Loneliness. - Part 6

I was actually excited and looked forward to go to school the next day. The sun set in and night falls. I couldn't sleep because of my happiness. Throughout the night, I giggled and grinned to myself under the sheet. I just couldn't wait to spend my whole day with Freddie. Sometimes, I forgot that he even had a girlfriend. Of course, he had a girlfriend, Tara, but he didn't actually seemed to like her. He told me that he 'love' her but on the look of his face, he just didn't care. After a few hours of smiling and giggling to myself, I finally fell asleep.

Annie woke me up the next morning and I literally jumped out of bed. I took a quick shower, wore a white blouse, black skinny jeans and my green hoodie. I ran downstairs and ate breakfast. After, I grabbed my lunch pack, my bag and keys just in case. I kissed Annie and Bob and ran outside. Lucky for me, school was just ten minutes away from my house so I didn't have to take the over-crowded bus.

There wasn't a lot of people when I got there because it was still too early. I knew that Freddie wasn't going to be in early so I decided to check out the music room. I went to my locker to grab a couple of books and made my way to the music room. The teacher wasn't there and the door wasn't locked so I went in. The class had ten seat in a row and there was 6 rows and a stand for the conductor/teacher to stand behind on the stage. A grand piano placed below just next to the stage and plastic chairs for the audience. The school must've planned to do a musical orchestra or something. I sat on the chair and pressed a key. The note echoed in the empty class and I played a simple tune that I had written.

When I was really getting into the music, I sped up the tempo and raised the dynamics making it sound jumpy and energetic. I nod my head as I played along when someone interrupted me by clapping his hand. I turned and smiled; Freddie was whooping and clapping his hand like I just finished a concert.

"That was awesome! I never heard of that piece, can you teach me it?" he begged. I giggled and asked him to come up and sit next to me on the chair. He ran up to me and pushed me a little which made me hit random notes on the piano. "Sorry," he laughed.

We both giggled as we played the notes together. He has been playing the piano and the drums for 10 years. I told him that I self taught myself how to play the piano and I also told him I wrote my own music. "Listening and writing music makes me forget about the world," I explained as he played a couple of notes.

"That's cool," he whispered, "funny thing is because I feel the same way." Freddie stopped playing and looked up at me. His beatiful blue eyes melt my heart and I couldn't help but blush. I could feel my cheeks redden so I looked away. He chuckled and I could feel his eyes were still on me. "Y'know, the bell is not going to go in about twenty minutes. Why are you here so early?" he asked me.

"I like being early," I lied, "why are YOU here?" I asked him back.

"Um because I hoped that you would be here early," he said and made me grinned like an idiot right in front of him.

"Really?" I sounded excited. He nodded and smiled his beautiful, warm lopsided smile.

"Plus, Tara's not going to be in for a couple of weeks. She went to LA with her parents. I don't know why and what for and I certainly don't really care." He explained.

"Oh", I replied, "um sorry if this sound personal but why don't care about what she's doing? Are you like that with your girlfriends?"

He laughed. "God no! I mean, yeah I worry about her sometimes but she doesn't act like she cares about me so why should I do the same?" he laughed again.

I shrugged and frowned a little. So he's the type of guy who doesn't like to care about his girlfriend unless she cares first. I have always dreamt of becoming his girlfriend but because 1) I'm not good enough, 2) he already has a girl and 3) he doesn't seem to care about relationships. I think he saw my face expression and said, "But if I found someone else, someone better, hopefully, I will care for her, love her and give her my everything." My face lighten up and we both carried on playing the piano together again.

We shared our music and minutes went by and the bell rang. We both went to our homeroom and I sat at the back as usual and he sat next to his friends. They chatted and laughed while I just sat there alone watching to a video that we recorded together earlier. Freddie recorded a video of me playing the piano and us acting goofy. I smiled to myself thinking that I would keep this video, forever. He looked back at me a couple of times, smiling shyly and I smiled back. I wasn't worried or felt bad about myself anymore about not having a friend because now, I have Freddie.

When the bell rang and everyone rushed off to their classes. I held my bag, earphones still in my ears and walked with books against my chest. I was still smiling and when I stepped out of the class, Freddie put his hands on the wall preventing me from getting through. "Uh huh huh baybee, Elvis is in the house," he made an Elvis expression which made me laughed quite loud.

"Go to class both of you," Mrs Millers instructed us. We nodded and made our way to class. Lucky for me, we both had English together so we made our way to Mr Lewkins' class. The old 50-year-old man stutter a lot when he talks and he reminds me a lot of my late grandfather. Thick grey hair comb to the side, old grey suit and clunky brown shoes. He's got wrinkles just underneath his eyes and two or three lines on his cheeks. He wears glasses, of course but you can still see the wrinkles. I actually like Mr Lewkins because he helped me a lot in school. We sat down on the empty chairs and started chatting.

"A-alright c-class. Every-everyone be quiet n-now. Class is s-starting," he said. The kids laughed when he talks but not me because frankly I find that rude. Mr Lewkins was one of my favourite, I mean he is my ONLY favourite teacher. Freddie made fun of the way he speaks and I felt a slight dissapointment when he did. Of course, I didn't have the nerves to tell him to shut up so I just let him laugh at the helpless old man.

"So, are we going under the stairs again for lunch or the music room?" Freddie turned his head and asked me.

"I don't know, I usually hang at the stairs. Don't you wanna hang with your other friends?"

"Nah, all they talk about is girls and sex and parties. I'm sick of it, I'd rather hang with you and write music together." Freddie smiled.

Minutes went by quickly and class was over and before I knew it, it was lunch. I went to my usual spot of course and listened to music while munching on the mac and cheese Annie made me. It's gone cold now because it has been in my bag for a couple of hours. Freddie came out of nowhere and scared the hell out of me.

"You gotta stop scaring me," I told him, "especially when I'm eating. I could choke and die y'know," I warned him. He laughed of course. Freddie's that sort of happy-go-lucky person and he didn't like to think or do much. He just lives for the moment and doesn't worry about the future. He took the container and fork out of my hand and ate my lunch.

"Your mom's a great cook." He complimented on Annie's cooking again and if she were here, she would blush or boast about it. We both talked, laughed, shared music and we had more things in common than I imagined. He said that he wish Tara was more like me. Time went by without us noticing and before we know it, school was over. Again, I had a brilliant day thanks to Freddie. He said that his family were moving in early, probably this week so we had to help him out.

"Um, the other day, why did you run from me when I held out my hand?" he asked.

"Oh- I um, I didn't want to cause any trouble," I replied, honestly.

"What trouble for shaking someone's hand?" he chuckled, "were you scared?"

"What? No, no I wasn't- well actually," I said when he interrupted me.

"Oh never mind. I like the white dress you were wearing the other day, and your moves were h-h-hot!" he complimented or joked. I wasn't sure. I laughed sarcastically and pushed him on the side. These last couple of days have been the most amazing days of my life. Me and Freddie seemed to be getting along really well. I was really happy that I embarrassed myself in front of him and most of all, I'm happy that he's moving in next door to me.