This is my submission in VALENTINE'S DAY STORY CONTEST 2015. So If you like it, please leave your comment and vote.
I hope you will read and enjoy.
All characters are above 18.
A story about growth and selflessness, two teens breaching rules for each other.
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31 December, 2014
"Hey what's up, Joe?" Amanda, seemed a little Tipsy, appeared from nowhere.
"Nothing just.... Hanging out, watching others and ....," I tried to make an excuse, veritably lame.
"Hanging out? With whom?" She snapped, trying to hold her gaze at one point.
"Anything wrong?" I said, observing her movements.
I had no idea what made her talk to me? Only girls from science club were in habit to talk to me which typically turned into a hefty discussion. But how come she became interested in me?
Amanda was a pretty blonde but a badass girl (complete with dimples), my age, who notoriously was known as troublemaker in high school. Even after knowing that fact, she looked cute as hell, but any naughty thought I may have had about her was pretty quickly put on the back burner as I became conscious she could be one of those bully girls who used boys for their purposes.
From her first year in this school, she started cutting school, hanging out with the wrong people, getting into fights, and finally getting into trouble with the cops. She was a hardcore sexy chick every guy in school craved for.
One the other side, I wasn't that bad looking, not in the slightest. A little close to those athletic boys, lean but well-built body (thanks to the daily an hour of my extraneous work out in gym), with jet black semi, curly hair that I messily stroked back, dark brown eyes and last but not the least a cool nerd-spectacles.
"Why are you alone? Everyone is enjoying. And look at you? So depressed," She was trying to make an eye contact but liquor was on full swing I guessed.
"I'm nice and girls don't like nice guys. May be I have to wait until I get a job because that's how nerds get laid in this world," I explained her. "But don't worry. I'm used to such situations."
"If I say I like you?"
"It would be a privilege being your boyfriend."
"Are you drunk?"
"Ahhm, You should ask it yourself first."
"Ha ha ha, you're funny."
"Being funny doesn't make you dating material."
"You're hot, at least some of girlfriends say so."
"I wonder why nobody says such things to me on
face."
"Because you always remain close to yourself."
I was pretty sure she wasn't drunk at all. She was playing, I guessed.
"It's hard when someone calls you to run," I philosophically answered. "Unaware of the fact, you've been crawling all your life."
She kept staring at me like she had never seen me before that night. I too looked into her eyes, as our eyes were locked. I didn't know if she felt the same way I was feeling that moment.
"Come here." She opened her mouth that ended up with an irresistible kiss.
I was in utter shock. I presumed it was just a dream but I was dead wrong. It was happening.
"Hey Amanda, time's over." A guy yelled from a distance where all those 'school-celebs' were hanging out together.
"Sorry!! I'd love to hang out with you," She pushed me back and ran over them.
What was that? I was in great dilemma.
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10 January 2015
"Are you Joe?" A junior student walked towards my seat during lunch time.
"Yes," I suspiciously answered.
"Well, I have a message for you. There is a girl who wants to meet you in boys' toilet." He uncovered the cause of coming to me.
"You mean a boy, in boys' toilet? Right?" I tried to correct him.
"No a girl. You should make haste. I don't think she would wait for you that long. She doesn't seem that type of girl." He suggested me.
I stood up and ran to boys' toilet with an unknown rush running through my body.
I proceeded into boys' toilet and felt relieved as I was assured by that junior boy who was following me that it was empty. Had I peeked in those toilets for checking that girl's existence, nobody would have kept me from being labeled gay. They already called me a nerd and I couldn't stand with two tags on forehead in high school.
"Hey, ain't it a nice place to meet?" A little familiar voice welcomed me as I opened the door.
It was Amanda, standing in front of me leaning on the wall. My consciousness showed me a little hint what trouble I was headed for. I didn't know what sort of impact I made upon her to make her second call.
