The next day I woke up feeling like a train ran over me. It's not like I drank too much - I only drank that one cocktail, pinky swear - but we stayed in the club until 4AM. Getting up for college after only two hours of sleep felt like the hardest thing I have ever done. The fact that I had PE in the first period made things only worse.
I arrived a bit too late but at least I was already in my sports wear. Caroline waved at me and I ran over to her. How she had such a good mood at this time of the day was beyond me. We had to run 2 miles, normally not a problem for me because I was good at PE but not today. Nevertheless Caroline and I started running next to each other on our highway to hell.
"I am way too tired to run this long on a Tuesday morning.", I said out of breath. Wow, I was already exhausted, I guess the summer break wasn't that good for my condition.
"I know but we just have to get through with it and then we have history. I can't wait to see with whom I'm in the project.", Caroline said to me. We have to do a project for our history class and today is the day where we find out who is in our group. Group is probably the wrong word because there are only two people in every group. I was actually hoping that Caroline and I could be in a group because I like working with her but we're on our teacher's radar so the odds are not in our favor.
After PE was finally over we showered and got ready for history. The first people I spotted when we entered the room were Jessie and Adrian. Great, he's not really the first person I wanted to see after last night. Just then I realized that both of them weren't at PE, who knows when they got home yesterday. When I walked by I could see that Adrian was winking at me. What the hell was his problem? Couldn't he deal with the fact that I was the only girl who didn't fall head over heels for him and now he had to try it all over again until I finally gave in? Well, I hate to crush his dreams but that's not going to happen in this lifetime. In the middle of my inner monologue I stopped myself. Why did I even care so much? "Because he's exactly how you used to be last year", a tiny voice in the back of my head whispered.
"- though I'm not sure. Rose? Hello, are you still here?", Caroline snatched me out of my thoughts. We walked to our usual seats at the back of the room.
"Sorry, what did you say?", I asked. But she didn't have a chance to answer me because our history teacher walked in and started immediately with naming the groups and topics for the project. Hannah and Max, Laura and Kate and so on.
"Caroline and Mia", he announced.
"Good God, no.", Caroline mumbled. We had some backstory with Mia and let's put it that way, we kinda didn't like her because she's constantly after the boys we're dating. Well, she's after every boy but she prefers the once we're dating just to piss us off, which, I have to admit, works most of the time. She turned around and didn't look so pleased either.
I tried to comfort Caroline "Just don't play any of her games, get the work done and then -"
"Rose and Adrian."
For a moment I wasn't sure if I heard it right but I did.
"You've got to be kidding me", I said shaking my head in disbelief. Can you believe my luck? I had to work with the one person I wanted to stay the most far away from.
"At least you don't have to work with the personification of evil", Caroline joked.
Our teacher wanted us to get together in our groups now to discuss our topic and the schedule for the following week. Our topic was the ancient greek. I wished Caroline good luck before she left her seat which was taken by Adrian a few seconds later.
"Well well, looks like fate is bringing us back together after all. That's gotta mean something right?" he said with a dashing smile.
"I wouldn't go this far." I can't believe he's already flirting with me again. He took out a piece of paper and scribbled something on it. He handed me the paper and said
"Here's my adress and my number. I suggest we start tonight at my place. I can't wait for all the hot and steamy fun we're going to have."
"There's nothing hot and steamy about the ancient greek", I tried to counter.
"Oh, you'll be surprised, beautiful. See you later."
The smile was still on his face when he left.
