Chapter
1
BEEP,
BEEP, BEEP!!! I heard the alarm and thought to myself, not already! It was
August twenty-eighth the first day of being a senior and my last semester at
Salem High School. Something inside me told me that this semester was going to
be different than any of my previous ones and I was excited. I was excited
because I had a lot to think about like what was I going to do after
graduation?
I knew whatever I was going to do
would be great because my two best friends would always be there to support me.
I have the best two friends that a girl could ask for. Other than those two I
mainly keep to myself. I guess that is because I don’t have money, In Fact, I’m
actually kind of broke compared to everyone else at school. The looks part I do
have but that’s about it. Which I really don’t want socialize with people
except my two best girlfriends Elizabeth, who we call Liza, and Meredith
anyway. I never have been much of a talker just a studier.
I got up out of bed and brushed my
wavy blonde hair after putting on a pair of jeans and a cute light blue shirt.
I decided to wear heels with my jeans since I had no Physical Education classes
this semester. Thank goodness because I sucked at it last year. I’m not the
athletic type, instead I am more of the average weight, short about 5- foot- 2
inches, artistic type as in drawing.
After getting ready I grabbed my
purse, back pack and went to the kitchen. I reached for my car keys and an
apple then left for school. Mom had already gone to work at the Vet’s office so
it didn’t bother me to leave earlier than usual.
Once I pulled into the school
parking lot, I sat there for a few minutes. It was seven-twenty and school
didn’t start until eight, so I had some time to kill. I turned on the radio and
took my schedule from my bag. My semester for my senior year looked quite
interesting:
1-English 4 (Matthews)
2- Art 2 (Dunkers)
3- Physical Science (Kortez)
4- Art 3 (Dunkers)
I had two art classes this semester so I knew I was
going to love it although I had never heard of Mr. Dunkers before. “He had be new”, I thought. I put my
schedule back into my bag and got out of my black Toyota Camry because it was
now seven-thirty.
I walked up to the building of
Salem High the house of the tigers thinking, my last semester hallelujah. Our
football team had won the championship three years in a row now so the school
was not all bad I guess. As I walked through the doors I saw my ex-boyfriend
Todd who I had dumped over the summer. He was with a new girl and I thought to
myself “what an idiot” because he is such a pig. He once
threw his lunch on me because I had refused to have sex with him in the boy’s
locker room. I wanted to save myself for that one special person and it
definitely was not Todd. I walked on down the hall and found Elizabeth with
Meredith at her locker.
“Hey girls” I said while sitting my
things down and opening up my locker that was two lockers down from Meredith.
Everyone has the same lockers that they chose their
freshman year because at Salem High the locker you choose your freshman year is
the one that you keep your all four years of high school. Most of the time it
can be a good thing but sometimes it is not so great. Especially that time that
Timmy Carter broke into some jocks locker and stole his car keys.
“Hannah girl I missed you, and will
you please tell Liza that going back to Tony would be the worst mistake ever.”
Liza, is what we have called Elizabeth since
elementary school even though she hates it.
“Meredith we just saw each other yesterday, and Liza
she is right, do you remember what he done to you last time?” I said while
closing my locker.
I was listening to Liza rattle on
about how he had changed, that he doesn’t cheat anymore when something caught
my attention. It was a man that I had never seen before walking down the hall
way. He had his hands in his pockets and looked to be about twenty three years
of age. He was about my height, with brown hair that was a little spiked, and
green eyes like me. He had some facial hair, a somewhat muscular body and a
very nice ass. I had never seen someone so handsome in my life. I watched him
walk down the hall and take a left because for some reason I just could not
take my eyes off of him. I noticed that I had been drooling when I heard
“Hannah,
earth to Hannah! Come on the bell just rung and did you hear anything I just
said.”
I shook my head to get out of the daze and said to
Liza
“Sorry I zoned out just a little bit.” I told her I
would see her later in Art and went to English.
When I arrived to class I found
Mrs. Matthews writing instructions on the board. The instructions were to get
out some paper and to start a plan for an essay on one thing we did this
summer. I had went on a trip to the
beach with Liza and Meredith the last week of June so I decided to write about
that. I got out a pencil from my backpack and started the plan. I finished in
about thirty minutes so I decided to lay my head down and rest my eyes. The
next thing I knew I had fallen asleep and I dreamed the dream that I had been
having for months.
It consisted of a cottage in an
open field next to a beautiful sparking blue waterfall. I like usual walked to
the waterfall and heard a small voice.
“Run Hannah run, get away as fast as you can.”
I was going closer to the voice again when the bell
for class to end startled me. It was nine-thirty, had I really slept an hour? I
turned in my plan to Mrs. Matthews and got my things and walked out.
