Solace y Graciano
Solace ? Graciano
It was a cold morning in the school, 11:45 AM, and three minutes before lunch. I was in Language Arts room with at least 20 other people. The teacher, Ms. Lavena, was talking about our openings, and I was in a zombified state of sleep, lying on my hand holstered on my arm. The bell then rang, destroying my ears. I packed up my books and went to my locker, with my stomach growling horribly, with pains of hunger going through my body. I finally went to the lunchroom without saying a word. I then saw him. Solace had glistening yellow and white fur with a nice white spotted tail. I saw those headphones on his neck again, and I have no idea how he can stand those things on his neck about 90% of the time. I stared at him when he wasn't looking, and accidentally bumped into him, making him drop his tray. The tray just didn't just hit the floor. It crashed and smashed his lunch to pieces. Serves you well, I thought. You were staring at him again.
He stood still and looked down at me, and then at the food. I immediately felt a rush of heat run to my cheeks, making my cheeks warm red, and I could sense that he could see how embarrassed how I was to have crashed into him right in the middle of a room. Suddenly I got up and moved towards him. I wanted to help him. I wanted to help him, but my conscience was restraining me. I looked into his deep sea blue eyes, glistening into the sun for a few seconds, and then I called the fellow classmate, Ari, behind the counter. She grimaced and brought over a cloth to clean up the mess. I picked up the broken pieces, while he was staring at me, making me feel uncomfortable, and put the pieces back on the tray, my hand shaking as I gave him the pieces.
There was a soppy stain on the front of his shirt. As he noticed the stain, he touched it, and his face flushed with embarrassment and a bright red color emerged from his cheeks.
"Thank you", Solace said, still embarrassed.
I was too nervous to say anything. I shoved the tray back at Solace and went back to my table. Every second from that point, I could not stop thinking about that moment, and I could not stop the memories of his deep sea blue eyes.
"Why did he have to be so cute?" I kept saying to myself in an inaudible voice.
"How is it possible?" I only stared into his eyes for, five seconds, and I already realized that he was luring me with his eyes only.
It already got me drooling. Now I was on to my Azerbaijani/Armenian language class, with a teacher named Hellina. Hellina is really random with her students. She currently suffers from Bi-polar Disorder, as she is stressed immensely with not only her job, but also her ability to support her husband and her four kids, making her go completely mad on her students at completely random times. For all I know, I and Ari, Nimsy, Solace, and Maxxy were the banes to her existence, and that reason is shrouded in mystery.
Finally, at the end of Hellina's tirade on the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic, the bell rang, and I finally left the school and walked down the gray path in my blue sweater with no hood, and a blue pair of jeans, my everyday get up. I kept thinking about Solace's blue eyes. I still could not take my mind off that moment in the lunch room. It started to rain a little, and my coat didn't have a hood, which left my head exposed. I got a call from my mother from my cheap phone.
"Hey Mom, how are you," I said calmly.
When she was about to say something, some jerk ran through a puddle of water with his car and made me all wet. My phone started to short, so I threw it on the grass. My day was turned from an embarrassing one to an atrocious one. Now I'm all soaked, and I'm freezing. The temperature was a horrible low of 52 and I'm already shivering.
Suddenly, I heard a noise of someone running over to me. I looked behind me, and it was Solace. He was calling my name out loud. I tried to silence him, but he wouldn't stop saying my name. I closed my eyes in despair, until he basically tackled me to the ground on accident.
"Whoa, are you alright?" Solace said. I still had my eyes closed before I opened them.
He was holding my shoulders, and I started to blush and awkwardly smile at his face. It was a sight to behold to see the one I bumped into whose lunch I ruined, is holding me down by my shoulders. I opened my eyes while trying to struggle, and apparently got back into being hypnotized into his gaze of the sea. Why was he so cute? I kept repeating in my head. I still tried to struggle out of his grip before I heard a voice.
"Hey, Solace, get back here," said Nimsy, a friend of Solace and mine.
Nimsy was a real joker, and he always loved to play pranks. He was blue and white and had a nice long tail. He was following up behind us with a light brown sweater and his usual red shirt. He apparently was walking with Solace back to Nimsy's house. I put a face of warning before Nimsy lifted me, and put my glasses back on after the fell off when he tackled me. Solace didn't want to be seen grasping me, so I gave him a look to go back. He was resilient, and he was totally oblivious to the situation. He lifted me back up and looked into my grassy green eyes. It was the first time he's looked into my eyes.
