Author's note: The following is my first attempt at a semi-romance story. This is also the written from the opposite point of view. All characters in this story are 18 years of age or older. This is part of a longer narrative. Please leave feedback on this to let me know if I should finish it!
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I had met Kali my senior year of high school. She had just moved to town and joined our class just before the summer break had ended. I could tell by the way she walked the halls that she had not had enough time to make any friends in town before the school year started. She seemed very reserved and shy. I think that was part of what attracted me to her. Kali was definitely petite. She was only five feet tall with a very slender frame with an almost hour glass figure. Her long, blonde hair lay against her back just above her shoulder blades and her green eyes shined like emeralds on display in a museum. I was sure that she would not be without friends for long. Thankfully, fate made sure our circle of friends had a lot of common members.
I had been in the same school since about the sixth grade so I had time to make a lot of friends. The one thing they all had in common, none fit into any of the typical high school cliques. We all had something about us that just didn't work with those groups. Like my friend Max, he suffered from gigantism and was the true epitome of the phrase "gentle giant" or Laurie, her dad owned one of the local "hillbilly bars" that had a reputation for being a rough place. Laurie was the only girl I knew that was in more bar fights than there were people in the town we lived in. Seriously, her life was like Road House! As for me, I was kind of plain. I had given up on school a bit. I worked really hard but quickly found that most of the teachers were oblivious to all the cheating going on by many of my classmates that it didn't matter how hard I worked. Because of this, my grades slipped and a lot of my classmates joked constantly that I was stupid. It didn't take me long to realize that our group of misfits was going to be a perfect match for Kali.
A couple of weeks went by and one day a few of us noticed that Kali was sitting in the lunch room all by herself. We usually sat outside but the weather had been lousy and we were forced to take "our party", as our principle called it, inside. I knew I was developing a crush on her but, wasn't going to admit it to anyone. My friends and I remarked to each other how she must be lonely. Laurie made some jokes about me going over hitting on her. Joking, I told her to shut up. We all laughed then there was a silence.
After a few minutes, Laurie stood up. "Well, if you're not going to do it", she stared at me with a crazy look in her eyes, "Then I will!" Laurie turned and walked away.
Max stared at her and joked, "I didn't know she was a lesbian." This prompted round of laughter from our group and as I had usually done, a playful slap to the back of Max's head. Just about that time, Laurie returned with Kali in tow.
"What are you guys laughing at?" she inquired.
"Max thought you were a lesbian," our friend Jay replied.
Laurie looked Max in the eyes. "I am surprised that he can think since he is all brawn and no brains," she said with a smirk. Once again, we all laughed. Laurie quickly introduced all of us to Kali and made sure to save me for last and referred to me as the ring leader of the group. Kali seemed nervous at first but, it didn't take long for her to get comfortable around us and even cracked a joke or two.
The bell rang signaling the end of our lunch period. Everyone got up except for me. Kali stood there for a minute. "Don't you have to get to class?" she asked me.
"Nope," I responded. "I have a free period this class."
Her eyes perked up a bit. "Really? Me too!" She seemed really excited but, being an eighteen year old guy, I was kind of oblivious. "Where do you usually spend your free period"? She asked.
I told her I usually hang out back behind the school at some old unused portable buildings. Unfortunately, the weather was not going to allow me to do that on this day. She told me she was going to go to the library and asked if I would like to join her. I was about to decline, when Laurie elbowed me in the side and helped focus my attention. I agreed and told her I would meet her there. Kali smiled and headed off. Being a guy I did take the opportunity to look at her ass as she walked away. Like the rest of her, it was cute.
With Kali gone, I turned my attention to Laurie. We stared at each other for a minute before she spoke. "Well, go get her tiger," she said mockingly. I gathered my things and began to walk away. Laurie smiled at me. I smiled back then with no one around I decided to throw her a curve ball. She raised her eyebrow indicating her curiosity.
Knowing there was no teachers or faculty around I simply smirked and said one word to her. "Bitch."
I arrived at the library and found Kali sitting in the computer lab. The school had built it without thinking about how to keep an eye on kids in there. There was only one large window that faced the inside of the library and even then, someone had to come up around the bookshelves that blocked it before they could see anything. She was typing up something when I walked in. She turned to look at me and her eyes lit up like the Christmas tree in Times Square. I asked what she was working on and she told me it was a creative writing project. We talked for a bit and found we had a lot in common. Our tastes in movies, music, & books were very similar. We also talked about our families and I found some common ground there too. We both had terrible parents. My dad had never been a part of my life and the substitutes my mother had brought in to my life were worse. MY mother herself was more interested in telling me how I was a screw up and how the world revolved around her. Kali's parents were possibly a little worse. While she had both parents in her life, they were both abusive and addicted to drugs. Kali told me that is why she was so short and that it also had given her health problems from birth. We talked for so long we didn't even hear the bells signaling the last two classes of the day. Well that, and there was no speaker in the computer lab and I think the librarian forgot we were even there.