In love with my tâcher.

01

After having spent all day on the computer, I checked one last time if I was ready for tomorrow: everything was ready but deep inside I was afraid, so I decided to call Alicia. She answered almost immediately:

- "Hello Amé?" Yes, because everyone calls me Amé "How are you?

- Well, I'm a little afraid for tomorrow, aren't you?" I answered with a not reassured air

- I heard that the names of the students and the classes are posted on the school gate, do you want us to go and have a look?

Yes, as I changed high school my best friend made the choice to follow me in this one.

At the same time, I wanted to know who would be in my class but deep inside I felt a fear of not recognizing any name on the list and spending a year alone, I answered anyway:

- "It's okay, we'll see you in high school then?"

- "No problem,"

Indeed, I live ¼ hour from the high school which is pretty convenient. I only went there a few times, during the visit with the college and with my mother to carry administrative papers, so I don't know the way too well but it shouldn't be too complicated, I thought. I took my bag and started walking. After the first few minutes, I was already lost, so I took a good 5 minutes to get back on the right path and ran to make up for the lost time. I arrived at our meeting place out of breath, a little late, but well, I'm not going to hide from you that Alicia is used to it, and this is one of my first faults. There were about twenty students in front of the school, enjoying their last day of vacation and looking at which class they were in. I walked over to the sheet of names in C in the senior class. There was a boy right next to me that I noticed right away. He had a thin face, with brown hair and beautiful eyes. When he saw me, he smiled at me which made me shiver because he was so handsome. He was also looking for his class, running his finger down the list. When he found it, he stopped his finger just below his name and I could read: Ethan Parker, grade 3. He then pushed himself forward so I could look too. I subconsciously hoped that I had fallen into his class, and I was surprised when I saw "Amethyst Clark, grade 3. The boy then said:

- "Are you a senior in grade 3 too?

I nodded my head in response.

-At least I'm sure I know one person in my class!"

We chatted for a bit, and I found out that he had moved away because of his parents' work, so he didn't know anyone. I was happy to know that I was the first person he met here, but also reassured that I wouldn't be alone tomorrow. I was happy, almost to the point of forgetting about Alicia, which didn't last very long because I saw her running towards me.

- "I'm a senior, what about you?"

Suddenly, my face fell.

"We're not in the same class, Alicia."

She frowned and asked me:

- "What?! What are you talking about?!"

- "I told you, we're not in the same class!"

My face was red and I had tears in my eyes,

and she hugged me. Ethan stood back, embarrassed. I noticed him at once, and introduced this new acquaintance to Alicia, she greeted him and we left. I waved goodbye and he shouted at me:

- "See you tomorrow Amethyst!"

After she had comforted me and we were feeling better, Alicia said to me with a laugh:

- "And then you tell me you're shy, it's not even the first day of school and you're already meeting a handsome guy!"

I blushed and tried to defend myself:

- Oh no, he was just looking for his name in the list and we realized that we were in the same... "

- Yes, that's it! I know that one of them is going to have a lot of fun this year.

We laughed, she really knew me by

by heart!

- And if not, did you recognize some people in the list of your class ? " I asked her.

- Yes, there is Lisa, Justine, Mathieu and Alexandre.

- "Oh well, you won't be alone either!

- And you, apart from this Ethan, did you see any other people in the list?

- "To tell you the truth, I just looked up what class I was in and completely forgot to go look at my class name list!"

- "That's all you!" she laughs at me

and yes, you just discovered my second biggest flaw: dizzy.

