It'll Get Better

Chapter Three

Hey so I obviously haven't been updating recently, but I have a reason why. Last Thursday, I started to feel sick and it got to the point where I lost my voice completely and I was in so much pain I didn't have the strength to do anything. I actually started crying in one of my classes. Well enough of my excuses, I'm going to write again!

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It was only the second day of school and I'd already been hoping it'd end. My first two classes went by pretty fast and that I liked. I was already thinking about the project we had to do in art. It was a self portrait and it had to be as tall and as wide as us. I wanted to do something that no onw would've thought of so I thought about doing something like Andy Warhol, pop art. I've never done anything like this before so it was exciting me.

I didn't really pay attention in second period. I liked the teacher and she taught chemistry well, but her voice was so boring it was seriously putting me to sleep. As soon as that class was over, I speed walked to English because I actually looked forward to being in that class and apparently Mrs. Young said there will be an assignment that she is looking forward to doing with us. When I got to the class, I sat in my seat and waited for the announcements to come on.

After the announcements, as soon as Mrs. Young was about to take role, the door opened and in walked a tall, black haired boy with skinny jeans and a gray jacket on covering his head. He came in with a schedule, meaning he was new to this school. Mrs. Young introduced this new student to the whole class. When she said his name, my eyes shot up and tried to find the eyes of this new person. His name was Chris. Is he the guy that bumped me last night? No it can't be there's so many Chris' in the world it can't be him, no, I thought to myself.

Why was I so desperate to know who he was? I was never interested in people, especially new people. When Mrs. Young told the kid to pick where he wanted to sit, I looked back down to my desk. I didn't want to make eye contact with him, that'd just make me feel awkward. I could hear all the girls in the room saying, "Sit next to me please", god they were even more desperate than I was. I just hoped he didn't sit next to me. They all stopped and Mrs. Young started talking about the great assignment she had planned for us.

"Hey there Yasmin", someone said. No it couldn't be anyone. No one talked to me in that class. Even though I knew that, I looked to where the sound came from and there he was, it really was him. I made eye contact with him, his beautiful ocean blue eyes staring back at me and I could feel my cheeks getting hot so I just waved. He giggled and I could hear the disgust in other people's voices. I looked back at Mrs. Young so that he could know that I wanted to listen to her. I mean, after all she talked about this assignment since yesterday like it was some kind of gold.

Mrs. Young talked about everyone having their own story. She said that every story was different and unique. She talked about how life is like a library book. I wrote that down in my sketchbook, Life is a library book. She then started to pass out papers that told us the assignment. When I got my paper, I read it and as I was reading it, I became disappointed. That great assignment she kept yapping about was a fucking autobiography.

We did that every year for as long as I could remember and I always lied about it. Chris looked at me and rolled his eyes pointing to the paper and I nodded. This was stupid, seriously she got me all excited for an autobiography when it could've been something out of the ordinary. UGH. I was angry and disappointed but I still listened to her. She said the assignment wasn't just an autobiography, it was a story about us and that we had to tell our story to the rest of the class. When she said that my heart dropped. I knew no one would want to hear my story and everyone already knew everything about me.

She said it was due in three weeks so that it gave us time to get it done. I didn't want to do this. I was about to cry when Chris brought his desk closer to mine. Mrs. Young said that we could talk together about the assignment and I guess he wanted to talk to me. He had a deep voice and it sounded like it was too deep for him but it sounded great. He asked me to talk and I said that I didn't want to do this work. He nodded and said he feels the same way. But we both knew we had to do something. I told him I wasn't going to do anything until the week its due and he laughed saying, "Yea, I think everyone's going to do that."

He was really nice and it felt good talking to him. He showed me his schedule and I said that we had a lot of classes together. We had third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh together. It made me feel good knowing that I had another friend with the same classes as me and he had lunch with me so hopefully I don't have to be alone. Wait, is he even my friend? I didn't want to ask him that because that was just weird. It was good talking to him, it felt like we've known each other for years, we were so comfortable with each other.

The teacher started talking again but we didn't listen we were too busy talking and playing games, like hangman and tic tac toe. We didn't even notice the bell ring until we saw people standing up and leaving. While Chris pushed his desk back, I went out the door. I wasn't going to wait for him because I didn't even know if we were friends. I started walking to my fourth period class when I heard someone yell my name.

Now people only yelled my name to make fun of me or hit me, but I still froze in the hallway and closed my eyes hoping it wasn't someone who'd beat me up, emotionally and physically. I felt a hand on my shoulder and when I turned around, it was Chris, I let out a sigh of relief. "Hey since we have the same classes until the end of the day, will you walk with me? I obviously don't know my way around." He said, I could see his cheeks getting red. I nodded my head and he replied with, "Thanks! We are friends so walking and talking will help us get to know each other."

My face lit up when he said that and I guess he could tell because he let out a small chuckle. And then we walked to our next class talking and smiling.

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Yay I updated! WOO! Haha, I hope you guys like it cx I see everyday that the reads are getting higher and higher and that honestly makes me extremely happy! Hopefully, I'll updated everyday and if not everyday then every other day that way I won't just leave like I did the past 7 days c: