Girl. Love. Girl.

When the bell rings signaling the end of first period, I wait and

watch as Mya walks out the door with her little group of friends. I

stand and leave the room too, with Kyle.







“Uh, Kyle I really hate you sometimes.” I say pushing him into his

locker. As he always does, he just laughs.







“Oh come on, don’t tell me you didn’t like sitting next to

Mya.” He says with a grin.







“I'm just saying that was stupid of you to practically push me into

the chair. Didn’t you see the way she looked at me?” I state almost

in a worried way.







“I distinctly remember her giving you a,” Kyle makes a winking

motion, “I mean, what does that tell you?”







“That she had something in her eye?” I utter almost questioningly.







“Bull. That’s her way of saying ‘hey Taylor, when you gonna come

over so we can-‘” I cut him short of his words with an elbow into

the stomach. “Ow! Ok, ok, I’ll stop. But seriously Taylor, I think

she likes you too.” He says while he stops laughing.







“Well, I really doubt that seeing that she has a BOYFRIEND!” Yes

folks, it was true. Mya did have a boyfriend; and he could not have

been more of an asshole. His name was Brice Phillips, and I hated him.

He had a buzz cut hair due, he was tall, athletic, popular, and he had

Mya and I didn’t.







“Brice is a dick. You are ten times better then him.” Kyle says is

a reassuring way.







I just smile and say “thanks.”







Kyle leaves to P.E. while I go to my TA period. My teacher is pretty

awesome. Her name was Ms. Kebler. She was the English II and III

teacher. She had shoulder length light red hair that was almost brown

and forest green eyes. She was also thin and a little short. Though

she must have been in her late 30's, she didn’t look a day over 25.







“Good morning, Taylor.” She says with a smile on her face that is

infectious.







I smile back and greet her as well, “Hey Ms. Kebler. You glad it’s

Friday?”







“Oh God yes. More than you know.” She was so funny. She was always

happy when the weekend came around. Can’t say that I blame her, being

in a class full of immature sophomores and juniors all day couldn’t

be fun. But whenever I came around, she always had a smile for me and

I liked her for that.







“Hah, so what do you have for me today?”







“Well actually, all I need you to do is run-off some copies for me.

Is there something you have to do for another class?”







“Can I go to the library? I have some math homework to finish.”

Actually, what I meant was that Bette would be in there so I could

copy hers.







“Yeah sure.” She says handing me a couple of papers with post-its

on them saying how many of each.







As I walk into the office to make the copies, I notice someone already

using the machine. ‘Oh great, now I’m gonna have to wait!’ I

complain to myself. When I walk closer to the machine, I see that

it’s Mya making copies. ‘Ugh!’ I say to myself, ‘she must think

I’m stalking her or something!’



I causally walk next to her, pretending to be reading the papers Ms.

Kebler gave me. Mya observes my presence and turns to face me.







“Taylor!” She says with a huge smile on her face.







“Oh,” I say still trying to pretend that I didn’t already see

her, “hey. How’s it going?” ‘Good Taylor, play it cool!’







“Ok. I'm just copying something for Mr. Bates,” Mr. Bates was the

math teacher, “wow, we seem to be running into each other a lot

today.”







My cheeks get hot and I just nod and say, “Yeah, I know. You

following me?” ‘More like, I’m following you!’







“Haha yeah, and now that I have you alone, let’s go get a room.”

She winks at me.







I can feel heat rise up inside of me and my mouth drops. She starts

laughing and grabs my hand. I'm now tingling inside due to our sudden

contact.







“Taylor, I’m kidding. You know, you’re really cute when you get

embarrassed.” I try and say something, but I still can’t. She has

me stuck on the thought that for one joking second, she wanted to go

somewhere with me. But once I snap back into reality, I too laugh and

say the stupidest thing!







“Yeah, and besides, where would we go…” I freeze at my completely

unthought-of remark as her face becomes serious…or so that’s what I

thought it was.







“Oh, we could find some place,” she gives me a devilishly sexy

smile and then says in an innocent voice, “well I think I am all done

here. See ya later, Taylor.”







