Love Happens [Chapter 3]

[Sorry for the late post. Enjoy reading. :) ]


It was after lunch and it was Mrs. Walter's class. As soon as she entered the class, she asked us to submit our assignments. I proudly submitted my assignment which wasn't actually done by me.
"I bet we're gonna get an A." Drew, who was sitting on my right, whispered to me.
"Really? I was hoping for an A⁺." I grinned at him and looked over to my left. His seat was empty; recently he has been missing out from school a lot. Not like I care or something ….. Reid wasn't always like this… I still remember his first day in school, which was now almost a year ago, he was a transfer student. He was shy, he rarely spoke with anyone. We became friends and before we knew it, the friendship turned into relationship. Those were the good days but as they say, nothing lasts forever and we were no exception. Our relationship started failing, we occasionally had arguments but still I thought we could make it work….. And I knew we couldn’t that night when I saw him with his ex-girlfriend Katharine [they had a long term relationship before he was transferred here], They were making out in the schools locker room after the summer carnival. That night was the night when I knew – even though I hadn’t admitted to myself – that everything we had was over.

Mrs. Walters’s class was over. Our Trig teacher, Mr. Wesley was absent so, we had the next class off. Drew brought his bench closer to mine and said, “Listen, I was working on a new cover song.. wanna check it out?”
“Yeah sure! I’ll drop by while going home.” Did I mention that Drew is a amazing singer and is really good with most of his musical instruments.

“Do that! Mom has already started complaining about you and Samantha not coming home often.”
“Oh Jenna! It’s been ages since I’ve last seen her!”
“You met her last Sunday.” he commented raising an eyebrow.

“Oh shut up Drew!”

We both were busy talking when Mrs. Walter suddenly entered the classroom and announced, “Miss Zoey Danvers and Mr. Andrew Tallet. Meet at my office. Right Now!”
I was in a state of shock. I looked at Drew, he looked ….guilty? What The Hell Is Going On? Whole class was staring at us like we were some clowns from the freak show. Walking out of class he whispered to me, “Prepare for the worst.”

 Mrs. Walter’s office was a pale yellow colored room. She absolutely adores ‘Venus Flytrap’ she even has one in her office right over her desk.  Women in her early fifties, tall and a redhead, she was the faculty head of biology department. She wore rectangle faced glasses that made her look a lot mean than she already was. Drew and I, we were both sitting opposite to her while she was yelling at us, “You two thought that you could fool me? These two assignments are exact copy of each other!! Now, I really don’t wanna hear who copied from who or any of your lame excuses for doing so. I……” I honestly didn’t hear what she said next; my attention was totally captivated by the ‘Venus flytrap’ sitting on her desk. What If….. We made an abnormal growing potion on our chemistry lab and use it in the Venus flytrap and then it ate Mrs. Walter…. I know, school life would be a lot more bearable. [3:D] I smiled at my stupid-never-coming-true-evil thoughts and glanced at Drew’s direction, our eyes met and we both grinned. “What are you both smiling about? Does it seem like some kind of joke to you two? This is your final year in school! At least be a little serious ‘bout it for the sake of your future.” She let out a deep sigh and the continued, “You two are going to do assignment on the anaphase and metaphase of mitotic cell division and submit it day after tomorrow, is that clear?”
“Yes mam!” we said together and got up to leave.
“and one more thing you both are going to stay for detention after school today.”
“WHAT?” I heard his voice echoing mine.
“Yes, and this is for not taking your final year seriously! No more arguments. Now you both may leave.”

“Is she crazy? She’s such a bitch I tell you! ”I was all grumbling, more like yelling, on our way back home. “It’s entirely your fault!” I shot Drew a glance.
“What? My fault? You were the one who didn’t do your assignment and now it’s My fault? I just tried to help you!”
“Yeah, great help buddy! You got both of us detention!”
“Well I never thought that she would recognize that both assignments are same especially when I kept mine 4 or 5 files after yours.” He replied sheepishly. “Sorry.” He added.
“Don’t be, you were just trying to help.” I was feeling guilty already.”I’m the one who should be sorry. You did so much for me and yet I was so rude to you.”
“By-the-way at the Mrs. Walter’s office… what were you thinking?”
“huh?” I was totally caught off guard by him suddenly changing the topic. “you tell me first , what were you thinking?”
“um.. well this may sound totally devilish but I was thinking about the Venus Flytrap eating up Mrs. Walter.”
“What?  You too?”
“What do you mean by ‘you too’?  Does that mean You too?.” We both started laughing. For some reason our brain usually works in the same direction and this is not the first time we’ve witnessed it.