"Hey Nimsy, how you been today?" asked another classmate, Maxxy. He was one of the listed Hellina's Banes of existence. He had nice gray fur and a pair of blue eyes. He was nice in the fact that he had to be mean if he had to be. He calmly looked at me, then Solace, and then Nimsy. It had been forty minutes since I had left school, and it was still raining. Finally, Solace and Nimsy left, leaving just me and Maxxy. I and Maxxy started to walk down the sidewalk and talk
"Hey Maxxy, how've you been? You look really bad, and your fur is really messed up in the sense I wouldn't even have." I told him
"Ehh, I've been really stressed lately, with this Azerbaijani/Armenian teacher being such a biased woman against people from Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic, and her assigning us about over six hundred homework assignments in one week. Even the mate back at home wouldn't ease up on me because he keeps saying that he needs me to do something, but I have no idea what he wants. I usually just leave before he starts to rant," Maxxy said
"Looks like your mate from New Zealand wasn't the right one for this little kitty ehh?" I joked around with him. He looked at me with a look of annoyance. We then saw Nimsy, Solace, and Ari come up to us, walking up towards us as they seemed to be hearing us. The fog was so dense that we couldn't see two feet in front of us, but after Ari reached us first, the fog started to get less dense, and more lighter. That's when we could see Solace and Nimsy running towards us. They stopped and walked and greeted us, again. I got caught at Nimsy's blue eyed hold, controlling me by the neck.
"Hey you guys, how've you been?" Ari said with delight
"I've been doing well," I said, before Maxxy could say,"Horrible."
"Everyone here has a boyfriend or a girlfriend in the school except me, you, Nimsy, and Ari. It's like the school has control over the students over who they want and who they don't want. I mean, who couldn't want Ari? She's a rockin chick that anyone could get." Solace said. Everyone looked at him, especially Ari, and Ari had the red cheeks that everyone gets whenever their embarrassed or shy. We all reached the park, where we really conversed.
"I hear your moving out of town next year Solace." Nimsy said. With that moment, my whole heart just shut down. I kept repeating to myself, I will not cry, I will not cry, even though one of your greatest and only friends you've been with since the third grade is moving away. I didn't cry, and I was lucky, because I always cry during this time, when someone kills the moment.
"I ain't moving out of town, get it right you liar, but I think Hellina's moving out of town. I guess the Banes of her existences were really banning her from existing from this town." Solace said with happiness.
I really couldn't comprehend how someone could be happy about the only Azerbaijani and Armenian speaking person in this town go away because of us. I closed my eyes and stared at him, and when I opened my eyes, I think we all know what happened. I couldn't ever take my eyes of of his eyes, and his face. I better stop before I get into details. I closed my eyes and then looked at Maxxy, who was talking about his so called mate from New Zealand. He wanted to dump him to be honest, and get back with his old lover, Leonardo, a white and gray furry. I then looked at the entrance and saw Leonardo. I looked at him and looked at Maxxy
"Hey Maxxy, isn't that Leonardo? He gray and white one?" I asked Maxxy Maxxy's fur jumped as if he had a lot of fear going through his body all at once. I could see it building up in him. He was shaking with anxiety and nervousness. Leonardo sat down, and asked us what we were all doing here.
"Hey Leonardo," We all said in unison. Except for Maxxy, whose fur was really jumping. He finally calmed down, and took a big sigh.
"How've you been Leonardo?" I said to Leonardo.
"Fine, I guess, my mate dumped me with a trip to Pennsylvania for a convention when he told me on the phone that we were done, and I kept asking if it was a joke, and he said no and I kept asking before he yelled at me," Leonardo said, and we all perked our heads and looked at him with no expressions, even Maxxy. "I went to the airport for his flight to come back, and say a grayish furry come holding his hand."
He then put his arm around Maxxy. Maxxy blushed with excitement, but we really didn't react to the situation, mostly because we never noticed. Finally, night fell, and I was sitting with my friends, except Ari, she left because she had to shower, but she said she would be back. While my head was down, about to fall asleep, Solace tapped me on the neck with his yellow paw, but I barely noticed.
My eyes were half closed, though I still listened to him speak. Solace lifted my head up, and then told -the story on when Hellina was born, and how she got her attitude. Leonardo, Maxxy, Ari, and I listened in on the story. The plot was that she was born from a rich Kazakhstani and Uzbekistani family who lived in an Azerbaijani city. During her life time, she grew as a writer, writing many short stories, producing 3 at most each day. She then met this great guy, and later, they went on to live in the U.S, in Waldwick, where she would teach Azerbaijani and Armenian language classes, as she was more fluent in Azerbaijani and Armenian as she grew up in the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic near Armenia than she was in Uzbekistani and Kazakh, but later, her husband became a dead beat dad once they had kids. After Hellina had 4 kids, he became a lazy man, and never searched for a job. She then went under massive stress of having to manage 2 jobs, and barely saw her kids since she worked until midnight. She then succumbed to the stress, and was diagnosed with Bi-Polar disorder after working for so long under so much stress. He ended the story after an hour he started.
Leonardo was falling asleep by now, and was lying on Maxxy's shoulder. Maxxy was embarrassed, and the red blush was showing on his cheeks. Solace couldn't bother to tell another story, but then looked at me, but with a devilish smile. I was kinda afraid what he would do, with the devilish smile. I looked at him confused, but for one of the first times, he talked to me with a good mood.