It was 6:30 pm when I got home, this time I didn't get lost on the way, fortunately because tomorrow I had better not be late for school! I went straight up to my room and turned on my computer and logged on to facebook. 1 friend request, I'll let you guess who it is. I looked at the pictures of Ethan, he was really cute. He sent me a message and we talked for a good hour. He gave me his number - just in case, if we got lost or for homework - but obviously when I text him it won't be for homework! My mom called me to eat, so I said goodnight to Ethan, gave him a meeting place for tomorrow morning and then went down to the table. After dinner I watched a movie on TV and went up to my room. It was already 10:20 p.m. and I didn't want to be all surrounded the next day, so I decided to go to bed. This morning, it wasn't my alarm clock or the sunlight that woke me up, but a voice saying my name to try to wake me up. I turned my head to look at the time. It was already 7:20 a.m., my mother was standing in front of me

"I didn't see you come down from your room, so I got worried, I did the right thing! You forgot to set your alarm clock, right?"

Again my absent-mindedness played tricks on me, so I went to the bathroom and came out 10 minutes later. Once washed, I put on the outfit I had prepared a few days ago and ran to have my breakfast. It was 7:45 am, I brushed my teeth, did my hair and makeup in a hurry, then put my bag over my shoulder and headed to school. I was late, as usual, it was 7:52 and I had to run to get to school before the bell, plus I had forgotten my cell phone at home. I saw Ethan in the distance following the line to class, I called out to him:

- "Ethan! Wait!"

He looked to the sides, saw no one, and kept going. I ran up to him and patted him on the shoulder, he turned around and gave me a kiss.

- "I'm sorry I didn't make it to our meeting place but I got up late, I forgot to set my alarm clock..."

- "That's okay, don't worry!"

I was reassured that he wasn't mad at me. I started to catch my breath little by little. In the end, I hadn't had as perfect a start to the day as I had imagined, but I had still managed to catch up and no one noticed my slight delay. As we entered the room, Ethan and I decided to sit in the back of the room to be more discreet. I recognized a few faces, and I even had the pleasure of noticing the presence of good acquaintances from last year. Despite this, I didn't want to trade places with Ethan for anything in the world, I wanted to get to know him first and become his friend. After spending two hours listening to my homeroom teacher read the rules, explain how the school works and hand out our schedules, it was finally time for the 10 o'clock break. I went to the cafeteria with Ethan and we talked. I described a few people I knew from class and he told me a little more about himself. He was born on October 6, so he is 18, a year older than me. His favorite color is black and he has been playing guitar for 10 years. He lives 10 minutes away from me, on a street parallel to mine, so we can meet halfway from school which is pretty cool. He lives in a big house with a garden. Speaking of him, I could tell you a bit more about me! I live in a residence, so I don't have a personal garden but one shared by all the residents, and there's a pool so it's not so bad. I'm an only child and he has a brother Jared who is a year older and a 13 year old sister Lola. His favorite subject is sports and apparently he has pretty average grades in the other subjects. He also told me about his old friends and then started talking about a girl when the bell rang.

02

We took our bags and left for the next class: mathematics, which was the subject where I had the most difficulties. We went to the side and once everyone was settled, the teacher distributed a copy to each of us: surprise control! Didn't your teachers ever do this to you? To make a control the day of the re-entry history to see your capacities, and still, if you have some, which is far from being my case! He picked up the tests, I had answered randomly - you never know - I knew anyway that I could catch up in other subjects. The rest of the hour went by pretty fast, you know how it is on the first day of school, usually you don't do much. At noon, I ate with Ethan, we talked about everything and anything, like real friends, which we were becoming little by little. After lunch we went out and sat on a bench, having fun. He started to tickle me and I twisted around laughing like crazy! Then I stopped, Ondine, the biggest pest I know, came towards us. I discreetly slipped Ethan a few words:

- She is Ondine, beware, she is a pest and a real gossip!

- I'm not surprised," he replied, looking at her.

When she arrived in front of us, she separated us to sit between us two and put her arm on my shoulder as if we were friends. I wanted to pull her arm away from me and tell her how much I hated her, but I didn't, unable to move. She began:

- So Amé, aren't you going to introduce me to your friend? He's cute!"

I wanted to tell her "I don't see why I should introduce him to you, you're the girl I hate most in the world!" but I simply replied:

- "Ah sorry, I forgot, this is Ethan who just moved here."

