1 First Love

The sky was clear and there wasn't any sign that it was going to rain again,it has been raining for over one week now, with the rain giving only five minutes break and continuing again immediately after that, but still Cassandra had to go to school with it, she didn't like the idea of moving to the UK, she really loved the United States and had made lots of friends there but her parents said they had to move because they didn't like her choice of friends which she wasn't ready to give up, so they moved to UK immediately after she was done with middle school.

"I don't think it's going to rain today hun!" Priscilla yelled.

Priscilla was Cassandra's mom, she was tall,fair and pretty just like Cassandra was going to be, but Cassandra wasn't as fair as her because her dad wasn't white, his skin colour was a more of a yellow.

"Are you sure mom" Cassandra yawned, stepping out of the front porch and rubbing her eyes.

"Yeah, the sky's really bright today"

"I can see" Cassandra said removing her hands from her eyes."I just hope it stays this way"

"I'm sure it will"Priscilla said, rubbing Cassandra's hair.

"Oh you guys are up already" Fred said, stepping into the porch.

Fred was Cassandra's dad,he wasn't that handsome but his smile was the charm that attracted Priscilla to him, Priscilla was taller than him but he wasn't short either,his height was just average but still you would never underestimate him to be a high school boy, because those huge chest hairs didn't say so.

"Dad I've told you to stop calling us guys we are not men" Cassandra winced.

"Yeah, but in this case you are a girl and your mother is a woman,so I have to work with what I have"

"I'm already sixteen, that makes me a young woman not girl"

"Wrong" Fred wove his head."That still makes you a girl"

"C'mon Fred" Priscilla said.

"What? you know I'm not lying.

"You are lying" Cassandra cut in sharply.

"Don't listen to him hun, go take your bath while I prepare breakfast for you"

Cassandra reluctantly left looking at his dad who was smiling at her.

"Silly Fred" She heard mom punch dad as she entered the building.

Cassandra quickly cleared out the dishes from the dining table and kissed her mom good bye before heading off to school.As she walked along the road to school she could get a clear view of the city and then she noticed that it wasn't as bad as she thought, infact the streets of London was a nice scene to behold, she hadn't been able to see all this because for the past one week that they moved here she had to go to school in the rain with an umbrella that wasn't really much help when it mattered.She gazed at her watch and noticed that she was running late,and coming late to school was something she really disliked,so she had to double up in order to get to school on time.While she was running she wasn't really paying attention to what was in front of her and then she bumped in to someone and they both went crashing on the ground.

"Awww!" Cassandra yelled suddenly.

The person quickly got up and offered his hand to Cassandra who was still sitting on the floor.

"I'm sorry"

Cassandra was reluctant to take his hand, maybe because he had a cap covering his face.

"Take my hand let me help you up" he insisted.

Cassandra took his hand, but reluctantly,while he was trying to pull Cassandra up his hat fell off and then Cassandra was shocked and frozen by the handsomeness she was staring directly into its eye.

"Hey I'm sorry for running into you there" he apologized.

Cassandra was totally frozen, she didn't know what to say.

"Are you okay?"

Cassandra nods to tell him she's okay, but her altitude seems to be making him feel uncomfortable.

"Ok I'll be on my way now" he said, bending down to pick his cap.

"No wait,what's your name" those words seemed to have flown out without any control.

"You can call me Devon" he said putting on his hat.

"He looks so cute without that hat" Cassandra murmured.

"What was that?"

"Nothing" she wove her head."So Devon's your name"

"Yes, what of you miss?"

"Cassandra" she replied with a little blush.

"Nice to meet you Cassandra" he said extending his hand for a shake.

Cassandra accepted the handshake after looking at his face severally.

"I'll be on my way now"

"Can I come with you?" Cassandra wasn't sure she was the one controlling her mouth.

"You look like you are already going somewhere"

"How do you know that?"

"Your backpack"

"Anyone can where a backpack"

"I really appreciate your offer to escort me Cassandra, but you are already late for school,see you around" Devon said and quickly ran off,so that Cassandra would stop delaying herself.

"Don't you go to school?!" Cassandra yelled.

"I do!" Devon yelled back.

Cassandra watched him until he was out of sight,then she checked her watch and realized that she had only one minute left to get to school,then the running continued.

Cassandra was already two minutes late when she got to school which wasn't bad because everyone was still getting ready for class when she badged in to the class panting like someone who had just ran a cross country race.

"What's wrong with her?" someone asked in the class.

Cassandra didn't really care about what they were saying, she slowly walked to her desk and started to arrange her books.When she was done she took her seat and was ready for the day's learning, while she was waiting for the teacher, she noticed the desk beside her that had been unoccupied during the past one week she had been in the school and then she began to wonder who sat there, that was when her thoughts returned to Devon. "Maybe he's the one" she thought. But she later shunned. "No... he's too handsome to be here" she whispered to herself, looking at all the boys in the class, looking at all of them she couldn't get the feeling she got when she saw Devon.She decided to give up fantasizing about Devon sitting beside her and think of how cute he was that morning, while she was thinking the door knob started to move, everyone including Cassandra thought it was their teacher, but when the door opened standing before them was a very familiar face to all of them.