"Hey, umm, Graciano, so how've you been? I mean since the start the beginning of the of the high school semester, you must be stressed being the top bane of Hellina's existence and having some of those honors classes," Solace said in a calm mood, reverting his devilish smile into a regular smile.
"Well, ever since Hellina has been on my trail about homework and the recent detention has gotten me in a bad mood. I've been really stressed with my classes ever since they've started, so how about you," I asked him.
"Well, with a B average, I'm doing good in the semester, but I am not reaching Honor roll so that way I don't kill myself with the stressful piles that is probably bigger than the heights of the Himalayas in Nepal combined with Indian and Tibetan Himalayas." He told in, comparing all the heights of the Himalayas.
"You need to see how she flips out on us. Her husband is really getting to her. I hear she's divorcing him and then moving back to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic in Azerbaijani, would that be a miracle for you," I said to Solace, still trying to hypnotize myself into his glare, but it wasn't working.
"Really, I thought she was moving to the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic," Solace asked
"No, she is moving to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic." I told him in a manner that he would enjoy it with overwhelming satisfaction.
Finally, night time came, and we disbanded. Leonardo was fast asleep on Maxxy's shoulder, so Maxxy took him home, and Solace, Nimsy, Ari, and me went home.
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Looks like the rumors and stories were true. Hellina was no longer here anymore. A note was on her desk read by her husband, who was our new teacher, and read it, and said that she was on her flight to the Nakhchivan Autonomous Republic, and that she was not coming back due to her banes of existences and her no good husband, and also apparently took the kids that she had. We did nothing that period, except talk since he didn't even know the slightest clue on what Northern Caucasus was. Nimsy, Ari, Maxxy, and Me crowded around Leonardo desk to talk. At the last five minutes, Solace finally got up and walked towards me. I looked at his sea blue eyes. I wasn't hypnotized, again. We all looked at him, and then he spoke.
"Hey Graciano, umm... listen, I kinda haven't said this before, but I really...," he said
Whoa, stop right there, call the presses, get the media, this a story that you don't want to miss. It will be astounding if he said, I like you, but what if he says, I hate you, or something else. Oh god, my mind was going crazy.
"I really like, maybe even more than a friend, and I might want to know if you want to see a movie with me?" he asked. We all glared at him, especially me, uneasily, like it was a joke. I looked really deep in his eyes, but got hypnotized in his glare. I still maintained my expression. I said my phrase in one word.
"Yes," I said, with my heart beating as fast as it could, about to explode at any second. Everyone then looked at me, then at solace, and keep that cycle for the last 5 minutes before the bell rung. I left class that day, overjoyed, but my heart about to explode from nervousness. I couldn't wait.
It was finally time to leave the school.
Epilogue
I later went on to keep dating him, and all my friends and his friends was okay with me dating him. Maxxy, Nimsy, Ari, Solace, Leonardo, and me were a group that stayed together. Nimsy, Ari, and Solace were all drafted into the army after Armenia had occupied the Nagorno Karabakh Republic after Azerbaijani had invaded 3 towns, but when Solace became M.I.A., I got very worried, so me, Nimsy, Ari, Leonardo, and Maxxy, and a new friend of mine that I met, named Karab Nakcjo, an Armenian, all joined the Army, except Karab, he came with us through the Armenian Army. I got really close with My friends, even Karab. We became inseperatable, even if Karab was in the Armenian Army, we held together. In the second siege of Shusha, Karab got hit minorly by Shrapnel. Even though we thought it was nothing, we held the outpost. Karab later got sick, and we took a look at his wound. He was sick, very sick, and his wound was covered by this sickly green stuff. The doctors had never seen it before, but me, Ari, and Nimsy stuck together, and tried to help him through this trying time. Finally, Leonardo and Maxxy arrived, and Karab had one more day left. We made it the best day of his life. He passed away on October 25th, 2024. We cried, mourned for him, and remembered him in our hearts forever, for we will forever miss him, and he will be missed deeply, espically Ari. We were pushed out of Shusha, after be buried Karab. We then carried the third seige of Shusha on November 11th, and captured the city on November 25th. They left behind the prisoners of Armenia and the Nagorno Karabakh Republic. Me and Ari, Nimsy, Leonardo, and Maxxy went through, and found Solace. We all got out of the army, one thing sprung up. Ari started to get fatter and fatter. We later found out she was pregnant, with Karab's baby. Karab's baby was named Karab II, after his father. Solace and I got married later on in life, and adopted a child of our own, names Sraciano. Nimsy and Ari married, and had another child. Maxxy and Leonardo later married, before Me and Ari married Solace and Nimsy. We all had children who are very good friends, and we made new friends with other people. My life is where I want it to be, on the right road, and with the perfect companion, and the greatest people one could find.