After school for the first time since I started I hung around. I wanted to see Clare again. I stood at my locker and waited for her to walk by. When I pictured her face in my mind I couldn't help but smile a big smile. She danced around my thoughts all day. There was something about her that drew me into her, but I couldn't quiet figure it out.

I started to give up when the clock hit 4. I turned the corner and saw her putting books into her locker.

"Clare" I shouted and ran over to her.

"Hey Adam" She smiled softly. " What are you doing at school so late?"

"Just..Just waiting for Drew. He's always late with football practice"

Clare nodded. "I understand. That might suck always waiting for him"

"Your telling me. So why are you here so late? It's your first day here. Don't tell me you got in trouble already"

Clare chuckled. "One of my teachers just wanted to talk to me about my marks at my old school"

"Were they good or bad?"

"Actually good. They wondered why someone as smart as me at the smartest school in town would switch to this school"

"Oh" I felt dumb when she said that. Someone as smart as her have interest in me felt like a dream.

"But the reasons was because I wanted to try at a normal school.

"How's it working out so far?"

"So far so good" She smiled. "I met a special friend also"

I realized that she hadn't talked to anyone else today so she must have be talking about me. I smiled huge at her.

"That's good. So how far do you live from here?"

"No far. 20 minute walk tops" She lifted her backpack onto her back and closed her locker. "What about you?"

"Around the same. Want to walk home together? I mean they say it's better to walk home with someone so your not by yourself and if you walk home with a friend even better and you said.."

"Adam" She chuckled. "Of course we can" I hadn't realizes I started to babble on again until she broke my babble. "What about your brother?"

"I've waited long enough for him to come. He can walk home alone"

"Okay" she locked her locker and he started to walk home.

On the way home we talked about everything under the moon. I made her laugh and she made me smile. I tried to understand what about her made me like her so much but I was so smitten and lost in her eyes I soon forgot to figure it out.

"Well this is my house, I'll see you tomorrow Adam" She flashed one of her soft smiles and walked inside her out and closed the door.

Okay so I kind of lied about where I lived. It was a 45 minute walk home, and my mom usually picks me up, but the chance to walk Clare home and talk with her was worth it.