He looked at me puzzled, I could read his thoughts just by the expression on his face "but why are you answering her nicely, do you hate her?!" I had no choice, as soon as she was near me, I was unable to defend myself or say anything.

Ondine kissed her, and left with a wink. I hated her. A few hours later, we were finally done with school for the day, so I set off for home. Since we didn't live far from each other, I made the drive with Ethan. At the intersection where we should have left each other, he came up to me to kiss me, stopped and said:

- "And would you like to come to my place, so we can take a walk around the neighborhood, and you can show me some nice places!"

I nodded and we went to his place. I saw the big house he had told me about and his adorable dog, a beige labrador. He let me in his house, it was empty. His brother and sister were still in school and his parents were away. We went up to his room. It was huge and really beautiful! It was divided in 4: a corner with the bed and armchairs to discuss between friends, a corner of work with the desk and a library, a corner video games with a sofa and full of consoles and a corner music with its guitars, its amplifier and heaps of partitions. There was a large French window that opened onto a nice little balcony from which you could see his garden with its pool. It was the house of dreams. I asked him where his parents were and he explained that they were hardly ever there because of business trips and that's why they compensated by offering him everything he wanted. He looked nostalgic... He added that he would rather live in an apartment with his parents than in this situation, but I still thought it was a pretty cool house, living in a tiny apartment myself. To lighten the mood, he jokingly pushed me down on the bed and lay down next to me, I could feel my heart racing.

Uncomfortable, I took a pillow and threw it at him, and the pillow fight began. At one point, he threw a pillow so hard that I fell on the bed. I grabbed his leg, he lost his balance and fell on top of me. At that moment, the door opened, it was his mother. My hair was disheveled, my shirt was half off, and Ethan was lying on top of me with his shirt almost completely open from the fight. His mom looked up and said

"I think I'll leave Ethan with you," and closed the door.

I turned scarlet. Ethan pushed himself up so I could get up and I said, embarrassed:

- "I think I should go, don't you?"

- "No, don't go! My parents don't give a shit about me anyway!"

He sat down on his bed and put his head in his hands.

- Listen, I understand that you're embarrassed, but how about we finish this afternoon and pretend my mom didn't come?"

I didn't dare refuse, and replied:

- "Okay, that works."

We sat down on the chairs and talked. The atmosphere was gradually becoming more relaxed. He suggested that we go for a walk in the neighborhood so that I could show him some nice places. I accepted, he took his jacket and we went out. As we walked, he took my hand and smiled. I must have been red-faced, but inside I was happy. I presented him with some stores as he shook my hand. I looked at him and he motioned for me to look to my right. It was Ondine coming towards us. She kissed us and said:

- "So, Amé, you're allowing yourself to steal my Ethan? It is not yours, I'll have you know!

I stammered:

- "But... uh... we're not dating, I... I was just introducing him to some nice places."

I let go of her hand. Then she said:

- "I hope so! Because I have a feeling that something is going to happen between Ethan and me soon -and she added, looking at him- you'll see, nobody can resist me."

Ethan, irritated of the reaction of Ondine put his arm on my shoulder by bringing back me against him and said to make her jealous:

- " Good, you come my Friend, we still have full of corners to visit to finish this superb afternoon spent with you! "

One left while leaving it planted on the spot, mouth open. One heard it shouting in the distance:

- "It is not finished between us two!

Once away, he removed his arm from my shoulder, and said:

- Sorry, I guess you must have been embarrassed by what I did but I couldn't stand what she said.

I then replied:

- "No, it's okay, I understand you.

Indeed I had been a little embarrassed, but it had made me happy to attend such a revenge against Ondine. I showed her the park, the cafes, the cinema and the beach - yes, because I had forgotten to mention that I live near the sea - we stayed there for a long time contemplating the waves. At one point I stood up, pulled him by the arm to get him up and said:

- "Maybe we should go home, right? It's getting late, my mom will be worried."

- "Yeah, no problem, I'll walk you home?

