Double Life: Parting.

Josh was the first to get to the classroom, he checked that her stuff was still on her desk, he had been afraid that after that phone call earlier she´d ditch classes. The bell rang. Everybody got in but her. so she is ditching classes, he said to himself, a few minutes later she appeared. She had a note that the teacher took without a word. She sat and her eyes immediately went to the window.

 Chemistry was so hard. He had to keep his focus to get it and the teacher never ceased to ask questions to random students, he among them, therefore he couldn’t once speak to Nichole. Once that class ended he had the perfect time to talk to her but he couldn’t find how to open his mouth since he had realized he was not only going to apologize but to ask her out right after his brother had insulted her, it didn’t seem right. 

When he noticed history class was already starting, he had lost his chance, next class was art for her and no class for him. She did tell me to talk to her after her class, didn’t she? he asked himself. When the class ended she was the first one to go out. And there was the homeroom teacher asking him to talk right when he was about to go out. He needed to pick a class.
“Art -he said without thinking- art with Mike”
“Ah, so you already knew Mike?” “Eh, sort of” “Are you into painting?”
“Not really”
“Then?”
“The guitar, I play the guitar and I´ve heard he´s a musician as well as an art teacher”
“Ah, only a few know his class is actually art-slash-music. Nichole invited you?” Josh wondered a little about it. Had she invited him? or was he being some kind of stalker? would she think he was being a stalker? she didn´t exactly invite him but she said she wouldn’t mind, no, actually she had said that Mike wouldn´t mind
“She mentioned it”
“Will she tutor you? -Josh looked away for a second- aw I see that you haven’t convinced her yet” his expression gave him away. “All right, Art with Mike” the teacher wrote a note and told him to go to that class and give the note to Mike.

 When Josh got to the classroom the students there were doing their paintings or practicing in front of music sheets. A brunette man was talking to Nichole and she was nodding, he guessed that was Mike since after that he went to another student and gave comments on her painting.

 “Won’t you come in?” Mike said while showing another student how to get a note in his guitar. Josh came in and noticed all eyes were on him but Nic was still very focused on her painting. She must be mad at me, he thought. He handed the note to Mike who instructed him, as Nichole had done a while ago, to go and take a guitar. Being the new guy he was asked to show his skills so far and was complimented on them. There was no chance to talk to Nichole.

 “Here” she said handing him her chemistry notebook, right at the end of the class
“Nic, thanks. Hey listen I...”
“Later Josh” she said and left. Is she mad at me, but if she is why is she still giving me her notes? he wondered.

 At a quarter to four Josh was in front of Nic´s building entrance. “I have to apologize” he said to himself. He entered the doors.
 “Can I go and see Nichole Cristales?” he asked the woman there. She was the leader/supervisor/authority at that particular building.
 “Does she know you´re coming?”
“I want to surprise her” The woman observed him for a while as if deciding what to do next. She was remembering the time when Nichole was leaning on him...he never came down she thought.
“Does her father approve of you?” that´s blunt and so out of context, he thought.
“He does” he quickly lied
“Do you know that he´ll know about this?”
“Naturally” he said calm on the outside, worried that he could get Nichole into trouble.
“ok” the woman extended her arm in an inviting motion. He knocked her door, then he knocked again and called her name. No answer. He thought he heard footsteps inside but when he listen carefully they were gone. He decided to leave through the emergency exit like last time, he didn’t feel like seeing the woman downstairs.

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Josh, Aaron, Michele and Brighton got to a fancy house after three hours. Michelle was very talkative and Josh wasn’t sure if she had a fetish for twins or if she just wanted attention since she was flirting with both of them.

The twin´s father introduced them to the host of the party, the wife and two daughters. The daughters were exactly like their mother: pretty, elegant but with a diminishing gaze, not everybody seemed to be at their level; however, they seemed to be ok with the twins as soon as they were formally introduced by their father as the sons of his father possible business partner. They knew their father wouldn’t be making business with the twin´s dad if the man wasn’t important or wealthy. They danced and they were actually nice, smart, but their diminishing gaze was a flaw in them that vanished all their good qualities. Michelle was forced to dance with Brighton when she wanted to dance with the twins but Ash and Jess as they insisted to be called had them busy.

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It was a pain to be dressed in that white fitted dress, she loved the black long gloves though. She was used to “work” on her usual black clothes that were not a dress but those had been her instructions “wear what´s in the box on the bed” and the content of the box was what she was wearing now. Along with the dress and various accessories there was a picture and description of the target, information that she burned after read. She spot him. A woman to both his sides, the kind that would do anything for money but do not consider themselves a prostitute. He was looking at the feminine forms around him. His eyes were perverse yet he was among the “finest” people and he was one of them. “What money gets...” she sighed. She advanced walking ahead, the man´s gaze found her and he wanted her just like he had wanted the two women that now he displayed beside him. He moved to her and she felt disgusted.

 Her feline way of walking tickled the man´s desire. Purposely and well practiced she pretended not to notice him and he thought she had not seen him coming to her when she started to walk in an opposite direction. He walked faster, he had to talk to her, he was convinced money could get him everything, everyone. Sure, she looked underage, but weren´t the two he already had like that at some point? He walked faster behind her. She had such a gracious way of walking. She took off her right glove, and when she advanced a man grabbed her nude hand, he thought “I got you my little prey” and she heard it. “You´re the prey in this game” she answered back, in thoughts.

 A fleeting life. The girl wore her glove again. The man fall over his face. The girl kept walking. People gathered around. The ambulance was called. A tragedy, a fine man had suddenly died of a heart-attack. Both his companions shedding fake tears, thinking of his will, were they in it?

 At the commotion of the dead guy Josh had escaped from the girls’ attention, they were being only good to them after they knew who they were. Aaron disliked that too but there was Michelle for him; however, three girls who are fighting politely for boys’ attention was tiring for Josh, to Aaron it was like watching some kind of a contest, amusing. Josh had wandered around, a little hungry, looking for the kitchen. When he finally found it he couldn’t believe his eyes.