YOU AND I

“I think she didn’t recognize me,” I whispered to Niall. I was whispering because I didn’t want to get caught talking during the class.

“Hmm,” was all Niall said. I turned to him. He was neither paying attention to me nor the class. By the looks of it, he was utterly bored.

“Niall!” I whispered a little bit louder this time.

“Hmm,” he said , again.

“Are you even listening to me?”

“Of course I’m listening to you, Harry. I have been for the past thirty minutes!” a little louder than a whisper. The students in front of us turned and glared at us. I smiled apologetically.

“Shhh,” I warned him.

“I’ve been listening to you,” he said, back in a whisper now. “And all you’ve been saying is that you think she didn’t recognize you. Look here,” he pointed his note. He had some tallies done over there. “This is the number of times you’ve told me that you think she didn’t recognize you. Ten times! In thirty minutes!” his voice slowly raised.

“Shh-,” I tried to warn him again but he cut me off.

“And when I try to tell you something you go back to your creepy staring at the girl and don’t listen to me. And then you tell me again that you think she didn’t recognize you. And now you are telling me that I didn’t listen to you?“he stopped to take a deep breath.

And then all of a sudden he started laughing. "Wow, I actually managed to get pissed and get that hell of a long speech without stuttering. Ha ha ha,” he laughed out loud totally oblivious to the fact that we were in a class with a teacher teaching. I nudged Niall to stop but he just couldn’t stop laughing. “Ha ha ha! Oh my God!” his face was now a tomato-red.

“Yes guys, are we disturbing you?” Mrs Garcia, our English teacher caught us red handed.

“Nope not at all,” I said. Niall could barely stop laughing. The whole class were staring at us, except for her, I noticed.

So, she did recognized me, I figured. She was only ignoring me. But why? Oh god, did she think I was a creepy freak? I wanted to tell Niall my new discovery but not before everyone started paying attention to the class again. Now and then, Mrs Garcia would turn back to see if we were talking again. After a few minutes, she just ignored us.

“Hey, Niall. I think sh-,”

“She didn’t recognize you,” Niall cut me off before I could finish sentence, pointing the tallies he had made in his book.

“No, I think she recognized but she’s just ignoring me,” I said.

“What?” now I won his full attention.

“Yeah, just now when the whole class were staring at us, she was the only who didn’t turn at all,” I said to him, proud of what I had found.

“So that’s what you noticed when we’re getting embarrassed in front of the class?” he asked me in full astonishment.

“Well, sort of,” I said, smiling coyly.

“Hmmm,” he just shook his head. “So why do you think she’s ignoring you?” he asked a few minutes later.

“I don’t know. Maybe she thinks that I’m the school freak,” I said. “I was indeed creepily standing at the gateway, staring at her even after she had made it clear that she didn’t want my help,” I pointed out.

“Or maybe…,” he dragged, a new thought in his head. He was clearly testing me.

“Maybe what, Niall? Spit it out!” I demanded.

“Only if you agreed to give half your share of whatever you’re having for recess,” he waved me off. He hasn’t changed at all.

“Yes fine, Niall,” I agreed.

“Maybe she thinks that you think she’s a weirdo,” he said. I raised my eyebrows. Why would I think that?

“You did say her mother was the one who stopped you to help her out. Maybe she was embarrassed by that and thinks that you think of her as a weirdo. And so she’s ignoring you so that she wouldn’t be embarrassed any further. Or maybe something like that,” Niall guessed.

“Wow Niall. I didn’t know that you were this smart,”

“Yeah yeah. The deal’s still on. Half of whatever you’re having for recess,” he said strictly.

“Sure. You even can have my whole recess meal,” I said patting his back.

“Really? Oh sweet!” his eyes instantly widened.

“Yes you can have my whole ‘nothing’ cause that’s what I was planning on having for recess,” I said, laughing.

“Harry!!!” he whined, hitting me.

“Ok ok. Stop. I’ll buy something for you,” I settled him down.

And by the time we were done the whole class were staring at us again. Seriously, don’t they have nothing better to do? Like paying attention what’s Mrs Garcia teaching… Well, she too was looking at us. She cocked her eyebrows.

“Sorry,” we mumbled, looking down at our notebooks.

And again I noticed, that she were the only one who didn’t turn to look at us. Maybe Niall was right, I thought , reconsidering what he said.

Notes

As promised guys! One day one chapter!