I Never Knew, But It Has Always Been
You
Chapter Two (part three)
Ella grabbed her books and stuffed
the second copy of the song back into her locker. She shut her
locker and then Fletcher and Ella were off to homeroom. It is still
a little early, and no one was really there yet but they just hung
out in the classroom. They took their usual seats and Ella took out
the music sheet with no lyrics on it. She began to copy the words
down while Fletch went to the vending machine to grab a bottle of
water.
Ella hummed the tune of the lullaby to herself, well until she
noticed Fletcher standing at the door listening along. “Wow,
that’s really good, you got any lyrics for that song
yet?” Fletcher asked. Ella jumped slightly at the sound of
his voice. He chuckled and Ella’s face flushed a bright
crimson.
“It’s my new one. A.K.A. the lyrics you supposedly
didn’t see while you made me jump for them in the
hallway.” Ella said with sarcasm dripping from each word. She
put quotation marks around ‘you supposedly didn’t
see’. Fletcher let out a throaty laugh and eagerly walked to
his seat right beside Ella.
Before Fletcher sat down he pulled out a piece of paper from his
back pocket. “Oh, you mean these lyrics?” He asked as
Ella’s face shouted confusion. She giggled and held out her
hand as an indication to Fletcher to give it back to her. He simply
shook his head and began to read out loud softly. “As we lay
here under the stars/ We both are looking but never seeing/ That we
are many worlds apart/ Neither of us really believing. / Trying to
make something of the separation / Always turning in the wrong
directions/ And somehow, in some way, the desperation, / The
desperation keeps us running.” Fletcher glanced up at Ella
who was looking deep into his eyes trying to decipher what he
thought of the lyrics. He had a sort of surprised expression lying
across his face. “Ella-“, Fletcher began, but was soon
interrupted by Ella.
“I know, I know. It’s not that great. I don’t
even know what it’s about. I just wrote it. And it’s
totally not done yet. It’s just one of those songs that make
you wonder I guess.” Ella explained. She shrugged her
shoulders and glanced at the clock. They still have about
twenty-five minutes until the school floods with bodies just
waiting so spend six hours of their time
‘learning’.
Fletcher glances back at Ella, boy she is beautiful. All of her
features like that one fly-away hair that never seems to be tame
and never willing to stay in its place. Not to mention the scar on
her jaw from when she fell into the corner of a coffee table when
she was little. The way she seems to always be in her world of
music and writing. All of these things make up Ella; the Ella
Fletcher knows and believes in. He knows they could make it as a
couple; they could even be the school’s new ‘it’
couple.
“What are you thinking about, right now, right this
second?” Ella blurts out as she is staring off into another
world.
“Huh?”
Fletcher asks, unable to answer because he himself wasn’t
mentally present on Earth either.
Ella turns towards Fletch and smiles. “I asked you, what
exactly are you thinking about, right this second. What’s on
your mind Fletch, you seem absent.” Ella restates herself.
She looks him straight in the eye, smiling wide.
At first this caught him off guard; can she read minds or
something? No, that’s silly. Well what the hell, just say it
Fletcher, just tell her what you are thinking about he tells
himself mentally. “What am I thinking about?” She nods.
“You.” He says simply. This didn’t even faze
Ella, unexpected by Fletcher. He decides to elaborate on that a
little bit. “I’m thinking about you. I’m thinking
about how talented you are as an artist. I’m thinking about
all the things we have been through together, and all the secrets
we’ve shared. I’m thinking about how much I love you as
a best friend, and how simply lucky I am to have you there right by
my side. You know, just thinking.” Fletcher says sweetly,
looking Ella straight in her smiling eyes. He could tell this
pleased her. Maybe she was thinking the same thing. What if she
was? What if she loved him too; as a best friend of
course?
It’s time to find out. It’s time to find out if they
aren’t meant to be together. Fletcher leaned in
ever-so-gracefully and brushed his sweet, soft lips against hers.
Her lips tasted of strawberry, from her chap stick. He could feel
her smiling against his lips. It was just a soft, yet passionate
kiss. Almost telling Ella everything he has wanted to say for a
very long time. He cupped his hand around Ella’s jaw bone,
and with his other hand he twirled one of her curls in his
fingers.
Something in Ella clicked. This couldn’t be happening. What
about their friendship? What is going to happen to that? Ella
pulled away abruptly. “Fletcher, I’m sorry. This, this
just can’t happen. I gotta go.” Ella said flustered.
She stood up quickly and fled out of the classroom leaving Fletcher
sitting there all alone.
“Ella! Ella, don’t do this! Wait!” Fletcher
yelled. It didn’t work though. She still ran. She ran all the
way to the opposite end of the school, which is not easy to do with
a dress on. Ella barged in the girls’ bathroom door and
gripped the sink and looked in the mirror. All she needed was a
good look at herself and a deep breath.
I Never Knew, But It Has Always Been You Chapter Two (part three)
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