Who even am I?

Who is He

I pull the window down as a friendly face smiles at me… “Hey there…I am Allison. Are you new here?” “Er… yeah I am. Hi my name is Summer Richards.” I stutter back.

“Hi Summer! Want me to show you a bit around? I can feel my cheeks getting all flustered and I am kind of glad someone even noticed me at all. “That would be nice, thank you Allison”.

I managed the first half of School so far with only little hick ups. I have not fallen flat on my face yet, bonus! It is lunch so I sit myself under a tree a bit further from everyone else putting my headphones in and send a text to Lizzie asking how she is getting on. Next thing I know is Allison sitting next to me pulling on my headphones. “What are you listening to?”

“Oh, nothing in particular at the moment, just shuffle through a few songs.”

“Mind if I join you?” “Sure, if you like.” I nod in agreement. I like this as there is not, much small talk just music and both of us eating lunch. I look around trying to figure if I can point people I have just met in some classes, but no one stands out for me. I try to look at my notes while at the same time I try to remember where I had to go next. Allison hands me my headphones back and gets up “Come I   show you where to go, you are in my class next. Hey, I never even ask where you’re from?”  As I follow her around, I tell her that we moved here a few days ago from Kansas – Missouri. “Oh, that’s quite a change, moving here in our little boring town then.” She giggles. “I prefer it quiet actually.”

“If quiet is what you like, you will be very happy around here as nothing ever happens” she snorts. 

We arrive at class and like before I am put into the spotlight and got to tell in front of the class my name and where I am from. I really hate it, I prefer to be left alone, I can’t stand it when to many eyes are on me. Walking to the chair that is free next to Allison I nearly trip over, but a hand catches my arm just as I am falling.  He helps to steady me on my feet. “Hi there” a voice says. I look up at him and give him a little shy smile. “Thanks, this could have been the talk of the day” I say to him in almost a whisper. “You can carry on tripping around me as long as I am close enough to catch you.” He smiles at me and then he goes and walks to his place. Allison nudges me and whispers “That’s Jack you might want to hold on to him as he is quite some eye candy!” I don’t see it as much as she does, yes, he looks good but eye candy. Guess he has some muscles and by the look of his shirt some abs too. Again, I can feel my cheeks starting to flush red as he looks over to me smiling. I feel caught and look away.

The afternoon luckily went by quick. So, I get to my car to pick Liz up when my Phone plinks.

“No need to pick me up, I will take the bus home later, hanging with my friends. Love you xoxo “

I sigh. I am happy she found friends this fast, but it makes me feel a bit lonely too as I had hoped we could sit together eating some junk food talking about our day. Suddenly it knocks on my window just like this morning. It’s Allison. “Hey Girl, want to go for some pizza?” I want to say yes but at the same time I don’t. She must have seen how torn I am. “I could really do with some girl talk, you know.” She says to me with a smile. “Alright, let’s go.” I smile back at her. She jumps in the car and shows me where we are going. We went into the next bigger town as in our small town isn’t really a lot of Restaurants. We pull up and get out of the car when there is this feeling again. The one that I am being watched. I quickly look around but there is just one other group of teens around. As I look closer it’s jack with a Girl in his arms. I think I seen her at School too and then there is another Guy with a Girl holding hands. Just then, as I was about to turn around again the four of them was joined by another Guy. One I haven’t seen before. Allison grabs my arm. “Ready to go?” she asks. “Oh err… yeah sure.” I turn my head once more to try look at the group. He stood there looking right at me and it was sending little electric shocks through my body. I quickly looked back to Allison and followed her swiftly into the Restaurant. When we sat down at a table, I was looking through the window in the hope I could see them from here but no I could not see them anymore. “Hey Allison?” I clear my throat with a small cough.

“Hmm...?” she looks up from the Menu. “Did you see the group outside?”

“you mean Jack and his Friends?” she asks.

“Err... yeah …them. Do you know them?”

 “Well, it was Jack and Rose, they have been inseparable for about a Year and a half now. I was actually quite shocked he noticed you in School earlier as usually he only has eyes for Rose, ignoring everyone else. Oh, and then there was Aiden and I think her name is Joanne, but I am not a hundred percent on that one as they call her Jo.”

“What about the Guy with the wild black hair that joined them? Do you know him too? I ask her, literally hanging on her lips to find out his name. “I seen him before but he, Aiden and Jo go to a different School. How come you are so interested in them? Any gossip? I love a bit of gossip you know!” she smiles widely at me. “Oh” I gasp “No I don’t know them at all was just trying to make conversations.” I quickly answer. We get back to the Menu to order our food, but he is still playing on my mind. His Eyes was such a gorgeous colour of blue, even though I only seen them for such a short moment. They just seem to have me hypnotised. As we s**t chat, waiting for our Order I notice the Scent. The Scent that makes me feel at such an ease, I can only call it my feeling of “Home” It’s a mix of cinnamon, Apples and Vanilla. To me the most amazing smell ever! I slowly scan the Restaurant. There are quite a few tables taken so it took me some time to get around. Then I notice the group at the table furthest away. He sat there in such a position he looked right at me and it hit me like a brick, he smiled over. I felt like everything around me was no longer important, further then that it felt like it was just us here in this room. I felt my cheeks go all red and flustered. Allison touched my hand. “Are you okay Summer? Our Pizza is here, and you haven’t blinked in like 2 minutes.” I shrug and feel like I was taken out of a dream. Totally confused I rub the back of my head and let out a little chuckle “Daydreams, I guess” We both start laughing. I look over to the group again, but he is talking to his friends, maybe I imagined this? The smile probably wasn’t for me but him chatting to his friends. I can’t help but feel a bit sad when I try to convince myself that he in fact didn’t look over but is having fun with his friends. I brush it off and join back in conversations with Allison. We actually notice we got quite a few things in common for example a dislike for Math, we both like music and both of us have got younger sisters. As we are finishing up, my phone rings.