11 Chapter 9- First Day

"C'mon Su, we are gonna be late." Jake shouted. We have more than one hour for college to start but he's shouting like we are already late. Ughh!! Where did my jacket go!? Why God why! Why me!!!!.

"Um.. I'm coming in 2 minutes." I yelled from my room's window. Ah there was it. I grabbed my jacket in my hand and ran downstairs. James was chewing gum sitting in passenger seat. Wahh!.

"Ok we can go now." I said out of breath sitting in backseat. Wait! "No wait. I didn't say my bye to Amy and Sienna. I'll be back" I sprinted out of the car and inside the house. I took few seconds to gain my breath back.

"Ah... Bye sweetpea, Bye Sienna." I said standing properly and kissed Ash's forehead. Okay now I was perfectly ready to go. I thought to myself. I sat in the car and saw Jake fuming. Huh?

"What?" I asked innocently.

"Oh pls. Don't be so innocent!" He said starting the car. Um okay...! It took us a complete hour to reach college. Okay now I know why Jake was fuming! Okay my bad. I shrugged. But it was my first day and I didn't know that drive was this long. I'll be careful from tomorrow. I made a mental note for myself

"See we just have ten minutes for classes to start and both you don't even know your way of your class!." Jake said more like yelled.

"Brother it's okay. We'll manage. You go to your class." James said holding my hand and dragging me with her. She was way to calm for my liking. I could hear Jake's curses. Jeez these siblings fight like cats and dogs. More like Tom&Jerry.

"Um... do you know where you are taking us James?" I asked unsure.

"Yeah! To Dean's office. We have to take our schedule." She said calmly. Okay her calmness was freaking me out.

"You know the directions here?"

"Yup" That's it. That's all she's gonna say 'yup'. Hm. There's something wrong. She never gives one word answers.

"Something happened?" I asked now stopping both of us. Concern on my face.

"Yup no. I'll tell you later. I don't wanna ruin our first day!" She said without looking at me. Okay something was definitely bothering her but I didn't press her. We reached to dean's office and James was about to push the door open when somebody came out of the office. Wha-? No.

Everything was now in slow motion.

He came out of office rolling his jacket's sleeves upward. His eyes meet mine and time stopped. My jaw dropped. My heart went wild. My forehead started sweating but his eyes were still holding my stare. His lips quirked upward into a smirk. With a wink he went on his way. And well.....my jaw was on floor by now.

No no no no noo nooo noooo. Uggghhhhh!!!!!! A finger came to my chin and closed my mouth. What? I looked at the owner of hand and she had the most curious and amused expression on her face.

I cleared my throat "C'mon we'll be late." And with that I went inside the office. James followed me still amused. What a start for me! Wahh!!!! I took a deep breath. Oh god! I embarrassed myself again in front of him. Ughhh. Why! Just why did I had that jaw dropping expression. WHYYY!!!!!. Okay.. okay Susan calm down.

"Miss Rose!" Someone said my name. Well not said....yelled to be exact. Why is everyone yelling today!?

"Um... Yeah that's me." I said startled.

"Very well. You must be thinking something important. No?" Mr. Dean said. Okay not a good first impression Susan!.

"Um.. No sir. I apologize for my reaction." I said sincerely. He stared at me under his eyelashes. Calm down Susan!

"Here." He said handing me an envelope.

"Thank you sir." I said smiling and bowing a little.

"Hmm. All the necessary information is in that envelope. Your schedule. Your locker details and your classrooms information. You can go in. Classes are already starting." With this said he started doing his work. I turned and noticed that James wasn't in the office. I went out. Ah Thank god! James was outside waiting for me.

"That was him right?" This was her first question. Wahh!

"Yes" I murmured.

"Interesting." And just like that she started walking. A wild smile on her face. Oh my!. I'm screwed. I followed her.

"What's your first class?" She asked.

"Business."

"Mine too. Follow me I know the way to classroom."

I nodded. She was definitely thinking something. Something big and wild for sure. Oh!

"Hey James something happened today? You were upset earlier!" I asked remembering her reaction when we got out of car.

"Yeah my mood was off but now it's awesome." She said giving me knowing smile. Uh-oh. I'm in trouble again I guess. What a perfect first day! I thought to myself.

The rest of the day went by quick and to my surprise I didn't see that jerk the whole day. And oh! How much I was thankful for it. Me and James only had a single lecture together and rest of our subjects were different. I was in English, business and Eco classes and she was in Business and Fashion class.

I wonder why she didn't applied for English class. I mean her mother's a writer afterall. But well, she is James, She will do what pleases her. I appreciate this quality of her a lot. I don't think I have the guts to do whatever I wishes for. It's not that easy as it seems to be honest. There is always this thought in the back of my mind that maybe I would disappoint someone if I do what I want to or what if it will effect others. My father always said to me that our life is not only of our own. There are other people involved in it and our decision effects everyone respectively, so whatever I do I like to consider everyone first. As there is a saying 'every action has it's consequences.' And so I like to minimize the cause.

Oof. We were driving back home and surprisingly James was sitting in the back seat. I think we have a serious issue in hand we need to discuss. There are a lot of things to discuss but as for now the biggest issue for me is staying out of that jerks way as much as I could or imma be in great trouble considering the fact that I'm always embarrassing myself in front of him. As much as I want to dig a hole and bury myself in it, I'm also happy that I saw him again. And possibly will be seeing him around daily. Not that I like him or anything. But there is something about him that makes me happy with the thought that we crossed paths again. And so soon. Just like James said.