We'll meet again

Chapter 1

When I was a kid, and I barely remember this because I was too young, a family moved to the house next to mine, they were a family exactly like mine, just the mom and dad, and a kid of my same age. As I remember we met when my mom went to say hi and welcome, the other mom was nice and her name was Lily, she gave me cookies, and then I met her son, a crazy boy who would talk all type of crazy things, he was very curious and wouldn't stop asking questions, he was funny. His name was Alexander but he told me to call him just Alex. And since then we have been best friends.

He would come to sleep at my house whenever he wanted, and I did the same, we spent all our birthdays together and even we went to the same school.

The problem is that two years before finishing high school his family had to move to the other side of the city, because they finally made to buy their own house, and don't misunderstand me, I was happy for them and we still were seeing each other almost every day. The thing was that Alex had to move to another high school too and during that year, I don't know why, a group of classmates were obsessed with making my life impossible, at first I just ignored them but then they started to steal things from my backpack, take my food, break my pencils and pour all sorts of liquids in my books, they even urinated my food, my parents tried to talk to the school but they did nothing because apparently, the dad of one of them was a powerful lawyer and then I was too tired, mentally and physically, to keep trying.

When Alex found out about this was very angry, and so was his mom who was like an aunt to me, she suggested to transfer me to the school Alex was in. At first, my mom wasn't sure because it was in the other side of the city, but then Lily said that if it was necessary I could spend the night in their house because the school was really close and that she would make sure that I was okay.

And that was how I ended up in a totally new school on the other side of the city in my last year of high school, but at least I was with my best friend.

"Come on, Oliver, you will be late!" I hear my mom say on the first floor. I look myself a last time in the mirror of the bathroom and sigh at my reflection. I see my long blonde hair, green eyes just like my dad, pale skin and soft red lips just like my mom, damn I look like a girl, maybe I should cut my hair... Nah, that wouldn't change anything, my face would still be the same, and my skinny body would still make me look like a girl, besides long hair is funnier.

I tie my hair in a low bun and I hurry to grab my backpack and go down to the first floor. My mom has my breakfast ready so I just sit and start to eat my cereals.

"Are you going to spend the night at Alex's?"

"Yeah, probably"

"Okay, just call me if something happens"

"I'll do." I say with my mouth full of cereals, if I don't go now I'll lose the bus. I kiss my mom on the cheek and run to the bus stop just at the moment when the doors start closing, I jump and I made it to be inside. That was close.

The ride should be between 30-40 minutes, a bit long considering that I used to go on a bicycle to my other school, and it took like less than 15 minutes. But I don't mind that much, I just can listen to music, and I know that as soon as I get off the bus, Alex will be waiting for me.

Time flies and the bus stops just in front of my new school, damn this thing is huge. Suddenly someone pulls me from my backpack and I almost fall but the same person who pulled me grabs me from my arm, and I already know who is. I turn around and I see some restless brown eyes looking directly at me, his light brown hair is completely out of place and his shirt is badly buttoned.

"Brooooooo" Alex scream hugging me.

" You idiot." I say but I can't be mad, I hug him back but he takes my arm and makes me follow him inside of the school.

"I know a place where we can smoke"

"Wouldn't be better if we do it outside?"

"Nah, I have smoked there a lot of times last year, nobody goes there."

"Are you sure?"

"Come on, you think I'm a liar?"

I don't answer and he turns at me completely offended, but I just laugh.

"I believe you, but where is?"

"Is kind of part of the backyard, but... I don't know how to explain it but is like the limit of the school, is way too far from the principal building and the teacher's room so not even the smell gets there"

"And they don't have a guard or something like that?" I ask and he takes some time before answering me.

"I don't know, but I haven't seen anybody there"

We keep talking and I can see that what he told me is true, we pass the buildings with the classrooms and we enter to the backyard, we keep going and we start walking through grass and trees until we make it to the end which is just a large brick wall, everything around us is trees and grass. We sit with our backs leaning against the biggest tree, then we both open our backpacks at the same time, I take out the papers and some filters, and Alex takes out a tiny bag with a nug in it, and his grinder. He barely opens the plastic bag but I already smell the lemon aroma of the nug.

"Lemon haze?" I ask.

"Yeah, I still have a lot, you?"

"Same, I haven't smoked too much"

"Why?" He asks without looking at me, we are looking at his hands that carefully place the nug in the grinder and start grinding it.

"Because I don't want, you know I don't like to smoke just because I'm bored." I say taking my eyes out of his hands, I open my backpack again but this time I take a bottle of eye droplets, and drop a drop into each eye, I blink a couple of times looking to the sky. Then Alex passed me the grinder and while I started rolling the joint he used the eye droplets.

"Is beautiful"

"Yeah." I say looking at the finished joint, we both laugh and Alex is the one who lights it, I hate doing it because I always do it wrong.

Somehow we managed to finish a hole joint just between two, and I say somehow because it has been weeks since the last time I smoked, maybe I should have been more careful... Mmm nah, I already feel the weed in my system and I don't feel bad at all.

"Hey! What is that?" I scream hearing a bell.

"Ah, it is a bell, sounds every morning to start the classes" He is way too calm, and even when I start panicking because we are going to be late I could not help but laugh at his face, he looks so much like a pothead.

"Come on dude, I can't be late on my first day"

I help him to stand up and we both clean our uniforms, even when nobody said a joke or something we walk laughing our asses off to the building, I don't know where is our classroom but I trust that Alex knows where is.

"You see, we are not late, the teacher is not even here"

Alex goes in first and goes directly to a couple of empty seats, but for now, I feel frozen in the doorway. In the moment that I walked in my eyes looked directly at a boy in the back, just like if some strange force was pulling me to look at him. Apparently, he felt the same because before he looked like he was sleeping but suddenly turned his head and looked directly to me. His eyes where blue, electric blue, and his hair black but like really really black, and surely he was almost as pale as I am. We look at each other for a moment and then a smile came out from his lips, I never saw a smile so... Sharp. And my heart that until that moment felt frozen too started to beat like a maniac. Why is he still looking at me?