I heard her voice, I know I did!
I looked around quickly, checking to see if she was really there.
"Raf, what are you looking at?" Daniel asked, standing beside me.
"Nothing." I grunted, and calmly looked back into my locker.
If he knew I was looking for her, he'd yell it all over the school. But even tho it would be odd for her to be here in my school, I knew I'd heard her. I knew her voice so well.
The home schooled girl that people rarely saw. The pretty girl that the soccer team put on the 'black list' because she declined the team captain.
But she always smiled at me.
I heard her laughter again, and this time I was absolutely sure.
I straightened up and turned around to lean coolly on my locker.
I only say I looked cool because I just saw a cute girl from the grade below me look at me from the balcony and almost trip going down the stairs.
My eyes darted around and searched the courtyard for her. A glint of her dark brown hair, or someone looking curiously in her direction.
And then I saw it: a small group of people clustered around someone.
I could feel my heart sink a little when I saw Tom, the team captain, step out of the group.
"Raf!" he shouted, giving me that ridiculous peace sign.
I nodded back and her voice carried through the din.
"Oh, whatever, we all know I'm too bossy to be bossed around!" she joked.
I stood up and slowly walked towards the door to the library, where it sounded like it came from.
Just then I noticed one of the girls from the grade below me holding a cell phone in her hand, and the girl who had almost tripped was sitting beside her and looked up at me quickly, then spoke in to the phone in the palm of her friend's hand.
I tried to smile at them, but just walked away.
I hate speaker phone.
