On monday when I see Briseis in her locker looking at her reflection in a mirror she's has pasted there, I feel happy, she's wearing a green skirt with a white blouse, her hair is now tied just with a lace so carelessly but so beautifully.

"I can see you staring at me, Patroclus. It's creepy." She says but I can see from her reflection that she's smiling and she takes her books out of the locker.

"I was not staring" I say closing her locker when I finally get to where she's standing "I was just admiring the view" I say with a smirk.

"Admiring the view? From behind?" She laughs and hold her books tighter to her chest.

"Well, what can I say? You have a really nice behind." I say and make an attempt to look at her ass but she pushes me away and we both laugh.

"Hey, man." Derek tells me as he passes us by and he paths my back. "Hello, Briseis, you look gorgeous today." He winks at her and goes away, idiot, he was clearly flirting.

"You're going to kill the poor guy with the way you're looking at him." She shakes her head and we start walking to her first class.

"He was flirting and You're mi-ne." I take her by her waist and kiss her. "Just for you to remember"

She rolls her eyes in that way I love, the way no other girl does like she finds it funny but at the same time she wants to kick me in the balls, if you don't know her you would think she's angry but I know her.

"Did you have a good time at Achilles'?" She asks me after a moment of silence, we're outside her room now.

"Yeah, it was good and the food was even better, his mom is quite beautiful for a woman who has a high school kid and you?"

"Oh, interesting. I already told you, it was sick! I even sent you some photos and a video." She tells me

"Yes, but I want to hear it again, I just want to hear your voice more." I tell her and I smile, she makes me smile. She smiles, too, and she kisses me, it's not a little kiss, it's that type of kiss you give to someone when you don't want to get away from them. At least that's how I feel it.

"That's a goodbye kiss, you'll have to wait a little bit more to hear my voice again, I don't want you to be late."

"I love you" I answer her and she just half-smiles and I go to my class as she enters her classroom.

"Dude! Hey! Long time no talk." Aaron tells me as I go walking to my class.

"Hey!" I tell him, we bump our fists, "What's up, man? I think not being single have us like this"

"I'm single! You're the one who is head over heels over a girl and has forgotten about his friends!" He tells me and I roll my eyes. "No, but look, I wanted to ask you something... I hope it doesn't bother you."

"Yeah?"

"I...I've seen you and Achilles have become some sort of friends so I wanted to ask you if... If he's single and if he may be, you know, gay? Has he told you something?" I raise my brow, sometimes it's really easy to forget that this guy is gay.

Does he like Achilles? I don't know why but it annoys me a little.

"Em, no, sorry I've no idea but I do think he's straight." His face fills with disappointment. "I'm sorry, but I'm sure you'll find someone soon."

"Yeah, I was just wondering, he's such a hottie so I thought maybe I had a chance." I nod and the bell rings "Well, gotta go I'm running late, thanks anyway, see you around"

"See you around, good luck!"

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My classes are always the same, boring, I think the most interesting one is the one I've with Briseis: English. And even that one is boring because we can't talk, I can stare at her though, Yeah, I told her I was just admiring the view but to be honest I do stare at her, a lot.

"Hey, Briseis!" I yell when the class is over and she goes running out of the room. What happened? I saw her see her cellphone more than once but she didn't answer me when I text her. "Oh... Well." I can hear the disappointment in my voice and I think probably everyone within a three-mile radius because more than one look at me and even two guys path my back. One even told me:

"It's gonna be alright, dude. Don't worry."

But was is even more weird is that I receive a lot of looks from others when I'm walking to my locker, normally I don't worry about it because I usually exchange some words with people while walking to my locker but today... It just feels weird.

"Hey..." Achilles greets me when he sees me at my locker, "How are you?" His voice is so... Dim and sad that it actually scares me, did something happen between Achilles and his mom?

"Fine, what about you? Are you okay? You look..." I take a look of his entire body "Sad? Maybe." Something in his factions change, to... Confusion.

"Oh, yeah. I'm perfect" He answers after a few seconds of silence, his voice is now with more live but it's yet... Weird.

"I'm glad."

"Yup. Where is Briseis?" He asks.

"I don't know, she ran away after English." I shrug, I should have followed her. Idiot.

"Oh, I see." He looks to his sides. "I've to go, I'm running late, bye" He tells me and he half runs, like he's running away from me. Do I stink now or what?

As the day passes I get more and more looks from a variety of people, ranging from friends to just classmates, am I missing something or what? My first instinct is to write a text to Briseis asking her if everything is okay but she doesn't answer. Lunch comes and with it, nothing, maybe Briseis had to go but she would have told me so it's just me and Achilles who is trying to act nice but I can sense a strain in him that just drives me mad, it's like everyone is acting so weird today.

"Why are you acting like that? First, Briseis is mad or I don't know if something happened to her but she isn't answering my texts and now you are just, not you." I finally ask as I take the last bite of my sandwich.

"I can't answer for her but personally I'm just tired." He tells me.

"Tired... Do you know anything? Is she mad? I know you've a class with her after me, did she show up? Was she okay? Did she tell you something?"

"I know a lot of things, especially when it comes to maths and I don't know if she's mad. She did show up but I didn't talk to her, I don't have a reason to talk to her and ask her if she's mad at you or something, personally I saw her okay."

"Well, calm down... I was just curious."

"If you want to know where she is I don't think I'm the right person" He somberly answers.

"Huh? And who? Oh, yes, Alexandria could know! Thank you." I tell him, I'm standing up when he takes me by my arm.

"You... Could you stay here? I'll look pretty stupid by myself."

"Are you five? You can take care of yourself." I shrug from his grip and I start walking to where Alexandria normally sits, right next to the gym.

I've always find it odd that she sits with her little group there, I think it's because they're able to smoke there and maybe even drink but I personally hate that place.

"Hey, do you know where Briseis is?" I ask Alexandria.

"She had to go, I don't know around 15 minutes before you came her, something came I think." She tells me.

"Oh... Well thank you. Is she okay? Do you know where she went?"

"Yeah, she's perfect. I think to the mall" She shrugs but smile, to the mall?

"Oh, okay, thank you." To the mall?