SomewhereinBetweentheMadness-TheStory

                                        The Story(chapter two)

         I backed up completely in the hallway watching the classroom door close right in front of me. Be safe? HA! That’s like telling a telemarketer to stop calling…you still do it, even though you know it’s a waste of time…they always call back.
Now scared by John seriousness I walked very slowly and very alert towards the main office. It was completely silent in the halls. I walked by classrooms watching the kids messing around behind the teachers back, silences echoing in my ear.
“Hey Wish.”
“AHHH!” I jumped back into a wall and turned my head to see Korey walking up towards me.
His concerned face got rid of any fear I once had, “Are you okay?”
“Yah I’m fine, you just scared me,” said catching my breath and easing my self away from the wall, “What are you doing out here?”
“I’m a T.A. in the front office this period, I was just delivering some papers to Mr. Trum’s class.” He said as we started walking towards the office together.
“Oh…you are; are you? Well since you’re the one who delivered the note to my class, then I’m guessing you know why I’m being called down here.” I said stating a fact and expecting and answer.
He grinned, “As a matter of fact I do.” A stared at him for a long moment waiting for an answer…but he never gave it to me.
As we reached the office Korey once again opened the door for me to walk in first.
“Well are you going to tell me?” I said as the door closed behind us.
“You didn’t ask me to tell you,” he laughed, and smiled as if to say I just beat you at your own game Wish. Normally I was very good at getting things like that out of people. I had a special knack for manipulating people, granted most of the time they know I’m doing it…but they always go along.
“Well I’m asking now.” I said smugly.
“Something about your mom calling, or is on the phone…I don’t know something along those lines.” He stood there towering over me seeing my face turning white and the painful shock that just came over it.
“MY MOM?!” I said trying to scream it but it came out all scratchy like if I had a cold or had just been crying.
“Wish could you come here for a second?” Mrs. Kingsle just entered the room and was directing me with her finger to fallow her into one of the small conference rooms attached to the main office.
I took a look at Korey and then slowly started walking behind her. The thud of her clunky black shoes rang threw my ears for those short brief steps getting into the room. She sat me down at a table with a black phone directly in front of my face.
“Sweetheart, your mothers on the phone for you.” She gestured her hand towards the phone and then with her clunky black shoes left the room, closing the door behind her.
I sat there staring at the phone for a moment then once I got over a little bit of my shock I picked it up.
“Hello.” My voice sounded scared.
“WISH?! Sweetheart, I’ve been trying to get a hold of you all of last night! Why didn’t you pick up your phone?” my mothers panicked voice said on the other line.
I was angry that after almost three years…now she calls me, “I don’t know mom, probably because I wasn’t expecting a phone call from you at 2:00 in the morning! Actually I wasn’t expecting a phone call from you at all, I started giving up after you went the first year with out calling, or writing, or anything! SO! I would like to apologize early in our conversation if I sound totally shocked the whole time!” I don’t know what happened…it was like my mouth just said stuff, I honestly can’t even remember if my brain had processed any of that before I said it.
“Wish sweetie I understand your hurt…” I cut her off.
“YAH I’m HURT! The first phone call I get from you in three years is during my second period!”
“WISH OLIVIA!!!! Please just listen to me ok. I can promise you that for now on your going to hear A LOT more from me…I will probably call you at least once a week to check up on you. But I have to make this brief now only because I don’t want them finding you. OKAY?!” I just did an uninterested uh huh, “Wish you are in A LOT of danger right now…I need you to try and keep your self out of life or death situations…now I don’t mean this rudely, but that’s kind of a hard thing for you to do…but please Wish just try. You are more important to this world then you even know. And I can see that you’re going to find out why very soon so I’m not going to waste my time telling you. Just keep out of trouble Wish and I will call you back in about two days. I love you and I got to go. Bye sweetheart. Oh and no matter what they say; Korey will change his mind.” I sat there with my mouth wide open and tried to process all that my mother just threw at me.
“MOM WAIT?! How do you know…” and before I could finish I heard on the other end…the click, the click that reassured me that my mom wouldn’t be telling me any more crazy stuff today.
I sat there phone still pressed to my ear and my mouth WIDE open. I looked up at the clock and saw that I had 14 minutes until my second period was over. I gently placed the black plastic phone back into its cradle. I sunk into the green chair taking a deep breath still not fully comprehending what my mother had just said. And from all of that the only thing I could honestly remember was “No matter what they say; Korey will change his mind.” My mom had always been an extremely good guesser, but how did she know Korey? And what would he be changing his mind about? I sat there still soaking it all in until about 10 minutes before class ended.
Right when I was about to get up from my chair I heard the door starting to open…it was Korey.
“Wish are you okay? You seemed upset when you left.” Korey said as he closed the door behind him.
I just looked at him, not really knowing what to say, which was very odd for me.
“Did I say anything wrong? I mean your not upset at me are you?” he continued after my silence.
I started getting up from my chair, “No,” I sounded like I was holding back tears I knew I would never shed. I started walking for the door and I could feel that Korey was fallowing me. I could feel an overwhelming sadness coming over me. I’ve never noticed how much I actually missed my mother until I heard her voice. Once I reached the middle of the office I turned around to see if Korey was still behind me.