We reached in front of Drew’s house. As I was about to say goodbye and leave. Drew grabbed my hand and said sounding betrayed, “Hey! Where you going? You promised you’d stop by to hear my new cover!”

    “I know, Drew but its already late, thanks to mom.”

     “No worry I’ll call Samantha and tell her you’re here. She won’t mind.” He was starting to sound kinda sad.

    “Okay but I won’t stay much long.”

     “That will do” He gave his big heartwarming smile.

      Drew took out his spare key and opened the door.

      “Mom?” he called out.

      “Yeah! I’m in here.” She called out from the kitchen.
“Look who’s here!”

Jenna came out of kitchen wiping her hands. “Zoey!”
“Hey Jenna” I replied as she came over and gave me a warm hug.
“Look at you! You look beautiful than the last time I saw you!”
Drew chuckled and Jenna and I both rolled her eyes at him.
Jenna, now completely ignoring him, continued, “What a great day for you to be here. I’m making Apple Pie!!”
“Lucky me!”
“Yep, plus I remember Apple pie’s your favorite! I’ll get the biggest slice for you.” Jenna said giving me a wink.
“Awe’ thank you Jenna!” Jenna is an amazing person even as a child I adored her. She used to visit often. She and my mom were best friends and that’s how Drew and I met at the first place.

“So…. how’s Sam doing? I haven’t seen her in a while now.”
“Mom? She’s doing fine.”
“Oh well tell her that I’m coming over tomorrow to take her shopping!” She said laughing.
“Will do. But only if you promise to shop for me too.” I replied joining her.
Drew was already gone to change and also to call my mom. I was sitting in the kitchen happily chatting while Jenna was getting the batter into oven, I tried to help but she wouldn’t let me do a thing.
“Zoe! Where are you? Get up here!” Drew was shouting from upstairs.
Jenna and I exchanged looks “The monkey’s going crazy. I’ll go see why!”
“Sure!” Jenna replied laughing.

I knocked at his door and he looked up and said, “When did you start being so formal? Get in already!.
I got in and sat at the edge of his bed. He was holding his acoustic guitar which I choose for him when we went for his guitar hunt last year.
“Okay which song is it?”
“Ever enough.”

“A Rocket To The Moon?”
“Yeah!”
“Be careful! I’m gonna be a harsh judge here. They are one of my favorites!”
“I know!” he said giving me a wink.
 Then he began. Once he started singing I was completely in a trance. I could bet all my money that no- one could’ve sang this song better than him. He completely owned it. Must admit, it was actually better than the original. When he finished I couldn’t help but want more.

“How’s it?”
“It’s actually really really good!”
“Seriously?”
“Nah! I was just kidding.”
“Oh c’mon Zoe. Honest comment please?”
“Okay! It was really good. I have to say it was actually better than the original!”
“Thanks Zoe!” he jumped off his place leaving his guitar and gave me a tight hug.
“Just so you know, I’m gonna die ‘cause of suffocation.”
He immediately pulled back and looked embarrassed.
“Hey it’s okay I was just kidding.” I assured him and yet there was some awkwardness between which was very unusual. He went over to his study desk and opened his laptop. Suddenly an idea popped into my head. “Hey! Where’s your videocam?”
“Why?..... no! We’re not doing it! I am not gonna record that song never ever!’
“But why?”
“Because I don’t want to!” He said matter-of-factly giving an annoying smile. Just then Jenna called out, “Pie’s ready!!!” hearing that we both jumped to our feet and raced downstairs.
The mere sight of the pie was mouth-watering. Its aroma filled the kitchen. As promised Jenna cut out the biggest piece for me. Drew looked at my plate and compared it to his. “That’s not fair! Why Zoe gets the biggest piece????” he complained.
“Stop being such a greedy child, Andrew Tallet!” Jenna scolded him and laughed at his reaction. I joined her taking taste of every nibble of the pie to the fullest. Drew was still complaining but I didn’t mind. The pie was worth listening to him complain. [ :D ] Jenna was indeed the best cook ever!!

 

 

*Snapshot from the music video of  Everything Has Changed by Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran