucked into the book that I didn't realize there were no more costumers and nobody was there except two other employees.
"We're going to head home." One employee said walking the other person out.
Well, now there was only me. I put the book away and started wiping down the tables. I went behind the stage to shut down the spotlight and unplug the microphone.
When I came out from behind the curtain, I saw someone rolling the dish rack into the kitchen.
"Hello? Who is that?" I ran into the kitchen. "What do you think you're…" I stopped when I saw Richard look up from putting a plate into the dishwasher.
"Miss me?"
I gave a grin and started helping him.
"Why'd you come here?" I asked him.
"I thought you'd be here needing help close this place down for the night." He explained.
"Oh. Thanks, I guess…"
I was so tired I could just let him finish everything. No, that'd be mean and sounded more like Shelly.
"You like a zombie." Richard said with concern in his voice. "You okay?"
"Yeah, just tired." I said closing my eyes.
I put a glass in the dishwasher and practically dropped it. Thank god for Richard because he caught it before it hit the ground.
"Maybe, you should go sit down for a while." I said placing the glass in the dishwasher and then helping me to a chair in the employees' room. He then went back to emptying the dish rack.
I didn't know how long I sat there drifting in and out of sleep, but after 'x' amount of time, Richard came into the employees' room.
"Are you asleep?" He asked in a whisper.
"No. Not quite." I moaned.
He walked over to the cubbies.
"This your backpack?" He asked pointing to my bag.
"It is the only one there, is it not?" I replied.
I heard him picking it up and the next thing I knew, he picked me up. He just softly lifted me off my chair in bridal position and walked out of the café with my backpack on one shoulder.
The last thing I remember was the cold air against my skin and the warmth of Richards's arms around me. I rested my head against his chest, and that's all I could remember before drifting into blackness.
I know I don't usually do this A/N thing but…A/N sorry this was such a short chapter, but I'm leaving tomorrow and won't return until two weeks are up. Thank you to all who are reading this story!