“Wish your eyes!” he was.
“Yah?” I said a little more up beat then the last time I had spoken.
“Their blue.” He said in a wondering voice.
“I know.” I started walking to the door and into the hallway, “are you coming?”
Korey very quickly caught up to me, and instead of going to class for the last 7 minutes I went down stairs to my locker…Korey still fallowing me.
“So…I don’t mean to sound nosey…but what did your mom want?” I looked up at him fixating on his beautiful green eyes…and he looked away, “Wow, I can’t handle seeing your eyes this color…they look…painful.”
I let out a small laugh; “They are this color when I’m sad.”
His head turned back at me and he said very quickly, “WHY ARE YOU SAD?! What did your mother say to you to make you sad?”
I looked at him in surprise to his sudden reaction…an overwhelming feeling of confusion took over my body; I started noticing that it seems like everyone knows something I don’t; and I think it’s something that I should know!
“Uh, she didn’t say anything that made me sad. She just told me to be safe.” I said as I started opening my locker.
Korey leaned up against the locker next to mine…his long muscular arms folded across his chest, “be safe?” he looked down at me. I seemed to be hearing that phrase a lot today. “Did she by any chance tell you why you had to be safe?” his eyes burned right threw me but I couldn’t read his face.
“Not really, she just told me to be safe…and that she would call in a couple of days.” I kept my cool too…showing absolutely no emotion…I was very good at that.
“OH so she’s calling back?” Korey sounded sort of irritated…but still his face was expressionless.
“I sure hope so…she said she had a lot more to explain to me.” I said with a small attitude. I could tell that Korey was holding something back about my mother and I knew that if I pushed him just a little further he would slip with something.
Korey moved away from the locker and now was about two inches away from my face…I closed my locker not even looking at it, not once did we blink. “Wish, I have a plan…please stop changing it.” Korey spoke so softly that I was afraid I didn’t hear it.
“Korey the only person that can change your plan…is you.” I adjusted my purse strap to stay on my shoulder then walked away right as the passing time bell rang.
I walked over to the bottom of the stairs to meet up with Nicole and Kim.
“Hey Wish, why’d you have to go to the office.” Kim said as her and Nicole walked over towards me.
“My mom called.” I said blankly…still not being able to show emotion from my last conversation.
The same look that I had given when I first found out about my mom calling took over Nicole’s face. Out of all my friend’s Nicole knew my mom the most…and it was a as big as shock for her as it was for me, “Your mom called?!” she said struggling to say the words.
“Yah…she did.” I said now noticing the uncontrollable sorrow I had.
Nicole and Kim didn’t ask why she called, or where she was…actually they didn’t ask anything at all. They just looked at my deep blue eyes and hugged me. We stood there huddled until we heard the bell ring. All three of us late for the same class walked in one by one…sitting down and not saying a word. Mrs. Bitman just looked at us; it wasn’t unusual for us to be late so she didn’t say anything about it. I pulled out my English notebook and did the opener, not once looking up to see Korey.
“Wish…what did your mom say?” I could tell that Nicole was still shocked by the tone of her voice.
“She just told me she had one of her feelings…and that I should be safe.” Nicole knew all about my mom’s feelings. My mom I swear to this day is psychic. When I was younger she use to get feelings when bad things were going to happen…and they always did.
“AFTER THREE YEARS she calls you to tell you she thinks your going to be in danger? After three years the most she can say is “hey Wish even though I know you always seem to find your self in a bad situation…maybe this time you should be a little safer and try to stay away!” you… I was kind of hoping she would tell you why she left.” I could tell that Nicole was just about as mad as I was. Her and my mom use to be very close…and she was almost as hurt by her leaving as I was.
“I was hoping she would to.” We both just looked at each other for a moment then she leaned in a hugged me.
“I’m sorry Wish.” She said it with so much concern and feeling that it almost made me cry…but it didn’t…I don’t cry.
I sunk back into my chair still not looking over Korey’s general direction. Just listening to the constant babbling of Mrs. Bitman…and thinking back to everything that just happened last period. It was a lot for me to take in. And you would think by this moment I would be freaking out…overwhelmed with not knowing anything and knowing so much at the same time. But I wasn’t; I was actually taking the whole thing very cooly. Placing every fact together like a puzzle…ever so cooling trying to figure it all out.
So far I haven’t put together much. The things I was sure about were…I was in danger (if my mother felt like I was in so much danger that she had to call me…then I knew it was bad.) Second was that somehow my mom and Korey know about each other. Third was…I was pretty positive that John is holding back something very important from me. And four when everything was all said and done…it all came down to me being something I don’t know that I am.
“Okay class we have about 20 minutes before lunch…I want you to grab your partner and get as much information as you need. Your stories will be due first thing Monday; I will draw randomly out of a hat for who goes first to read theirs…so be prepared.”
I took in a deep breath, gathered my stuff and walked over to Korey’s table.
“Hey wish.” Korey said still emotionless.
“Hey Korey.” I said also emotionless. I placed my binder and purse on the table and sat down right next to him. It was silent as we both took out a piece of paper and a pen. Simultaneously we put our pens down on the table and looked at each other…both our eyes burning with a passion I didn’t understand and our faces still completely emotionless.
