Step by Step III

Today was going to be mine and Aiden’s first senior day at Everglades and he seemed more nervous than me. He even slept in my bed last night because he was so nervous.

         “Aiden chill, it’s just school.” He looked at me

“You’ve been to this school before, I haven’t; you know people and I don’t.” I rolled my eyes and watched as he straightened his hair

“I never noticed how long it takes you to get ready.” He looked at me

“What’s your point?” I shrugged

“I just thought guys took a short time to get ready.” He rolled his eyes and I left the bathroom. Ever since I gave him the option of breaking up he’s been really moody. Maybe I shouldn’t have said anything in the first place. He eventually came out of the bathroom and pretty much ignored me.

“Aiden what’s wrong with you?”

“Are you tired of me?” I looked at him

“Of course not, what’re …”

“Then why do you want to break up with me?” I looked at him, he was wiping his eyes

“Aiden I don’t want to break up.”

“Then why did you…” I put my finger over his lips

“All I said was that maybe it would be good for you if you weren’t tied down to me, you know, since you’re in a new place.”

“What if I want to be tied down, then what?”

“Then this.” I kissed him and he wrapped his arms around my neck and I wrapped mine around his waist

“Krisma are you ready?” the door began to open and I let go of Aiden.

He ran to the bathroom and turned off the light, I sat on my bed. My mom came into the room and I smiled at her, "Almost mommy just putting on my jewelry." she nodded

“Have you seen Aiden, he wasn’t in his room.”

“I think he’s in the kitchen.” She nodded and left “Aiden you can come out now.” He ran out of the bathroom and jumped on me

“I hate this, we can’t do anything anymore.” I kissed his cheek and he laughed

“Well then we’ll just have to join some after school clubs.” He looked at me

“What will that do?”

“You’ll see, now come here.” I pulled him close to me and kissed his lips, he smiled and pulled my waist close to him, he kissed my neck and I messed with his hair. We would've continued but I got a look at the clock and it was almost 7.

“Aiden we’ve got to go, or we’ll be late.” He kissed my neck

“I don’t care, like it’s really going to matter.” I had to push him off and I ran to the bathroom to finish getting ready.

“Like you said I’ve been to this school and baby it matters!” I ran out of the bathroom and grabbed my bag and waited as Aiden grabbed his.

We walked out of the door and started on our way to school. Aiden and I had decided to just walk to our music to calm ourselves down in hopes that we would avoid any fighting. I didn’t like the song that was playing and I had to change it. I turned my music down and I heard him blasting some foreign rock in his ears. I pulled a headphone out of his ear and he looked at me

“What’s going on, I thought this was the middle school.” I smiled and grabbed his iPod

“It is but if you keep your music blasting like this you’ll be deaf before we reach Everglades.” He grabbed the iPod back and I rolled my eyes “Get a move on Jameson.” I slapped his butt and he blushed. I laughed and put my headphones back in

We eventually made it to school with a decent amount of time to spare. I decided to see if there was time to grab something from the cafeteria. I dragged Aiden to the cafeteria doors and took his headphone out

“What’s up?”

“It might be better to turn this off now, there’s little chance you’ll be able to hear it when we go in there.” He rolled his eyes and turned off his iPod. We walked into the cafeteria and his face went pale…if that’s possible.

“Aiden, you ok babe?” he looked at me and shook his head

“Too many people, too many.” I saw him start breathing fast so I grabbed his hand and he looked at me

“It's ok let’s just get something to eat and then sit outside.” He nodded and I pulled out my ID that I got at the meeting last Saturday and got my food, Aiden did the same and he followed me outside. We sat at a table under a tent and started eating. Aiden was taking small bites of the biscuits he got.

“This is gross; can I have some of your cereal?” I passed him the bowl and he stole my spoon. I rolled my eyes and took his biscuits

I looked at my watch and it was almost time for us to go to the principal’s office. I looked at Aiden and he was drinking the milk from the bowl, when he was done he had a milk mustache. I started laughing and he looked at me strangely

“What’s so funny?” I took my napkin and wiped his upper lip.

“Come on we have to meet the principal and get our schedules.” He grabbed his bag and we headed to the front office. The woman at the front desk looked at us

“School is about to start you two need to head off to class.” I smiled

“We’re new so we don’t have our classes yet.”

“What are your names?”

