Chapter 3: Unspoken Attraction
(Chapter 3, After this Im gonna work on my other stories that I meant to get out already. So Hopefully I won't be so much a procrastinator)
Song included: "I'm Gonna Love You" By Jennifer Love Hewitt
The day was fast, but yet it seemed so slow to the students of San Francisco High. Lunch had already come and again Exile piles food onto Balto's tray.
"Exile, again, is this even necessary? Im not going to keel over if you don't force feed me every day." Protests Balto.
"But your so skinny Comrade, you need your strength." Balto rolls his eyes at his friend, but lets him be; After all he is only looking out for him. Even if he goes a bit overboard.
Balto and Exile walked out of the line and to their table where all of their friends had bunched up into one table, consisting of him and Exile, Charlie, Hunter, Blitz, Shag, Cash, Waylon and Floyd, Pongo, Itchy, as well as Bentley and Murray and a newcomer named Thunderbolt, who recently transferred from a different school. Balto sat next to Pongo and Exile sat near Hunter and Blitz.
Balto took a bite from one of the apples on the tray and looked around of his surroundings. Possibly the entire senior class was in the lunchroom all conversing and laughing with one another in their own little groups. Balto looked over Shag's tall stature and sees Jenna, the red furred husky that was the object of his affections. He watches her as she chatting with the vixen Carmelita and the collie Colleen, "hmmm, where is the other girls of their group?" he wondered, he returned to his apple before Jenna or her friends would realize that he was looking at them. "Well of course, Charlie would always know where Sasha was." He silently chuckled to himself, finishing the apple and tossing it in the trash bin. As if on cue, Charlie's ears perk and he breaks from the conversation and looks at the door. Balto and the others look at his direction and see what has captured the shepherd's attention the doors to the lunchroom open and Sasha walks in looking for her friends, Balto's ears hear Carmelita's voice beckoning her to their table.
Balto looks over to his friend and starts to laugh; Charlie became enticed by Sasha's appearance.
"Hey Charlie, go ask her out." Hunter playfully punched his shoulder.
Charlie laughs; apparently the punch broke him out of his lovesick trance. He turned to him.
"Ok, but if only you ask Colleen over there." He responded with a smug. Hunter blushes profusely and drops the subject immediately. Hunter has had a small (more like a giant) crush on Colleen, ever since he first laid eyes on her in College Algebra of last year. The retriever returns to his food and stays silent; his cheek still had a tint of pink. Balto nibbles on a sandwich and stretches his neck over Shag to see the other girls of Sasha's group: Bess, Dixie, and Vanessa. Jenna on Vanessa's left nibbling on her lunch, something had come over her. She seemed rather quiet. Balto wanted to walk over to her, but his brain wouldn't follow the command, instead he turns his head from the group. His ears stood erect as if it were a radar dish, something had apparently caught his attention.
"Come on you know he's cute Jenna." Whispered Bess.
"I know but, I would just like to be friends with him. Steele gives him a hard enough trouble. Why should I put more of a burden on his shoulders?" Jenna answered.
Balto's eyes widen at the conversation, "Is she talking… about me?" he asked himself. He strained his ears for more information.
"Come on Jenna don't be so difficult. Just ask him out? Im sure that'll boost his confidence." Says Bess again.
Jenna fell silent; Balto edged himself closer, but the conversation was drowned as the bell that ended lunch rang throughout the school. He cursed quietly. Jenna grabbed her things and quickly got up from her seat and walked the opposite direction of the table. Balto's table had scattered saying quick goodbyes to each other and going their separate ways. Balto grabbed his back pack and hurried to the other way unaware that he ran right into Jenna.
"Ow! Hey watch were your- Oh, um… hey, uh, Balto." Jenna's fur hides her blush.
Balto helped her up and brushed her off quickly, saying "Im Sorry." Over and over. Jenna placed her paw on his lips.
"Balto, its ok, Im fine." Balto nodded and she took her paw away from his lips. Jenna blushed as she see's Balto large paw still encasing her small white paw. Balto looked down and see's this and he immediately lets go of her, blushing furiously. Jenna clears her throat to hide that school girl giggle when a guy a girl likes touches her, even If it were a friendly gesture. Balto scratches the back of his head, "Um… what class do you have next?" he asks. Jenna shakes her to come back and spoke fast, "Advanced Lit." she blushes a bit more, any more and the cafeteria would have lit up in red.
