RESTLESS

The Afternoon was scorching beholding the summer break at a near corner, I waited at my locker for her to show up so we could move for the tour but she never came.

With curiosity about what and how the tour will go on I ensure that Derrick and Richard left immediately after school without me so I could get a close time with her during the tour.

There I was locking my locker when she stumbled on me with a guy standing next to her, he was fully dressed and the most popular male in school Junior Bruce.

"Hey, hmmm meet Junior he insisted to show me around and I accepted," she said smiling with Junior while she looked at me sheepishly.

"I have been out here, waiting for you but to no avail, okay, Junior is known in this school and will show you around too" I was mad at the whole thing but kept my face up without regrets.

"Okay then, c ya" she walked past me while Junior devilishly smiled at me, hanging his hands on her shoulder while he bounces with his sagged bagging jeans.

I was restless at this point, not knowing what to say or do, how to move over to them and demand to take her on the tour and not him, but that would be childish of me, I walked sluggishly from the school premises virtualizing them in my mind together, it pained me but what can I say.

I went straight to my room without acknowledging my parents, I was too devastated by the whole thing, but the thought of being alone was rubbish by my two friends who were already in my room waiting to play video games with me.

"Guy, what's up, did you do the tour with her?" Derrick shouldered me as he asked, I was never in a good mood to reply but he kept on insisting to know what happened.

"Leave him alone, he needs to rest" Richard replied to him, I felt a bit relieved but still wasn't comfortable, my mind was jittery in fear with the thought of Junior asking her out and all that.

"Please Zucha can you get us some snacks?" Derrick was so annoying right now for saying such, I felt like raising my voice at him or giving him a slap for saying such but that would be bad for he did nothing that would warrant such an atmosphere. Richard all the time has been observing my movement around and he seems to have noticed my thoughts, there he walked close to me as I sat on my bed thinking of what to do next.

"Do you like her?" he said stirring at me as my mother would, I wasn't sure of what to say but I knew that the first time I saw her my heart skipped a bit, but that's not my worry rather Junior who stole my tour rounds with her and she accepted.

Richard felt worried when I explained that to him, but he let it slide saying it was just a tour, and nothing will happen.

"But you know Junior and his antics, every girl in school wants to date a such guy and he is good-looking too."

"Wait, are you planning to date this girl?" Richard felt surprised when I refuse to say a word

"Just yesterday we made the bet and you are all out?" Richard was dumbfounded at how I have taken this bucket list so seriously.

"But did you make your intentions known to her?" he said

"How could you even say such, I just met her today and was hoping to during the tour" it seems he wasn't understanding what I was going through.

"You both can stay here and play the video game for as long as you like, I need to take some pictures" I needed to clear my head from what transpired in school earlier today. I took out my camera bag and left with my bicycle to the woods for some rejuvenating time.

Sitting all alone, stirring at the clouds and tall trees waving their branches to and fro from the breeze, it was quite rejuvenating for a while, then I brought out my camera to take some lovely moments to remember, the sky was friendly at this time.

With my good posture of mine, I singled out the bird squeaking on top of the tall branches with his nest trying to take a bite of something, it was a lovely moment at that time, I felt no pressure or thoughts about school and what happened, my whole attention was how to get this view on archives, just there I spotted her again stirring at the sky.

This time I needed to go close to her to know her better, maybe she might be the one rather than Zina in school, I said to myself.

I took a picture of her from the distance realizing that she was that same girl the other day.

The courage to go further and know more about her came in but I brushed it all up, feeling empty and not knowing what to say, I continued taking more pictures of her and the environment without thinking about getting her acquaintance.

After a long time, I became exhausted and had to leave but she was still sitting there without moving an inch, my mind was racing up at that point I needed to go over there and introduce myself or say something else, have fun with her and forget every other thing that happened, but no!

I couldn't, she can't possibly listen to me or say something to me either, I was so not in control of myself at that point. My mind was playing games on me not knowing what to do at that point.

I sat down back again brought out my camera and scrolled over the pictures I had taken just to keep myself busy probably until she leaves.

There and then I heard her voice, soft and sweet just like the sound of music, she stood in my front while my head was all bent down on my camera, frozen I was for a reply or to race up my face for a glance.

Was she a queen that I can't gaze at her lovely face? I asked myself.

"Hello, what are you doing here?" that was her question that needed me to reply but just don't know what to say,

Then I pursed for a moment, she does sound familiar, oh wait! Can it be? I thought.

I looked up slowly to see if she was the one, without questioning myself to know.