My Once In A Lifetime Dream

Chapter 11 If Time Would Stop

If Time Would Stop

                I finally arrived at the school infirmary with the little chubby girl on my back and entered a small white room and called for the nurse. When she came in and found me carrying her she opened her eyes very wide and gasp, then she told me to put her down on the nearest bed. The nurse, Mrs. Penny started examining the little chubby girl and told me to step out of the room so she could it properly. I waited outside. Five minutes have passed and I got nervous and was pacing up and down the hallway. Ten minutes later Mrs. Penny came out and told me that the girl, called Omara Ruttleman, was OK and she just fainted, probably, out of stress and/or fear,  while waiting for her parents she will be resting in there, and if I could keep her company while waiting. Then, she left the room.  I walked close to the bed grabbing a chair with me and sat, waiting, and looking at Omara’s face, I think that was her name. At that moment I was looking at her eyes, nose, lips, chin, ears and I found out that she was cute and innocent, even if she was little and chubby. I stared at her lips and thought of…;” what am I thinking!? Joe, stop it!” I said under my breath. I had to control myself because it looks like I was a p*****t, besides I have to figure out what to say now if she wakes up and her parents aren’t here yet.

                Fifteen minutes have passed and Omara was waking up, she tried to move sideways holding her head like she was having a headache. When her eyes rested on me she looked troubled or something and then she opens her mouth and closed it then she looked like she was trying to understand what had happened. Thus I started talking before she could talk looking directly at her face.

        “Hi my name is Joe Berrios, I am from the second year group Z11. We bumped into each other in

        the hallway near the bathrooms, and I was trying to talk to you and grabbed your arm but you

        fainted right after it.  Because of it, I had to carry you in my back to the school infirmary.”

While I was saying all of these her face changed from white to pink to red in less than a minute. And then she started to sweat, too. And I continue saying.

        “And, the reason I wanted to talk to you in the hallway, was because I wanted to apologize to

        you for the book bag that aided you in your fall in front of the gym. That bag is mine and I did

        not do on purpose, I just threw it from way back of the entrance and did not pay attention to it

        after that. (lowering my head a little) I am very sorry about that.”

When she heard this she tilted her head in surprise. And composed herself, and opened her mouth to say,

        ” Thank you for your apology, but I don’t think that it was your fault at all. Even though it is your

        bag I wasn’t looking properly where I was walking. And that caused me to trip and fall. (She

        lowered her head and voice at this). I am just embarrassed been my first day and all. I know that

        people tend to laugh in situations like these but still, it is…”

        “Nerve wrecking” I finish her sentence. 

By then her whole face was red and under her hands. I thought that she was about to cry of embarrassment or something. So I change the subject and said.

          “Your parents are on their way to school to take you back home.  According to the nurse you

         were under a lot of stress and to be on the safe side you are going home early. And because

         nurse Penny had to leave I stayed here accompanying you until they come, if you don’t mind,

          that is.”

By now I wanted to keep her company, I liked her voice and the way she tries to push herself to be positive of some sort.  I wanted to know more about her, so I asked her. “Could you tell me what is your name?” She chuckled after the question and answered with a big grin extending her right hand to me.

            “That’s right you presented yourself to me but I did not and I am sorry for that. Hi my name is

            Omara Ruttleman I am new to the school, I am a first-year, group…Z10 (her cheeks turn pink,

            she had to think a bit about it, I think that she forgot to which group she belongs to).

Her mother came ten minutes later. She was sort of surprised when she saw me. Subsequently, I presented my self and told her what happened and why I was there with her daughter. At that moment she felt relief and took Omara home. We said goodbye, and I went back to my classes. I was thinking of the good thing I did today when I apologized to Omara, I felt great. And I felt nice been close to her, but I won't try to do more than this. It would carry a more troublesome situation for this little girl named Omara.