Tradgedy Struck When I Fell in Love CH.1

I can't remember how many months ago it was that I fell in love with Derek Andrews.But I remember my friends telling me that it was just a crush,that I didn't have to tell,that I'd get over it in at most a month.But still,after so long,I love him.I have cried myself to sleep since the night I realized I did,because I wanted nothing to do with dating and love and the nonsense.I just wanted a great education,a full-ride scholarship to Harvard,to be a lawyer,and maybe then deal with the likes of such petty things,like love.I would marry a good man,and we would have a beautiful family,and it would all be perfect.I was on the verge of that.Harvard said that if I could keep such amazing grades,then I would have a full-ride scholarship.I started actually studying,which I had never done before.I was naturally smart.I became even more interested in educational activities around the city.I joined many clubs,tried a little bit of everything.And then I started liking somebody just a little more than was comfortable for me.I have cried even harder,with sleep an even farther possibility for me,since I realized he didn't even know my name.
My face is always puffy,and my eyes red.My friends try and help,but they can't.They get the guidance counselor to pull me away after school,and I put on a happy face.No,nothing's wrong.Nope,nothing at home.No,I'm not pressured or bullied.Nope,nothing in my personal life.Oh,now,you know just as well as I do it's almost impossible for me to like somebody!They even put me in therapy.I don't know why,I wasn't insane,but he did all these weird tests,like What's The First Thing That Comes To Mind? and I had to tell him about my dreams.I told him the same lie every other day,that I was a ballerina with some weird prance-a-dance husband in a meadow of tulips and roses.Really,I fell into a deep pit,falling,just falling.Derek would show,and somehow he just pulled me up.Upon making it to the top,I found that he was a beautiful dark angel.I saw his perfect chest,and he wore a pair of black jeans.I knew what Derek's chest looked like,because boys and girls had to share a locker room,and to save shower part space,we all had to get in our underwear away from the shower wall down the middle,in view of the other sex.The girls all seemed okay,because we knew well enough to always wear good underwear,loose panties that show nothing,and our ever-present bras covered every bit of our boobs.The guys,well,they sometimes forgot to even wear underwear,and they never caught on to what kind to wear so you aren't revealing.So they were shy.Anyways.He makes small talk,and he hugs me close.His deep midnight blue eyes sink into my forever-grey eyes.Actually,sometimes they were a golden yellow.But usually,people mistaked me for blind and got out of my way.He pulls me closer,and I wake up right then!
Now I was in science class,and I haven't been able to pay attention since I fell in love.Derek sits at the front of the room,and I sit at the back,with a clear view of his face.He can''t look at a teacher and listen,it really works out very well,because that means every single class I can act like I'm focusing on the teacher while I stare intently at his beautiful face.I vaguely heard myself called to the front desk to help with an experiment.So up I got,and I walked down my aisle.I kept my hand out so that I touched Derek's face.
"Sorry,I didn't mean to."
"Eh,it's all cool."
When I get up there,he calls for Derek to cme up.Derek positions himself,surely by accident,so that our hands are stuck together.
"Kasey,grab the beaker with the green substance.Derek,grab the beaker with the orange substance-wait!Here are your gloves and mask."He stuffs black gloves and a black rubber mask with goggles as the eye piece into our arms,and we reluctantly put them on.No teen likes to have to wear stuff issued by an adult.
"Okay,now,class,everybody go back to the counters and sit."Everybody moved to the two counters at the back of the room and sat on them.
"Barandi,Kiofa,move the desks and chairs,"he told Sam and Justin.They saluted him and went promptly to their job.They were going to be in the military.
"Okay,now,you two go to the middle of the room."Me and Derek sat on the floor,and Prof. Anderson brang us the rest of the beakers needed for that.
"Now,Kasey,pour the green substance into the purple when I say.Derek,you'll pour the orange into the blue.Pull away immediatly after emptying the bottles,there won't be a second to waste!And...now!"We tossed the liquids into the correct beakers and backed off,ttossing away the empty plastic beakers.A loud POP as a huge,strong puff of smoke comes out.We could feel the impact.
"Alright,now stand at opposite walls.Okay,now,pour out your new substances,don't throw,,just aim at the other substance."Our liquids trickled across the floor and upon touching the other,it turned acidic,bubbling dangerously.We went to his desk without being told.He handed me a bunch of pennies,and Derek a sponge.He gave us both a small silver pole.
"Derek first."He threw the spong inside the acid,and nothing happened.
"Nothing!Okay,Derek,pull it out.Not with your hans,though,okay?Aha,you know not to do that.Okay,now,Kasey,you have twenty-one pennies.Throw one in alone."I could see it start to melt,but then it stopped.
"Slide it out,and put in the twenty left.All together."That made the whole class giggle as I pulled out the penny.I dropped them all in,and the acid smoked,pennies melting quickly.It hissed,and,even though it was so darn interesting,all I could think was,Derek.I love you Derek.Derek.Derek.I love you forever.
My life sucked very bad then,and he didn't know my name after science.I wondered when I'd tell.