The Hug
The next day couldn’t get here fast enough. I just couldn’t wait to get to school to give back this device to Jackie and to see the expression on her face when she sees that it was fixed. I’ve seen Jackie smile a few or more times and she has the most beautiful smile I have ever seen. Her smile is what I would call ‘enchanting’. It is something that draws me to her to the point where I just can’t even fathom looking away. I guess in a way, her smile is magical. I know all this may seem a bit cliché’, but she had the whole package and it was very difficult to not notice this.
I was one of the first ones to arrive at school. I guess my excitement got the better of me to want to get there to give Jackie her device. I sat down on a bench by the front doors just waiting. I debated whether or not to wait in my car close to the front doors and when she would walk to the front of the building, I would get out of my car and catch her before she went in. I decided against that because I didn’t want to scare her by running up behind her. Who knows, she may think I am attacking her, turn around, and clock me right in the face or kick me in the lower regions. I try to avoid any type of violence if I could and those two scenarios seem pretty violent so that is why I decided against doing that.
I must have waited an hour, but really it was only 30 minutes before I saw her walking towards the front doors of the school. She looked absolutely fabulous. She was wearing some cutoff shorts and a pink top. She was wearing her hair up today where she usually had it down, but she still looks gorgeous no matter how she wears her hair. A sigh of relief came over me as I realize that she is walking alone with no one else in sight, but then she stops, turns around, and there he is. He must have called out her name and she heard him, stopped, and is now waiting for him to catch up so that they can walk in together. What a bummer. No way I can get this to her now with him by her side. I guess it will have to wait until the last bell of classes that day.
The reason why I can do it at that time is that Tim will be at football practice while Jackie will be at cheerleading and they will be at different locations. So that’s what I did. Jackie was stretching, getting ready to do her cheer practice when I walked up to her, my hand was outstretched, giving her the device, she wanted to have fixed. With a little bit of a surprised look on her face, she asked if it was working again. I said, “yes, it is working just fine”. She had the biggest smile on her face and even hugged me!! Now look who was surprised. She must have said thank you a million times. She tried it out and as I said it worked just fine. I let her know that if she had anything else that was not working to let me know and I will do my best in fixing it.
As I walked away, I was so elated that I got to hug Jackie. I didn’t initiate the hugging, that was all Jackie, which made it much more so exciting. The only thing that I worried about was that the other cheerleaders were there when it happened so I’m sure Tim is going to get a full report on this. That doesn’t look good for me, but I didn’t care because I GOT TO HUG JACKIE.
Well, as I suspected, Tim got word that I hugged his girlfriend. I’m sure it was not told to him that she was the one that initiated the hug and not me, but that doesn’t matter. Tim met me in the hallway the following day, pushed me up against the lockers, and (to keep this story clean without cursing) let me know in his way to not go near his girlfriend. I, of course, obliged his “request”, but really wanted to get in his face and let him know that I didn’t do anything wrong, but I didn’t. As he walked away, I secretly gave him the finger but made sure he nor anyone saw that I did that.
Nothing much happened during the rest of the day as well as the rest of the school year. I stayed away from Tim and his stupid bully goons and just kept to myself. Before you go and think that I was a complete loner without friends, I want to clear this up. I did have friends, but they weren’t part of the cool kid click. None of that mattered to me anyway because I was happy where I was in school. I just wanted to be friends with Jackie. It didn’t matter to me that she was part of the cool click of people at school. If I ever did manage to become friends with her, I definitely wouldn’t want to be “initiated” into that click of people. I would want to stay where I was which is what happened in my junior year. The next year was a different story. Everything changed for the better during my senior year in high school.
Stay tuned.
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