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Chapter 36 The first day in class
Maria and Tess made their way to the dining hall early the next morning. Both were extremly nervous and excited at once. Today they would attent to their first courses. Neither of them got enough sleep last night and strangly it wasn´t to see on their faces. They looked like they originated from a fashion magazine. Tess decided to wear nothing too fancy for this day, because she wanted to blend in. At least for now. Hence she wore a knee-length jeans skirt, a pink tank top and her favourite sneakers, which were also pink. Her hair was falling in little curls around her face and her make up was decently accentuating her beautiful face. She was looking like a little school girl. Contrary to Maria, who wasn´t in the mood to impress someone with her looks. She was just wearing a blue jeans, a short black t-shirt, which had " Blonds have more fun" written in silver glitter on the front and " I´m the living prove" on the backside and her sneakers. Her hair was bound to a ponytail and she left out the make up. She didn´t needed it at all.
" What class do you have first?", Tess found it too bad that they weren´t in the same courses. They both had choosen a different path. She wanted to be a teacher and Maria was more into business.
Maria pulled a piece of paper from her notepad, which she held in front of her chest and eyed it. " I have General Business. What about you?".
Tess followed the example of her roommate and looked on her schedule. " Psychology".
Maria made a face about that. That sounded more boring than her class. But before she could voice her oppinion, she saw someone waving her over. Happily she noticed Kyle sitting at a table. Unfortunately he wasn´t alone. Michael was with him. " Hey Tess, do you want to sit with me and my brother?".
Tess looked at the table and detected her brother sitting there, too. " Yeah. I don´t have another choice or else my brother will be very pissed off".
" Michael is your brother?".
Tess sighed loud. " Unfortunately yes".
Maria started to laugh. She knew that feeling all too well. Sometimes she was under the impression she and her brother were not related at all. At times they both were so unlike that it looked like they would come from different parents. But then, most time they were so much alike that it was scary. " My sympathies".
" Thank you", Tess knew why she like her roommate so much. They were in the same boat and they could relate to each other with some things. " I think we finally should get something to eat. I don´t know about you, but I´m hungry".
Maria was actually too nervous to get something down. But she knew that it wasn´t good to leave breakfast out, because then she would eat everything in sight tonight. And she didn´t want to feel sick when she went to bed again. She already made that experience once and she was almost all night hanging over the toilet bowl and puked her guts out. " I hope they have something light. I don´t think I can stomach anything else right now".
Tess eyed the selection of food in front of them. There was everything, from eggs in all variations to fruitsalad. Immediately she found something for herself. A bowl with strawberry yoghurt and besides that was a bowl of cornflakes. Perfect, just what she wanted. " Come on, before I faint from hunger".
Maria shook her head at her roommate. How could she think about eating something now? A little reluctantly she followed Tess. They got themself each a tray and stuffed their things on it. It didn´t take too long and before they knew it, they were already sitting at the table with their food in front of them.
" Is everything alright with you?", asked Kyle immediately. He saw the apple and the glass of orange juice on his sisters tray. Usually she could eat more than him.
Maria took the apple and took a little bite from it. " Yeah. Why you´re asking?".
" I´m actually used to see you eat more than just a little apple. I´m just wondering if you decided to make a diet or if you´re sick", Kyle eyed his sister closer. She didn´t look ill or something. And she was against all kinds of diets. She thought they were unhealthy and just there to give other girls a complex.
Maria faced her brother with an angry expression. Was it so bad to be nervous? It wasn´t her fault that her stomach was a little queasy this morning and she couldn´t think about food without quelling the feeling to puke. " Now you´re sounding like Mom. I´m just not that hungry. Or is that a crime now?".
Kyle noticed the sparkling eyes of his sister and he knew she was close to start a fight with him if he didn´t shut his mouth. But he was just looking out for her. " I was just asking. I´m sorry if that was rude of me".
" See. I told you that we weren´t the only ones who are always fighting with each other. It´s perfectly normal for siblings to bicker", Michael had watched the interaction with interest. It was like seeing himself with Tess.
