The Story Of Us

Chapter Two

A Nerd🤓 and an Angel👼 ( 12 years ago)
Monday morning at Creole High🏫🏫
Tyler's Point Of View

As I walked through the school hallways, I looked around to see if any of the bullies were in school yet. Fortunately, they were not and I hurried to my locker to grab the books I would need for the day. I did that hurriedly and rushed off to class before my day turns bad. I sat down in the class going through my Arithmetic notebook when the class started filling up. I glanced around and noticed that Mason was not in school. I heaved a sigh of relief and bent my head on my locker waiting for the first teacher to arrive.

At the Richardson's 🏠
Angelica's Point Of View
I yawned and stretched myself as I rose from the bed. I glanced at my table clock; it was just 5:30 am but I had to prepare for school and to crown it all: My first day at a new school". I went down the stairs and met my parents having a chit chat every morning as was their culture. "Morning Dad, Morning Mom". "Morning my angel" my dad replied. You arrived just in time for the morning worship. Just then my brother came down and we prayed together as a family.
We all left thereafter to our individual rooms to get ready for our individual concerns: we kids for school and our parents for work.
By 6:30 am, we were all sitted at the breakfast table. We ate hurriedly and I did the dishes before putting on my socks and shoes and grabbing my school bag. Rushing into my dad's car, we zoomed out of the house.

At Creole High 🏫
My dad dropped us off and wished us a pleasant first day at school to which my mom chuckled. First day ... Here I come.
I took deep breaths before stepping into the school gate and I must say that it was magnificent. The buildings were neatly we erected and three flags were hanging on their respective poles. The well trimmed flowers adorned the whole surrounding. The students were well dressed in their navy blue skirts and they sky blue shirts with a striped navy blue tie. They ask wore white socks and black shoes.
Everyone seemed to be in a hurry to get to class as I heard the bell go. No one seemed to notice a newbie lost in that huge school. I summoned up courage and walked up to a teacher whom I later discovered to be the Geography mistress and explained my situation to her. She took me to the principal who instructed her to take me to class 405. Wow...so that was my class. When we stepped into the class, there was a teacher already teaching in the class. I glanced around the classroom and noticed that everyone had a seat mate save for two people: a bright eyed girl- Anna Reymonds and a nerd looking guy. I was not interested anyway and focused my attention on being introduced to the class.

Tyler's Point Of View
Mr. Fernando, the Arithmetic teacher was already teaching when he heard the door cereal and the door knob turn to reveal a smiling Mrs. Garretson and a newbie who looked like an angel. After being permitted, she introduced the angel as Angelica Richardson. She was a transfer student and would love our cooperation. I needed no soothsayer to tell me to do that. Then, she dropped the missile: " Tyler, this will be your new seat mate from now on. Please make her comfortable and show her around during the lunch hour". I simply nodded because I was just speechless. The angel smiled at me and waved a little and then came her golden voice 😌 "Could you adjust so that I can sit?"

Angelica's Point Of View
"Could you adjust so that I can sit?". He just simply nodded and adjusted. Mr Fernando gave me time to make myself comfortable and join the class. I did not waste time, I did it in a few minutes and the class resumed again. We were given some exercises and I noticed that the nerd was solving them with a jaw dropping ease. I was quite brilliant though so it wasn't a problem for me. In a few minutes we were done and I volunteered to pass our books to Mr Fernando. He looked surprised or rather shocked but he didn't object. I handed the books to him and stood at a corner waiting patiently for him to mark them. I glanced around the class and our eyes met- Tyler☺️. He looked away shyly and I heard a few giggles from other students. Mr. Fernando handed the books over to me and I walked back to my seat.

Tyler's Point Of View

She smiled at me....she actually smiled at me😁😁.
When our eyes meet, I looked away shyly earning a few giggles from our classmates. Before I could regain my composure, I perceived her flowery scent around me and I turned to see her seated beside me smiling. "Here, have your book. Let us check your score. Mine is a five out of five. Check yours" she said excitedly. I could not utter a word, I just smiled back at her and opened my book for her to see. It was also a five out of five. "Wow...a high five?" "No problem I replied. She slapped our palms together and held on for a while. Her palms were so tender and soft that I wanted to hold on to it forever. She chuckled and Mr Fernando tapped the table with a ruler and we released our hands. She asked if I would be willing to show her around the school during lunch if I had a free schedule to which I replied that it wasn't a problem.