Tuesday. Tuesday meant freedom. Freedom from school. Freedom from the kids who tease. Freedom from the treacherous teachers who sit you in the front and center* and stare at you, demanding answers you don’t know. She very well knew the answers. Under pressure…not so much. She would stumble on her words, and teachers would get mad. But no, not any more. She was free in ten minutes- ten minutes that seemed to last ten hours. She watched the clock.

Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. Tick. Tock. TICK. TOCK.

“Can this really last forever…?” she thought inside her head and looked at the clock again.

“Apparently it can…”

She put her head on her desk and hit the wooden desk with her fist lightly.
“Mina?” the teacher called, “Mina, do you know the answer?”
Mina shot her head up and looked at the math problem on the board. The answer was the square root of 3.
“Three?” Mina questionably said, and then hit her head, “No, no I mean square root of three, I’m sorry. I just want school to be over.”
“Yes, that’s correct again- try to stay awake Mina…” the teacher said.
“Yeah, yeah…” Mina said within her head and rested it with her palm.
Pretending to write down notes in her notebook, she doodled the name of the boy who sat in the back of the room, Griffin, and she drew hearts all around the page. He was the inspiration to many of her songs, and the other half belonged to her celebrity crushes, namely three boys who topped the charts on a daily basis. Three grounded boys.
It was hard for her to even grasp the fact that she hardly knew them, and yet she was so infatuated** with them. How in the world could she fall in love with them, and she doesn’t even know them? It seemed, however, almost the same with her and Griffin, he didn’t know she existed. She knew that that wasn’t his real name at all, it was Stephen, but everyone called him Griffin for some reason, that  was a mystery to her. It had stuck with him. He was seemingly perfect, just like those boys, dark hair, dark eyes, and a bright personality. Sure, they called each other friends, but she couldn’t talk to him.

A note appeared over her shoulder and in her lap.

"Stop doodling his name in your notebook- oneeee daaayyyyy you know that the teacher is going to take that book, and KABOOOOOMMMM goes the world. :3 HEY! You should talk to him after school and invite him *gasp* to the MOVIES with us! Yyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaahhh! Bwahahah  XD listen to mmmeeeee iii’mmm your conscieennnceeeee…. Whoooooo iinnnvvviiitteeeee hiiimmmmm. :D”  the note read and it was from her friend who sat behind her- Illyanna

Mina pretended to scratch her back with the note in her hand and dropped it on the desk behind her.

“Schillay-” she wrote back, “NEVAH! I shalll nevah ask him. ;D Besides, he’d never want to go with me anyways :( Stephen’s got his own friends…wow, when do we call him Stephen… haaha half the freshmen think that’s his real name you know…” she replied.

“That’s because they’re freshmen neeeeeeep¤ :P mmmmm what if I ask him :D yeaaaahhh neep… XD”

Mina didn’t send the note back but her eyes opened wide for the remainder of the class.

The bell rang. Victory. Freedom. Liberty. The pursuit of happiness. It was now all in her hands. She smiled, and grabbed her book bag and ran for the bus, being the second one there- only Griffin had gotten to the bus ahead of her. She usually sat four seats ahead of him; he in the farthest back seat, waiting for his friend that sat across from him. Illyanna, who usually doesn’t take that bus got on and sat across from Mina, they were going to the movies after going to Mina’s house.
Illyanna smiled at Mina and she knew what Illyanna was thinking.
“No!” Mina said to her. In a whisper she then said, “Don’t you dare.”
“Oh, I dare to.” Illyanna said before turning to the boys in the back and asking them if they wanted to come to the movies. Mina sunk in the seat.
“Is Mina alright, she looks a little upset,” Griffin said loud enough for her to hear, “I mean, if you don’t want me to come then that’s fine with me… Mina?”
“Yeah?” Mina asked turning around, “Oh, the movies? Yeah, that’s fine, I was just- never mind…”
Turning around, she slumped in her seat, looking at Illyanna. Soon the bus was crowded and loud, and Mina turned to Illyanna; Mina put her legs in the isle.
“Illyanna, do you even know how hard that is going to be tonight? I mean, I can’t even look at the kid, I feel like my eyes might melt because he’s so hot.”
“Hot enough to bake cookies?” Illyanna smirked.
“A cake,  Illyanna, a whole chocolate cake.”
“So, maybe he likes you. Hey, he asked you if it was okay to come, I mean, at least he acknowledges you.” Illyanna smiled.
The bus smelled of his cologne to Mina, and she couldn’t resist it. It was Abercrombie† and she adored it. It made her smile, and even sneaking a glance at him made her smile. She thought it odd, that when she would sneak a glance, he would as well. He would always be sneaking a glance at her at the precise time that she would, and once in a blue moon, smile at her.

“Odd child…” Mina thought.

Soon enough, things would make a 180 turn in her life, all beginning with the movies.