by lovethelifeulive
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A triangular prism with the height of 48, the width of 12, and the length of 72. What is the surface area? I repeated in my head. Urgh! We learned this in 7th grade! Was the formula 2 Pi r squared? I couldn't even concentrate in the silence. Alejandra glanced at me and my unfinished paper in pity then went back to twirling her oily black hair around her fingers.
I closed my eyes and put my head on the cool surface of the metalic desk. Only a few people where still taking their formative, including me. Five boys and two girls. At least I could count that.
I felt a gentle hand squeeze my shoulder and pull me back against the chair.
"Turn it into a cube. Use the same measurements to find the surface area of the cube and then divide it by two to turn it back into a triangular prism." her soft voice whispered into my ear before the warm hand left my shoulder.
I smiled and bent back over the desk to work out the measurements. Two hours later, the bell rang as soon as I turned in my scansheet. I stood outside Mr.Perpel's classroom until I found the person I was looking for. I pulled her out of the crowd and pushed her against the wall so that no one would see us.
"White!" I grinned. She smiled back at me, her vibrant red hair layed straightly across her shoulders and her crystal clear blue eyes shined in the hallway lights. In the crowded hall, she was completely oblivious to the shoving she was getting by others. She blinked her long eyelashes against her freckled cheeks.
"Yes Erik?" her soft voice replied.
"Erm, yeah. I just wanted to say thank you for earlier..." I rubbed my hand on the back of my head.
"Sure thing." she nodded, stepping back into the crowd and disappeared. I glanced around by her sudden absence, like an idiot.
Audrey White was a piano major so I would never be caught died near her, me being the quarterback of the football team.
We met months ago, at the begining of the year, when her best friend, Alana, dragged her to the first game of the season. Audrey seperated from Alana when Alana got drunk and was dared to sneaked into the locker rooms, witch she did, unnoticed and stole our pants. Audrey took back our pants and gave them to us the next day.
After that I noticed that Audrey was in most of my classes. She was the best student, always turning in papers and being the teachers pet, so I asked her to tutor me. Of course under the radar of my friends, so every Sunday, while my parents are out at Church and the guys are playing football on the field she comes over and helps me with math and science.
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"Erik, dear!" my mom called from downstairs.
"Yeah? What?" I stumbled down the staircase. Why aren't they gone yet? I thought. They were twenty minutes late! Audrey would be here any minute. "Are you leaving soon, the priest might get mad at you or something."
"Don't be so impatiant!" my mother laughed. "We'll be leaving in a moment, your brother just has to come down."
There was nothing else to say, so we stood there in silence, until a soft knock came from the door
"Shit!" I mumbled to myself. I can't let them meet her. Not only will I be a laughing stock of the Junior year, but I will lose trust from my parents for bringing over a girl behind their backs and I will never hear the end of it from my brother.
I glanced at mom, when everything went in slow-mo. She took a step, making clicking noises with her heeled flats. I ran up to the door, extending my arm to reach the doorknob, but I was a little too late.
She opened the door as a shocked expression crossed her face.
"Why, hello!" my mother beamed. "Are you Eriks girlfriend?"
I glanced at Audrey in the doorway. She curled her flaming red locks today, and wore a strapless, silky white dress that really showed her perfect curves. When she opened her mouth to speak to my mom, I cut her off.
"Um, no." I frantically blurted out. "Shes um, a French exchange student. She came to...er, get the science homework."
My mom looked at Audrey.
"Bonjour." Audrey giggled.
"Oh, well come in, come in." my mother smiled, obviously falling for out lame excuse. "I am very proud of you Erik, helping in science, are you?" Audrey stepped in, her dress flowing above her knees.
When I closed the door behind her, my obnocious fourteen your old brother who was only three years younger than us, but still acted like an annoying five year old, ran down the stairs. He stood in front of her, wearing black skinny jeans and a plaid blue shirt from American Eagle. He gave Audrey a charming smile and reached for her hand and gently kissed it, never losing eye contact. I immediatly felt a strange overwhelming feeling of jealousy.
"Yo!" I yanked her hand away from his grip. "Um, shouldn't you guys get goin'?"
"Yes, it was very nice to meet you, sweetie." my mother shook Audrey's and called for my father to come. He greeted her and then headed for the door.
"Nice too meet you. Au revoir!" she waved as they got in the old truck. She turned to me and dropped her smile.
"Well that was rude."
"What do you mean?'
"What is wrong with you." she glared at me. "Why can't you admit that you know me? Or even tell your parents that I come over every week to help you with tests. It hurts me that you find me so embarressing."
"White, you don't understand..."
"See! You don't even call me by my first name." she yelled. Her voice croaked with anger and emotion.
"Chill out, White." I took her hand and lead her to the pudgey couch. "I need help. And your the only girl I can talk to about it."
"Erik, I should have known, did you just get your period?" she asked sarcastically.
"God no! What the hell..." I sighed. "No. I need girl help." Since I was already breaking all the rules with Audrey, inviting her to my house, asking her to tutor me, and even talking to her, she was probably my best option. Plus, the guys think I'm Mr.Love, since I dated at least fifteen girls this quarter alone. Therefore, the girls thought that I was a badass player.
"Oh." she cocked her head to the side. "Who?"
"Alana." I simply stated.
A hurt expression crossed her face. For a moment her eyes seemed a little angry before the fire died off and she looked calm again. I just shrugged it off.
"Alana, huh?" she smiled.
"Yeah. Tell me about her." I smiled
"Well, she's complicated. You already know her, you talk to her all the time." White smiled.
"What kind of flowers does she like? Whats her favorite color..."
"She doesn't like flowers, she finds them too girly. Her favorite color is bright red,
I whipped out my cell phone and asked for her number.
"Um..." she hesitated. "Um, I don't know. Maybe she wouldn't want you to know her number since she hasn't given it to you yet ..."
"Come on, White!" I grinned. "I'm sure she wouldn't mind."
"Um, okay." she muttered and dictated the number to me.
"Cool!" I leaped up and clicked send, I had to call her right away.
"Hello. Alana Jefferson speaking."
"Yo, Alana? Its Erik, Erik McArther." I grinned at her voice as she screamed into the phone in excitement.
"Hey, baby. Wats up?" her voice suddenely raised at least an octive in pitch. Strangly enough, the coolest girl at school was best friends with dorky White. So I knew Audrey would definatly help me, since she knew Alana better than anyone.
"Nothing much. Just wondering if you wanted to meet up at Venice Beach later? Catch some lunch or something?"
"Sure, how's about noon?"
I agreed and hung up the phone as Audrey just stared at the floor glumly.
"Kay, White. Time to go." I took her hand and lead her out the door.
"Bu-but I-we didn't..."
"No buts! I gotta date with the hottest chick at school!" I opened the door of her Lexus.
"But-but the science test! Its tomorrow!"
"Who cares!" I pushed her into her car and closed the door. As I turned around I almost thought that I saw a tear run down her cheek. But it was probably the light reflecting from her nerdy glasses.
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