"Great, would you like me to walk you? My class is just next to it." Asks Balto, a tint of red showed itself on his cheek. Jenna's eyes lit up and she nods. Balto confidently offers his paw to her. "Shall we?" Jenna, unhesitant, takes his paw. "Yes." Balto smiles at her, feeling total confidence.
Balto and Jenna ventured down the halls of the school, talking along the way as students walked around them. The twosome reaches Jenna's lit class; she turns to him and very shyly kisses his cheek.
"Thanks Balto, you're a really sweet guy." They both flush at this. "See ya." Jenna releases Balto's paw and walks into her class room. Balto on the other side of the door brings himself to smile. His heart pumped gently in his ribcage.
"Maybe there's hope after all."
Jenna walks along the rows of students to her table, sitting next to a lovely German shepherd and one of her closest friends Vanessa.
"Hey Jen." Says Vanessa; she looks up at her.
Jenna takes her seat next to her, "Hey Ness." Jenna pulls out her notebook and folders from her back pack. Vanessa does the same.
"So have you thought of what Bess asked you?" asks Vanessa
Jenna goes back to her backpack, pretending to have ignored her question. Vanessa pokes her with her pencil. Jenna holds back the urge to yell out "Ow!" the door to the classroom opens and a tall, sturdy male black Labrador walks in breathing heavily.
"Sorry about that class, got held up in a meeting." Says Mr. Drake, he takes his seat at his desk. "Now, get out your essays on Robert Frost and I'll get those collected." Jenna opens her folder and pulls out a ten paged essay from its folds and places it neatly on her desk. Vanessa searches through her seemingly bottomless backpack and pull out her essay of twelve pages, Jenna stifles a laugh.
"You really have to stop having crushes on teachers." Giggles Jenna, Vanessa scowls at her.
"I do not." She hisses.
Jenna holds her paws up defensively, "Joking!" she whispers.
Mr. Drake walks by them, "Trouble ladies?" Jenna and Vanessa face him with innocent looks.
"No Sir." Both girls hands him their essays and the Labrador leaves their table with a skeptical face. Jenna and Vanessa looks at one another and laugh quiet. Mr. Drake cleared his throat for the classes' attention at the front. "Alright, today's assignment allows you to be more creative, I want you to choose a genre and idea and write a fictitious short story about it. I expect perfect results from some of you." He locks his eyes on both Jenna and Vanessa. "You have the rest of the hour as well as tomorrow to complete this assignment. Good luck." On those final words, everyone in the classroom starts jotting down ideas and scribbling down topics. Vanessa, from the look on her paper, had written down every idea from her imagination.
Jenna wrote down only a couple of ideas, an idea for a romantic story and an idea for a horror story. Horror had never really been her forte, and she couldn't think of anything truly terrifying, she sighs. "Romance it is then." She crosses out horror from her paper and begins scribbling down ideas. A thought came to her head, "That might work" she thought, as more ideas formed in her head, she had the story all played out in her mind:
Angel in disguise
Stories in his eyes
Love for every true heart that it sees.
Was it just a lucky day
That it turned to look my way
Or is it Heaven right before my very eyes.
He showed me all new things
The shimmer of moonbeams
I was blind, but now he's helped me see.
I was lost but now I'm found
His happiness surrounds
And now I find that my dreams can come true.
Cause I'm gonna love you for
the rest of my life
I'm holding you safe here in this heart of mine
I can't live without you
cause my soul would die
You know I'm telling the truth,
I'll spend the rest of my life
loving you
It didn't start this way
It happened just one day
You smiled at me and I saw you, differently.
Now I'm a tremble just to be
A part of you as we
Begin a life that's sure to never end.
Cause I'm gonna love you for
the rest of my life
I'm holding you safe here in this heart of mine
I can't live without you
cause my soul would die
You know I'm telling the truth,
I'll spend the rest of my life
loving you
As the hour was to toll its end, Jenna's idea lay before her, pristine and pure, but a odd and random thought emerged from her head.
"I think Im in love with…Balto."
(Woo hoo! The plot thickens. Lol I apologize. I am just hyper anyways I hoped you enjoyed this chapter as I enjoyed writing it, Chapter 4 coming soon!)