She knew her last class was science. She didn’t know if she wanted to be happy to see Oliver or if she wanted to just go home from all the socializing she did in this one day. She walked into class and she realized that she beat Oliver finally. She didn’t know where to sit, so she sat at a random table. Next thing she knew, another guy sat down across from her.
“Do you mind if I sit here, you look more normal than the other people?”
“Sure, I don’t mind. I’m Luna, and you are?”
“Hi Luna, I’m Joaquin de la Cruz.”
“Wow, and I thought my name was extremely Spanish but cool. Nice to meet you.”
“If you think my name is extremely Spanish, what is yours?”
“My name is Luna Amelia Ramos. I am glad to know that this school has some Spanish kids.”
“I know right, I met like 5 Dereks, 3 Jasons, and 8 Steves.” Luna was cracking up because that doesn’t surprise her because she met similar numbers for Ryan, Justin, and Matt. She felt a hand touch her back and that stopped her heart immediately. She turned around and it was Oliver. She hit his arm as he was getting settled next to her.
“Joaquin, this is Oliver. There is no one like him. Oliver, this is Joaquin de la Cruz.”
“Sup man”
“Hey” Luna felt like she was in the weirdest feeling, did the room drop to negative 10 degrees.
“Luna, what are you specifically?”
“I am Puetro Rican, but I was born in New York. What about you, clearly you got that truly Hispanic name?”
“I’m also Puerto Rican but also Dominican. I’m half of both, but I was born and raised here.”
“We could secretly be family, imagine that since Puerto Rico is such a small island.”
“That would be sooo cool, I could say I found a long lost cousin in school today.” As Luna and Joaquin are cracking jokes, she could feel Oliver getting annoyed about the whole thing.
“Hey girlie, did you get the math homework this morning? I don’t think I wrote it down.” Math? What is he talking about?
“Price, we didn’t get homework from math. What are you talking about? Are you okay?” He looked more annoyed with Luna’s actions. She didn’t know if she should ignore it or just shut up. Joaquin could tell there was some tension between her and Oliver.
“So Oliver, how long have you known Luna?”
“Longer than you, that's for sure.”
“Oliver! That’s not funny.”
“You’re right, sorry Joaquin. I’ve known my lovely Luna for 3 years now.” Lovely Luna? Is Oliver jealous of Joaquin? That’s so cute, but it will get me in trouble.
“Wow, 3 years. Just the 15 minutes I’ve been talking to her, I feel like I’ve known her my whole life. Does she just have that effect on people?” WHAT IS HAPPENING???
“Okay girls, you are both beautiful. Class is starting so stop whatever this is. Please. And I will deal with you after class for this stunt.”
“Yes ma’am.” He knew that he ticked her off because she hates being called ma’am. He knew that. The class went by extremely fast since the teacher spoke for like 15 minutes max and then showed us videos the rest of the 30 minutes. Luna started doodling in her science section to get her annoyance out. Joaquin passed her a note, it read ‘I’m sorry, didn’t mean to make your bf mad?’ She responded with ‘he’s not my bf.’ Joaquin hid his smile. As Luna could feel daggers being thrown at her from Oliver. Oliver could tell he was in real trouble because usually when they sit together and they aren’t doing anything they usually played a game, but Luna was focused on her doodles on her page. When the bell rang, she didn’t know what she wanted to do about Oliver.
He tried to rush out, “OLIVER PRICE!” He stopped in his tracks because he knew he was going to get hit.
“Wanna explain what happened or should I just assume the absolute worst?”
“Sorry, I am just not used to you talking to another guy and having a bunch of things in common.”
“Dude, we aren’t an actual couple. We’re friends. I am going to talk to other guys that have stuff in common with me, I just don’t want you to get jealous over every guy I talk to.”
“Jealous, you thought I was jealous. Oh, girlie no. I wasn’t jealous.” She gave him the don’t lie to me look.
“Was it obvious?”
“Very! That’s why I am reminding you that we are friends, unless you wanna say something to change that.” She wanted to see if he would say Luna lets try dating now since it’s a new atmosphere, even though she was the one that said they shouldn’t be dating yet.
“No, sorry I will get better with you talking to other guys. Just don’t get mad when I talk to other girls.”
“I haven’t and I won’t.” They both walked to their separate buses and she saw the person that she waved to earlier. They waved at her again and gestured to sit with her.
“Hi, I’m Kaley. You waved at me earlier right?”
“Yeah I did, you looked familiar and I thought since I’d be seeing you on here, I’d say hi. My name is Luna by the way.”
“So true, I’m glad I made a friend on this bus. Hearing the Amber brothers back there was killing me this morning.”
“The Amber brothers?”
“Yeah, you don’t know Derek and Aaron Amber?”
“No, I just moved to the complex during the summer, and if anything I was in New York when the move happened. So which one is which?”
“The older one is Aaron, the younger annoying one is Derek.”
“So note to self, hate them the most.”
“Pretty much.” The rest of the bus ride was fun because she had Kaley filling her in on everything that goes on in the complex they live in.
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