Chapter 3: Don't You Know I Suffer?
Luke had walked around the school at least ten times, but there was no sign of the girl, or the guy who had helped him, anywhere. Finally giving up on searching and realising that it was most probably impossible to find her Luke decided to go to the lesson he was skipping, the lesson, according to his timetable, was English, he could use the excuse that so many of the people in his old school had used of having misplaced his map to get him out of trouble, for this time anyway. Gently tapping on the door to the English room Luke pushed down the handle and stepped in, "Sorry Sir, I somehow misplaced my timetable and map…" he gave a smile of innocence before turning to look for a empty seat, the only free chair was one at the back of the class, next to the person who had clearly fell from heaven, the wonderful angel Renesmee. Once again her beauty hit him straight in the heart, her perfectly angular face, the glistening eyes, everything about her was so utterly bewildering.
Not wanting to waste any time to be near her Luke hurriedly strolled to his seat, along the way noticing the guy who had dared him to talk to her, would he keep glancing at them through the lesson to see if they were talking? Taking his seat and resting his arms on the desk, a fair bit from the girl so she didn't suspect he liked her, he smiled and listened contently to the teacher, that was part of the reason why he was shocked when the sudden sound of a sweet, angelic, voice whispered to him, "So what is the real reason for you being so late to the lesson?" Luke stared at the front of the room in awe, had she spoken to him, had she really spoken to him? Turning his head to face her he smiled, he was unaware of the conversation which was about to take place;
"You wouldn't believe me if I told you…" he muttered.
"Try me…" she had replied.
"Well it's sort of awkward…" again he had muttered.
"Come on you can tell me…" she said with a nudge, her skin, it was colder than most humans, it had caught Luke slightly off guard but nevertheless he ignored it and carried on. "I don't know if I should… it's really awkward…"
"Oh… if you don't want to say…" there was a clear tone of sadness in her tone, for once Luke managed to pick up on it, "Well… I was… I was sort of looking for yo," he managed to cut himself of before he had spoke the word, how could he admit he was looking for her, "I was looking for someone…" She had clearly been about to reply but just as her mouth opened the teacher had said they could leave, the lesson was other. Quickly standing up and pushing his chair under the desk Luke rushed out of the classroom, that situation had been awkward and, although it was a step closer to knowing Renesmee, he felt relieved to be out of the classroom.
Sprinting down the corridor, and narrowly avoiding the people in his path, he looked at all the signs until finally he found one which showed the direction of the toilet and headed where it pointed. Pushing open the door he turned his pace to a slow walk and went to the taps, that had been one the worst situations of his life yet also the very best. Sighing Luke turned on one of the taps and splashed his face with a bit of cold water, it was just what he needed to calm him down, his heart finally began to settle. The water had only touched his face when he realised that he had completely forgotten about the guy, had he been watching? Luke shook his head at the idea and splashed more water on his always seemed to calm Luke down, he used to be constantly splashing his face when he had visited his mother, there were always awkward situations. After he had fully calmed down Luke decided to give the next lesson a try, hopefully things wouldn't get as awkward, hopefully she would be there, he took a quick glance at his timetable (which he had just pulled out of his pocket), "Biology, this should be fun."
After a few minutes he had finally got to the biology room, he had walked extremely slowly from the toilet so that he could avoid certain people and have more of a chance to notice them if they were near. After asking the teacher where to sit Luke slowly made his way to his biology seat, the chair next to his empty, he smiled and contently listened to the teacher speak about what the class would be studying over the short period of time before the end of school, it had only dawned on him how late he had joined, they were already half way through the second of the school semesters. Apparently the first few lessons were going to be revision about the skeleton and muscles, Luke already knew most of it but still, this should prove to fun, even if today wasn't a revision sessions, it was a movie day.
Luke couldn't pay much attention to the film, he only got bits of it here and there, his mind was concentrating on the girl of his dreams (and the guy who he still wanted to thank) rather than the film about animal skeletons, why they even needed to watch it Luke didn't know, as if no one knew hat a snake didn't have a spinal cord. Where was she now? did she have any family here in the school? Too many questions, too many thoughts. The thoughts lasted for the whole lesson, was this what it was like to be love sick? When the teacher finally let them go for lunch Luke hastily grabbed his homework and then began to make his way to the cafeteria, he didn't realise how hungry he was, he didn't even realise that he wasn't concentrating on where he was going.
Accidentally bumping into someone and causing the person to drop their books, whilst dropping his own biology homework book, Luke snapped back to reality, his mind finally being taken away from the thoughts of getting to know Renesmee. Both of them kneeled down to grab their books, neither realising who the other was, well not until they both raised their heads to apologise, it was her again, Luke couldn't believe it, he had seen her twice, well three times, in one day. They both began to talk at the same time, "After you…" he muttered to his angel whom smiled and proceeded with what she had been about to say, "Nice to bump into you again, quite literally this time," she gave a little laugh before standing up. Luke got to his feet as well, "Yeah, sorry about that… ermm… I'm Luke Johnson by the way…." he smiled whilst offering her his hand, introductions were vital at the start of a possible friendship.
There was a long pause, which to Luke seemed like hours, before he finally felt the ice cold touch of her skin on his hand. Staring at their hands held together and enjoying the moment a question slipped from his mouth, "why are you so cold?" Thank goodness it wasn't the question he was really thinking. There was another pause before she gave her reply, "I've been out in the snow, some of us have had a snowball fight…" Completely oblivious to the fact that moments ago she had walked out of a classroom and that she had books in her hand Luke turned his head, to his astonishment a thick sheet of snow (and more falling) could be seen through the window, "So, want a snowball fight after lunch Luke? I'm Renesmee Cullen by the way…"