Kissing Corner

Levi stared at the small green stone nestled in the palm of his hand. It was small but somewhat heavy with a smooth surface as if it had just been pulled from a river. The golden ruin glistened in the florescent light. Levi couldn’t help thinking how strange it had been when the librarian had given it to him.

Levi had never heard of the librarian giving anything to anybody. Of course he was just a freshman and so hadn’t heard everything in the schools gossip pipeline. But still he didn’t think people just went around handing out strange little stones from another age to someone that just helped take things to their car. It was weird and creepy and he just wanted to throw it away. Yet he couldn’t, he wanted to say that the reason was because she might have meant it as a loan and the librarian would be wanting it back, but the real reason the reason that scared and crept Levi out even more was that he couldn’t. His mind would scream no and the muscles in his arm and hand wouldn’t let go of the little green stone. So he sat there staring at it wondering what he should do.

“Did you even go to class today?” Levis hand tightened reflexively around the stone and he had to force it open. He looked up into a pair of emerald green eyes. “I’ve already walked by you like three times and you didn’t even say hi. See if I give you the notes from geometry.”

“Sorry Holly it’s been an umm… weird day.” Levi gave her a cheesy little shrug and a smile, hoping that it would help his case.

Holly was really pretty; in a, I go hiking every day and collect my own pine nuts and berries kind of way. Okay she was gorgeous, and honestly Levi would have been more interested in her if her brothers didn’t scar the spit out of him. They were quit literally the giants of the school. Holly had the fieriest red hair of anyone Levi had ever seen and she wore it wild. It wasn’t curly more of a wavy bounce and it looked like she had just woken up. On most people it didn’t look good but for Holly it just fit. She was unusually tan for a redhead and it brought out a cute little line of freckles that run over her cheeks and across her nose.

“Oh.” Holly said winkling her face. “I had all of my weirdness come out last weekend. Well do you want to talk about it?”

She plopped down next to Levi. Levi hadn’t noticed before but she had a hall pass strapped to her wrist. As she was settling down Levi scooted over a little bit. It wasn’t that he didn’t want to sit next to her. He sat next to her all the time in geometry class. It was the spot that they were in that made him uncomfortable.

Levi had been sitting under one of the big stair cases. It was a split level staircase and was in a long hallway lined with lockers. Because of the stairs you had to be sitting down to be against the wall at the back and it was a little dark. For that reason couples would sit back here to make out. So it was now known around school as the kissing corner. Levi had sat down here to be alone. Sitting there next to Holly was making him a little uncomfortable.

“Um this might sound a little strange but how long have I been sitting here?” Levi asked.

“Well I saw you sitting here after 5^th period and…” she pulled out her phone to look at the time. “It’s almost the end of 7^th period. So that means schools almost out. So for as much as I know you’ve been sitting here for a couple of hours.”

“Oh” Levi said. He turned and stared at the carpet between his feet. For some reason it had become really interesting.

“Do you want to talk about it?” Holly asked leaning forward to look Levi in the face. As she did a small silver hammer necklace fell out of her shirt.

“No. Thanks though Holly I appreciate it. It’s not really my place to tell that’s all. And I was asked to keep it a secret.” Levi said guiltily.

“Oh, that’s okay then.” Holly said. She then just sat there not saying a word as minutes went by. Finally she stood up. “Well the bells about to ring I better go return this.” She said holding up the hall pass. “You’ll be in class tomorrow right?”

“Ya I’ll try to make it.”

“Good. It’s about time you take your own notes.” She said with a wink and headed off down the hall.

Levi sat there as the bell rang to signal the end of school. The hallway got loud with the sound of students grabbing there things and heading home. Finally the hall started to quit down as students headed home. Soon it was only Levi in the hall again. He was about to get up and leave when he looked down the Hall and saw Brett headed right for him.