“See there you go doing it again.” Korey finally said…it wasn’t so much as an angry voice as it was sarcastic.
“And what is that Korey?” I said smirking…still staring right at him.
“Your trying to change my mind.” He looked away for a brief second just to turn his head back at me, “Wish, have you ever had to do something…that you weren’t sure if you wanted to do anymore.” He said with my favorite smile on his face.
“HA! Yah I do it everyday…it’s called school.” I said trying to lighten the mood.
“And since you still come that means…that…doing what you need to do…is more important then…what you want.” He seemed to really be thinking about what he was saying…almost putting too much thought in it.
“In my opinion…” I leaned in closer to him, “The only thing you need to do, is what you want to do…you know; what your heart tells you to do…other wise you’ll spend a lifetime wishing you had done the things you wanted.”
He just laughed as he pulled back into his chair, “Stop it…I can’t change my mind.” He gave out another laugh, and picked up his pen, “Now…lets get started on all the interrogating I need to do.”
I leaned back into my chair turning my body to face his, “Ok let’s start.”
“How many siblings do you have?” he said getting ready to write it down on paper.
“I am the youngest of five. I have three brothers and one sister.” I said folding my arms across my chest…this was NOT what I wanted to talk about…and he knew it!
After scribbling that down with his ever so elegant handwriting he looked up and said, “Are you happy Wish?”
That question took me by surprise. Was I happy? It’s been so long since I had ever thought about if I were happy or not I almost forgot how it felt…until I saw Korey.
“Yah, I Am.” I said in almost a whisper…sort of shocked by my own answer.     
He just smiled and put it down on paper. For about 10 more minutes he asked me all sort of outrageous questions…I had him constantly laughing at my spontaneous answers. Then it was my turn.
“So can I ask you questions now?” I said leaning back up into my chair and picking up my pen.
“Of course. “ he said as he leaned back in his chair taking my old position.
“Where were you born?”
“I honestly don’t know…we moved to New York right after I was born…so I always just say there.”
I wrote that down, “Do you have any siblings?”
“Yah I have an older brother named Charley and a little sister named Gen.”
“Why did you move here?” I said now looking up from my paper and straight at him.
“We moved here because I made a decision, that forced us to move.” He smiled at me.
“Let me guess, that’s the decision that I’m changing your mind about.” He let out a laugh.
“Actually it is.”
“So…are you ever going to tell me what it is.” I said leaning closer to him.
“How bout this,” he leaned closer to me, “I’ll tell you what it is…when I figure out if you changed my mind or not.” I smiled…my mom just told me that he would change his mind…I so knew it wouldn’t be long until I knew.
“Deal. But I should warn you, I have an amazing memory…so I won’t for get this deal.” I said as I put my hand out for him to shake.
He took my hand and we started shaking, “I have no doubt in my mind that you won’t forget.”
As our hands pulled away ever so smoothly I could see a serge of energy coming out of our fingertips and leading our hands back together again. I looked down at my hand and back up at Korey’s shocked face.
“Why can’t we let go?” I panicked…looking around the room to make sure that no one could see us…and they didn’t they were all to busy telling their lives away to the person across from them.
“I don’t know Wish.” Korey said in a voice just as panicked as mine.
I tried pulling away again. But I couldn’t…small electric shocks ran threw my veins as my fingers laid intertwined with his. If it weren’t so creepy that I couldn’t let go; I would have probably been enjoying this very much. Again and again we tried pulling away from each other’s grip…but nothing worked. Finally we stopped pulling and Korey put on his thinking face. So I sat there soaking in every moment that our hands were touching.
“Wish…when I tell you to I want you to think very hard about something that will make you angry ok.” Korey said as he turned his back towards mine.
“Okay.” I said still frightened that our hands were bound together.
Korey braced himself to pull away from me with all his brutal strength. Korey’s smooth beautiful voice softly whispered “now”…so I thought. Visions of my Father and my mother ran threw my mind. I saw all the stupid drivers that have ever cut me off. I was recalling every bad memory I had ever had in a matter of seconds. As Rage filled up inside of me I could feel my eyes turning a deep green…almost as green as Korey’s (but not as beautiful). Quickly our hands pulled a part, and with all the strength we used it left my hand flying in the opposite direction…and as my hand flew over my head, completely uncontrollable…everything stopped. I flew back in my chair and before my head hit the ground all I could remember was Korey’s voice say, “No.” and I saw his eyes.
I woke up about a half an hour later in the nurse’s office to see Nicole, Kim and Korey standing over me.
“Hey guys.” I said very confused.
“Oh my God Wish I’ve seen you have some pretty bad falls before…but I was actually scared this time. You weren’t breathing.” Nicole said relieved that I was ok now.
“What?!” I was confused and still not completely sure where I was.
“Yah, the second you started breathing again Korey scooped you up and ran you up here.” Kim added on.
Korey just stood there in the corner watching the three of us.
“Are you okay sweetheart?” Ren, the school nurse had just walked in to the room we were all in.
“Yah, I’m fine…just a little out of it.” I said starting to pick myself off the bed.
“Well, I called your father while you were out…and he agreed with me when I said you should probably go home and rest.”