His sister refrained from laughing out loud. It was like looking in the mirror when she and Michael began to get into a fight. Just that it was the other way around. She was always the one asking and he was the one either answering with a nasty remark or just groaning annoyed. " Yeah. It´s good to know that we aren´t so strange than we thought".
Kyle finally realized that they weren´t alone and he immediately hide his blushing face by dropping his head on his arms, which were lying on the table. Oh damn, his first contact with his new interest and he made an ass out of himself. Now he knew how Alex must have felt yesterday.
" You have to excuse him. We´re still in the process to teach him manners", Maria loved it to tease her brother while he was embarassed. She didn´t know why he felt that way. It wasn´t like he was sitting here in the nude and flashed everybody else. But when she turned to Tess and her smiling face, she understood it. Her brother had cast an eye on her roommate and like it looked, she wasn´t so against it. " Kyle, did I introduce you to my roommate Tess?".
Kyle raised his face and hoped that the redness was gone from it. He didn´t want to look like a blushing school boy, who never had contact with the other gender. " No. But I think you will do that soon".
Maria faced her roommate with a twinkle in her eyes. " Tess that´s Kyle, my brother", after that she turned her head to her brother. " Kyle, that´s Tess".
" I think we saw each other yesterday in front of the boys dorms", Tess still remembered the smile and the raised eyebrow. He knew exactly how to make a girl feel charmed. She couldn´t get him out of her head all night long and part of the morning.
Kyle saw the slight redness creeping into Tess cheeks and he liked it. It looked really cute on her. He would definitely get to know her better and if he had to pester his sister for that. " Yeah. I have to apologize for my friend. He didn´t mean to startle you. He just had never saw so beautiful girls before".
Michael observed the conversation between his roommate and his sister with suspicion. Were they both flirting with each other? And why was it allowed for them and not for him? He faced Maria, who was watching the scene with a smile. He was in awe how gorgeous she looked when she smiled. Her whole face seemed to glow and her eyes seemed to be sparkle in the lightest green. It was like she would brighten the room just with that little gesture. He didn´t know that such women were existing in reality. He always thought it was just a phantasy from sappy writers, who in his eyes were smoking too much crap or authors from shows that were made from women, who had too much time on their hands. But now he was proven wrong. He found exactly such a woman. And she was much more than just a fictitiuos character from a novel, she was a real breathing person. In that moment he knew that he would never grew tired of watching her.
Suddenly he was thrown out of his thoughts when another person stopped at their table and let the tray drop onto the table. Annoyed the girl slumped on her chair and groaned loud. " Hey guys. I already thought I wouldn´t make it on time".
" What´s up? Did you oversleep?", Maria was a bit surprised about the shakened condition her friend was in. It wasn´t so usual for Liz to be late. She was most of the time the first to appear. It was her greatest fear to miss something or get yelled at for not being on time. That was the reason why she had three alarm clocks in her room.
Liz took her sandwich and bit hastily into it. Oh thank godness for food. She didn´t know how hungry she actually was. " No. I was up hours ago", she took another bite and swallowed it with a gulp of her tea. " Isabel wanted to do something nice for me, because she wanted to apologize for being so commanding. She made a fashion show and showed me how I could dress more eye catching".
Maria already noticed the new style and she really liked it. Instead of wearing blue jeans and a nice plain shirt, she was wearing black tight jeans with a blue top. Her hair was thankfully not falling into her face anylonger and was held backwards from a golden band. The only thing that didn´t change was that she wasn´t wearing any make up. And obviously Liz got over her first impression of her roommate. " So I would say everything is better between you?".
" Yes. She isn´t so bad when she´s not behaving like a princess".
Kyle took his eyes from Tess and finally registered that Liz was sitting with them. He was stunned about her appearance. She didn´t look so boring anymore and her clothes were more colorful. He liked it. " Hey Parker. What happened with your old clothes? Did you finally notice that brown is out?".
Liz glared at him. Alright she wasn´t a fashion victim like Maria. But she was satisfied with her style and she liked brown. " Weren´t you listening to me? I just said that Isabel helped me pick out my outfit for today".
