"Nelissa, do you have last nights math homework?" I turned around to find my best friend Morgan Green's pleading gaze on me.
"Yeah, you need it?" I asked her with a smile on my face.
"Sorry."
"It's totally fine," I said laughing at her guilty expression. Morgan hated coping work, but couldn't stand the disapproval of a teacher if she didn't have it done.
I turned back to my desk to get my math binder. As I was going through my papers there was a knock on the door, but I didn't bother to look up.
"Mrs. Prokop, you have a new student." I heard Miss June, our principal, say.
"What's your name honey?" asked Mrs Prokop. About that time I looked up and saw him standing there.
"Tyler Elkins," he replied. Although I'd known it was him the mane sent a shock through me and I dropped my binder on the ground. Every head in the room turned toward me and stared. Including him. Usually I would have got it up before a head could turn, but my body wasn't under my jurisdiction anymore. All I could see was him. The one who had been my best friend in ninth grade. The one who had made me smile on the worst of days. The one i had fallen helplessly head over hells in love with.
I was so caught up in my own thoughts, only a small part of my brain registered the change of expression on his face. His lips turned up into the most beautiful of smiles.
"Nelissa?" Morgan said my name as if asking if I'd lost my mind.
"Oh. Sorry," I said as I snapped out of my mind and into my body. I picked up my binder and looked down at my desk to hide my blush.
"Mr. Elkins you may have a seat beside Nelissa. The one who dropped her book." Why me? Because of all the people in the class the only empty seat in the class was on my right.
Don't get me wrong, I love that he was going to sit beside me, but it would be hard concentrate.
The next hour I was so caught up in my own little world of bliss and fear, the only thing I noticed was him. Every move he made, no matter how small, brought all my focus on him. If he shifted in his seat my head would turn an inch toward him. And their wasn't one time I looked at him where he wasn't looking back.
Then finally, it happened.
The bell rang for lunch.
Not knowing what to do I sat unmoving in my desk. But then the most beautiful of voices reached my ears.
"Nelissa?" I turned slowly toward him. He was standing beside me so I stood to.
"Long time no see huh?" I tried to sound nonchalant but my voice wavered. My heart seemed to be going a mile a minute. He smiled and a familiar spark lit up in his eyes. I had to remind myself to breathe.
"It feels like ages. Was it really only two years?" he asked not at all hiding his enthusiasm. Suddenly he pulled me into his arms and hugged me. Though I knew it wasn't the same for him, I wished the moment would never end.
But much too early, he let go.