“Okay.” I always took an opportunity to get out of school. And from the serious of events that had happened to me today…going home sounded GREAT!
“I don’t want you driving.” Korey started moving away from the corner.
“Yah Wish Korey’s right…I think it would be better if you had someone else drive you home.” Nicole added as I stumbled me way over to her.
“No I’m fine…plus how would I get my car home?” I said grabbing my stuff off the counter.
Korey took my stuff out of my hands, “I’ll drive you home,” he took my keys off the clip on my purse, “Here give these to John and he can drive Wish’s car home after school.” He handed the keys to Kim.
“NO! I am fine! I can drive home my self…I am a big girl you know!” I said reaching for my binder as Korey pulled away from my arms reach. I lost my balance and once again fell to the floor. I picked my self up…knowing that I had just lost that argument. Korey handed Nicole my stuff and effortlessly scooped me into his arms and the three of us walked out to the parking lot. I seemed to still be a bit dizzy from my “fall”. So the constant bouncing of Korey’s arms as he so gracefully walked started making me sick. So I pulled in closer to him placing my head into his chest…trying to avoid too much motion.
“This is it.” Korey said to Nicole as he put me on my own two feet again. In front of me was a 2001 blue Saturn…I only knew the year…because my mom once had one in purple…before she moved. Nicole opened the back door and placed my stuff in. As she closed the door she turned to me and gave me a hug.
“Feel better bestie. I’ll come over after school with John…and I’ll make you a get better soon card in fourth.” She smiled and walked away.
Korey started helping me into his car.
“Korey I can get into a car by my self!” I said pushing his hand away and using the car to hold me up as I eased myself into the passenger’s side.
Korey slid in on the other side, “Why are you so damn stubborn. You know it’s not a bad thing to have help every once in a while.” Korey said as he started the car.
“Korey what happened?” I said completely ignoring his last statement.
“What do you mean?” He asked as he backed away from his spot.
“To me…what happened? Why couldn’t we pull our hands apart?” I wondered, turning in my seat to face him.
“I honestly don’t know.” He said. His voice had no hint of him holding something back. It was smooth and rich. Sending chills down my spine at how perfect it actually was.
I looked at him…he drove so carelessly, never looking in mirrors, never using a blinker, and barely ever touching his breaks.
“Are you aware that you are doing 40 in a 25?” I said finally realizing his speed. I had no room to talk…for I had once gone that fast on this road. But that was at night…and I was in control of the car, so I felt safer.
“Yes.” He said. I pointed with my finger where to turn. And in record time I was home.
I started opening the door and by the time it was open Korey was standing on the other side.
“WOAH! How did you get here that fast?” I said.
“I ran…”he shrugged his shoulders and grabbed my stuff from the back seat. Then with the other arm grabbed me close to him and walked me into my house. I was feeling completely fine by this point, but I didn’t want him getting mad at me again for not letting him help me.
He placed my binder and purse on the floor near my front door and ever so slickly picked me up in his arms. He carried me over to the couch and very gently placed me on one of the soft cushions. I stretched out and laid across the couch. Korey walked over to my kitchen grabbed a clean glass from my far left cupboard, and glided to the sink and filled it up with water. Then he walked back into the living room and handed it to me.
“Here…drink something.” He said as he sat down…moving my legs off one of the cushions and making me sit up.
“Thanks.” I said, then I took the cup with both hands…such as a small child would, and took a couple small sips. I placed the cup on the coffee table in front of us and turned my body towards Korey.
“Do you want me to go?” he said once he noticed I had turned towards him.
“Not really.” I said pulling a blanket off the back of the couch and wrapping it around me.
He just smiled. And I sat there starring at him. Wanting to ask him so many questions. Just waiting for them to spill out of my mouth, but they didn’t…they just stayed in my head…waiting for another day. With out saying a word I turned away from Korey looking for the remote. When I found it I turned on the T.V. and watched it. We started watching Sabrina, the teenage witch. But I was tired, and could hardly keep my eyes open. So I grabbed my blanket and a pillow. Place the pillow in Korey’s lap; wrapped my blanket around me once again, and quickly fell asleep in between Sabrina’s and Harvey’s first kiss.
What seemed like seconds later, but it really wasn’t; was the sound of my doorbell.
I jumped out of Korey’s lap and fell off the couch.
“Are you okay?” Korey’s wonderful laugh rang threw my ears as I grabbed his hand to help me up.
I smiled, and re adjusted my self, “yah I’m fine…I fall a lot, so I’m kind of use to it.”
He let out another brilliant laugh, “That’s pretty sad Wish.”
The doorbell rang again. I hastily jumped over the coffee table and ran to my door. Nicole stood on the other side holding a cute little card she had made in fourth period, and wearing a very innocent smile. I smiled back and she walked in.
“So Korey’s still here?” she asked as she took off her shoes.
“Yah…we were watching T.V.” I said taking the adorable card from her and reading it.
Korey had walked out to the entryway where Nicole and me were.
“Hey Nicole.” He said as he grabbed his shoes to put on.
“Hey Korey!” Nicole said in her upbeat I love everybody voice.
