I Never Knew
Chapter One Part One
I walked into my history class and sat down at my desk. I immediately looked over my shoulder, like I do everyday, to see if he was there. When I noticed the empty desk I turned my head back and opened my binder to start my work. I grabbed my pencil started to copy down the project instructions that were on the board, when my pencil led broke. I sighed then got up from my desk and walked over to the sharpener and started to sharpen my pencil. As I worked at trying to get the sharpener to start breaking my pencil the bell rang.
“I guess he’s not showing up today.” I murmured to myself as I continued to sharpen.
When I finally got the pencil sharpener working on my side I turned around, walked back to my desk and sat down. I began copying the work again. Just then I heard the door open and I looked up. There he was, standing in the doorway wearing his football jersey.
“So nice of you to join us Mr. Parker, now hand me your late slip and take your seat.” Mr. Robinson said to Ryan as he walked towards his desk.
“Hey.” I said as he walked past my desk.
“Hey.” Ryan answered as he sat down behind me.
I turned around and looked back down at my binder and smiled. I began to write again, as my teacher described our projects to us. “Now guys, since this is a larger project, I’m going to allow you guys to work in partners.” Mr. Robinson stated to the class as everyone became very talkative. You could see all the best friends of the class calling out to each other to be partners. I look over at my friend Melanie and gave her a nod that we use to tell each other that we want to be partners. She replied with the same nod and then we both laughed.
“Whoa guys settle down, settle down I’m not finished yet.” He interjected as the class fell silent. “I’ll be picking your partners for the project.” He said as the class filled with the sounds of disappointed voices. “Now listen here for the name of your partner.”
I sat there in anticipation to see who I would be paired up with. I don’t really have a problem with anyone in my class but there are some people that I would prefer to work with. I sat there waiting for my name to be called out of the list of partners, when I realized that Ryan’s name hasn’t been called yet and neither has Melanie’s.
“Melanie, Will.” Mr. Robinson shouts, and then he continues shouting out names. When I realize that there are only four people who haven’t had their names called out yet. Mine, Ryan’s, Dalton’s, and a girls name that I can’t remember for the life of me.
“Dalton, Hailey.” Oh so that’s her name. “… and that leaves Alex and Ryan.” Mr. Robinson states. My heart froze and my stomach filled with butterflies. Did I really just get paired up with Ryan Parker? The one guy in the whole school who every girl thinks is hot. I took a deep breath and looked back at him, he flashed me a smile.
“Okay guys you have to the bell to discuss the project with your partner and I expect it done by Friday.” Mr. Robinson shouted over all the voices in the room.
I was hesitant to turn around and face my partner. I have had a crush on Ryan all year and this was the chance I was looking for to get to know him. My heart was racing, I needed to calm myself down before I turned around to face Ryan because I don’t want him thinking that I’m some kind of freak. My heart quickly slowed down and the butterflies in my stomach went away. I was ready to face him. I turned around with a nervous smile on my face.
“So partner how are we going to go about doing this project?” he asked me with a confused yet friendly look on his face.
I hesitated because I forgot that part of working alone with Ryan would mean that I have to talk to him one on one with no one else around. I have talked to Ryan before but I was always with a group of friends or we were working in a larger group of people where he wasn’t dependent on me to keep a conversation going. So I took a deep breath and tried to come up with an answer.
“Well… umm… since theirs not a lot of time in class to work on it we could go to the library after school to work on it… if you want?” I said still in shock about the whole situation.
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