Chapter 4

Chapter 4

The next day Theresa and I were sitting at the water fountain talking. It was a beautiful day outside but the only drawback was that lessons were going to start later at noon. It was only 10:30 right now. I wasn’t ready to tell Theresa what happened with Tony and I last night, but she had a feeling that something happened to me.

“Okay, for the past hour you’ve been smiling and sighing really loudly. What’s wrong with you?” she asked as she sat closer to me. I sighed. “Nothing’s wrong. Actually, everything’s all right.” I sighed again.

As she made suggestions of places to go and times to meet, I gazed off into the distance and saw Tony standing in front of the library building. He was staring straight at me and he motioned for me to come over. I looked around behind me and saw nobody else looking in the same direction I was. He disappeared into the building and so I stood up.

“Hey look. Why don’t I just meet you in first period and I’ll tell you then, okay? I gotta…be somewhere right now.”

I casually walked to the main building doors and went inside. This time nobody was in the hallway. I opened the library door and peeked inside. There was a librarian sitting at a computer with her back to me. I looked around and saw Tony’s head poking out from behind one of the bookshelves that were all the way in the back corner of the room. I looked around to make sure it was clear and walked over to him.

“Hello, luv,” he said as he held my right hand and then gave me a hug. “Hi Tony. Nice to see you too! You wanted to see me about something?”

“Yes I did. I couldn’t find any other way to contact you without coming over to your flat since your phone is still out of service. And when I saw you sitting at the fountain, I didn’t want to just come over and start talking out there. So anyways, about last night—“

“Yes, it was great,” he said, still holding my hand and smiling. “Can I come over to see you again tonight?”

“Yeah, sure! Just knock and I’ll let you in. One thing though. What if people start wondering about us, you know? Because for the past 2 or 3 days, people have been seeing us talking to each other a lot.”

“So if I happen to run into anybody on the way to your place, I’ll just say that we’re not quite finished with your paperwork from your schools in the States and I had to come over to inform you of that since you still don’t have a phone.”

There was the sound of voices and the library door closing. I quickly turned to face the bookshelf and grabbed any book. Hopefully nobody will come back here and see us together!

“Hmm, what do you think of this book?” I innocently asked Tony. He put a finger on his mouth and said “Well I don’t know, Jennifer. “The Joy of Sex” is not exactly something that I would recommend for a student!”

I quickly stuffed the book back up on the shelf and frantically searched for another. He then leaned over closer to my ear and whispered, “Of course, you don’t have to listen to me…” I giggled a little and he quickly hushed me. Oh man this was going to be fun! I loved keeping secrets and this one is definitely one that nobody is going to know about. Hold on now. What about Theresa? I can’t tell her everything that’s going on, or what will happen. That’s it, I’ll just tell her about last night and that’s it.

Tony and I said our good-byes with carefully timed hugs and kisses on the cheeks. I went to first period, which was my science class. Theresa and I sat in the very back of the room and talked until class started, which was in about 2 minutes.

“Okay, you can start telling me what happened to you last night!” she said as she moved her books aside and crossed her arms on the desk.

“Because you’re gonna want to hear more of what happened and by then class would have already started and I’m not going to get in trouble for talking in class.”

“Fine. It was around 8 o’clock and I was watching tv and To—Hold on now. I’m gonna have to call him something else. Whenever I say ‘Sam,’ I’m talking about ‘you-know-who,’ okay?”

“Okay. So SAM came over at 8 and we talked for a whole hour to learn more about each other. So at around 9:15—“

I took out a sheet and a pen. I looked up at the teacher and saw that we were about to take notes from the overhead projector. Perfect! In high school I always had this innocence about me and nobody would ever suspect me of doing anything wrong. So whenever I would write a note to somebody during class, I would look up at the board every once in a while to make it look like I was paying attention. Anyways, I started writing Theresa this note.

“You better take these notes! I’m gonna copy them later!” I whispered. “Okay,” she said back to me.

I wrote about how Tony, er, SAM, and I talked about having a secret relationship. That’s all I wrote down and I gave her the note. I could see her smiling and then she let out a soft giggle. I frantically began to copy down the notes. The teacher turned around and looked at us.

“I’m sorry,” Theresa apologized. The teacher blinked and then went back to her lecture. Theresa gave me this weird look and then gave me back the note. I began writing more about what happened the night before without checking whether the teacher was looking or not. All of a sudden, Theresa nudged me with her elbow and I looked up at the board. It turns out that the teacher was standing right beside Theresa!

“Give me the note,” she demanded and I slowly took out the note and gave it to her. She stood there and read the note to herself, then walked over to the trash bin and threw it away.