KITCHEN FORK

I Let Myself Go

[TOM POV}

The inky black holes in my head made me scrunch up my nose in disgust, my face is round, my hair naturally spikes up and, of course , my dark black eyes. It looks like an abyss. I guess looking like this stresses me out, I'm the person who stands out. Even the emo kids don't stand out as much as me, I groan in frustration. My life sucks. I walk out of my house and walk to school, gray clouds loom over all of London, rain starts to drip down from the sky and splash against my body, I run. I use my backpack as an umbrella and run to school, I see the school and hear the bell ring, class has begun. I sigh and walk slowly to the main office, I'm given a late slip and walk to my class soaking wet. I hear the giggles as I enter the class, I give my teacher my slip and walk to my desk. As I walk closer to my seat a kid thought it was soooooo funny to trip me. My classmates start laughing, I get up and continue to walk to my desk. My knees hurt and I already feel like crying, class continues as normal then the bell rings, few more periods till I see him. I'm getting impatient and I shake my leg during each period and looking at the clock, watching the time tick by. I start to tap my finger on my desk and I get antsy, it's almost last period, I just gotta go through this math class. Finally the bell rings and I go to my last period class, I sit in my desk, he's always late so I'll just get out my notebook and pen while I wait for him. All the kids sit down and I look at the door as the teacher calls roll, he walks in. His black coat that drapes over him, his brown hair that spikes up so perfectly, my heart beats faster. I long for his affection, for his attention, he probably doesn't even know I exist. Maybe this could be my chance, he sits down in front of me, he takes out his sketchbook and starts to doodle. He's into crappy anime but he draws really good, he sucks at drawing anime but he's good at drawing realistically. I try to watch him draw but he's taller than me, "hey Tord! Some creep is trying to look at your stuff!" a girl yelled across the classroom of my study hall. Tord turns around and sees me hunched over on my desk looking at his drawing, he looked at me with nervous eyes. He scooted his desk closer to me, I was shocked, he faced me. "Hey, you draw pretty good" he says and points to my drawing of a little circle guy. I looked at him then I looked at the other students in the class, "is...is someone putting you up to this?" he laughed, god it was beautiful. "No, I just think that your drawings are creative! What do you call it?" I smiled at him. "Asdf movie." for the whole class period we talked then the bell rung, time for us to go home. "Hey, do you walk on Waterfall street right?" I nodded, "How do you know?" I asked. "Ah, I saw you running this morning. I'm sorry that I didn't ask my mom to pick you up, then again I didn't really know you until now." he giggles in a nervous awkward tone, I shrugged. "It's fine, I understand" I say with a calm tone, it's still raining, he elbows me. I see him open his umbrella "my parents are at work, I'll walk you home if you want." I looked at him, my face heated up, this is like some anime and I'm so disappointed that I'm actually happy it's happening. We walk and I see my house I groan at it, it was loud and annoyed and Tord giggled at it. "You don't like being at home?" I sighed "well my mom is constantly sleeping and well, I don't blame her but then we barely have anything to eat" I said to him as I looked over at my house. The sound of the rain hitting the umbrella made me feel calm, it was quite. "Let's go buy something to eat then, I got some money and there's a fast food restaurant nearby. We can do homework there to. We can get your mom something to go." I looked at him "you just met me" I blurted out and my face was red. He smiled "you're a new friend, I always like treating them nicely before we become best friends" I giggled "what happens when you become best friends?" I asked as we walked to a nearby Wendy's. He laughed "then we would be screaming loudly and yelling weird jokes" I laughed with him as we entered the restaurant. We ordered some food and sat down and did our homework there, we even drew together. Once we finished we got a meal to go and Tord walked me home, "see you tomorrow Thomas" he said and waved goodbye. I closed the door behind me and fell to my knees, I can't wait till tomorrow.