3. The Smile

Next day Lily consciously got ready. 

Her mind wandered somewhere too predictable to all of us!! 

The girl who never gave much thought of how she looked while going to school took extra efforts that day. She still didn't come to terms of the so called secret Mark told.

Some part of her still wanted to insist that it was joke!!

After her bus arrived she boarded it and sat at her usual place.

This day would have been same as others to her but today nothing seemed same.

Atlast bus reached the school. Tentatively Lily came out and started walking from the play ground towards the class building. 

She felt so so nervous  just thinking of her  first meet up with Joe.

She thought to herself,

'That seemingly  not even friends guy!! Seemed to have gotten so important! ' As she was so nervous at even the prospect to even have eye contact with him.

While there was battle going on in her mind halfway to the ground. She looked up at the building in front which was so near to her.

And suddenly on the first floor she saw a boy walking and looking at her. He had a barely noticeable smile on his lips. It was just a smile but still so different the way he looked at her!!

Terribly shocked that the seeming meet of theirs just happened. She just kept on thinking  of his smile that he gave her.

'That smile was not of 'not even friends'!! It was like Joe knows me, it was of he was happy to see me. '

That tiny voice telling that it was just a joke was totally clamped up.

After that shock she didn't even have the guts to look up once again and look him in the eye.

Lily was a nervous wreck.

Looking down she kept on walking and atlast reached her classroom at the first floor. 

To her it felt like a "mission completed" feeling to be at her place at last!!

Surprisingly she looked all around the class to see if Joe was there.

But then she remembered that he was in band so he was probably in the Assembly Hall!