Korey turned towards me, “Okay well I think you should be ok now that Nicole is here, so I’m gonna go.” He said as he finished putting on his warn out black converse, right before he was out the door he turned back around towards me, “Wish…try not to get in to any trouble tonight, no life or death situations. I think you’ve had enough for today. Okay?” he flashed us both a smile as he closed the door behind him.
“COULD HE BE ANYMORE GEORGOUSE?!” Nicole let out as soon as the door shut completely.
“Probably not.” I said as I started walking towards the living room. 
I grabbed my blanket from before off the floor and wrapped it around me again, sitting cress cross on the far right couch cushion. Nicole took off her sweatshirt and then sat down right next to me.
“Are you feeling any better?” she asked as she pulled her knees to her face.
“Yah! I’m feeling tons better.” I said with a reassuring smile.
“Wish you really scared me today. I mean…you fall a lot…but I was afraid you weren’t gonna get up this time.” She took a deep sigh and stared straight in my eyes, “Korey, Kim and I were pacing around the nurses office just hoping for the best…the nurse said that if you didn’t wake up soon we would have to take you to the hospital…” she looked away as if she was trying to hold back tears, then she looked back at me again, “Wish, what happened?”
I took in a deep breath, “ I honestly don’t know.” I wasn’t lying…I really didn’t know what had happened to me.
“Yah that’s what Korey said too.” She said forcing a smile on her face, “Whatever it was that happened…just please don’t do it again.” Now the mood had lightened and we were at the stage of the conversation where it was ok to joke about just another one of my near death experiences.
That’s normally how these conversations worked with Nicole and me. I would of course get involved with something mildly life threatening, then Nicole would tell me how she felt about it…normally she was more angry then concerned, and then we would move on…being able to joke around about for then on.
Nicole stayed over at my house for about two hours longer; we just watched T.V. and talked. Then around 4:30 Travis called and she left to go see him for a little bit before she had to get started on her weekend homework.          
When she left I went up to my room and started on some homework of my own. I grabbed my notes from English…the ones about Korey; read threw them a couple of times and then I started my story. I couldn’t really think of what to write…I wasn’t sure if this fictional story about the amazingly gorgeous man should be a mystery, or horror, or murder…but then it hit me. Korey was like some kind of knight in shining armor. He had the looks, the attitude, and the mystery. He would be the perfect character for a perfect fairytale. Of course the fairytale wouldn’t be very traditional since I would be placing myself as the “damsel in distress”. I was far to independent and head strong to let a man get all the glory for saving my life…I would gladly like to save it myself.
So my story was about the perfect white knight trying so hard to save a peasant girl who needs to be saved for so many reasons…but she just wont let him. So in my little five-page story they set off on a small adventure trying to save her family and by the end of the story they fall in love. It was a great little story. I was just hoping that no one would notice that I set my self as the heroine…I changed the name to Ella, but if anyone knew me well enough (and since it’s a small town so they all do) they would quickly catch on that Ella and me have A LOT in common.
Once I finished writing my story I read threw it about four times trying to catch the little mistakes and seeing if I could make it better. I was on the fifth time rereading it when some one knocked on my bedroom door. I quickly leapt off my bed, and ran to the door…I opened it and flung myself at the person on the other side jumping into his arms and giving him a very big hug.
“Hey daddy!” I said as I finally let go and brought my feet to the ground. My dad was a very tall attractive man. He had black curly hair that laid on top of his skull like a mop, and the prettiest color of light blue eyes ever know to man kind…his eyes were hypnotic as they sparkled like diamonds in any given light. Every day I wish I turned out looking more like him, but I didn’t. I didn’t really look like my mother either. The only thing I had gotten from her was my mood changing eyes…and of course her attitude.
“Hey Wish, how are you feeling?” my dad said as he leaned in to give me another hug.
“I’m feeling a lot better.” I said when we pulled away.
“Okay that’s good. So do you think your going to be well enough to spend the weekend alone?” he said towering over me in my doorway.
I looked up at him disappointed, “But dad, it’s my weekend. We were gonna go see a movie remember.” I said backing up away from him a little bit.
“I know Wish, but Kelly is having a hard time with her mothers death…and she needs me right now. We can go see a movie in a couple weeks…okay?”
I let a very quiet “uhg” under my breath, “yah dad…I’m fine enough to spend the weekend alone.”
He put on his charming little smile that has one so many women over, “Thanks Wish, you will always be my number one lady,” he pulled out his wallet, “Here’s twenty dollars incase you and Nikkei want to catch a movie or something.” He handed me the money.
“Thanks dad.” I said still very disappointed.
He gave me a hug and a kiss on the forehead and turned around back towards the stairs as he walked away he said, “bye honey I love you.” And then he was gone again, won’t come back until Monday.
“Bye daddy.” I said as I closed my door in front of me.
I pushed all my papers off my bed and lay across the whole thing spreading out my legs and arms, trying so hard just to fall asleep…and soon enough I did.
The rest of my weekend went by smoothly. Just as so many other weekends in my life had gone before. I hung out with my friends, watched T.V., and finished the rest of my homework. I was half expecting that this regularity would be interrupted by a phone call from my mother, or an unexpected visit from Korey, but it didn’t…it was just a normal run of the mill teenage weekend.