My next class was art and I knew I
was going to love it. I walked in and sat down beside Liza in the third row. I
was starting to sit my utensils on my desk when I looked up and froze dead in
my tracks. The handsome guy I had seen walking down the hallway was Mr.
Dunkers, My art teacher. He turned
around from the board and he froze also, we locked eyeballs and when we did I
felt a sexual urge all over my body, my skin turned cold and I saw my life
flash before my eyes with him in it. I think the same happened to him because
he looked as pale as I felt.
When class started he introduced
himself as Thomas Joseph Dunkers. He said that he was twenty-two years of age,
and that his birthday is June second. He then went on to tell a little about
himself and I was surprised to find that we had a lot in common. He talked
about himself for a total of twenty minutes and then gave the instructions for
the day which was to spend the rest of class sketching a picture of whatever
came to our mind and to color it using colored pencils only so he could see
what level of art we were in.
I had no idea what I was going to
sketch so I decided to just go with the flow. Before I started I looked up, I
saw him staring at me, and so I started blushing. I quickly started working so
that I would have time to finish. It was now ten o'clock and I had until eleven
thirty to get this done. I looked down at the paper and it was like my hands
took over for me.
I was concentrating so hard that I
had not even noticed that what I was drawing was my dream. I had drawn the
cottage in the field, the beautiful sparkling waterfall and myself. I stared
for a minute amazed on what I had drawn and then began to color it in. Once I
got through I put my name on the back and took it up to his desk and set it in
a stack.
We locked eyes again and I got a
weird feeling in my stomach. I saw my dream again but this time when I heard
the voice I heard,
“He is the one,
your everlasting love.”
I shook my head, and when I did I lost my balance and
hit the floor on my knees. I felt dizzy for a moment and when I looked up I
found Mr. Dunkers offering his hand to help me up. I took it and it sent a
shock all the way down my body. It was like he felt it too because he jumped
back and shook his head. With me blushing up a storm I muttered “thanks” after
standing up I went back to my seat. I knew everyone's eyes was watching me
because I could feel them on my back.
When class finally ended I was
ecstatic, that scared me because I had never wanted to get out of an art class
so badly before. Art was my favorite class but what had happened today scared
me just a little. When I found Liza and Meredith at Meredith’s locker we headed
to lunch and as we got to the cafeteria Liza asked
“Hannah are you okay? You look a
little pale, and what happened in art?”
I responded with
“I am fine, and what do you mean?”
“Well you zoned out again at the beginning and then
you fell on your ass.” She said laughing.
“I know I am just a little tired today.” I lied
because I didn’t know what was going on.
We walked into the cafeteria and I
got lunch which was lasagna, salad and my apple that I had grabbed this
morning. I didn’t mind our school's food very much because it was quite tasty.
If you did not want the cafeteria food you did have another option to choose
from which was Chick-FL-A food because there was a stand in the cafeteria.
After I got my lunch I sat down at
our usual table near the back door and began to eat. I was talking to Meredith
about going shopping after school when I saw Mr. Dunker’s again three rows up.
He was looking straight at me. I could not resist looking back. I thought to
myself “I would not mind seeing him
naked” it was like he had heard me
because he smiled and shook his head. I then thought “what is wrong with me? I am saving myself remember.”
After lunch I went to third period
and tried to get the events that had happened earlier off my mind. I focused
very hard on the Movement and Position worksheet in Physical Science not just
because I like science but also to not let anything else flutter in my brain.
Class went great and Mr. Kortez (a short Asian guy who graduated from Salem
High in 1986) was being nice to everyone which was weird because usually he was
an ass. I personally thought it was because he must have gotten laid recently
because he had a lipstick stain on his neck. I was nervous about going back to
Mr. Dunker’s art class, so I did not want the class to end but sadly it did a
little too quickly.
When the bell rang I sighed and
grabbed my things and walked again back to art class. As I was walking down the
hallway some manic running down the hall ran into me and I again fell. “Dumb freshman!” I thought. This time when
I fell my stuff went everywhere which was just my luck. I was having the
weirdest first day and I just wanted to scream and go home. I got on my knees
and was putting my stuff back in my bag when I heard someone say,
“I think you lost your phone.”
I looked up and saw Mr. Dunkers handing back my phone.
I looked at him and said,
“Thanks” while putting it back into my bag.
He then helped me up and again I felt the shock and I
responded with,
“Twice in one day.”
I looked down at my feet and apologized for my
clumsiness.
“Don't worry about it miss Cherry, Just um can I see
you after class?” I nodded and walked into the classroom.
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