I breathe out a pitiful, “See ya,” and she walks away with a smirk

on her face. When I think the cost is clear, I exhale out loudly, only

to be frightened by a hand on my shoulder. It was Mya again. ‘Man,

she’s gonna give me a heart attack!’







“Hey, can I ask you something really quick?”







“Um, ok?” I say in a puzzled state.







“I know that you have government before me, but we still have the

same assignments...”







“Yeah.” ‘Okay, if ever had any doubts that I loved this girl, the

look that she was giving me right now completely washed them away!’







“Well, I’m not really doing well in there, and I was wondering if

you’d tutor me? There's that test next week and I heard you rock at

government.” As she asks me this, I feel my heart beat faster with

excitement.







“Sure! When?” I say fast…almost too fast because now she looks

surprised. ‘Stupid Taylor! Calm down!’







“Um, maybe tonight? At your house? I would say mine, but my mom and

dad are having a party for their friends and I really don’t wanna be

there.”







“Okay that’s fine. I guess you can come over after I get off work.

How’s 6:30 sound?”







“Yeah that’s cool.” She says with that same sexy smile

reappearing on her face. “See ya then.” As she again walks away, I

remember I'm supposed to be copying stuff for Ms. Kebler.







‘Crap!’ I get the papers into the machine and continue on with my

original task.







While walking back to Ms. Kebler’s classroom, I remember what had

just happened only minutes earlier. ‘YES YES YES! Mya is coming over

to MY house and my mom’s OUT! YES YES YES!’







With visible excitement on my face, Ms. Kebler notices and smiles at

me asking, “What are you so happy about? The copy machine actually

works today?”







I just flash her a smile and say, “yeah.” I give her the copies and

head to the library to do my "math homework."







**********After school, Taylor at work************







As I run on the treadmill, all I can think about is my study date with

Mya...well at least that's what I called it. To Mya it was probably

just a tutoring session. It probably meant nothing more than a chance

to catch up in government.







I continue running and watching as other people work out. 'Uh, is it

6:30 yet?!' I look at the clock and it reads "5:46." I decide to do an

arm work out and get a 20 pound set of weights and put them on a bar

to do curls. This always seemed to make the time pass quickly.







Much to my luck, the time did go by quickly. It was now 6:20 and I was

in the back changing. 'Well,' I think to myself, 'I could shower, but

then I'd be late.' While contemplating the idea of showering, I

finally decided that I'd shower and be "fashionably late."





'Cool, I need to make her think that I wasn't thinking about her all

day.' As I get my clothes, I go into one of the shower stalls and wash

up.







As the hot water pours down on my previously worked out body, my mind

can't help but wander back to the girl I had so desperately wanted to

see. 'Oh Mya,' I think to myself, 'you are so perfect.' The thoughts I

have of her start to distract me so I snap myself back into reality

and wash my hair and body, then get dressed and leave for home...or

rather, for Mya.







When I pull up to my house, I see her sitting on her porch. 'Yay!' I

think, 'Here we go!'







She sees me too and gives a smile and a wave. I smile back and motion

for her to come over. As I get out, I watch her stroll up the drive

way with a book in her hand.







"Well," I say, "let's get to work." With that, I lead her into my

house and show her to the living room. "Oh hang on a sec, let me go

put my gym stuff away. Do you want anything to drink?"







"Um, water please." She says eying my house and smiling.







"Okay, be right back." I run up the stairs to my room and drop my bag

while getting my book and putting on a dab of body spray. 'Oh God, I'm

such a nerd,' I laugh at my useless attempts of becoming more

appealing to Mya.







When I go back down the stairs I remember that she said she wanted

water, so I go into the kitchen and get two bottles.







When I arrive back into the living room, I see her with her book

already opened writing stuff down.







"Hey," I say laughing, "aren't I supposed to be tutoring you?"







She laughs too and says, "Nope, this was just one of my many plans to

get you alone. Remember?" Just like last time I freeze, only this

time, I look away trying to cover up my blush.







This makes her laugh even more and she stands up in front of me

saying, "Gosh, you really are adorable."







This makes me blush even harder, but I just smile and say, "Yeah yeah.

Well, let's get to work."







'This is gonna be fun...either that or I'll die of an over heated face!'