THE STORY OF US

CHAPTER FOUR-ROTATE AROUND

The bell rang, students celebrated, it was time to go home. All were getting ready to leave, some still drooling on the desk still lost in their heavy slumber due to the stress they were undergoing, and some due to their all-night party.

I stood up to leave but was called to the teacher's office by Mr. Chalk it seemed like he didn't want to waste a minute to talk about the proposal for he was so much in haste to get out of the teaching zone and into the ordering zone he was eager.

Funny enough he had already started using the principal's calling mic instead of sending a student to call me like every other teacher does or coming by himself.

I stood up from my seat and went straight to the teacher conference to meet up with him but he wasn't there it seemed like something more important than me had come up and he decided to keep me waiting the one thing I hate most in my entire being.

I waited for hours and hours and then when my patience couldn't take it anymore, I stood to leave but merely taking a step forward I heard the door creaking open I turned to check if it was Mr. Chalk the one person, I had been waiting for all this while but it wasn't.

I saw a girl walking out of the teacher conference holding some file in her hand it was probably the same file that I had earlier I think, walking elegantly out of the office I was struck with a beauty entirely out of this world for a moment there she had broken all my walls down taking me into a different dimension but that wasn't the worse part of it, I liked it.

She was stressed out probably tired from all the up and down movement getting all the documents signed by all departments it was a good thing I had my driver doing all that work for me unless I would probably be as stressed out as she was right now and that wouldn't be the best place to be in at this moment not with all my plans on how to make each and every one of my classes suffer ha! my perfect plan, I took a moment to reminisce my thought.

Walking past me her hand slightly brushing against my skin I felt like my whole world my entire being just came out of me and went with her, I felt my entirety my whole world was now rotating around her.

I couldn't shake away the beauty on her face the feeling of connection we shared I couldn't shake it all away from my head, she was in there it was as if at that moment her hand greased mine, she had become a part of me breaking my one rule the no girl rule.

Feeling my whole being quivering like jelly under my skin I turned with a swift’ movement trying to figure out what just happened, what I just felt was incredible yet terrifying at the same time for I felt my life meaningless without her, without her touch.

Is it possible she possessed such power rendering me useless with just a single brush of skin which was barely a touch, it made me feel lonely without her.

Like who the hell is she, breaking down my walls without my permission, changing my rules just like that, all of a sudden, the one rule I have held on to all this time the same rule I have had since I lost my mother. and my stepmother moving in, the one sacred rule I have lived with in all my life, like who the hell is she I need to know I have to know.

I have met a lot of girls I have touched many, how can she be so different from them, how come she had this effect on me this effect I couldn't weaver away I was going mad and I couldn’t take her off my mind.

This feeling what is it, it felt like she had carved her little safe spot in there and decorated it to her liking for I didn’t know who I was just because, because of this girl a girl I barely knew until now ha! What is this it is quite unfathomable.

Moving with much haste, I ran as fast as my feet could move, a speed which broke every rule, restriction we had when it comes to running especially in the hallway.

I moved as fast as I could through the hallway putting in every single energy, I could get from my body on my feet not caring if my feet had gotten all tired already or if my lungs had gotten all dried up.

I needed to know who she was I needed to know what she did to get that amount of effect on me I just wanted to see her again for at that moment it felt like my life the only source of my existence depended on it.

Just a little further away from her, I bumped into an angry Mr. Chalk at the next turn in the hallway, it seemed like he was just everywhere he wasn't wanted everywhere I didn’t want him to be and it was starting to get on my nerve because I couldn’t take it anymore at other times I would have looked away but at this moment that my heart seems to be moving at a speed beyond reading I couldn’t take I would make him pay if she leaves, If I don't get to meet her I would make him pay if I forget just the slightest bit of her face I would make him suffer and if what he wants to discuss is a waste of my time I would make him wish he never knew me that I promise him.

“Come to my office this instinct” an angry Mr. chalk yelled at me, “why can't you follow a simple rule come early to school you decided to come at your utmost leisure hour don't sleep during class at least everybody knows that even in your old school they should have told you that quit a lot of time but no you decided to turn my class to a bedroom”

He heaved a he continued.

“Don't run in the hall way at least that is the simplest of them all but no you chose to run a marathon race turning the hallway into a track field, simple rule simple rule simple rule” he kept ranting singing the same sentence till we got to his office.

As soon as we got to his office, he remembered what he wanted to discuss with me his pulse the rhythmic contraction, expansion of the arteries with each beat of the heart pulsation suddenly calming down to a more relaxed decompress depressurized, unwinding suddenly becoming less tense than before.

We stepped into his office and the first word that came out of his mouth was, “Want me out of your way want me to leave you and never border you again if so I have a proposal for you that would take me out of your way completely at least with your level of intellectual, involving intelligence rather than emotion or instinct, you gave a cerebral approach to the problem set before you earlier which would have been difficult for most student”

He smiled as he placed his hands on my shoulder and then he continued.

“Most students what am I even saying I have never seen any student give such an impressive answer to a critical question such as that I was more than impressed so I told myself with all sincerity in my heart, why don't I present this opportunity to you a quiz competition that can benefit both you and me”

He wasn’t making a point and I wanted to leave already.

“If you can win it, you get a trophy and oh! yes a scholarship and also I know how all you guys kept steering at the girls in school so with this victory you can get most of them”

I didn’t want to listen again, scholarship why would I need a scholarship with the amount of money I possessed and girls since when do I start caring about how to get a girl when most times, they come to me?

I placed his hands down and turned to leave but something he said stopped me at the hills.

“Even the new exchange student just gave out a participation form now it seems like if you accept you can partner with her forming an unbreakable team so what do you say huh Santiago are you up for it?”

I heard nothing he said except the word new girl and my heart brimmed with joy immediately I didn't lose my chance to meet her if I signed this form, I would get to meet her.

Almost at the brim of bursting out in anger for I felt like I was being called stopping my utmost mission bringing me down to the very last measure of human endurance stretching my time limitlessly effortlessly to the furthest removed entirely from reality.

I was about to break for I felt like he was wasting my time on this unreasonable speech when I should have gotten to her and maybe by now figured out the reason for my so sudden Interest in her I opened my mouth in protest for I couldn’t take it anymore but my words came out voiceless the instance I heard of her interest in this quiz and for the first time since Mr. chalk started speaking, I felt like he had said something that finally made sense to me.

Feeling my heartbeat suddenly calming down my anger exhausting to nothing wearing out completely and a sudden interest growing in me I was happy and unhappy at the same moment, I was happy that I would get to meet her every day and talk to her and we would become a thing something like that for some reason I didn’t know why, for she was a complete strange to me, someone, I just brushed skin with someone I hardly know a thing about not even a name, and was already thinking and acting like this.

She had changed me a lot in just a second and this is what I am unhappy about for this is the first time something like this has happened to me, putting interest in a school quiz, I have never had an interest in such things before when it has nothing to do with my grade, I feel alarmed that is why I must see her no matter what, I need to know what kind of feeling is this, I just need to know.