Maria bent her head closer to her friend and whispered. " Don´t be too harsh with him. He was too busy flirting with my roommate to even noticed that you came", she threw a glance at her brother who was already in the process to turn on his charm again. Someone should tell him that it was sickening to watch.
" He already has someone in mind? Wow, that´s really fast", Liz couldn´t understand how he always did that. He just had to smile at a girl and they were jello in his hands. All the reaction she got from boys when she smiled was either they turned to their girlfriends, made a hasty retreat or looked away. She obviously made something wrong.
Maria saw the surprised expression on her friends face. Why was she even so stunned about that. Kyle was pretty fast in such things. It was the Valenit charm or because the girls were all blind bimbos, she couldn´t decide yet. But Tess didn´t seem to be the type of airheads her brother always dated. Maybe he was finally growing up and noticed that it wasn´t smart to date someone with the IQ of a potatoe.
" Hey ladies", Alex smiled at his two best friends and then he turned his head to his other friend. " And Kyle", slowly he placed himself besides Liz and put his tray on the table. " What did I miss?".
Liz pointed at Kyle and Tess. " Welcome to wild animal kingdom".
" Yeah. We just wanted to bet how long it´s gonna take before they throw each other on the table and mate like bunnies", Maria meant that just as a joke. But after she saw the horrified expression of Michael, she felt bad for saying that. He was her brother and didn´t want to hear something like that about his little sister. " That was just a joke. You can smile".
Michael wasn´t so convinced about that. He was a guy, too and he knew what they had in mind all the time. And Kyle was exactly like him and that was the last he wanted for his sister. She deserved someone who would treat her like a princess and respected her. Not someone who wanted to get laid and then he had no further interest. " That was not funny at all. Or would your brother laugh about such a comment?".
Liz, Alex and Maria looked at each other and broke out in laughter. Kyle would definitely not laugh about that. He would probably blow a gasket and pummel the one who dared to say that. He already did that twice and Jim Valenti had to put his own son in a nice cell in the Sheriff Department.
" Why are you laughing? I hope you´re not laughing about me?", Kyle looked from his friends to his sister and then to his roommate. Something was going on and he obviously missed it.
Michael didn´t know what was so funny. But he didn´t like it that they were all laughing about him. What was so bad if he wanted to protect his sister? " Don´t worry. They´re laughing about me".
" What did you do?".
Michael shrugged his shoulders. " Hell if I know".
" I´m sorry. We´re not laughing about you. Really. But you said that about Kyle and we just remembered something", Maria wiped the tears from her face. Oh boy, her stomach would hurt like hell tomorrow with all this laughing.
Alex calmed down enough to say something without it sounding gibberish. " Yeah. You made the same exact face like Kyle when someone just mentions a thought about putting a move on his sister. He already landed in a cell twice because he trashed a few guys, who made nasty comments towards her".
" And I will do it again if I have to", Kyle didn´t feel sorry for these lower beings. They deserved what they got and if his father wouldn´t have interrupted he would have beat them to a bloody pulp.
Michael looked at his roommate and saw him in another light. He was as protective about his sister as he was about his. That was a good sign, because Kyle would treat every girl like he wanted other boys to treat his sister. Maybe it wasn´t so bad to let things between Tess and Kyle progress. Maybe then he had leverage against him when he told him to stay away from Maria again.
Tess finally noticed that she obviously missed something. The most eye catching thing was the added people at their table. When did they appear? And why was her brother smirking so strangly. Oh god, she probably had done something funny. " What´s going on. What did I miss?".
" Welcome back in reality, Tess", Maria really tried to hide her smile. But it was just too hilarious to see the confused face of her roommate. She had been so deep in her thoughts, that she didn´t notice anything going around her. That was so sweet. " You missed nothing interesting. Believe me".
Tess didn´t agree with that. " I don´t think so. I´ve missed the new arrivals".
Maria remembered that she forget to introduce her best friends to her roommate. " Tess, that are my friends from Roswell. This here", she pointed at the girl besides her", is Liz Parker", then she stretched her arm further out and slapped her hand on the thigh of the boy " and that´s Alex Whitman".
