Half Fairy and Her Two Mates

School

“Aria, wake up! School! We’re late.” I heard, but I didn’t want to cooperate. “Aria com’on I know you’re awake and I don’t want you to be late.” Liam said desperately.

“What about you?” I asked and tried to open my eyes slowly.

“Well, I don’t care about me. I’m always late and you’re never late so there’s a difference.” he said while gathering up my stuff. I was having a hard time waking up.

“Ugh, I had this weird dream. My eyes were glowing and your mom gave us condoms because she thought all the racket here was because we were having sex.” I laughed as I sat up. He sat up on the bed after getting our things ready for school and looked at me laughing.

“It wasn´t a dream.” he looked into my eyes. “They’re not glowing anymore.”

“What?” I rolled off the bed and fell on the floor, as I usually do at his place. Then I slowly stood up.

“Do you always get out of bed like that at your place? Because it looks really natural when you fall down like that here.” he told me amused.

“No, actually I don’t. I only do this at your place because your floor is carpeted. Not mine. You just never see it because I usually wake up before you do.” I love carpeted floors, they're always so soft and warm, and Liam keeps his floor clean so of course, I need to make use of that. I looked in the mirror and examined my eyes. Nothing was wrong with them now at least. Hope it doesn’t happen at school.

He laughed a bit, then he stood up and we both got ready and went out in a hurry. We didn’t eat breakfast.

“So...will your glowing eyes be a secret or can I tell people about them?” Liam asked as we were walking to school.

“Why would you tell anyone and who?” I asked back surprised that he wanted to. Like, if he had glowing eyes would he want me to go around and tell everyone?

“My friends at practice. Maybe you’ll get more attention than Alyssa.”

“They will think I’m a freak. Please don’t tell them. Don’t they all hate you or something? I remember you said something like that.” I said and looked at his face for some further explanation on why he wanted to tell people that don't even like him. He had said to me once he started playing football that he couldn't get along with the boys, that they usually left him in the dark and didn't pay much attention to him. Liam confronted them once but the boys only mentioned how annoying it was that he was my best friend and called him gay because he didn't date me. Liam thought it was a problem at first, but then he realized that people like this have bigger personality problems than him and that he at least has me in his life. He has friends, family, and people he can trust. Those boys don't need to be one of those important people in his life. He doesn't let them bother him and he works hard to stay on the team no matter what happens. He would change teams but this was the only football team in town. 

“No, they don’t hate me. They’re just jealous that I’m your best friend. You know, like I’m a guy, friends with the prettiest girl in school and we’re not dating. They’re jealous that I’m your friend and mad that I’m not dating you but you still prefer to be with me.” he said, looked back at me, and smirked. He was such a charmer. So mentally strong. Never let those boys drag him down as if he knew he was better than them and didn't have to prove it to them. He never says anything harmful back at the boys when they judge him. He usually just chuckles and shakes his head smiling or he ironically agrees with them. I once waiting for him after practice and I heard the boys say to him as he was about to walk towards me: "So, off to you girl best friend homo?" they laughed. Liam stopped in his tracks, turns to them totally relaxed, and said "Yeah, I'll be with her all night, without doing anything at all and she'll still want to be with me. How sad is that? Like, she wants to be with me and I don't even have to do anything. It's so easy." then he smiled at them, waved and came to me. Just so you get an idea of how he reacts to situations like that. I loved it.

“Oh... but don’t tell them. I don’t wanna compete with Alyssa. So, it’s a secret.” I said. He took my shoulders gently in his hands and made me face him as we stopped in front of my classroom. 

"Don't worry, I wasn't planning on telling them anything. I just wanted to see how you felt about Alyssa if you really wanted the attention back or not. If you were jealous or not. But I guess you really don't care. That's good. I love that about you." he said and gave me a pat on m head and smiled at me as if I were his little girl. He was taller than me but I didn't want him to look at me like that.

"So you love it when I don't care huh?" I said and pushed his hand away. 

"No, I love that other people have no effect on you. You never change yourself or your values because of others." he said "Anyways, you're late, go to class, I'll see you after." he smiled and walked away, he had physics and I had chemistry. I fixed my hair because he had made a mess of it. Why did he need to look at me like a little girl?  Why did it bother me?

I wasn’t the best student in chemistry and coming late was not really helping my impression on the teacher, Ms. Sandra. I walked into class and there was complete silence. I looked over the classroom as everyone else looked at me wondering what was going on. No one I knew was in my chemistry class but there was one empty seat in the back. Yes in the back! I walked over there.

“You’re late Aria.” Ms. Sandra said strictly.

“I know. I’m really sorry that I’m late.” I said while sitting down. Everyone’s eyes still on me. Like jeez, don’t you all have a life?

“You will have to catch up somehow. Alyssa, would you be able to help Aria catch up with us?”

“Yes, Ms. Sandra.”

Alyssa was sitting in the seat beside me. Might as well try to be friends instead of enemies.

“Hey, on what page are you? I can help with the rest.” She said to me. She did sound very nice. Oh no. The headache was coming back.

“94.” I said.

“Oh okay, that’s not really behind. We’re on 97. Okay, I’ll help you.” She said and moved her table closer to mine so she could see better.

Chemistry was actually not that hard anymore. The way she explained it made it so simple. I was even quicker at calculating this time, even with a minor headache.

“Pop quiz!” Ms. Sandra suddenly said. We could hear the kids groan.

“Oh no.” I said to myself. I was so not ready.

“Don’t worry, I think you’ll do fine.” Alyssa said. I smiled at her.

I felt good after the test. It wasn't that hard. It was so weird that even with the headache I think that I might have done well on this test.  What is with me? I'm trying so hard to stay positive but this headache is really getting on my nerves. I hope it goes away before my next class. PE. I can't run if my headache keeps on eating me.