Chapter 3

"Am I over him?" Brianna continued to ask herself while in her next class, Reading Writing Workshop. This class is, in fact, the most boring class of them all. Brianna opens up her book and begins to read. That's all she did for the whole period, but she wasn't reading at all. She focused on one word the whole 50 minutes: 'love'. She glanced up at the clock which sang 2:56. Only 4 more minutes until she gets to talk to Blake again. Only 4 more minutes until she gets to look into those beautiful brown eyes, and just imagine herself running her hands through his touchable hair.

3 minutes...the clock is ticking slowly. Why is she getting more nervous as every second counts down? 2 minutes, and she's starting to sweat. Why is she getting so scared to talk to him? She doesn't even know him. 1 minute left. Brianna is shaking. Good thing no one is looking at her. Everyone begins to pack up their stuff, and Brianna rushes to the door and stands there. She continues to look at the clock as her hand is on the knob and is already turning it. 5...4...3...2...1...RING! The bell rings and Brianna is already out the door and running to her locker. She doesn't know why she's running, but she is. No homework tonight, and she's super happy about that. She grabs her cell phone, keys, iPod, and her inhailer and her slams the locker door shut. Samantha wasn't even at her locker yet when Brianna said, "I gotta go, I'll talk to you later!" and she runs to Sarah's locker.

"Hey!" Brianna said as she jumped in front of Sarah.
"Haha, nice. You ready to do this?" Sarah said as she started walking out of the hallway and to the 300.
"Yeah I guess," Brianna said not completely believing what she is saying.
"Don't worry," Sarah said, "I'll do the talking if you want.".

Brianna was really relieved when she had said that. Knowing that she doesn't have to talk is completely fine with her. Well, is it? She wants to talk to Blake, but she's so nervous. They approach the 300 hallway and Sarah goes in there first. They look at all the people in that hallway. Sarah continues to look back at Brianna to see if she found Blake. No luck so far. They continue to look when they finally get to the other end of the hallway.

"You think he left?" Brianna choked. She was actually upset that he wasn't there? She doesn't even know him!
"I'm sorry. You wanna walk home together?" Sarah asked as she grabbed Brianna's hand and started walking away.

The whole walk home was rather quiet. Brianna was still in shock that he had gone home already. They walk up to Brianna's street, and they take a right. Brianna continues to look down at the sidewalk as she walks each step. 1, 2. 1, 2. 1, 2. All of a sudden Sarah had made this high pitched squeek, and Brianna jolts her head up.

"IS THAT HIM?" Sarah squeeled pointing to a boy that is laying on a hammock in the front of a rather small house.
"Yes!" Brianna gasped. She noticed his spikey hair peeking out from underneath the hammock.

Without thinking, Brianna approaches up to this guy that looks a lot like Blake, and she stands right next to the hammock with her best friend right next to her. His eyes were closed, and he clearly has no idea that they are looking down at him right now. Without knowing what to say, Brianna goes, "Errmm...Hi?".

The boy's eyes pop open and he looks right at her. This was, in fact, Blake. She could tell from his eyes that he is...him. Blake sits up and gets off the hammock rather rapidly. He looks back and forth between the two girls and says, "Oh, hello..." in a rahter confused voice but yet sounding also happy for them to be here.

"My friend, who you 'ran into' this morning," Sarah explain using air quotes on 'ran into', which made Brianna roll her eyes a little and smile, "Was wondering weither you were going to the dance on Friday?".

Blake looked at Brianna and looked her up and down and smiled. He closed his eyes for a few seconds, and when he had opened them again, he said, "Yeah I'll go," and Brianna smiled with relief, "If you are, of course, going," He finished simply. This made Brianna both more nervous and also excited. All she was able to do was nod, and apparently, that was good enough for Blake. He had reached for Brianna's hand and lightly gave it a kiss. Brianna felt chills going up and down her spine. Her whole body became very numb and she was losing her balance.

Sarah ended it all with a final comment saying, "Awesome! We'll see you tomorrow...or on Friday. Ha Ha.". Blake laughed, a full hard laugh. It was the sweetest laugh her ears have ever heard before in her whole entire life. The two close friends began to walk away when Blake yelled, "Hey!". Brianna had not heard him calling her, and Sarah had grabbed onto her shoulder and they both looked at Blake who was now sitting back on the hammock.

"What's your name?" Blake said very mockingly, like the same way Brianna had said it that morning.
"Brianna," She had mocked back, and they both laughed as Sarah looked at both of them, both confused, and happy for her best friend.