Burning education

It was my first day of freshman year, and I didn’t have many classes with any of my friends. It was good though because I have a chance to meet new people, I enter my first class excited and sit across from a cute guy, I introduced myself and his name was Alfredo Fernandez. His name sounded very Mexican but I didn’t mind, I don’t really have a type anyways as long as they’re cute or somewhat attractive and make sure that they have a good personality.

The class started and it was over pretty quickly, nothing eventful happens after this so when lunch comes around I text my best friend and see where he was at.

I find him outside on some tree, as I approach him I realize there’s a girl with him, I try not to feel jealous but I’m not gonna lie it’s a little bit hard to. “Hey John, hows it going?” I question him looking at the girl suspiciously. She’s pretty tall, about my height, brownish hair that shines in the sunlight, bright green eyes that you can’t help but notice and her nose is small enough to fit her face perfectly. Her body is slim like she works out at home, she’s almost the perfect girl, except her face expression towards me turn hard as if she can’t stand John having a girl best friend or hanging around other girls.

“I’m doing fine, the first few classes were pretty interesting” he says enthusiastically while looking at the girl beside him. “I would say that this year might not be as bad as we thought it’d be. How was your morning?”

“No introductions?” I question him a bit angry.

“Oh yeah, sorry this is Jaeda, Jaeda this is...” there it is the introduction I was waiting for, her name was also very unique just like her features. I don’t see why John wouldn’t like her.

“Hi Jaeda nice to meet you. I’ve known John since we were babies, he’s cool and all but, be careful not to make him mad.” I tell her jokingly, her face softens which is good at least for me, I don’t want to be enemies with a friend of John’s, that would be bad.

“Hi... it’s nice to meet you too, we have second period together and we sit close to each other. I’ll be sure to watch myself around him.” Jaeda shoots me a smile, her teeth are a little crooked but otherwise I’d say she has a beautiful smile, enough to make anyone around smile too.

After that we get to talking about our classes and to be honest Jaeda isn’t half as bad as I first thought she was, or so I thought.

Lunch ends and we go back to our classes in my seventh period, the teacher seems cool and young, he’s very tall maybe a foot taller than me. His personality is chill, so far, I might actually enjoy this class.

The rest of the day goes by and I’m so glad to finally be able to head home with John and tell him about everything. At least, everything I wasn’t able to tell him because of Jaeda.

I will meet him at his locker but, hold on, something isn’t right, I forgot my water bottle with my seventh period teacher, I forgot his name. Darn now I have to go back to the second floor. I quickly text John that I’ll be there in a few minutes, hopefully he is patient.

I arrive in the classroom and it is empty, I go to the desk that was assigned to me, as the teacher walks in, drying his wet hands on his t-shirt. “Is there anything you need help with?” Says the teacher.

“No thanks, I just forgot my water bottle here, Mr...” I tell him, wondering what his name was cuz I totally forgot.

“Mr. Patterson, but call me Zayn, I don’t like being too formal.” He replies, I think about his name, it sounds very interesting.

“Alright Mr. Pat- I mean Zayn, I’ll see you tomorrow in class.” I smile at him and he smiles back as I’m leaving the classroom, going back down to the main floor where John should be waiting for me.

As I’m heading towards John’s locker I see Alfredo and we make eye contact, I can feel my face getting hot as we get closer to each other. It reminds me of the anime’s and Korean dramas that I watch at night, I never thought someone could make me feel so intense and happy at the same time with just a look into my eyes.

Anyways, I wave at him, “Hi, Alfredo.”

”Hi...” he replies, the sound of his voice makes my heart rate shoot up, I can hear my heart in my ears, my cheeks get all hot, my palms are starting to get sweaty. Weird my hands are never sweaty, people would say my hands are like ice bags, always cold. “What are you up to now?”

“I-I am going to my locker” I choke on my own saliva, gosh this is so embarrassing.

“Oh cool, can I join?” He asks casually, I’m trying to clear my throat without making noise but that doesn’t work. So I simply nod and keep walking.

He follows close behind, making conversation that I barely listen to, still trying to calm my body down. “Are you alright?”

“Yeah, just need a bit of water.” I add calmer now.

“ I have some water in my backpack.” He slowly reaches his back with one hand and gets hold of his water bottle.

I face him, getting hold of the water bottle, even though I have one in my hands. “Is your bottle empty?” He questions, eyeing the bottle in my hand.

I swing it around to show him that it’s empty, he nods and stares at me with those chocolate brown eyes that make my body heat up.

Does he care that it’s like kissing, indirectly?