- "Uh... If you want, that is, if it doesn't take you too long to get there. I don't want your parents to worry.

- "Don't worry, I told you, they don't care about me, I can do what I want."

- "Yes, but with what happened this afternoon, I don't want them to see me as a girl... how should I put it... I mean... I don't want them to forbid us to meet again..."

He took me in his arms and held me tight, today had really been a wonderful day. He whispered to me:

- "Amé, forget what happened this afternoon."

He took my hand and we left for my house. When we arrived, I showed him the residence from outside. Then I stood on my tiptoes to give him a kiss on the cheek and added:

- Then I entered the residence.

This time it was him who was all red, I had taken my revenge in some way. When I got home, I went to my room and lay down on my bed, dreaming. Then I turned on my computer, put it on my bed and turned on my cell phone that I had left here this morning. 5 new messages: two were from Ethan and the other three from Alicia. I smiled and read them one by one:

"Ethan: Where are you? I arrived almost 10 minutes ago..." "The appointment, it was right in front of the gate?"

"Alicia: How was your day? " Hey! Answer... " "Ah, I bet you forgot your cell phone again!"

There was no need to answer Ethan, I had already explained to him what had happened, however I told Alicia in detail about today. After sending this message, I logged on to facebook: 11 friend requests and 1 message. I looked at the add requests first which were all from people in my new class and then read the message.

"Great day with you, can't wait for tomorrow, see you again..."

I thought it was too cute and replied on the spot:

"Yes, it was really good, I can't wait for tomorrow either! Next time, I'll invite you;"

It wasn't very original, but too bad, he'll have to be satisfied with that. He was connected, so he answered me almost immediately:

- "When are we going to do this? : "

- "Uh, it depends on what time we finish tomorrow, if we finish at 4pm, I promise to invite you!"

- "Ok:"

We chatted for a while, then I asked him about the girl he had started talking about this morning in the cafeteria. I saw "Ethan is writing..." and was looking forward to hearing more about it when suddenly I heard my mom yell:

- "TO TAAAAABLE!"

I told her I was leaving for lunch, but that he could send me his message, that I would read it when I got back. I was so anxious to know! I ran down the stairs and sat down at the table. Dinner seemed to take forever. I had eaten like crazy but it was no use because my parents didn't want me to leave before the end of the meal. So I waited 10 minutes for them to finish and when I could finally leave, my mother called out to me:

- "Hey, Amethyst! Come help us clear the table!"

So I shuffled back to the table. I took the plates in one hand and the three glasses in the other and headed for the kitchen. As I walked, I tripped over the carpet. Now you know my third biggest fault: clumsiness. Fortunately, I managed to catch myself and did not fall, but I had dropped the glasses, which had broken on the floor. So I had to clean it up, with my mother repeating to me behind:

- "That will teach you to want to go too fast, that will teach you!"

With all this, I had taken twice as long as I had planned, so I ran back up the stairs having almost fallen. I opened my computer and could finally read the message.

03 PART 1

It was really long, to think that it was a rather complicated story.

"Actually this girl's name is Lucy, I met her early last year, she was very nice to me, too nice. She was always inviting me to her house, giving me gifts, hugging me all the time, sending me messages full of hearts. I don't really remember how I met her, I never saw her at school but she was always waiting for me on my street in the morning and at night. I didn't know much about her but she knew everything about me. I didn't know any of her friends, and I had never told anyone about her, not even my best friend, Mike. I had fallen in love with her, madly in love. I think she was the first girl I ever really fell in love with. I was willing to do anything for her, I was scared of her and attracted to her at the same time. One day, she asked me to meet her in the park. When I arrived, she was there, more beautiful than ever, we spent a wonderful day. Towards the end, while we were lying in the grass, she tackled me to the ground and kissed me. I didn't react, because she was the only girl I had ever loved. The next day I was happy, I even decided to tell Mike everything, but he wasn't there. He came back a few days later, I had never seen him so sad. The weekend arrived and Lucie gave me an appointment at the park, as soon as she saw me, she took me in her arms and kissed me, we hardly spoke that day, I spent all day in her arms. The next day, she asked me to meet her again in the park, but when I arrived, she wasn't there, although she had always been on time. I looked for her in the park and discovered that she was kissing another boy. When she saw me, she smiled, waved and continued kissing him. I was heartbroken. That night I called Mike and told him everything, he explained that night that the same thing had happened to him and that he had seen her kiss me while he loved her. This girl only wanted to make men suffer, probably to get revenge. Since then, I have never wanted to get involved with a girl again. When I met you, I changed my mind, just because she did that to me doesn't mean I shouldn't have friends. I think you're really nice, and I hope that nothing can spoil our friendship."