"What? What are you doing here? I mean it's for us, boys. Why you chose it for meeting? " I blurted out forgetting the fact that I was in a company of a girl that might led us in a relationship.
"I thought It'd be kinda hard for you to get in girls' toilet," She mocked me. "My friends told me that I kissed you that night in party. Is it true?"
"No, you don't have to worry," I assured her,
"I'll not tell anybody about your kissing a nerd. I know it's sort of reprehensible."
"No, they also told me that you seemed happy afterwards."
"Who wouldn't? I mean look at yourself then move your eyes on me. You'll get your answer."
"I've been thinking all day if you like to come in my party tonight?"
"Is it some another game or bet you're playing with me?"
"What?"
"Yes, I've been told that whatever you did in that party was a challenge. One of your friends dared you to hang out with me. And you did, you won. Wow, we should clap for you."
"Let's get something straight. We don't know the half of each other. I thought it would put you in good mood. But I'm sticking to my point. We should hang out for a while instead of judging each other."
"Sorry, I have a temper to deal with.im really really sorry."
"Anyway, I admit that I did that for challenge but I'm here with no such intention, I swear."
"Wait, did you hear those footsteps?"
Hearing the sound of opening door, I looked back as froze to death.
Unbeknownst of the fact that a rascal junior student could do anything to make news in school, we continued our sweat talks. That junior boy, appointed by her, deceived us and Mrs. Rosamund, our chemistry teacher, caught us red handed.
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14 February, 2015
The day being white as the board and unseen wounds blue as the words on board, it was getting unbearable by every second. I was drowning in my own shame. Every now and then I looked at the clock as its tick resonated in my ears. To keep up with teacher's attention, I kept looking at her, precisely at board so that she couldn't make me mad by asking more questions. I was still mad at me with so many unsolved questions. Had I dared to do anything, she would have been my valentine. My mind was preoccupied with the girl I had met only 2 months ago.
It had almost been a month to that discreditable episode. I had to stop talking to her for the well being of both of us. But I didn't know why my love for her crept up day by day.
I came back to my senses as the school-bell rang. No sooner did Miss Primrose step out the class, Mrs. Rosamund stepped in. And here, in this teenager wasteland, my eyes were in search of Amanda's attention. She was just two seats away from me but by then, we had not even shared an eye-contact since morning. Why she was behaving like she didn't care about me anymore? I was in turmoil.
A peon entered the class and rendered Mrs. Rosamund a piece of paper. She unfolded that paper and read it quietly.
"Okay class, I've got something urgent to do," She addressed class. "So, go to lab and complete your unfinished practices if you have any. If you have done those, you should do it again because Chemistry is all about continuous practices."
She grabbed her stuff and stepped out. Everybody picked up their bags and started moving out slowly in little groups. I gazed upon those groups and eventually found Amanda looking at me.
Our eyes met like they were crying for reasons, asking each other, "Why are you doing this?"
She glanced away as she walked out of the room. I was there alone with trodden desires. Had I have some moment to tell her how much I loved her and what the reason behind keeping her away from me was.
I picked up my bag and headed to the chemistry lab.
I moved in the chemistry lab and found chemistry lab assistant reckless as always, and everyone being busy in their chat after all it was Valentine's Day. Nobody was interested in doing practical for everyone had something to share, love for each other, plans for tonight and so on. Some students were in field and some in cafeteria, enjoying their Valentine's Day. My head moved to last bench which was surrounded by nobody.
I quickly walked in that direction and sat on the bench. I bend my head down, staring at the ground seemingly deep in thoughts we shared together.
"What's going on?" Amanda asked, standing before me with a concerned expression that usually nobody saw on her face..
"Just getting back to basics," I avoided looking her in the eye. "I mean how to enjoy my company with myself."
"You're still busy in playing with yourself," She sat next to me. "For the love of God, stop being a jerk and try to open up."
"I have no idea what are you talking about?"
"No Idea?"