Chapter 10
Jenny
I was lost; I’d better ask for information or else I wouldn’t find my classroom. While I was looking for any person who could help me, someone hit on my shoulder and I let my books fall. Just like in a cheesy movie a guy went down on his knees to help me with my books while I did the same. Despite life imitates art, unlike in a romantic cheesy movie, when I hit my forehead on a boy’s mouth, I saw blood so, a horror movie for sure. I put my hand on my forehead but nothing had happened, it's not my blood, it was very fast, then I saw the guy running being held by another guy. I got my books, cleaned them with wipe removers I had in my bag, asked help to find my classroom, and waited for the professor to arrive.
Two boys enter the classroom. One is tall and muscular and very handsome. The other is also tall, but is skinny, has lots of acne and has the lips so swollen that he can’t close his mouth. I apologized many times; he must have been feeling a lot of pain and I blame myself for being so clumsy. And how would I know he wore braces? I can see a huge amount of metal inside and from that moment I wanted to protect this guy because I was sure someone was making him wear those outdated braces. On Monday he comes to the class and more metal is shown because he’s wearing a lip bumper and I’m sure it’s my fault so I apologize again and from now on I’m going to give him all protection I can. If it depended on me, he will never feel lonely. And it wouldn’t be a difficult task because even with those old looking braces being shown all the time and a little acne on his forehead, he was good to look at.
They used to hang out with the popular crowd, but I heard them talking about him. The girls said his most attractive feature is the bank account but not even money would make them touch his mouth. The boys were not so nice. I heard them saying that Frank drinking a Bloody Mary is the alcoholic version of canned tomato soup, Nate didn’t need a can opener because Frank was always by his side while another douchebag replied that Frank is so stupid that put on a chastity belt in the wrong place but surprisingly reached the goal. They were nice to Frank in front of Nate which means he didn’t know about the bullying. One day Frank came wearing a high pull headgear, he was next to Nate, who wasn’t looking at him, suddenly one of the as**oles pulled Frank by the straps of his headgear. I couldn't believe my eyes. I couldn't believe that piece of shit had done what he did. Frank came and sit next to me and started massaging his cheek above his molars.
His beautiful gray eyes are sad, he is red so I guess he is ashamed because of the loud whistles he made when he said “that’s” and “was”, so I change the subject. I didn’t know what to say so I started talking about the classes and our professor arrived. Later that day I called Nate and told him what I knew his friends said and did to Frank. Nate fought with each one of them and since then we started being inseparable. The brainless hot guy, the tin man, and the chubby short girl.
What I didn’t know is that the cheesy movie scene Frank and I role-played on the day we met would be based on a true story because that’s how I met the love of my life. The more time we spent together the more I liked Frank, I love his sarcasm, his geniality, how fast his brain works, and how he treats everyone. When someone isn’t nice to him, he responds with kindness which breaks the person. It’s difficult to keep up with him because the boy is fast. I love it when he gets all red when whistles or when he makes one of his extremely intelligent jokes that nobody understands but I do.