Chapter Four

The Call

"So are you gonna go to Dylan's party next week." My brother Chris had asked me on our walk home. The question was missed at first because my head was spinning with every smile I had gotten from Alex, the new boy. "Hello earth to Jamie are you going ." My faced reshaped itself to a mask of confusion. "Going where?" I asked him. "Dylan's party" he answered like he had been asking the same question for hours and not just the few minutes it had actually been. "Probably not" I responded and I wondered if he had noticed I had not really been paying attention to a word he was saying. "Is it because you don't have a date cause you can ask anyone and I'm sure they'd say yes." You can always count on Chris to try and make you feel better. "I don't want just anybody." I said and then quickened my pace. He stood where he was shocked and I'm sure it's because I haven't really liked anyone since my last boyfriend just a year ago. "Well who is he?" he asked like in impatient and curious child. "Alex" I answered fore

I knew if I didn't he would just keep questioning me. We talked until we got home where I dashed straight to my room to plug in my phone just in case he did actually call.

The next morning woke up on my books and realized that I had fallen asleep writing my essay on the Tell Tale Heart. I swung my chair back to check if I had any missed calls flipped open the phone and……nothing. I felt my heart sink into the pit of my stomach. My fear of letting Aeron drive me was soon forgotten and replaced with an anxiety to go to school. Even if we never saw each other outside of school, I could not be rid the fact that his presents gave off a glow to me. I waited outside the school until Casey pulled up in her shiny car and waved me over. "Will hold this" she asked as I made my way through the rows of BMWs and other student cars. "Sure" I said looking at the poster she had just given me. She saw me look over it and began explaining what it was for. Casey is in every club and fundraiser our school has. "Not to forget your good news." she said ending her storey. "What good news". She looked at me like I had forgotten my own name. "I heard you got the new boys number". Just bringing him up in a conversation made my stomach flutter.

As the day went on I was relieved that not only did we have science and history together but also Spanish. When in history a folded up piece of paper slid across my desk. Unfolding I read in neat swirled handwriting "So what did you do yesterday." I looked down to see the name I longed to hear all day signed at the bottom, Alex. My hand secretly wrote Nothing under his question and handed it to him. Only a few minutes later in was placed back in my hand. "Then why didn't you want me to call you." was printed next to a sad face. I wrote back "when did I say that." But this time he only held the note for a minute before giving it back to me. "Yesterday."

"Why don't I remember this conversation?"

"Yesterday you said see to tomorrow not talk you to night which implied that you did not want to talk to me last night."

"Well that's not what I meant."

"But it is what you implied"

"Well in that case talk to you tonight and I'm not saying I don't want to talk to you in science next period either."

"Great see you then"

I folded up the note and shoved it into my jeans pocket. I detested the long wait for history to end and science to begin. The thought of sharing a table with him was boiling my blood.

When I entered Ms. Madelyn's class she had a video planned for us to watch. After the first fifteen minutes into the documentary on some famous scientists I rested my head on my arms and turned it so I could see what my new partner was doing. I had only been staring a few minutes when he caught me. We sat staring until I finally began to focus my eyes back on the movie. Before I was able to do this completely he put his hand on mine. My fingers curved around his and he pulled both of our hands under the table. No movements were made until the dismissal bell rang. He stood, turned to me and said tonight. I nodded without thinking and followed my peers to the parking lot.

Just I picked one of the green beans my phone started to vibrate on the counter I threw it on when I got home. "Can I." I motioned to the kitchen. "Oh let her mom. It's probably that boy she like." Chris said and then began informing my nosey siblings on the subject. "Well I guess so." My mom said. I left the table, grabbed the phone, and dashed up the stairs.

"So what was that three rings" he said when I picked up the phone. "I wouldn't know my phones on vibrate." I said.

"Well I think it was three times."

"I think your smart enough to count to three so I agree."

"Why thank you. So what are you doing?"

"I was eating dinner but now I'm talking to you."

"Well lucky me."

"My dinner is waiting so."

"So I'll talk to you tomorrow." he cut me off.

"Right." I went to hang up.

"Wait I wasn't done." He stopped me.

"OK then go on."

"Are you going to Dylan's party?"

"Are you"

"Only if you plan on going with me."

"With you." I said playing along.

"You are one of the only girls I know at this school."

"Then I guess if I was a nice person I would say yes."

"Since you are a nice person I guess I can take that as a yes."

"I guess so."

I hung up and went for my dinner. I was thankful my brothers were in my business because knowing my mom she never would have let me on the phone if my brother hadn't asked her.