It had been a couple of weeks since Ron had gone. I had decided as soon as he left the only thing for me to do was to get over him since I wouldn't be seeing him again. It was really upsetting but it was reality.
I just really hoped that he got better really quick. I wanted him to be able to come back, and I knew that if he got better then he would come back but I didn't know if his parents would let him.
I was at school in US History, probably the hardest class in the world. I had no reason to know the amendments and all of these legal battles in the world. But I guess whoever created high school decided we needed to know.
My teacher Mrs. Jules was a short boring woman. She always wore her hair in a bun and her clothes were horrible. I asked her if I could make her over and she said she didn't need to be made offer. I begged to differ. She always wore black sneakers, black pants, and a white button down shirt. She was horrible.
"Everyone will be working in groups for this project. Groups of two, no more, no less." there goes me working alone. "The project is for you to make amendments for a constitution for a made up country. I want to know what you would have everyone abide by. It will be due in a week and it needs to have ten amendments."
It sounded like it would be a pretty fun project. I just sat in my seat waiting for someone who also had no friends come up to me to do this project with me but everyone seemed to have a partner. Someone tapped me on the shoulder and I turned around to see Ryan. "Hey partner!" he said.
He looked pretty good. He had on a tight blue long sleeved T-shirt from Hollister that had white specs in it, medium dark blue jeans, and white converse. I could tell that he had recently had a haircut because the edges of his hair were clean cut. It was Friday and on Fridays I wore sweatpants and a sweatshirt. I always bummed it on Fridays, so I felt kind of under dressed. When I was around Ryan I liked to try to dress well but too late now.
I was surprised that he didn't have a partner. He was like the most popular guy and he always worked with this guy Kyle in our class. They were like friends in class but didn't talk out of class. "Why don't you have a partner?"
"I told everyone no so that you wouldn't have to work alone. Being a good person makes me feel better. I like to help the unfortunate." He said and it made me smile. I hadn't smiled in such a long time.
"Well the unfortunate fortunately accepts your help." We both laughed and got into a conversation.
"So how have you been? You've been skulking around school."
"I'm doing better than I was. Zoey and Jake have been trying to make me feel better."
"Oh, you've been avoiding me so I didn't know what I did."
"I just wasn't in the best of moods to talk to people other than Zoey and Jake."
"Even at track I couldn't keep up with you to try to talk to you. You run way too fast."
"And you're supposed to be the pro quarter back. What a shame. How have you been?"
"Well I broke up with Emma."
"Oh why?" I asked pretty concerned. It didn't seem to me that he would break up with someone who he made out with.
"She wasn't who she seemed to be. When I saw her true colors it wasn't what I thought they would be."
"Oh well I'm sorry."
"Don't be. I broke up with her and high school is about experiencing new things. I experienced a relationship with her and it didn't work. I guess I just got a little more of the high school experience."
"If that's how you think of it then I take back my sorry." The bell rung as soon as I finished my sentence. "Perfect timing. I guess I'll see you later."
"Yeah I'll see ya. If you want to come over soon let me know. I've been pretty lonely." He put on a frown and it was a pretty good frown.
"Well I like to help out the unfortunate so I'll come over today." Before he could say anything else I walked away with a smile on my face.
I only had two periods until the day was over, math and a study hall. Math was just as boring as it always is and in study hall I did my math homework. After school I had track.
Track had been getting a lot better. Hell weeks were over and now they were nice casual workouts. We had a meet the next day so I had to practice doing hand-offs with my relay team members. Ryan had proved that he was fast so he was on my relay team. I was last and he was third, so he had to hand off to me.
It was such a nice day outside. The wind had perfect gusts at the perfect times. It was around seventy degrees which I thought was like the perfect temperature. The sun was out so you could feel the warmth on your skin and there were no clouds in sight.
"Hey Ryan. Since you don't know how to do these the special way we do them I'll show you." I said.
"Alright. Let's get to work I don't want to mess this up at all tomorrow."
"First walk to that line." He walked to the line. "Now get in starting position like you normally do before you start a race." as he did it I added "Now get into set position. This is how you will take the handoff. Now stand up on the line and take fifteen steps back. That's when you'll take off."