“Krisma King and he’s Aiden Jameson.” She nodded and told us to go through the door to the principal’s office. Aiden looked at me

“What’s the principal like?” I smiled

“You’ll see.” He frowned and followed me into the office. The principal looked up at us

“Can I help you two?”

“Umm hello sir, we’re the new students King and Jameson.” He nodded and gave us both our schedules

“Thank you.” We walked out of the office just as the bell rang and students poured in. Aiden actually got so freaked out that he hid behind me. I grabbed his arm and dragged him to the “patio” we looked at our schedules and saw that we had no classes together.

“When do I have lunch?” he asked

“I don’t know but when you find out text me and make sure the teacher doesn't see.” I smiled

“I have to hide my phone?” I nodded and he sighed

“So far this really sucks.” I smiled and kissed his forehead

“Go to class honey.” He kissed me and walked around looking for the stairs. I watched him go and looked at my schedule; it was what I thought I was going to have before we moved. I walked to AP English 12 and saw that it was Mrs. Hunn’s class. I took a breath and opened the door. The entire class looked at me and I just walked to Mrs. Hunn's desk and handed her my schedule

“Hello Mrs. … Um I just got my schedule.” She smiled and nodded

“Welcome back to Everglades, pick an empty seat.” I nodded and looked for an empty seat; I scanned over the faces of the students and saw that I knew none of them. Wonderful.

Class went off without a hitch and I got all my assignments for entering into the class. The bell rang and I headed off to my second hour, integrated math. The class went smoothly but once again I didn’t know anyone.

“At least I have A lunch.” I thought to myself “Plus my third block is Chorus.”

I walked downstairs and went to the salad line to just have a wrap and milk. I couldn't believe my eyes, they had upgraded the cafeteria. There were more lines with different foods and more lunch ladies. I tried to see which line had what when I saw a Chinese food line. I went and got Honey chicken.

I walked outside and sat on the bench in front of the chorus room. I looked around while I ate and saw a confused, nervous looking boy with black hair and gorgeous grape green eyes looking for a place to sit in the courtyard. He looked like he was holding back tears.

I smirked. He’s such a baby.

“Aiden, over here!” he turned and smiled when he saw me, he fast walked my way

“We have lunch together!” he said smiling, I nodded and looked at his food

“What in the world is that?” he looked down at his plate and shrugged

“Some strange chicken and rice, want to try it?”

“Sure you want to try my chicken, its honey flavored.” He nodded and I put my fork to his mouth and he put his to my mouth. We were both tasting each other’s food and laughing when we heard some people screaming my name. We turned around and I saw Abby, Kiara, Carmen and Ashlynn running towards us

“You know those girls?” Aiden asked softly

“I used to eat lunch with them.” The girls reached us and started hugging me

“How is this possible, we thought you moved!” Abby said smiling, I laughed

“I moved back and now I'm finishing my senior year here.” They continued to ask questions until someone finally noticed my companion. Ashlynn and the girls pulled me over to the bush and started whispering

“Krisma who is that guy he’s cute.” Ashlynn said

“He looks kind of depressing, is he in one of your classes or something?” Kiara asked I rolled my eyes

“Aiden come here for a minute?” He got up and looked at me confusedly the girls looked at me the same way. I wrapped my arm around Aiden’s waist “Guys this is Aiden Jameson, my old neighbor and current boyfriend.” Their jaws literally dropped

“Can I finish eating now?” he asked quietly I nodded and he turned to walk back but stopped for a minute “Can I have some more of your chicken?” I laughed

“Knock yourself out.” He smiled and sat back down

“Dam Krisma got a man!” I know I was blushing

“Shut up!” they laughed and the bell rang.

“Time for class, so what’s your third block?”

“Same as before.” They smiled and Abby and Ashlynn went to their classes

“Aiden you ready?” he nodded

“I’m on my way to...” he looked at his schedule “drawing and painting.” I smiled

“Ooh creative.” He smiled and we kissed goodbye, I really didn’t want to let go but the last thing I needed was to get to Chorus late.

He smiled and winked at me, “We can finish later.” I laughed and kissed him one last time before walking to class.

I went in and smiled at how nothing had really changed. I went up to Mr. Davis

“Hi Mr. Davis.” He smiled

“Hey what are you doing back here?”

“I moved back and now I  have chorus again.”