In a way this kind of disappointed me; I wanted answers! On Friday three people had left me more confused then I had ever been in my whole life. And not ONE of them had gotten in contact with me this weekend. I was going to go hang out with John, but his sister told me that he was on a camping trip with his dad when I called. And for Korey and my mother, well I had no way of getting a hold of either of them. So I spent my weekend as I normally would, but never once did I stop trying to put things together, yet the little puzzle I was in never got any closer to being finished.
I woke up Monday morning before my alarm clock rang. I don’t know why but I was excited, I couldn’t sleep at all. I quickly jumped out of bed (which was odd for me this early in the morning) and got ready for another day of school. I stood in my closest for about 10 minutes trying to figure out what to wear. I finally decided on my favorite pair of jeans and a light pink tank top. I put my shoes on, and packed up my binder. Then I grabbed my black and pink Volcom jacket and left to school.
I got there about 10 minutes earlier then I normally do, there wasn’t really anybody there yet so I just went up to the stage and sat on the edge as I read ahead in my history book. I was about to start reading about the allegory about how the Wizard of Oz was linked to the political situation back in the late 1800’s when out of the corner of my eye I saw someone sitting right next to me.
“Are you Wish?” it was the girl from my dream. She looked just about a year younger then me, her long flowing blonde hair fell just to her mid back. And her eyes were as beautiful and magnificent as Korey’s. She had very naturally defined cheekbones, especially when she smiled, and she had this very innocent present about her, almost child like.
“Uh…yah I am,” she smiled in enjoyment, “Who are you?” I said confused like.
She reached out her hand towards me, “My name is Gen, I’m Korey’s sister.” I shook her hand, “Korey was talking about you all weekend, so I thought I would come and meet you.” She said, now I was very interested in this conversation, so I closed my book and turned towards her.
“REALLY? And what did he say about me?” I said as I placed my book to my side.
She just smiled, “I think you already know what he was saying Wish.” Really I didn’t, “Who knew that it was possible to break the unbreakable,” she looked straight in my eyes which were a content mixture of green and brown at the moment, and then grabbed my hand with both of hers, “I really think that he will change his mind.”
I pulled away from her tinny fingers, Gen was a very petite girl, “What if he doesn’t?” I said as I forced my eyes away from hers.
She hopped off the stage and as she looked up to me she said with blissful eyes, “He will…just smile at him a couple more times, and he will cave.” She walked away with almost a hop in her step.
I sat there dumbfounded on the stage. The second I came back to school my life was thrown upside down all over again. After that conversation I appreciated that normal weekend that I just had, because I had a feeling that it would be my last one. I looked up at the clock to notice that I had just barely enough time to get to class actually on time, so I grabbed my book and the rest of my stuff and ran upstairs to my first period.
I walked into choir literally two seconds before the 7:35 bell rang, the door slammed behind me as I tried getting to my chair unnoticed. That didn’t work to well. As I was running to my seat, I saw Korey in the corner talking to my teacher Mrs. Fulkner. The thing was that as my head was turned towards him my body was still running towards my chair. So naturally I didn’t see the piano in front of me. The piano and me had a head on collision, which sent me bouncing back on to a chair and eventually rolling off that chair on to the ground.
A roar of laughter filled the choir room. Mrs. Fulkner and Korey ran over to me.
“You seem to fall a lot around me.” Korey said as he helped me up, he seemed to be very careful not to touch my hands.
“Don’t flatter your self, I fall just as much when your not around.” I said not knowing how completely klutzy I sounded.
“Wish, I’m not sure if that’s a good thing.” He said as Mrs. Fulkner and him gave me the most awkward look.
It was a moment of silence…then me being a person who hates silence said the first thing that came to my mind, “So what are you doing in here?”
Korey was about to answer but Mrs. Fulkner beat him to it, “Well it seems Wish that you and Korey share a very similar talent, your both EXTREMELY good singers…so I got him transferred into Chamber choir,” she paused and then gave me one of those famous teacher death stares, “You know that Chamber choir is the most advanced choir in school right Wish,” I just nodded my head, “And in this choir we DO NOT appreciate lateness...” she handed me a little green slip, “You have lunch detention tomorrow…hopefully you’ll show up on time to that.”
I took the paper then I sat down in my seat. Technically speaking I was in the classroom before the bell rang. And I would have never actually seemed late if Korey didn’t have a special talent for popping up out of know where.
Korey sat down next to me. He smelled amazing it was a mixture between soap, and some sort of sweet spice that I couldn’t figure out. His bouncy dirty blonde curls swayed as he pushed his hairs out of his eyes. Everything about him was so perfect…it was so unnaturally beautiful, I couldn’t help but stare. He turned towards me and smiled each corner of his lips curling up to make the ideal “U” shape.
I took a deep breath, “So what…you planning on switching into my math too? That way we can have all four classes together.” He laughed.
“I was thinking about it, but you’re in advanced math, and I’m pretty sure they wouldn’t let me.” He said it so smoothly and naturally that I wasn’t sure if he was being serious or not.
“Are you serious?” I said a little shocked that a guy would switch into all my classes.
