Chapter 21: A little chat with Jimmy

Long after, I and Ella decided to come out of my tent so we could receive fresh air, as we both came out of the tent, the rest of my classmates came back. They weren't looking exhausted, in fact, they were making a hell of a noise. As soon as some of them saw me, they came to me to know if I was okay.

Our geography teacher walked to me and looked at me,
"So how are you feeling now?" she asked,

I looked at Ella and smiled,
"I'm doing great,

"Okay, it seems you two had fun here,"

"Yeah, I feel much better already," I said and smiled at Ella.

"Okay good," said our geography teacher. She turned and raised her voice, "Alright gather around everyone, I have an announcement to make," she said. Everyone came close to her so they could hear her better. "Good, now we aren't just here because we came to learn about nature, we also came here to have fun," she said as everyone clapped and cheered, "Hold on, hold on, which is why tomorrow, instead of learning about nature and the woods we are going for a search," Everyone began to celebrate on hearing this,
"There are 50 students in the 12th grade so we would split ourselves into five different groups 10 people per group and the group that finds the most useful and valuable thing wins. When I say useful and valuable I don't mean gold or silver, (she paused for a while) well if you find gold you can bring it to me though," she said and everyone laughed, "So when I say valuable things, I mean valuable things we could find in the woods, things like maybe a snake's skin. As we all know we can use a snake's skin to make different things like shoes, bags and all that, so that's what I mean. After your group has found something, you all would make something useful to humans with all you were able to find. I won't serve you all food tomorrow, you all would find something to eat during your search and please, do not eat anything that isn't fruit, I'm saying this because of Jeff. While we were out today eff asked if he could eat any snake we find," Everyone laughed on hearing this. "So please do not eat anything that could harm you, anyways you won't find anything harmful, it's not a very dangerous forest, and it's not that big. So you all have today and tomorrow to fix yourself into a group, and every group must have a group leader, have I made myself clear?"

"Yes ma'am," we all replied,

"Good, now go clean up, all of you, you all smell like racoons," she said and headed to her tent, "Oh and this is part of your project, any group that doesn't find anything fails," she said.

We all had dinner just like we did yesterday but this time, instead of going to our tents, we began to group ourselves into five for tomorrow. A lot of people wanted to be in my group but I wanted to be with Jones and my friends. So I, Jones, Victoria, Ella, Jimmy, Trina, Chris, Ciara, Steve and Lauretta stayed in the same group.

When we were done grouping ourselves we began to stick with our group members.
"So, who is going to be our group leader?" Ciara asked, we all looked at each other and remained quiet. I guess everyone wanted to be the group leader but for some reason I don't understand, we remained quiet.
"Uh, okay since no one wants to lead the group, I will," Jimmy said.

"Alright, we have a leader," Ciara said and we all clapped.

"Alright, let us go have some rest and prepare for tomorrow," Jimmy said. I walked into my tent and lay down, after some minutes, Jimmy walked into my tent. I looked at Jimmy surprisingly because I and Jimmy aren't that close.

"Jimmy, uh... hi," I said,

"Hi Angie, I know you must be shocked that I'm here in your tent,"

"I really am," I said and we both chuckled

Jimmy sighed,
"Yeah, but I need to ask you something," he said

When he said this I became very curious as to what he wanted to ask because we barely talk.
"Okay, go ahead,"

"Yeah," he said and took a deep breath. He seemed so nervous about what he wanted to ask so it was a little hard for him to talk. "Okay, do you know if Ella has a boyfriend ?" He asked,

"Uh...what?" I asked to be sure he said what I think he said,

"Um, never mind it's nothing, I should be going to my....,"

"No," I interrupted, "You can talk to me," I said,

"Okay, I wanted to know if Ella has a boyfriend, she's your friend and I'm sure she tells you everything,"

"Well she doesn't tell me everything but she tells me a lot and Ella doesn't have a boyfriend,"

A big smile appeared on Jimmy's face,
"Really?"

"Of course, she has no boyfriend,"

Jimmy smiled and took a deep breath. He was smiling and acting like he felt this inner peace inside him when I told him Ella has no boyfriend.

I smiled at Jimmy,
"Why are you this happy?" I asked curiously

"Okay, please and please do not tell anyone, okay?"

"Okay,"

"Here is the thing, I really like Ella but I don't know how she feels about me. Three days ago she kissed me but I felt she was just being Ella, you know, acting all nasty and all that,"

"Yeah,"

"But I really like her,"

Honestly, I felt really great that Ella's crush actually liked her but I tried my possible best to hide my happiness if notIi would scream.
"You want me to talk to her for you?"

"What? no, That would be insane, it would make me look like a weak guy who's scared of expressing his feelings,"

"Then go tell her yourself Jimmy,"

"No, not yet,"

"Why?"

"Because want to be sure she likes me back, otherwise,"

"Otherwise you bury your feelings forever?"I interrupted, "What if she's doing the same thing you're doing, think about it, you have to be the man and talk to her,"

Jimmy smiled,
"Thanks Angie, I guess I'll tell her when I have the confidence, for the main time don't tell anyone, not even Ella,"

"Okay,"

"Dont even tell Jones,"

"Relax won't,"

"Promise me," Jimmy said,

"Okay, okay I promise I won't tell anyone, I don't kiss and tell,"

Meanwhile
Jones was on his way to Angie's tent when he heard a guys voice so he stood outside hearing the whole conversation, and the craziest part was he came when Jimmy was about to leave and asked Angie to promise him she won't tell anyone, so the only thing Jones heard was Jimmy telling Angie to promise him she won't tell anyone, not even Jones and Angie telling Jimmy that she doesn't kiss and tell.