He looks over at her startled by her touch he jumped quietly. Ruby looked down at her hands fidgetting with them as she whispered "Can I borrow a pencil?" a blush quickly spreading across her face from embarrassment. who forgets to bring a pencil on their first day of school? she scolded herself silently. Not realizing she said it loud enough for Sal's ears to pick up he smiled under his mask practically melting inside. She sounded very sweet. Before Sal knew it he grabbed a spare mechanical pencil off of his own paperwork and put it on her desk. Hearing the light tap the pencil made on the impact of the desk Ruby glanced over at it and smiled genuinely. "Thank you, Sal was it..?" she practically mumbling
Sal wasted no time and nodded his head slowly causing her lips to curve again " I'll return it to you before the end of the day" she promised turning away from him and beginning on her work. The boy didn't realize it but, he was smiling like an idiot staring into his locker until his best friend began snapping his face. "Earth to Sally!" he said out loud shutting his locker for his space cadet of a friend. Sal shook his head coming back to reality seeing Larry by his side. "Sorry, I was spacing out." he admitted as Larry huffed in slight annoyance "Clearly. I've been trying to get your attention for 5 minutes!"
Sal didn't realize he was so deep in thought to the point where he wasn't aware of his surroundings anymore. Sally and Larry began walking to the cafeteria having their own small talk about their own classes. "Dude, can you believe the new girl just barely got here and she's already crazy popular? it's almost disgusting." Larry complained
"She's hot though so.." he continued shrugging his shoulders in a matter of fact manner
Sal just nodded in agreement as they entered the cafeteria being greeted by their other friends Ashe and Todd. "You guys are late, what happened, Larry found a random blunt in his pocket and convinced you to smoke it with him again?" Ash smirked
"Fuck you. That was one time." Larry admitted laughing at her comment
"Nah, Sally face here was being a spacey face." he rolled his eyes laughing inwardly at his own lame joke
"Ha..Ha.. very funny." Sal retorted punching larry on the shoulder playfully
They all sit down at the "freaks" table. Which as you can imagine was labeled for all the outcast losers to sit and stay out of the way of everyone else. They were used to it at this point, so the name-calling didn't get to them as much anymore. The group was sitting down eating "mystery meat spaghetti" and making small talk. Aside from the new girl showing up, everything was normal until she did something that would complicate things for all of them.
All of a sudden, Sal felt that familiar gentle pull on his sweater. This time the gentle pull was along the spine of his sweater. The small touch she made,caused Sally look behind him quickly and there she stood with her Ruby red lips. "S-sal, I wanted to return your pencil and thank you again," she said muttered holding out the mechanical pencil and fumbling with the eraser end clearly flustered. Although the cafeteria was noisy he heard her crystal clear
The cafeteria grew mute as they watched the scene that fell beyond their eyes. It went from quiet to whispers throughout the entire cafeteria. Things along the lines of "Why is she talking to that freak, Is he making her bow before him like he's some type of god, she's too beautiful to be seen with such a hideous freak." Ruby felt her eyes watering in fear of rejection and anger. She didn't mean to cause a scene or embarrass him, she just wanted to thank him for his kindness. She quietly whispered a trembling "sorry"
This was nerve-wracking to Sal. He's never had so many eyes watching his every move before. He almost got up and ignored her completely until he heard a quiet "Sorry" and saw her shaking before him. Sally mustered up the courage to gracefully take his pencil out of her teeny delicate hands. "Anytime, Ruby." he tried his best to smile back at her just as she did for him
Seeing his mask lift just a little bit Ruby blinked her tears away assuming he was smiling at her through the mask. She gave him a close eyed smile in return softly humming "I'll see you around!" turning on her heels to sit back down with her "crowd" Everyone was confused and immediately crowded her table for answers as to why she even spoke to a loser. Sal could hear people telling her she could catch loser-itius or freak disease. He sighed turned back to his table as his friends demanded an explanation as well. They were worried about him for trusting her so easily and told him countless times she's just another popular stuck up girl. Sal only thought about her for the rest of the day. How brave she was to actually come and fulfill her promise and risking her new social status just to return a stupid pencil.
Little did Sal's friends, and the new girl know she caused a blush to appear on his cheeks like magic. On the other side of the cafeteria Ruby was blushing as well, however, Sal would never know on this day he did what he thought was the impossible.
Make a girl slowly fall for him.
~To Be Continued...~
