The perfect timing

The next day started with me oversleeping and then rushing out of my apartment in a hurry towards school. I had to walk or more run because my aunt was already at work and wasn’t able to drive me. Aiden also wasn’t around because he had a free period and was probably still sleeping. It really sucked sometimes that I didn’t have my driving license yet.

So when I reached my class out of breath, my sides were hurting and all I wanted to do was to collapse right there on the ground. But thankfully I made it in time and let myself fall down into my seat.

“Are you alright?” Liam whispered, and I nodded.

“Yeah, I just oversleep and had to run towards school,” I told him in a whisper as well. Neither of us wanted to be caught talking and getting detention.

“Your sleeping pattern is messed up,” Liam commented with a headshake and then went back to taking notes. Another way to tell me that our conversation was over.

“True,” I mumbled, but more to myself, because he already stopped listening. Liam always knew, how to make you feel loved, I thought sarcastically and tried to hold back my yawn, because I was still tired as hell. Liam was right my sleeping pattern was a mess, and it was hard to stay awake through the day.

So when the bell rang and the last period of today was over, I sighed in relief. I was more than ready to go home and lie down for a while, maybe even take a nap. But in the end everything came different.

When I was standing at my locker, putting the books away, I wouldn’t need until tomorrow, someone suddenly spoke and startled me with her high pitched voice.

“Hey Celia,” the voice said in an over excited and happy tone and I looked to my left to see Kitty standing right beside me with a big smile on her lips.

“Kitty,” I said, but more as a question. “What are you doing here?”

“Going to school.” She answered laughing at me.

“You are going to this school?” I asked pointing around and couldn’t hide the astonishment in my voice.

“Unfortunately.” another persons voice interfered and Kitty and I turned around to look at a smirking Reece Matthews. He was looking mockingly at his sister and she looked annoyed by his presence.

“Funny.” Kitty replied sarcastically and crossed her arms in front of her chest, a gesture I noticed her doing often around her brother.

“Funny is my second name,” Reece said casually, mimicking his sister, by crossing his arms in front of him, not losing the smile on his handsome face.

“Really?” Kitty asked him and added before he could reply. “I thought it was the moron.”

I snickered at her comeback and while Kitty gave me a smile, her brother glared at me. But I couldn’t care less, the girl had a point.

“Well, if the two of you are so close, why don’t you keep Kitty company during my training,” Reece announced and looked at me expecting.

“What?” Kitty and I asked simultaneously, and I scrunched my nose in confusion.

“What are you talking about Reece?” his sister questioned again, looking confused as well.

He sighed before he talked. “Dad has an important meeting today, so he can’t pick you up and you have to drive with me. But I have practice now, so you have to wait.”

Kitty mumbled after Reece speech something under her breath, but I couldn’t make the words out. So my gaze fell back to Reece, who was looking at me, still waiting for my answer.

“What is now? Will you keep her company or not?” he asked impatiently. “You probably didn’t have anything better to do, so hurry up with your answer.”

I ignored his last sentence and snapped. “You know, being polite isn’t a crime.”

“And you should know, that green isn’t your color,” he stated mentioning at the shirt I was wearing. I gasped and my eyes widened. He didn’t just say that.

“Reece,” the girl next to me gasped and glared at her big brother. What was his freaking problem, I thought angrily giving him my best glare.

“No comeback?” Reece challenged me, raising one of his eyebrows. I didn’t think when I said my next sentence and blurred out the first thing that came out of my mind.

“Your personality is as ugly as your face.”

After the sentence was out and I couldn’t take it back, I wanted to bury myself deep beneath the earth. This was the lamest attempt of a comeback ever and Reece knew it too.

But instead of commenting it, he laughed hysterically. He didn’t stop laughing for a whole minute and his sister and I glanced at each other in the meantime and exchanging words silently.

“Did he forget to take his medicine?” I mouthed at her silently and she mouthed a “probably” in return.

After Reece calmed down and whipped imaginary tears away, he asked again, but this time in a gentler voice, “What is your answer?“ For a second I glanced at Kitty, who was giving me her version of puppy dog eyes and a pleading look.

I closed my eyes for a second and when I opened them again I answered, “Okay, fine.”

“Yeah.” Kitty jumped out of joy and gave me an unexpected hug and I patted her back awkwardly. I wasn’t a fan of too much hugs and normally I don’t embrace people I just met. But there was a first time for everything.

“Good, then let’s go. I’m already late, because of you,” Reece announced like the lovely person he was and walked away, not even making sure if we were following him.

After that we both followed him and I whispered towards Kitty. “Your brother can be such a diva.” She snickered at my comment and I smiled at her.

“I heard that,” Reece said, turning around slightly and pointing his index finger at me warningly. But we laughed and ignored him.

“I just transferred to this school a week ago.” Kitty told me as we were sitting, on the grass at our schools sport field, watching Reece and his teammates playing soccer.

“It makes also sense now, why I didn’t see you around and thought you didn’t go to our school.” I told her and she nodded in understanding.

“Where did you go to school before?” I asked her curious after I took a big gulp of my water bottle. It was just too hot outside, and I had already put my hair into a ponytail in order to cool down.

“I went to a girl’s school, but hated it so much, that I bugged my parents to get me out of this school and after a while they gave in and let me go to your school,” she laughed, taking a sip of her bottle as well.

“What about you?” she asked after a comfortable silence. “Did you always go to this school and what is your life like?” she asked me bluntly, but in a curious way. I wanted to laugh out loud and tell her, that I had the craziest life you could image, with me being able to freeze time, but instead answered.” I always went to this hell of school and I would say that I just live a normal life like everybody else here.”

“Boring.” Kitty told me, but in a playful manner and she even nudged me into my side. I started to really like this girl, she was unlike her brother a nice and funny person and maybe the first girl I would consider being friends with.

“Watch out!” somebody suddenly shouted, and we looked both up to see a soccer ball flying straight towards us. Immediately the two of us jumped to the side and out of the way. The ball just landed a few feet behind us and shortly after, a boy with blonde hair rushed towards us and asked concerned, “Are you two okay?”

The boy had freckles on his face and I couldn’t get the feeling that I knew him from somewhere. He looked so familiar.

“Don’t sweat about it, we are fine,” Kitty answered, and the boy sighed in relief.

“Good, because I don’t want to be the reason, why two beautiful girls got hurt,” he told us with a wink. But before one of us could answer him, someone called him by his surname and he said, “That is my clue to leave, ladies.” The one who actually screamed his name was Reece, who was now looking at our direction annoyed.

“What was that about?” I questioned Kitty with a frown after the guy left and we were alone again.

She shrugged and stole another glance at him, before she answered, “No idea, but he is kind of cute.”

I laughed at her comment, but stopped when I took another glance at the boy who was looking far too familiar.

It was like my brain suddenly solved the last piece of a puzzle. It was Eric. The guy who was a bully as a kid, brought Aiden and me together and was now going to my school.