Tess smiled at them and nodded at the names. They seemed to be different than Maria and Kyle. It was strange, because it wasn´t normal that the popular kids hung out with geeks. Althrough the both were apparantly very nice and friendly.
" And this guys is my roommate Tess", Maria observed the gesture and the mimic of her friends. She didn´t want any tension between them and her new friend. They would spent much time together and she didn´t need fights. But it didn´t appear that there would be any problems. Slowly she turned her attention to Michael. He was pretty quiet the whole time and didn´t say much. After the two times she bumped into him, she didn´t think he was the brooding kind. Quite the contrary, he seemed to be the loud kind. " And that guy besides her is her brother Michael".
Kyle finally found the time to look at his watch. They should slowly pack their things and go to their classrooms before they would be too late at their first day. " Hey. I don´t want to interrupt this get together. But we should come to an end. It´s almost half past nine".
Immediately everybody moved into action. They took their backpacks and the trays, brought them to the provided car and made their way out. Halfway through the large building the group split up. Kyle and Alex moved towards the right, because their classrooms were in the same corridor. Tess and Liz took the left, while Michael and Maria continued straight forward. They both walked quietly side by side and tried to stare ahead instead of each other.
" What course do you have now?", Maria wasn´t so comfortable with silence. It was strange that she felt so weird in his presence. Like she found some part of her puzzle she didn´t even know she had.
Michael was in thoughts about the girl besides him that he only heard the last part of the sentence. " What?".
" I asked what course do you have", Maria found the guts to glance at him. He was handsome even from the side. She stared at his features and wondered how it must feel to have those lips on her body and what words would come out of this mouth when he was impulsive. Or how his body would feel ontop of hers. Judging after the perfectly fitting white plain t-shirt he was wearing he would feel all hard and manly. Oh hell, was it hot in here or was it just her?
Michael faced her and noticed the look she was giving him. Oh shit, he know that look and the darkening of her eyes. Hopefully he was wrong about that, because he didn´t have the restrain to not throw her on the floor and have his way with her. Nervously he cleared his throat. " I have General Business".
" Me, too", Maria´s eyes widened. That was just great. Now she was horny and had to sit in a classroom with him.
Michael raised his right eyebrow and his usual smirk came again. " That´s great. Maybe we find the time to take a little break together. I mean we could meet at the mens toilets".
Maria threw her hands in the air and groaned out loud. She wanted to be nice and behave like a normal being and he had to be so...so damn arrogant. Why had she even tried to communicate with this walking penis. It was useless and just made her angry. " Could you stop with your pick up lines? I´m not interested".
" Then why were you staring at me like I was the most delicious meal you ever saw in your life?", Michael knew that she wasn´t so indifferent like she pretended. He saw the fire in her eyes and no girl would get rilled up over a comment when there wasn´t an attraction of some sorts.
Maria glared at him, althrough she was more mad at herself for getting caught staring at him. She couldn´t deny that she found him attractive or that she felt something. Like a pull in his direction, a sort of connection. But she would never start something with him. It would just end badly and she didn´t want that again. " Yeah so? You´re good looking and I wanted to enjoy the view. Is that a crime now?".
Michael smiled at the comment. She liked him and she found him good looking. What more could he want? It was just a matter of time before she crumpled and declared her undying love for him. " You want me".
" Forget it. You´re obviously not listening to me", Maria was glad that they finally made it to their classroom. Quickly she scanned the room for a place to sit. She saw a blonde girl sitting alone in the last row and decided to keep her company. Almost running she made her way to her and slumped in the seat besides her. " I hope this seat is not taken".
The girl looked up startled from her notepad and eyed her. " No. Not at all". After that she turned her attention on her notepad again. She was busy with drawing some things on a piece of paper. It didn´t seem to be something for the class actually.
Maria took a closer look and noticed that it was a drawing of clothes. It was pretty and the girl obviously had talent. " What are you doing? If I may ask?".
" Oh it´s just my hobby. I want to be a designer some day and that are my drafts", the girl was a bit surprised about the interest. Nobody paid attention to her doodling usually.
Maria was impressed of them. The girl didn´t look like a designer than rather someone who wore the dresses herself. But the drafts were really good and the clothes appeared like those who would be hanging in her closet. " You´re pretty talented".
