Chapter 2

It seems that when I like someone, I like them for a long time. At least this has happened with my one and only crush. I wonder if it would be the same if I like someone else. If it is or isn't, I don't want it to be the same. I don't even want to like anyone else. I'm happy dreaming about someone I met last week.

In the end, I didn't talk to my crush at all after the first day of school. In the morning he wasn't on the bus once after that. In the afternoon I wasn't on the bus. I hope he is on the bus in the morning sometime soon so I can talk to him. I doubt I will end up talking to him the next time he is on the bus.

Today is Tuesday of the second week of school. Pretty much all I've thought about is my crush. I've had to force myself to concentrate on school and to stop thinking about my crush. I've also had to force myself not to watch him. I've been watching him more since last Monday, when school started.

Today I'm actually going to be on the bus in the afternoon. Right now I would be in a 30 minute class of my choice, but with the way things are going with it only being the start of the school year, we haven't started that yet. At least I haven't chosen my class of choice. We pick our class of choice tomorrow. For the first few days of school we get to try them out. The first day of school we pick 5 to 10 we are interested in to try out. Then for 5 days after we spend 15 minutes trying out each we put we were interested in. If someone has less than 10 and they find one they are interested in later, they are allowed to try it out. If a person has less than 10 and they don't find others they are interested in they will repeat some of them. Then after the 5 days everyone picks one of them.

For the instrument classes, people who were in it last year automatically get a spot (someone who didn't really care about the class and did a horrible job might get kicked out). For people who want to join one of the instrument classes, they put people in based on the order they hand it in. If there is 5 spots left, the first 5 people to hand it in get chosen.

I plan on being in the strings class this year. I wasn't in strings last year, so I'm not guaranteed to be in it. Last year I was thinking of doing an instrument-the piano-and I did it in the end. Piano isn't a strings instrument, so even if I had choose it last year, it wouldn't guarantee I would get into strings this year.

The bell finally rings.

"Yay!" I say as I dash out of the room.

I can hear the teacher in the classroom say, "Kaitlyn! No running out of the class!"

Too bad. I already ran out of the class. I should probably go apologize, but I don't feel like it.

Even though I am out of class, I keep on running. I feel really happy. I'm finally on the bus in the afternoon for once! I might get to talk to my crush!

While running, I don't notice a girl is in front of me and I accidently bump into her.

"I... I'm sorry!" I say.

"Watch were you are going in the future," the girl with blonde hair in a ponytail and green eyes who looks to be an eighth grader says.

"Ok, I will," I reply.

I stop running and instead walk. I don't want to bump into anyone else! I anyways need to get to my locker. I can't find it without looking for the number. Hopefully I eventually will not need to look at the number to see if it's mine or not.

When I go to my bus, I don't see my crush.

Please be on the bus, please be on the bus...

Getting on the bus, I still don't see him.

"Kaitlyn. Why don't you sit with me?" Jacob asks pulling me in a seat with him.

"Sure," I say not realizing what he said.

I hear one person run on the bus. I look to see who it is. It's... my crush!

"Actually..." I start to say to Jacob.

He cuts me off by saying, "What class are you choosing? For your last period?"

"I don't know yet," I reply.

My crush walks past me. He doesn't look in my direction, he is just hurrying to get to the back of the bus.

"I don't know yet either. I'm planning on doing art. Or maybe piano. Last year you did piano, right?" he asks.

"Yeah," I reply.

"Are you planning on doing it again?" he asks.

"I don't know yet. I'm still thinking," I say.

I don't want him in the same class as me for last period! He's a good friend, and the only friend who has the same schedule as me, but I don't want to share any more classes with him! He's getting in my way!

"Piano sounds fun," he says.

"Yeah," I reply, not really listening to him.

As he talks, I try to pretend to be listening and watching my crush at the same time. Surprisingly, I manage to do it with the perfect amount of listening to him and pretending to be listening while watching my crush.

"I'm going to another seat..." I say, half mumbling.

I quickly start seat-hopping to a seat farther back.

I get some stares, but I didn't care. I just needed to take the chance. I didn't hear a reply, so I'm not sure if he heard me. He will notice my absence eventually.

I found an empty seat a few seats from the last seat of the bus. I notice my crush is sitting near. I am tempted to talk to him, but I notice he is talking to someone already.

Before I know it, the school bus stops in front of my stop.

It's already my stop! I think.

I quickly get off the bus and run home. I don't know why I ran, but I felt happy for some reason.

The next day Jacob does not mention yesterday on the bus at all. He doesn't say anything like, "Why did you leave the seat yesterday?" or "Why did you run away when we were talking?" This isn't like him. I don't say anything about yesterday either.

What he does ask me about is what class I'm going to pick for my last class. I tell him I'm not sure yet and I'm thinking about piano or art. This is a lie, as I've decided on doing violin.

Later we are filling out the sheets, which we have today's 30 minutes to fill it out. We also have to wait 5 minutes after we are given the papers until we can hand them in.

I quickly fill my first choice as "violin." I think about what I should put as my second and third choices. I finally decide as technology as my second and swimming as my third.

I wait until the teacher says we can turn them in. I quickly run up and give it to her.

"Kaitlyn, no running," Ms. Westbrook says as she accepts my paper.

Usually I wouldn't run to give in a paper, but I really want to be in violin this year. According to my sources, my crush plays the violin. According to my sources he also can somewhat play the piano. According to my sources he learned the violin in 4th grade. And I have some pretty good sources. I don't know his first name, so my sources are limited. With my sources I could probably find out his name, but I am very careful when it comes to finding out things about him so no one knows I'm a stalker.

I try to learn things about my crush lots of people know, but I have learned other things that gives me an advantage such as what class he's going to pick for last period.

I don't only stalk my crush but other people too. I stalk people who I have seen talking to my crush or just people who I feel like stalking. One example of this is when I stalked that girl I bumped into. I saw her talking to my crush and then after seeing her talking to him more times, I assumed they were friends. I am now trying to find out what exactly their relationship is.

I can assume from seeing them talking and what they were talking about is that they are friends.

By the end of this week I should probably know their relationship.

I watch as other people bring their papers up. I hope that I will be in violin. That could lead me to bring closer to my crush.

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AN: Ok that was chapter 2! It took shorter and longer than expected, cause at first I thought it would take a week and then I thought I would finish yesterday. But here it is.

Random fact: some of this chapter was written while listening to karma(a song btw) from Ever17 -The Out of Infinity-, watching a certain scientific railgun episode 29 (subbed so I had to read the subs) and typing the chapter on my iPhone.