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"Hey baby girl" Kai grinned up at me as I approached. Smiling in response I kissed him briefly on the cheek before I sat myself on top of the table where he was sitting.
"Good Morning. Except not, because I feel like an icicle." I sighed in annoyance. I really do hate winter.
"Well maybe if you took up my offer, and let me drive you to school in the mornings…" Kai let his comment hang between us, and even though his lips lifted in amusement, his eyes were serious.
And I thought about taking him up on his offer, as I had many times before, but I always came to the same conclusion. To make Kai drive out of his way in the mornings to come pick me up, wasting his time and money, was not something I wanted to do. It was too much to ask. And I told him so.
"But you didn't ask, did you? I offered, so if you were the great friend you think you are, you'd let me do it to make me happy." Kai replied.
I smiled. I knew what he was doing – some kind of reversed psychology. But I knew this boy too well for that to work. Even though the frost in the mornings really made me wish I was selfish.
I stood up from the desk, pulling my bag up with me and slung in on my shoulder. I smiled as I looked into Kais blue eyes.
"No babes, I'm perfectly finewalking to school." I told him as I began to move away. I almost laughed as I heard him mutter 'that girl is too damn stubborn' beneath his breath.
I walked out of the classroom into the hallway, where I moved towards my locker. As I organised my books and what I'd need for the morning, I began to think about tonight.
Kai had invited me round for one of our annual monthly movie nights, and this month it was Romantic Comedy. To say Kai was dreading it was an understatement, but I'd told him that if I can learn to love horror films and gangster movies, he can at least sit through an hour and a half of Heath Ledger looking sexy and making me laugh in 10 Things I Hate About You (it was the only romantic comedy movie he'd seen that was 'acceptable' - his words not mine). In fact, I may act up on my girly factor tonight just to make him go crazy. Smiling in anticipation, I looked up as I heard the locker beside me open.
"Hey Charlie" I smiled at my friend, and in return she turned tired eyes towards me.
"Hey Naima" She replied, her voice light and happy. I don't understand how she isn't always in the worst of moods, I would be if I had to get by on the amount of sleep I know she has. When I closed my locker, I stood and waited for Charlie to be done.
"So are you going out with the guys tonight?" I asked, referring to our group of friends.
"Well yeah. I'm tired, but this is my first night off work in ages and I really miss spending time with everyone." She tells me. Charlie works weeknights, and weekdays. More than any teenager should have to do on top of school. But Charlie lived at home with her mum, who, for the little I knew, was too ill to work. So Charlie had to support her mum. And even though I hate admitting it, but I think if I was her, I would have cracked a long time ago. "Are you going to be out? Where we going tonight again? Is Kai coming?"
"Oh, yeah…no. We've got our…" I started but Charlie cuts me short with an exclamation of remembrance.
"Oh yeah, you two are having your movie night aren't you? Sorry, I forgot." She smiled at me. "I've always found it hard to conceive how you actually stick to that monthly think. If it was any of the others, I know it would be more like an if-I-remember-or-can-be-bothered sort of thing."
I laughed and shrugged. "Well it's just what we do" I explained lamely.
"It's what you two don't do that I don't understand." She laughed lightly. "I'm still holding on to the fact that you two really should be dating. You know everything about each other, you already spend hours of your day together and let's not forget that you're both the best looking people I know."
I smiled. I'm so used to getting this talk from my friends that I hardly have to think about it anymore. "Well we're not, are we? And we never have. If we are as good for each other as you seem to think, don't you think it would have happened by know. I have known him since I was 10 years old." That was one point that seemed to at least half convince people that they had got it wrong about Kai and I.
"Never happened? Did you forget about Chloe Swindles party?" Charlie raised an eyebrow at me in that 'what do you have to say now' kind of way.
I blushed. "It was the alcohol, and the atmosphere. We didn't plan to get together. And it didn't mean anything anyway, we're friends and we're not going to start dating each other any time soon."
"Sure." Was all my friend said as we found ourselves back in the classroom. Kai had been joined by a few of our friends at the table. He'd been talking about his science paper with Blake, but as soon as he saw us we caught his attention.
"Sure what?" he asked us.
"Nothing that would interest you." I tell him with a smile.
"Hmm…well anyway, you looking forward to tonight? I mean, with the whole 10 Things I Hate About You thing? Because there's this movie my mum got yesterday that looks really good and…"
"No" I cut him off. "It is Rom Com night and nothing you say is going to change my mind"
I laughed as he groaned in despair.