She thinks I don't notice what just happened.
I don't know why my stomach tightens when I see Julianna looking at Roman.
It's not like she likes him, right?
She knows how much I do, Julianna would never do that to me, she is my best friend.
But still, I can't shake the feeling away, the way he looks at her, the way she bites her lip and glances away, like she's hiding something- it feels like a secret I'm not supposed to know.
I eventually shake it off, I have nothing to worry about, she must have been looking at someone else, freshmen crush.
" Who are you looking at Julianna?" I ask teasingly.
She seems to get startled at my sudden questioning, but then touches the back of her neck as she answers, " No one,thought I saw someone from last year" she scoffs.
I glare at her jokingly, in a way that speaks, I see what your up to, she starts to break into a sweat, with a drop of sweat dripping down her forehead.
" Girlie chill, I'm just joking, but if you like someone you better tell us alright?" I raise my eyebrows up and down quick, and give her a smile, she then gives signs of calming down.
Julianna and I tell each other everything, if there was something going on she'd tell me. I forget all of my doubts, and put on a smile, glad to have convinced myself.
Sabrina suddenly links her arm with mine, pulling me out of my thoughts.
" So, first official week of high school," she says, " how are we feeling?"
" Like freshman", Julianna jokes. " Small, lost, and completely irrelevant."
We all laugh, we are almost to the girls locker room, suddenly Roman passes by, and I can't help but steal a glance at him- He is completely unaware of my existence.
One day, I tell myself.
One day, he'll see me the way I see him, and when that happens, my puzzle piece will be complete.
We then, head inside the locker room, the air is full of perfume scents which sting the inside of my noise. Vanilla, cherry blossom, and some Dior as well. We then make a right turn, inside a glass pod where the coaches are waiting for us.
" Welcome, ladies" one of them greets us, joyfully. " I'm coach black, across from me is Coach Reyes, and Coach Ham."
As soon as we heard the last coaches name, we couldn't stop ourselves from choking on our laughs, three of us putting our hands over our mouths, the same time.
Sabrina whispers in my ear " Coach Ham? She sure looks like she eats a lot of it" I accidentally manage to let a treacherous laugh through my hand, covering over my mouth tightly, so tightly, that heat began to build up in between them.
I whisper back, " Sabrina, your so evil", to which she replies by sticking her tounge out.
Julianna looks at us with confusion, as she was unable to hear our bickering, but still she joked with us, because to each other, our laughs are contagious.
All was joy, and fun, that is until, Coach Ham spun her chair around to face us, and stomped a foot to the ground. " You girls better shut your mouths if you admire your place in Athletics" she scolded.
We all straightened up at the sound of her scolding, like military soldiers on duty, " Yes ma'am" we all say in unison.
We then turn back to Coach black, who pulled up a chart, asked each one of us our names, and sport. We were then handed our locker code, and number.
We said thank you, and headed our way out.
" You guys", Sabrina says, " Coach Ham is scarier than I thought" she protests. " I know right" Julianna agrees, " I swear I heard a earthquake, when she stomped her foot."
" Julianna!" I call out. " She might hear you, keep your voice low." I say, as I gesture her a finger over my lips.
" Whoops, sorry" she shrugs, we giggle as we head to our locker destinations.
Me and Julianna's lockers are beside each other, unfortunately Sabrina's is a whole another aisle away, we had a full whining session before we decided to dress out, realizing the time we had left.
I open my locker, and take out my given-swim clothes. " Wow" I mutter to Julianna " they give you the clothes right inside your locker, less of a hassle to us right?" She smiles back at me, " Yeah, apparently it's this high schools policy, you just got to pay." I put my backpack inside my locker.
The locker was quite spacious, it was rectangle shaped, it could fit probably 10 items maximum, it was better then the gym locker we had last year, those were just tiny squares.
I shut my locker, and turn to Julianna.
" Why is it like that? We didn't have it like that in middle school, precise them being in the same district" I question.
Julianna shuts her locker after me, and faces me back. " The district part I don't know, but the policy part, it's because they caught a student exchanging sports with his friends."
"Oh" I exclaim, " I sure as hell, would love to sneak into track to see Roman" I jokingly say.
" Girl, enough about him, we have to go line up at the front, now let's go!" She says, " okay, fine" I whine.
We have to go up to the front, for attendance, and after that? Everyone goes to their destined sport.
Attendance is taken, I am dressed in a swimsuit, which exposes my shoulder, with shorts only above my knees, covering mid thigh, I have my Speedo goggles, and swim so on.
While Julianna, has a track T-shirt on with shorts, and spikes which she is holding in her hands. Sabrina, with a cross country T shirt, shirts, and adidas running shoes.
" Good luck wadding like a penguin with those spikes" I tease Julianna, " shut up" say says in a sarcastically annoyed tone.
" At least I don't look like Humpty Dumpty who instead of deciding to sit on a wall, decided to swim" she tease back, looking me up and down.
I can hear Sabrina gasp, covering her mouth with the palm of her hand due to the comeback, and me? My jaw is dropped to the floor.
Lesson learned.
" Hey!" I sarcastically say back, jokingly sounding offended, crossing my arms. We all just laughed at the end.
We then head out the locker room, Julianna and Sabrina part ways on the right side of the hallway, where the door that lead to the outside track is, while I turn left, where our schools indoor swimming pool is located.
" Bye!" we wave to each other, I make a circle with both my hands around my mouth, and shout " Don't die!", to which they looked back and gave a thumbs up.
And just like that, it is officially the start of 1st period.