He just looked at me, “No. I didn’t know you had choir first period, Mrs. Fulkner just saw that I was in choir at my last school, so she asked me to be in choir here,” he giggled a little bit, “I was about to say no, but then I saw your little fall and I thought that with you in here this class could be pretty amusing.” I resented that.
“I’m glad I can amuse you with my pain.” I said glaring at him.
“Did you actually get hurt,” his voice turned serious.
“No,” I said confused by the drastic mood change of our conversation.
“Of course you didn’t get hurt, it takes a lot to hurt you doesn’t it?” His voice lightened up a bit but still very serious.
I was about to change the subject to how I had met his sister earlier this morning, but before I could get a word out edge wise I heard the piano do its little chime to tell us to start our warm ups. Korey and I didn’t get much of a chance to talk threw out the rest of the period, so we just sang our songs and waited until the end of the period like normal dedicated choir students.
Then finally class was over, I ran over to Korey to catch him before he went out the door. He didn’t see me running towards him so he was half way out the door when I screamed threw the crowd of my classmates, “I talked to your sister today.”
Korey turned around and in a second was at my side, pulling back into a corner of the choir room, “What did she tell you?” he demanded, his hand was tight around my arm and it was sending pain down the left side of my body. I took a deep breath trying to hide the sting when he let go, “I’m so sorry Wish, I didn’t mean to hurt you, sometimes I don’t know my strength. Please forgive me.” Little did he know that I forgave him the second his dazzling green eyes filled to the top with concern for my pain.   
I never had to actually forgive him, he could tell by my expression that I did, “She just told me that you talked about me…she hopes that I change your mind.” I said as I was rubbing my arm where he was holding me.
He smiled at that last statement, as he leaned in closer to me walking me back into the wall, pressing his lips to my ear and preparing him self for a whisper, “My mind is made up.” I could hear a small laugh echo threw my ear as his cool breath danced across it.
He had me feeling feelings I never knew I could feel. One second I wanted him, I wanted to feel his touch, hear his voice, smell is so uniquely wonderful sent. Then other moments I was angry with him, I wanted so badly just to figure him out. Then there were the moments like this one. A moment where my body was left in tingles just by the mere assents of him, he left me speechless in all his perfect ness, he left me in a complete bliss that I didn’t understand.
And as he started to walk away and out the door I just stood there still leaning up against a wall smiling, “A mind is a funny thing…it is never fully made up.” I said as I watched him walk out the door.
“You’re doing it again.” Korey smiled and shut the choir room door behind him.
I grabbed my stuff and walked out the door to see John waiting there for me.
“Took you long enough.” John said.
“Yah I had to tell Korey something.” John gave me a weird look.
“Korey? The new kid?”
“Yah.” I said more upbeat then I thought I would.
“I don’t like him, just something about him rubs me the wrong way.” I looked up at John and he seemed angry. But I didn’t really care if John liked him or not. I liked him and that was all that mattered. Right?
“So you went camping this weekend?” I said changing the subject as we reached our group of friends.
“Yah I go once a month with my dad…remember?” he said still seeming irritated.
“Yah I was just wondering if you had fun or not?” I said still keeping my upbeat charm.
My many smiles and perky voice finally broke him and he seemed happy again as he spent the rest of our eight minute passing time telling me all about it. I really wasn’t that interested…my mind was still thinking about Korey’s lips so close to my ear.
Second period went by very slowly and very boring. Kim had a doctor’s appointment so I sat by my self. Just taking notes I would never look at again and occasionally looking out the window into the hallway to see Korey walking by and delivering notes and papers to various class rooms…wishing so badly that he would deliver and other one to me.
Then finally the bell rang for third period and as fast as ever I packed up and I was out the door, not even waiting for John to get done.
“Wish wait up!” John yelled just as my left foot touched the first step. I stopped on the stairs and turned around towards him.
“Hey John!” I said smiling bigger then ever…hoping that my smile would make up for not waiting for him. He quickly jumped to my side and we were headed down the stairs.
“Why didn’t you wait?” John said with a suspicious look.
“Oh I wanted Nicole to read my short story before we got into English…you know… to tell me if its any good.” Normally I was a very good liar, but for some reason the look on John’s face made it almost impossible to.
“Oh okay…so what’s the real reason?” John said as he stopped me at the bottom of the stairs.
I just smiled not really knowing what to say. I couldn’t tell john that I was rushing to third period to see Korey, right after he told me that he didn’t like him. John seemed to know what I was thinking any ways.
“Korey?” he wondered
I nodded my head and averted my eyes to the floor.
“Wish…just be careful with him. I don’t think he’s a bad guy, I just can’t figure him out, and that bothers me.”
“John…” I couldn’t even finish my sentence.
“I can tell you like him Wish,” he said interrupting me.
“Okay. Wow. Well John, even if I did like him, how would that be irrelevant in this conversation.” I said shocked by his statement.
“It just is Wish,” John said with a half grin a lot like Korey’s (just not as perfect), “But I’m going to get to class, I’ll talk to you after school.” He gave me quick hug and then he was gone. I stood there for a second afraid to go to class. If John had noticed that I was starting to like Korey…then I wonder if everyone else did to…I wonder if Korey did.
I finally got my courage back putting on a mask that said I didn’t care what people thought, especially not Korey. I walked in to the class and took my seat next to Nicole. Kim was still gone so the seat in front of me was empty giving me the perfect view of Korey.
