A Change Of Heart

Chapter 6

I spend most of the morning on Monday searching for Zane. I downloaded Skype on my phone to text him through it since I didn't have his phone number. I was growing frustrated because today out of all days, he seemed to be extremely hard to find. And so during my free period and being sneaky in other classes, I tried my best to get the whole lab done. It was so hard and I'm sure some of it is wrong, but I was proud of myself when I actually finished. And although I finished, I didn't stop trying to look for him. Was he even in school today?

I figured I would get my answer once I get to lunch, but he wasn't there either. I checked the lunch room several times but came up empty. Since my friends were around and always conscious of my actions, I had to be very discreet about it. But even then, I still came up empty. I mean, it's not like I didn't try to reach out to him repeatedly. Yeah, I know I missed the time we agreed to meet, but it was a mistake.

He had to see my messages. He could have at least let me know what was up and if there was at least one time that he was free. I highly doubt he was busy all day on Sunday. If he isn't here today I'm going to be the one who gets upset because he didn't say not one word to me to let me know what was up. So at this point, biology was my final hope of seeing if he was here or not.

Is he okay? He didn't die or anything, I hope.

"Zuri, what's wrong?" I hear a faint voice and snap out of my deep thought that I didn't even realize I was in.

"Hmm?" I look up and see everyone staring at me.

"You look sad." Brianna says.

"Oh. I'm not sad."

"I can see there's something wrong."

"I'm just worried about my lab." I confess.

"I thought you did it?"

"I did, but I know that Zane—"

"Wait a minute," Raven smirks.

"What?" I already don't like the smirk that is on her face.

"You're worried about Zane? You aren't serious right now?" She laughs.

"I'm not worried about him; I'm worried about our grade." I grimace at her.

"Honestly, you fell asleep and apologized for it. He didn't text you at all yesterday, obviously he didn't care about his grade. So I would tell the teacher that I did that lab all by myself."

"Yeah, but also I bailed on him."

"Yeah and you apologized. I know you, and you get your work done no matter what. I know you wouldn't let some boy come in between your grades because you don't even let Will come in between your academics. It's not your fault he didn't try to reach out to you again."

"Honestly," Brianna says before I can reply to Raven. "I think this argument can go both ways."

"No, it can't," Raven shakes her head. "I don't see Zuri it the wrong here. That Zane boy should learn to prioritize his time, too. Zuri constantly reached out to him after she accidentally fell asleep. He was the one who decided not to reply."

"I do agree with what you're saying, Raven. But Zuri, you knew you had plans with him and you knew that he was going to be really busy that next day." Brianna says.

"I know, and that's why I feel bad. But I mean, at least I did it." I defend myself.

"True." They both say.

The conversation begins to shift and I just try not to think about the whole biology lab thing until I have to actually go to biology. For now, I focus on the conversation my friends were having and trying to ease my nerves. I get stressed out so easily, it's a bad quality of mine that I hate. When Will came over, he helped ease my mind some more, but the fact that I would soon have to face Zane kept creeping back. Honestly, I don't even know why it's affecting me so much. It was one project, one mistake, and a onetime thing. Zane will get over it.