Alone Ch. 6- Another Surprise
A/N: Hello everyone! Here's the next installment. Hope you enjoy it. Thanks for all of your feed back. :)
Humphrey's POV:
This day was interesting. I never thought I could end up liking a girl so quickly, and NOT just because how pretty she is. I'm just going to see how all of this plays out, because with Garth in the equation now, I really have to be careful where I'm stepping. Of all the guys this amazing girl could ever be with, it just had to be him... This sucks. We were in the last block of our school day: Chemistry. I love science, and I personally think I excel greatly in that subject, but I already know I won't like the class. Why? Two things: I'm surrounded by jocks who think they can take a Pre-AP class, and since they're together all they could talk about is sports. Yay me. And secondly, our teacher is quiet... WAY too quiet. I'm glad Kate sat next to me, she was the only face I actually recognized, which is kind of sad, since all of these people were in my grade, but hey. Let introverts be introverts. Ever since Kate sat down in class, all the guys surrounding us had their eyes locked on her. She hardly made a sound. Class started right at the bell. Immediately, our teacher started asking questions about our first lesson, which I already knew, because I took Integrated Physics and Chemistry, or IPC in my eighth grade year, so all of this was a piece of cake. I started firing off answers to my teacher for almost every question, and every time I answered, I got the question correct. I could tell Kate was impressed as she jotted down notes. After the sixth question I answered correct, a guy named Robert spoke out.
"Dude, why are you even in here man?" He asked me rather loudly. I decided not to answer, I just kept my head up with an indifferent expression. I was going to play it cool.
Class kept going on. We kept taking notes, our hands bleeding from all the information the Periodic Table had in store for us that day. It was really easy for me, but I took notes any way. It would help to review. It was annoying how the class wouldn't stay focused. Someone was always whispering to another guy about the foot ball season, how hot Kate is, or how annoying I am. After a bit a chain reaction happened and more and more people joined in to the noise, and then everyone would begin talking and causing a loud din. It took a good two minutes for our teacher to calm everyone down, and after every one finally shut up, five minutes later, the same pattern started all over again. Kate and I were the only quiet ones in the class. It was torture really. That wasn't even the worst part. After we finished everything we needed to do, we couldn't even here ourselves think. There was only one answer: music. Again, Kate and I both kicked back in our seats and popped a headphone in our ear at the same time. We looked at each other and laughed again. This day just kept getting funnier.
"Let me see your MP3 player," she told me. I obeyed. I placed it in her hand and she read the title of the song I was listening to. I like it when she does that. "Hold Us Together by Matt Maher... Hmm. What's this?" she asked with genuine curiosity.
"He's my favorite Christian artist. I listen to this kind of music when I need to calm down or when I'm stressed out." I explained.
"Cool," she said as she put my MP3 player down. She looked up as she pointed to the headphone dangling from my neck while she took off hers, "Do you mind if I can listen?" she asked. I was surprised, but I played it off cool, "Sure, go ahead, it's a free country," I said with a smile. She giggled while she scooted her chair closer to mine and grabbed my headphone. I was going to offer her both, but she wanted me to listen too, which surprised me even more. I liked this feeling. I picked up my MP3 and restarted the song so she could listen to it all. The light hearted guitar started playing, and I felt good as she sat closer to me. I decided I was going go impress her. I let my heart out into the song and sang aloud softly at first.
"You don't have a job. Don't pay your bills. Won't by you a home, on Beverly Hills," I sung softly. I looked at Kate and saw her staring at me with her mouth open slightly. There was more. What she didn't know that the next part of the verse jumped an octave higher, so I put even more soul and sang out as the electric guitar comes in a little louder.
"Won't fix your life! In five easy steps! Ain't the law of the land, or the government!" I looked up at Kate again and saw her mouth drop even wider. I laughed and raised my eyebrows at her, and she giggled. The chorus came along, and I sung out to relieve my stress, and Kate loved it. By the time the first chorus was over, the bell rang. Everyone darted out the door but Kate just sat there dumbstruck, the song still playing.
"Hello?" I asked Kate waving my hand in front of her face. She snapped out of whatever occupied her mind and stood up.
"Yeah. Sorry let's go," she said. I motioned for her to take off the headphone, but she shook her head. "I wanna finish listening!" she told me. I put my hands up and murmured an OK. I have absolutely no problem with that. We walked down the hallway close to eachother, I was singing along, finally going home from a pretty tiring but interesting day.
A/N: Hope you enjoyed the conclusion to Humphrey's long first day at school. I'll see you for the next one.