Her message disturbed me, I really didn't expect it. I thought that tonight I would have a hard time falling asleep, how could a girl do that to him when he was so nice? I decided to call him. We talked for a good two hours on the phone and then I went to bed. He had managed to make me forget about this story and finally I could fall asleep without any problem! My alarm clock went off and I got up to draw my curtains. The weather was gray and the trees were shaking in the wind. I decided to put on a big gray sweater, with jeans, and went downstairs to have breakfast. Today I was on time, or rather a little early, so I hurried to finish getting ready, took a little more time to get dressed, and went out. I decided to wait for Ethan in front of his house, so I took my usual route and at the intersection, I set off to meet him. I waited in front of his house for 5 minutes and then decided to ring the doorbell, praying that it would not be his mother who would open the door. When I saw the door open, I was reassured, it was his older brother Jared who came to open the door. He looked a lot like Ethan: he had black hair, and a longer haircut. His eyes were blue-gray, which gave him all his charm. He was tall and thin, wearing a white T-shirt, a leather jacket and jeans. When he saw me, he stared at me and asked:

- "Uh... What are you doing here?"

- "I'm a friend of Ethan's, I was coming to wait for him so we could make the drive together."

- "I don't think so, Ethan doesn't like girls and doesn't want to have friends." - Surely he knew about the Lucie thing - "Look, I'm still going to call him but stay outside."

I obeyed and waited on the landing. I heard Jared call his brother:

- "And Ethan, there's a girl pretending to be your friend, are you coming down?!!!"

I then heard Ethan run down the stairs and open the door.

His hair was soaked and he was quickly buttoning his shirt.

- Ah Amé, what are you doing here? I'm really late, sorry, you can come in!" then addressing your brother "Jar' be nice to her, she's my friend, ok?

He sighed and made me sit on the sofa. He started talking:

- "You better be nice to my brother, if I ever find out that you hurt him, you're going to get hurt."

- "I know about the Lucy thing, and I would never hurt your brother."

Jared stopped short:

- "Ah, I didn't know you two were really good friends, he never told me about you, he was probably afraid I would forbid him to see you. But you know, I'm just trying to protect him.

- "It works don't worry!"

Ethan came down the stairs with the bag on his back and his hair a little messy.

- I can see that you're getting along well! On the other hand, we'll have to hurry up, we're late, my brother starts at 9, not at 8!

I looked at my watch: 7:50! Ethan took my hand and we ran out of the house. I turned to say goodbye to Jared, who was watching us and laughing. We were running down the street at full speed. Suddenly, my foot slipped and I almost fell to the ground. I had twisted my ankle. He caught me and helped me walk. I said to him:

- "Keep going, it's okay, I'll be late, school life will eventually get used to it."

Ethan replied, annoyed:

- "I'm not going to leave you here when you've hurt yourself, who do you think I am?!"

I continued to walk, with his help

he put my arm on his shoulder. We arrived at the school 15 minutes late, we had to ring the bell to get in. We went to the school life to make sign a ticket of delay. The supervisor laughed when she saw us arrive, me limping and Ethan with a messy hair. She gave us our tardy slip and we came to class out of breath. The teacher let us in without saying anything while Ondine glared at me. We were in math class, so the teacher gave us back our surprise tests from the day before.