"That doesn't seem too hard. I feel like I can do this." We practiced a few times and he was pretty solid. He was like a natural at this.
"We can be done for the day." I said tired.
"Alright cool. So you still coming over?"
"Yeah let me go get my stuff from the locker room." I walked across the freshly cut football field and the perfect baseball field. The grass was dark green but it was so shiny it just looked so beautiful.
I went into the boys locker room and got my stuff. When I walked out Jon was there waiting for me. "I have nothing to say to you." I said as I pushed my way past him."
"I just wanted to say you liked Ron just as much as I did and I'm just sorry that he had to leave you. I hope he gets better also and I just wanted to say I'm sorry."
I just continued walking without turning around. I had nothing to say to him. I didn't want to get into a fight or get angry or anything. I just wanted to the spend the evening with Ryan at his house and have some fun.
I walked up to the juniors parking lot and looked for Ryan. He was waiting outside his car for me. I got in and we started driving to his house. "So what do you want to do today?" Ryan asked to break the awkward silence.
"Well first of all I want to sing." I plugged my phone into the radio in his car and looked for a good singing song. I put on 'Don't Stop Believing' by Journey. We both starting singing the song together "Don't stop believing. Hold on to that feeelliinggg." I pretended like I had a fake microphone in my hand and started singing so loud. Ryan had stopped singing and he was just watching me and then he started to play the drum part of his steering wheel.
We had so much fun just on the way to his house. It was the most fun I had had in weeks. When we arrived I went inside and went right to the awesome game room. I started jumping on the trampolines and waited for Ryan to get there. He took a while but he came. He had two cheeseburgers in his hand. "Want one?"
"Yeah sure, I'm starving." I took the cheeseburger and I layed down on the trampoline. "Did you make this because it is really good?"
"Yeah I did. Cheeseburgers are like my favorite food so I have to know how to cook them."
"Wow. Well you definitely impressed me."
We ate our cheeseburgers and they were really good. I was so impressed that he could cook this well.
"Want to watch a movie?" Ryan asked.
"Yeah sure. I'll get the popcorn you pick our the movie."
I went over to the popcorn machine and tried to figure out how to turn it on. I looked around the entire thing and then Ryan put his arm over my shoulder and hit the one button. It was so nice him having his arm around me. He was just so close to me and I didn't want him to leave.
"Well I guess I'm an idiot." I said and tried to stand up but he was so close to my back that I couldn't.
"Oh sorry." He said as he moved away. I could see that he was blushing. "I got Eat Pray Love if that's alright with you."
"Yeah I love that movie. I wouldn't think you liked it."
"I've never seen it and I thought you would like it so why not watch it with you."
It made me so happy that he picked a movie I liked and didn't just pick one of his favorite movies. It made me happy knowing he thought of me before himself. "Well thanks for thinking of me."
We both walked over to the movie chairs and he hit a button on one of them. I heard a machine noise and then the chairs started to turn into a long bed type thing and there were pillows at the top and it was facing the movie screen. "That is so cool."
"Thanks. I just got it installed a couple weeks ago and I have fallen in love with it."
I jumped onto it face first and I smelled Ryan's cologne. It was so weird but it smelled so good at the same time. I waited for Ryan to put in the movie and got comfortable. He went over to the popcorn machine and got two movie popcorn buckets. He brought them over and then I hit the play button in the remote he had tossed to me.
The movie started and I realized I had forgotten how good of a movie it was. I had also forgotten how good of an actress Julia Roberts was. "Do you have a blanket its cold in here?"
"Yeah it is cold in here. Let me go get one." He went to get a blanket from a closet down the hall. When he came back I couldn't believe how soft the blanket was. It was the softest blanket I had ever felt. "I'm guessing you like that blanket with how much you're snuggling with it?" I nodded my head. "Well don't think its all yours. You're going to have to share that with me. That has been my blankie since I was like born."
Did he just say him and I would have to be under a blanket together? I took the blanket out from under me and I put some of it on top of him. I had to move a little closer to him so that I would be under the blanket too but barely. He moved closer to me, so close that I had to put my head on his chest. Well I didn't have to but I saw the opportunity so I did. I could hear his heart beat and I just continued watching the movie.
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