“Did you finish your story?” Nicole said as I was getting my story out of my binder.
“Yah did you?” I said holding it up to show to her.
“Yah but it’s about Jason, so it’s not that good.” She laughed to her self, “I made him a superhero and he was saving Jennifer. Actually now that I think about it it’s quite a funny story.” She laughed a little louder this time.
“Ha. That sounds a lot better then mine.” I said flipping threw the pages and looking over my lame attempt of a story.
“Wish o please. For one you are an amazing writer, so when you write ‘the cat can run.’ It sounds interesting. And second you probably got the most mysterious and appealing person in the whole class…no the whole school. So I hardly believe you when you say that your story sucks.” I laughed a little. I loved it when Nicole goes on these little rants, she puts so much emotion into what she says, but yet somehow always seems to find away for it to come across completely calm…it was a true gift.
Ms. Bitman started the class with her opener then went straight into drawing names for the stories. Most of the stories were funny ones, and a few were serious. I got to hear Jennifer’s, Nicole’s, Jason’s, John’s and about 3 other students I wasn’t as close to. I just sat there intensely listening waiting for my name to be drawn next…but it didn’t.
“Ok class we have time for at least one more story before lunch. Okay lets see.” Ms. Bitman shifted her hand back and forth shuffling around the small pieces of paper in her old black top hat…finally she pulled a name, “Korey Ellison.”
Korey walked up to the front of the room, staring at me the whole time.
A smile slowly formed as he continued staring, then he spoke, “Wish Olivia Wallishd was born into a world of madness, with crazy mothers, forgetful fathers, and four out of this world older siblings. But no madness in her past prepared her for the things she would find out about the world and her self when she was 16 years old. Somewhere in between the madness she learned hidden secrets, the difference between dark and light magic, and how much true everlasting love means in this chaotic world we live in…and only one thing was for sure…she would never be the same again.” Korey continued to tell a story about this girl who controlled the magic of the world, trying so hard to keep it in perfect harmony. She had just found out that she had a gift…but with this gift was attached a curse, a cures of 1000 years of serving as this magic holder. The girl in Korey’s story fell in love with a man that she could never be with, for she would live for 1000 years, and he would not. And as her world fell apart and madness surrounded her, the only thing saving her was the love she shared with this boy. Korey told this story so smoothly, almost like he had practiced it. Every student in the classroom, and even the teacher was sitting on the edge of their chairs hanging off of every word he said.
This story was so well written it almost seemed real. And a part of me wished that it were real.
Then Korey finished his five-page fairy-tale with this one sentence, “And somewhere in between all this madness stood her and him…and that’s all they ever needed.”
Once the class got over the shock of how amazing his story was a corny roar of applause came form everyone, even I found myself doing a small little innocent golf clap. The lunch bell broke up our clap, so we all packed our stuff and headed out the door. Korey was waiting for me holding the door open as usual.
“That was an amazing story.”
“Thank you.” He smiled…and inside I melted
I was about to ask him where he came up with an idea like that. But before I could Nicole and Jason came over and interrupted our conversation, they grabbed Korey’s arm leading him to our table asking him a million questions that I already knew the answer to…so I just walked about three steps behind them.
At lunch we all talked and screamed and ate as if we have known Korey our whole lives. We made stupid jokes and of course laughed extremely loud. The only thing that ruined this perfect lunch was the absence of John. I looked around the lunchroom for him, but I couldn’t find him anywhere. It was never like John to skip a meal.
When lunch was over me and Korey headed off to history with Jennifer still talking about that stupid things people said at lunch, and of course still complimenting Korey’s story every chance we could. We headed into the classroom and took our seats. I threw my stuff on the table and turned towards Korey just about to take another chance at asking him how he came up with that story idea. He smiled at me, and right before the words ruptured from my lips Mr. Nickel called the class to order, then split us up in groups for an activity. As fate would have it Korey wasn’t in my group. So I spent the whole period with Jennifer and another friend of mine named Jaden Zen. We put together a poster of a wizard of Oz character; we had the tin man, and what it was related to in the political allegory; which was the eastern American worker. We didn’t finish in class so Jaden took it home to finish and we would present tomorrow.
Finally the bell rang. I ran to my desk and grabbed my stuff, meeting Korey by the door. And before there could be any interruptions I blurted out, “So I’ve been wondering all day…how did you come up with that story idea.”
Korey looked at me, melting my heart with those beautiful green eyes of his, “I just took it out of real life.” He paused and multiple times looked as if he was going to say more. He started to walk away. But only got about four steps before he came back. “I can’t believe you changed my mind.” He leaned in and kissed my cheek. I could feel my body loosing balance, but I caught it. My cheek tingled with an icy coolness, and I soaked in his wonderful scent as he pulled away. “Bye, my Wish upon a star.” And then he was gone, just leaving me there paralyzed from head to toes. My hand jumped up to my cheek and I could feel the coolness on my fingertips. Right then and there I could have been hit by a car and not even have noticed. Every part of my body longed to feel his touch one more time, every part of me wanted to chase after him, but I didn’t, because like I said…I was paralyzed.