Chapter 35: Chapter 35

The clap from the student body was deafening, I knew they weren't clapping because they liked my speech about the importance of journalism and the way it would push our school forward. They all just wanted to go home. But at the end of the day, Lucy had ten Student journalists plus me who were willing to work with her. She teared up a bit.

"That was our student body president!!!" Sophie said cheering me as I got down from the make shift podium that I was standing on to give my speech. I breathed nervously while smiling at them.

"Thanks."

My head made a complete circle on my neck, looking at the dispersing crowd. It was noisy, feet shuffling towards the exit, and lips making the loudest noise. My eyes scanned the crowd for one particular Brown eyed boy, that was making my heart race at the thought of him. This thing they call crush is funny and crazy at the same time.

"Wow, we are here, presently cheering you on, and you are looking for someone else?" Andrina asked looking at me suspiciously from under her thick lashes. She looked away in mock annoyance.

"We have been successfully replaced, Andrina, we are now outdated." Sophie added dramatically.

"Guys, you know it is not like that, I was not even looking for him at all, both of you are exaggerating." I tell them firmly. But I wasn't convincing any body.

"Who said it was a him? You are totally whipped." Andrina said smartly, her red lips forming a smirk.

"I am not whipped." I said defensively.

"Look!! It's Joseph!!" Sophie said pointing at something or someone behind me. And before I could stop myself my heart began racing and my body turned to look at where her finger was pointing at, my head scanned the entire stretch, my eyes wide in anticipation, that was until I heard Andrina snicker. My shoulders sag noticeably, I turn around slowly, they got me good, because I was really expecting him.

"Okay fine, I was expecting him okay?" I said sulkily.

"We will leave you alone this time because you endured all our boy craze all the time without complaining, and we are genuinely psyched about this, you are finally a grown woman!"

I scoffed.

"And simply because the guy behind your transformation is here." Andrina said softly.

Even if I was tricked before, my heart still skipped, my eyes still searched for him, and found him, he waved at me, I melted into a soft puddle of heart shaped goo.

"Oh my gosh, look at her making the heart shaped eyes." I heard Andrina say vaguely. But I didn't look at her direction, my eyes were permanently glued to the brown eyes beautiful boy that was walking to us.

"She is gone now, she is not with us anymore, let's go." Sophie said in the background. I wanted to turn and say something but if I turn, I might miss something, I wanted to watch his movements, and store them permanently in my brain, right next to the Isaac Newton's third law of motion, and Charles Darwin's law of natural selection.

"Hey." He said smiling brightly at me.

My heart did a flip,

"Hi.." I say shyly.

"Nice speech, I didn't know you had time to make it up." He said, with the smile still in place.

"I.. I uh.. I didn't have time actually.. I spaced out about it, and I kind of made it up on the spot." I say scratching my head nervously.

He looked shocked.

"Wow, that was brilliant, it sounded like something that would have taken me a few months to perfect, and it wouldn't be that good." He said looking sincere.

I blushed.

"Thanks."

"Wanna go home together?" I noticed he looked shy while asking.

I brightened up immediately, so I wasn't the only one that was shy here.

"Your sister doesn't mind?" I asked, even if I knew the answer judging from our discussion in the morning.

"She definitely doesn't, she has a lot of work on her hands now thanks to you."

I smile shyly.

"Well miss, take my hand and let us sail into the throng of Students." He said witha dramatic pose.

I giggle and take his hand.

We walked hand in hand, towards the back door, unconsciously we both didn't want a repeat of this morning.

"Want to get ice cream first?" He asked me.

"I love ice cream." Was what I said, but what I was thinking was,

"Oh my goodness!!! Oh my God! Oh my God!! This isn't happening!!!! This IS happening!!! I'm going on a date with my first crush!!!"

"What do you love most about being student body president?" He asked randomly as we walked to the ice cream shop.

I blinked, I didn't expect that question but I knew the answer by heart.

"I love when things are in order, what better way to put things in order except doing it myself?"

He seemed to mull over it for a few seconds before smiling at me.

"That's really great Carolyn." He said before pushing the door open for both of us.

But I was glued to my spot, he called me Carolyn, not "the pink lady". And the way he called my name, but it sounded so right coming from him.

"Coming?" He asked wearing a puzzled expression. I smile and nod before walking in.

"No way!!" He said laughing at my obvious choice of strawberry ice cream.

He was with a cone full of all the flavors, I didn't even know that was possible.

"Hey, don't laugh at me, your ice cream isn't even in the rules." I say pouting as I take a scoop of my ice cream.

He raised his brows and took a huge bite from his cone of unmatched ice cream.

"Rules? What rules? There is no rule for eating ice cream." He said defensively.

I blinked at him.

"So you think a bunch of people can make rules for eating ice cream for the whole world? With what right?" He asked lightly.

But that hit hard... I always followed rules, that's what led me here, even rules for ice cream, because there was a menu I automatically assumed those were the rules, and something not on the menu was not following the rules.

"Your ice cream is melting." He said kindly.

I blinked before taking a bite of it.

"Here, have a bite, you'll find the "rules" are useless.

I looked at the spoon skeptically, rules made everything orderly.. there were rules for a reason. As I opened my mouth to decline, he put the spoon of ice cream in my mouth. The different flavors exploded.

Only one thought remained on my mind.

There is more to life than following rules... Like this ice cream..