The girl smiled at the compliment. It was nice to hear such encouraging words from a stranger. " Thank you. By the way, my name is Isabel Evans".
" Maria Valenti", Maria offered her hand. While she shook hands with Isabel, she finally registered the name. " Oh, you´re the roommate from my best friend Liz".
Isabel was startled for a moment, because she noticed a shudder going through her body when she her skin came in contact with Marias. That never happened before. It was like a awakening from something she had hidden all her life inside herself. Surprise she looked in the eyes of the girl besides her. They were somehow familiar to her. But from where? " What?".
Maria was a little worried. Isabel stared at her like she wanted to see into her soul. And why was this feeling to know her there again? She had the same reaction to Michael and Tess. What was going on here? What happened with her? But before she could utter a word, a presence disturbed the moment between the two girls.
" Why did you disappear so fast? I wasn´t done talking to you", Michael took the place exactly besides Maria. He seemed to take all space with his body.
Maria rolled her eyes at Isabel. Why did he have to sit near her? The room was huge and there were many seats available. But no, he had to take the one besides her. He did that just to annoy her. Slowly she turned her head in his direction and glanced at him with a raised eyebrow. " Do you mind. I´m talking here with someone that doesn´t think with his lower region".
Michael looked down at his baggy´s and then at Maria again. What was she pointing at? That he just thought with his dick? " Is it my fault that you look so hot? I´m a guy and I just say what´s on my mind".
" If that would be the case, you would say nothing", Maria didn´t know why she reacted so strongly as soon as he was close to her. She only had two reactions to people. Either she was friendly or she ignored them. But with Michael it was different. She wasn´t so sure what she should think of him. And then these strange feelings she was having about him.
Michael felt insulted. He wasn´t just a dumb guy, who was putting his move on every girl with a nice set of legs. He had class and not every female was worth of his attention. The girl besides her was pretty gorgeous and he didn´t have any interest in her. That had to mean something. " Now that wasn´t nice of you. I feel really hurt".
Isabel laughed about the two. It was nice to see a relationship with so much love and affection. And it seemed like they both would know each other pretty long, judging after the bickering. She wished she would find exactly a guy like that. A guy who treated her like she was the only one and made her feel special. She was a little jeaulousy. " How long are you two together?".
Marias head snapped to Isabel and her face had lost the bit colour she had before. Now that was an insult. Why did she ask that? " Oh no no no. We´re not together".
" Yeah, at least not yet", Michael put on his smirk and wiggled with his eyebrows.
At that Maria faced him with a dark expression. He´s got a nerve! She was tempted to slug him with Isabels notepad over and over again. How dare he assume something that would never ever happen. Not in this life and not in another. Never!!! " When are you going to stop hitting on me?".
" When you finally admit that you want me".
" That will never happen, so you can find another girl to annoy", Maria had enough from this walking advertisment for becoming a lesbian. How a girl could fell for someone like him was a mystery to her. Even if he was looking like a greek god and kept his mouth shut. Without waiting for a reply she gave her attention Isabel again.
Michael´s smirk turned into a full grin which brightened his complete face. Cockily he stretched his left arm to the side and laid it around Marias shoulders. Then he bent his face close to her ear. " I don´t wanna find another girl. You´re the only one for me".
Maria had to refrain from moaning out loud. He was breathing just on her most sensitive spot behind her ear and it made her inside flutter. For a moment she had to close her eyes to savour that feeling. Oh god, she had to retract her statement about his charme. This guy knew exactly what he was doing. Damn bastard! Now she would sit through class and all this phantasies would play in her mind. How should she concentrate on the teacher? A little embarassed she wiped her face with both of her hands and tried to get her heating cheeks under control. He shouldn´t think she was affected from him. His ego was already big enough.
Michael patted himself mentally on his shoulders. He still had the charme that made women go crazy and let them blush like little school girls. Maria could say what and how often she wanted, but she wasn´t so aversed from him like she pretented. She wanted him and if she said something different a thousand times. But before he could tease her some more, the professor finally made an appearance and started immediately with his lecture.
TBC