"Hello, my name is Patrick. Nice to meet you all" Greeted Patrick. As he turned his face to look at the class and introduce himself to everyone in our class, I immediately realised that he was the same guy he saved me yesterday.
"Belinda, Yuki, he was the guy I meet yesterday. I can't believe he was transferring to this school." I whispered to Belinda and Yuki who were sitting next to me on a table of 4. I turned my head to face the front and found my eyes in his. The moment he noticed me, his mouth started to curve into a warm smile and unconsciously so did I at the same time I could hear all the girls in the room sigh romantically. The teacher looked around the room to find a place for him to sit and a person to show him around the school grounds as she was searching, Patrick decided to make his move first as I watched him walk slowly towards my friends and I while every girl he passed let out a sigh of disappointment.
" So you come to this school too. It is nice to see you again, Dora." Patrick greeted while all the girls glared or were in shock that I had already knew him already. I smiled shyly back at him not sure what to say especially when the whole class was staring right at me.
" Well, Patrick since you seem to already know Dora why don't you sit on her table and she shall show around the school. I hope you don't mind, Dora." instructed the teacher. I nodded in agreement as he sat next to me.
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After the class, Patrick and I had compared timetables and I realised that we had almost every class together other than PE. It so happened that on this day we had every class together and so throughout the day I showed him around the school to our different classes, talking and laughing just like we were at the coffee shop the day before. I felt a lot of eyes following us as we walked by which normally I would feel very uncomfortable with but for some reason when I was with Patrick and just conversing like normal friends I couldn't feel the gaze as strong as I usually would. In fact at times I completely neglected the fact that there were heaps of eyes gazing at us. During lunch I brought him over to the group of friends that I always seat with to eat.
"Hey guys, let me introduce to you Patrick. He is new today and I thought I invite him to eat with us for lunch." I explained to the group. Belinda, Yuki and Joel greeted him happily however Darren kept silent the whole time.
"Patrick, huh? It is very nice to meet you." Roger said however there was something in his voice that made me feel like he didn't mean what he said.
"Same here," replied Patrick in the same kind of voice. They shook hands with each other and seem to have gripped each others hand extremely tightly as there hands where both slowly turning white. I looked at them suspiciously and confused at there behaviour with each other as it almost looed like they knew each other or had some kind of bad past with each other. They immediately let go as if they were trying to hide any tension that was arising between them however it was pretty obvious something was up. The rest of the lunch time was perfectly fine other than Roger and Patrick who seem to avoid each other and part of me felt that Patrick was starting to distance himself with the group including me. It could have been that I was thinking to much but there was an unusual feeling between us that was different to how we interacted before. Even during the afternoon I felt that he kept his distance as though he didn't want to get involved with me anymore. This feeling made me feel very unease and curious to what the reason behind his mysterious behaviour but I decided to push it aside and continue trying to become good friends with Patrick as I still remember that warm feeling I felt the day before.
"Hey Patrick, if you are not doing anything do you wanna go to the same coffee shop we met at again after school?" I questioned hoping that he would agree and if I had the chance sort out the uncomfortable feeling I was getting from him.
" Umm. . . Sorry, I am actually quite busy this afternoon so I might not be able to come with you. But maybe tomorrow or the day after that." He replied as his voice sounded slightly unease. I nodded feeling a little disappointed and more so worried about what could I have done to made him act this way towards me. I had thought that we had something special or at least could have made good friends but from the way he is acting now it felt that this might not happen anymore. I decided to be more optimistic and keep trying cause I couldn't forget the feeling I got at the coffee shop so I have figure out what could be causing this.
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The next day was the same as yesterday afternoon except he avoided me even more to the point I rarely even saw him. I noticed a lot of girls gazing and I knew they must be wondering why Patrick hadn't be around me as often as he was the previous day. This time the gazes made me even more uncomfortable than it usually did as I knew they were judging and probably making up random reason in their heads to figure out what had happen between us. I continued to search for Patrick throughout the day because I needed to know the reason he was avoiding me and what made his attitude change so much towards me. I wasn't able to during lunch time as Belinda, Yuki and I had choir practice therefore the 3 of us left of the music room immediately after he chow down our lunch. While we were practicing me thoughts kept racing through my head trying to figure out whats wrong and the reason for his behaviour but I just couldn't understand.
"Dora, please concentrate. You are going all off tune and in fact you had almost completely stopped singing towards the middle of the song. It is not the time to be daydreaming right now." lectured the teacher as I was knocked back to reality. I apologise and the group restarted the song from the beginning, this time I paid full attention to what I need to do. Towards the 2nd verse, I had to sing solo as I was singing I noticed a familiar figure standing at the door. At first I couldn't recognise but soon enough I realised that it was Patrick standing outside listening, knowing this made me feel more at ease and felt the need to show off as I decided to pay extra attention to my sing. As the song ended, I could see his figure slowly retreating away from the door therefore I ask the music teacher if we could take a couple minute break before rushing outside to catch up to him. However when, I reach outside the room, I could just see him race around the corner and out of sight. Once again I had let him slip away just like the many times I already done so today, I decided that it would have taken to much time to continue the chase and returned back into the room. I will found out the reason for him to avoid me and I want to be able to become friends with him, resolving any misunderstandings there might be between us but it might have to take a while or at least to when I can actually catch up to him and have a proper conversation. I will find out.
*Sorry too tired to edit this post this time, so please excuse any mistakes but hope you enjoyed this chapter nonetheless.*
Where is the next chapter?!!! I CANNOT WAIT!!!!
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