Chapter 2 02

02

We took our bags and left for the next class: mathematics, which was the subject where I had the most difficulties. We went to the side and once everyone was settled, the teacher distributed a copy to each of us: surprise control! Didn't your teachers ever do this to you? To make a control the day of the re-entry history to see your capacities, and still, if you have some, which is far from being my case! He picked up the tests, I had answered randomly - you never know - I knew anyway that I could catch up in other subjects. The rest of the hour went by pretty fast, you know how it is on the first day of school, usually you don't do much. At noon, I ate with Ethan, we talked about everything and anything, like real friends, which we were becoming little by little. After lunch we went out and sat on a bench, having fun. He started to tickle me and I twisted around laughing like crazy! Then I stopped, Ondine, the biggest pest I know, came towards us. I discreetly slipped Ethan a few words:

- She is Ondine, beware, she is a pest and a real gossip!

- I'm not surprised," he replied, looking at her.

When she arrived in front of us, she separated us to sit between us two and put her arm on my shoulder as if we were friends. I wanted to pull her arm away from me and tell her how much I hated her, but I didn't, unable to move. She began:

- So Amé, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend? He's cute!"

I wanted to tell her "I don't see why I should introduce him to you, you're the girl I hate most in the world!" but I simply replied:

- "Ah sorry, I forgot, this is Ethan who just moved here."

He looked at me puzzled, I could read his thoughts just by the expression on his face "but why are you answering her nicely, do you hate her?!" I had no choice, as soon as she was near me, I was unable to defend myself or say anything.

Ondine kissed her, and left with a wink. I hated her. A few hours later, we were finally done with school for the day, so I set off for home. Since we didn't live far from each other, I made the drive with Ethan. At the intersection where we should have left each other, he came up to me to kiss me, stopped and said:

- "And would you like to come to my place, so we can take a walk around the neighborhood, and you can show me some nice places!"

I nodded and we went to his place. I saw the big house he had told me about and his adorable dog, a beige labrador. He let me in his house, it was empty. His brother and sister were still in school and his parents were away. We went up to his room. It was huge and really beautiful! It was divided in 4: a corner with the bed and armchairs to discuss between friends, a corner of work with the desk and a library, a corner video games with a sofa and full of consoles and a corner music with its guitars, its amplifier and heaps of partitions. There was a large French window that opened onto a nice little balcony from which you could see his garden with its pool. It was the house of dreams. I asked him where his parents were and he explained that they were hardly ever there because of business trips and that's why they compensated by offering him everything he wanted. He looked nostalgic... He added that he would rather live in an apartment with his parents than in this situation, but I still thought it was a pretty cool house, living in a tiny apartment myself. To lighten the mood, he jokingly pushed me down on the bed and lay down next to me, I could feel my heart racing.

Uncomfortable, I took a pillow and threw it at him, and the pillow fight began. At one point, he threw a pillow so hard that I fell on the bed. I grabbed his leg, he lost his balance and fell on top of me. At that moment, the door opened, it was his mother. My hair was disheveled, my shirt was half off, and Ethan was lying on top of me with his shirt almost completely open from the fight. His mom looked up and said

"I think I'll leave Ethan with you," and closed the door.

I turned scarlet. Ethan pushed himself up so I could get up and I said, embarrassed:

- "I think I should go, don't you?"

- "No, don't go! My parents don't give a shit about me anyway!"

He sat down on his bed and put his head in his hands.

- Listen, I understand that you're embarrassed, but how about we finish this afternoon and pretend my mom didn't come?"

I didn't dare refuse, and replied:

- "Okay, that works."

We sat down on the chairs and talked. The atmosphere was gradually becoming more relaxed. He suggested that we go for a walk in the neighborhood so that I could show him some nice places. I accepted, he took his jacket and we went out. As we walked, he took my hand and smiled. I must have been red-faced, but inside I was happy. I presented him with some stores as he shook my hand. I looked at him and he motioned for me to look to my right. It was Ondine coming towards us. She kissed us and said:

- "So, Amé, you're allowing yourself to steal my Ethan? It is not yours, I'll have you know!

I stammered:

- "But... uh... we're not dating, I... I was just introducing him to some nice places."

I let go of her hand. Then she said:

- "I hope so! Because I have a feeling that something is going to happen between Ethan and me soon -and she added, looking at him- you'll see, nobody can resist me."

Ethan, irritated of the reaction of Ondine put his arm on my shoulder by bringing back me against him and said to make her jealous:

- " Good, you come my Friend, we still have full of corners to visit to finish this superb afternoon spent with you! "

One left while leaving it planted on the spot, mouth open. One heard it shouting in the distance:

- "It is not finished between us two!

Once away, he removed his arm from my shoulder, and said:

- Sorry, I guess you must have been embarrassed by what I did but I couldn't stand what she said.

I then replied:

- "No, it's okay, I understand you.

Indeed I had been a little embarrassed, but it had made me happy to attend such a revenge against Ondine. I showed her the park, the cafes, the cinema and the beach - yes, because I had forgotten to mention that I live near the sea - we stayed there for a long time contemplating the waves. At one point I stood up, pulled him by the arm to get him up and said:

- "Maybe we should go home, right? It's getting late, my mom will be worried."

- "Yeah, no problem, I'll walk you home?

- "Uh... If you want, that is, if it doesn't take you too long to get there. I don't want your parents to worry.

- "Don't worry, I told you, they don't care about me, I can do what I want."

- "Yes, but with what happened this afternoon, I don't want them to see me as a girl... how should I put it... I mean... I don't want them to forbid us to meet again..."

He took me in his arms and held me tight, today had really been a wonderful day. He whispered to me:

- "Amé, forget what happened this afternoon."

He took my hand and we left for my house. When we arrived, I showed him the residence from outside. Then I stood on my tiptoes to give him a kiss on the cheek and added:

- Then I entered the residence.

This time it was him who was all red, I had taken my revenge in some way. When I got home, I went to my room and lay down on my bed, dreaming. Then I turned on my computer, put it on my bed and turned on my cell phone that I had left here this morning. 5 new messages: two were from Ethan and the other three from Alicia. I smiled and read them one by one:

"Ethan: Where are you? I arrived almost 10 minutes ago..." "The appointment, it was right in front of the gate?"

"Alicia: How was your day? " Hey! Answer... " "Ah, I bet you forgot your cell phone again!"

There was no need to answer Ethan, I had already explained to him what had happened, however I told Alicia in detail about today. After sending this message, I logged on to facebook: 11 friend requests and 1 message. I looked at the add requests first which were all from people in my new class and then read the message.

"Great day with you, can't wait for tomorrow, see you again..."

I thought it was too cute and replied on the spot:

"Yes, it was really good, I can't wait for tomorrow either! Next time, I'll invite you;"

It wasn't very original, but too bad, he'll have to be satisfied with that. He was connected, so he answered me almost immediately:

- "When are we going to do this? : "

- "Uh, it depends on what time we finish tomorrow, if we finish at 4pm, I promise to invite you!"

- "Ok:"

We chatted for a while, then I asked him about the girl he had started talking about this morning in the cafeteria. I saw "Ethan is writing..." and was looking forward to hearing more about it when suddenly I heard my mom yell:

- "TO TAAAAABLE!"

I told her I was leaving for lunch, but that he could send me his message, that I would read it when I got back. I was so anxious to know! I ran down the stairs and sat down at the table. Dinner seemed to take forever. I had eaten like crazy but it was no use because my parents didn't want me to leave before the end of the meal. So I waited 10 minutes for them to finish and when I could finally leave, my mother called out to me:

- "Hey, Amethyst! Come help us clear the table!"

So I shuffled back to the table. I took the plates in one hand and the three glasses in the other and headed for the kitchen. As I walked, I tripped over the carpet. Now you know my third biggest fault: clumsiness. Fortunately, I managed to catch myself and did not fall, but I had dropped the glasses, which had broken on the floor. So I had to clean it up, with my mother repeating to me behind:

- "That will teach you to want to go too fast, that will teach you!"

With all this, I had taken twice as long as I had planned, so I ran back up the stairs having almost fallen. I opened my computer and could finally read the message.